Top 100 Universities in the World 2017

Harvard University is ranked No. 1 inside the international, ahead of Stanford University (3rd globally) and the University of Cambridge (up from 4th in 2016 to 3rd in 2017), in line with the ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2017:

1 Harvard University

2 Stanford University

3 University of Cambridge

four Massachusetts Institute of Technology

5 University of California, Berkeley

6 Princeton University

7 University of Oxford

eight Columbia University

9 California Institute of Technology

10 University of Chicago

eleven Yale University

12 University of California, Los Angeles

thirteen University of Washington

14 Cornell University

15 University of California, San Diego

sixteen University College London

17 University of Pennsylvania

18 Johns Hopkins University

19 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

20 Washington University in St. Louis

21 University of California, San Francisco

22 Northwestern University

23 University of Toronto

24 The University of Tokyo

24 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

26 Duke University

27 Imperial College London

28 University of Wisconsin - Madison

29 New York University

30 University of Copenhagen

31 University of British Columbia

32 The University of Edinburgh

33 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

34 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

35 Kyoto University

36 Rockefeller University

37 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

38 The University of Manchester

39 The University of Melbourne

forty Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris

41 University of Paris-Sud (Paris eleven)

40 Heidelberg University

43 University of Colorado at Boulder

forty four Karolinska Institute

forty five University of California, Santa Barbara

46 King's College London

forty seven Utrecht University

forty eight The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

48 Tsinghua University

50 Technical University Munich

fifty one The University of Texas at Austin

52 Vanderbilt University

fifty three University of Maryland, College Park

54 University of Southern California

fifty 5 The University of Queensland

fifty six University of Helsinki

57 University of Munich

fifty 8 University of Zurich

fifty nine University of Groningen

60 University of Geneva

sixty one University of Bristol

sixty University of Oslo

63 Uppsala University

sixty four University of California, Irvine

sixty five Aarhus University

sixty six McMaster University

67 McGill University

68 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus

69 Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris

sixty nine Ghent University

seventy one Mayo Medical School

seventy one Peking University

73 Erasmus University

seventy four Rice University

74 Stockholm University

seventy six Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

seventy seven Purdue University - West Lafayette

78 Monash University

seventy nine Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick

eighty Boston University

eighty Carnegie Mellon University

eighty The Ohio State University - Columbus

80 three University of Sydney

80 four Nagoya University

eighty five Georgia Institute of Technology

85 Pennsylvania State University - University Park

eighty five University of California, Davis

88 Leiden University

88 University of Florida

ninety KU Leuven

91 National University of Singapore

91 The University of Western Australia

ninety three Moscow State University

90 three Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

90 5 University of Basel

95 University of Goettingen

ninety seven The Australian National University

ninety eight University of California, Santa Cruz

99 Cardiff University

ninety nine University of Arizona

Source: ARWU

* Next: World University Rankings 2018