| Most International rank 2019 |
World University Rank 2019 |
University |
Country/region |
| 1 |
36 |
University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
| =2 |
11 |
ETH Zurich |
Switzerland |
| =2 |
41 |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Hong Kong |
| 4 |
35 |
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Switzerland |
| 5 |
53 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
| 6 |
23 |
National University of Singapore |
Singapore |
| 7 |
1 |
University of Oxford |
United Kingdom |
| 8 |
51 |
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Singapore |
| 9 |
9 |
Imperial College London |
United Kingdom |
| 10 |
2 |
University of Cambridge |
United Kingdom |
| 11 |
=143 |
University of Vienna |
Austria |
| =12 |
49 |
Australian National University |
Australia |
| =12 |
14 |
UCL |
United Kingdom |
| 14 |
26 |
London School of Economics and Political Science |
United Kingdom |
| 15 |
38 |
King’s College London |
United Kingdom |
| =16 |
120 |
Trinity College Dublin |
Republic of Ireland |
| =16 |
=90 |
University of Zurich |
Switzerland |
| 18 |
58 |
Delft University of Technology |
Netherlands |
| 19 |
37 |
University of British Columbia |
Canada |
| 20 |
=32 |
University of Melbourne |
Australia |
| 21 |
=79 |
University of Warwick |
United Kingdom |
| =22 |
29 |
University of Edinburgh |
United Kingdom |
| =22 |
=161 |
University of Sussex |
United Kingdom |
| 24 |
69 |
University of Queensland |
Australia |
| 25 |
=96 |
UNSW Sydney |
Australia |
| 26 |
201–250 |
University of Auckland |
New Zealand |
| 27 |
108 |
École Polytechnique |
France |
| 28 |
=44 |
McGill University |
Canada |
| 29 |
=93 |
University of Glasgow |
United Kingdom |
| 30 |
4 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
United States |
| 31 |
57 |
University of Manchester |
United Kingdom |
| =32 |
=116 |
University of Birmingham |
United Kingdom |
| =32 |
=59 |
University of Sydney |
Australia |
| 34 |
=114 |
Durham University |
United Kingdom |
| =35 |
=187 |
KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
Sweden |
| =35 |
=84 |
Monash University |
Australia |
| 37 |
=149 |
University of Nottingham |
United Kingdom |
| 38 |
141 |
University of Exeter |
United Kingdom |
| 39 |
70 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Netherlands |
| 40 |
=153 |
University of Leeds |
United Kingdom |
| 41 |
=90 |
University of Montreal |
Canada |
| =42 |
=116 |
University of Copenhagen |
Denmark |
| =42 |
106 |
University of Sheffield |
United Kingdom |
| =42 |
21 |
University of Toronto |
Canada |
| 45 |
201–250 |
University of Waterloo |
Canada |
| 46 |
78 |
University of Bristol |
United Kingdom |
| 47 |
501–600 |
Oxford Brookes University |
United Kingdom |
| 48 |
119 |
University of York |
United Kingdom |
| 49 |
40 |
Karolinska Institute |
Sweden |
| 50 |
=181 |
Aalto University |
Finland |
| 51 |
=132 |
University of Alberta |
Canada |
| 52 |
=187 |
Cardiff University |
United Kingdom |
| 53 |
6 |
Harvard University |
United States |
| 54 |
=79 |
University of Groningen |
Netherlands |
| 55 |
=121 |
University of Oslo |
Norway |
| =56 |
62 |
University of Amsterdam |
Netherlands |
| =56 |
3 |
Stanford University |
United States |
| 58 |
7 |
Princeton University |
United States |
| 59 |
98 |
Lund University |
Sweden |
| 60 |
68 |
Leiden University |
Netherlands |
| 61 |
=153 |
Stockholm University |
Sweden |
| 62 |
16 |
Columbia University |
United States |
| =63 |
=123 |
Aarhus University |
Denmark |
| =63 |
24 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
United States |
| 65 |
41 |
Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris |
France |
| 66 |
48 |
KU Leuven |
Belgium |
| 67 |
104 |
Free University of Berlin |
Germany |
| 68 |
=194 |
Paris Diderot University – Paris 7 |
France |
| 69 |
34 |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
United States |
| 70 |
=87 |
Uppsala University |
Sweden |
| 71 |
76 |
University of Freiburg |
Germany |
| =72 |
301–350 |
Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées |
France |
| =72 |
=12 |
Johns Hopkins University |
United States |
| 74 |
64 |
Purdue University |
United States |
| 75 |
19 |
Cornell University |
United States |
| 76 |
15 |
University of California, Berkeley |
United States |
| 77 |
=74 |
Utrecht University |
Netherlands |
| 78 |
67 |
Humboldt University of Berlin |
Germany |
| 79 |
10 |
University of Chicago |
United States |
| 80 |
8 |
Yale University |
United States |
| 81 |
=44 |
Technical University of Munich |
Germany |
| 82 |
=135 |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Germany |
| 83 |
301–350 |
Technion Israel Institute of Technology |
Israel |
| =84 |
86 |
Rice University |
United States |
| =84 |
73 |
Sorbonne University |
France |
| 86 |
131 |
Technical University of Berlin |
Germany |
| =87 |
145 |
Autonomous University of Barcelona |
Spain |
| =87 |
52 |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
United States |
| 89 |
47 |
Heidelberg University |
Germany |
| 90 |
=123 |
University of Göttingen |
Germany |
| 91 |
27 |
New York University |
United States |
| =92 |
5 |
California Institute of Technology |
United States |
| =92 |
=96 |
University of California, Irvine |
United States |
| 94 |
=74 |
Boston University |
United States |
| 95 |
89 |
University of Tübingen |
Germany |
| 96 |
=143 |
Ghent University |
Belgium |
| 97 |
=32 |
LMU Munich |
Germany |
| =98 |
17 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
United States |
| =98 |
66 |
University of Southern California |
United States |
| 100 |
=59 |
University of California, Davis |
United States |
| 101 |
301–350 |
Polytechnic University of Milan |
Italy |
| 102 |
=12 |
University of Pennsylvania |
United States |
| 103 |
=99 |
University of Helsinki |
Finland |
| 104 |
201–250 |
Paris-Sud University |
France |
| 105 |
=93 |
Michigan State University |
United States |
| 106 |
201–250 |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Israel |
| 107 |
25 |
Northwestern University |
United States |
| 108 |
30 |
University of California, San Diego |
United States |
| 109 |
=110 |
University of Bonn |
Germany |
| =110 |
401–500 |
Charles University in Prague |
Czech Republic |
| =110 |
=87 |
RWTH Aachen University |
Germany |
| 112 |
18 |
Duke University |
United States |
| =113 |
53 |
Brown University |
United States |
| =113 |
201–250 |
University of Massachusetts |
United States |
| 115 |
=123 |
Arizona State University |
United States |
| 116 |
501–600 |
Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1 |
France |
| 117 |
251–300 |
North Carolina State University |
United States |
| 118 |
201–250 |
Tel Aviv University |
Israel |
| 119 |
=71 |
Ohio State University |
United States |
| 120 |
50 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
United States |
| 121 |
20 |
University of Michigan |
United States |
| 122 |
54 |
Washington University in St Louis |
United States |
| 123 |
180 |
University of Bologna |
Italy |
| 124 |
173 |
University of Notre Dame |
United States |
| 125 |
=199 |
Lomonosov Moscow State University |
Russian Federation |
| 126 |
=84 |
Emory University |
United States |
| 127 |
=167 |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
United States |
| 128 |
251–300 |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
United States |
| 129 |
81 |
Pennsylvania State University |
United States |
| 130 |
601–800 |
National Autonomous University of Mexico |
Mexico |
| 131 |
31 |
Peking University |
China |
| 132 |
=114 |
University of Colorado Boulder |
United States |
| 133 |
=82 |
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) |
South Korea |
| 134 |
251–300 |
Sapienza University of Rome |
Italy |
| 135 |
201–250 |
Yonsei University (Seoul campus) |
South Korea |
| 136 |
251–300 |
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
Russian Federation |
| 137 |
109 |
Georgetown University |
United States |
| 138 |
43 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
United States |
| 139 |
134 |
Nanjing University |
China |
| 140 |
189 |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
China |
| 141 |
107 |
University of Virginia |
United States |
| 142 |
=82 |
University of Maryland, College Park |
United States |
| 143 |
=159 |
University of Arizona |
United States |
| 144 |
101 |
Zhejiang University |
China |
| =145 |
=156 |
University of Florida |
United States |
| =145 |
401–500 |
University of Georgia |
United States |
| 147 |
198 |
Korea University |
South Korea |
| 148 |
=110 |
University of Pittsburgh |
United States |
| =149 |
=71 |
University of Minnesota Twin Cities |
United States |
| =149 |
42 |
The University of Tokyo |
Japan |
| 151 |
=99 |
Dartmouth College |
United States |
| 152 |
=121 |
Vanderbilt University |
United States |
| 153 |
22 |
Tsinghua University |
China |
| 154 |
39 |
University of Texas at Austin |
United States |
| 155 |
104 |
Fudan University |
China |
| 156 |
251–300 |
Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Japan |
| 157 |
56 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
United States |
| 158 |
63 |
Seoul National University |
South Korea |
| 159 |
102 |
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) |
South Korea |
| 160 |
601–800 |
Waseda University |
Japan |
| 161 |
501–600 |
Novosibirsk State University |
Russian Federation |
| 162 |
301–350 |
Higher School of Economics |
Russian Federation |
| 163 |
170 |
National Taiwan University |
Taiwan |
| 164 |
251–300 |
University of São Paulo |
Brazil |
| 165 |
65 |
Kyoto University |
Japan |
| 166 |
401–500 |
Kyushu University |
Japan |
| 167 |
501–600 |
Saint Petersburg State University |
Russian Federation |
| 168 |
251–300 |
Tohoku University |
Japan |
| 169 |
251–300 |
Osaka University |
Japan |
| 170 |
401–500 |
Hokkaido University |
Japan |
| 171 |
301–350 |
Nagoya University |
Japan |
| 172 |
301–350 |
Sun Yat-sen University |
China |
| 173 |
=93 |
University of Science and Technology of China |
China |
| 174 |
601–800 |
Keio University |
Japan |
| 175 |
351–400 |
Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
China |
| 176 |
401–500 |
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
India |
| 177 |
251–300 |
Indian Institute of Science |
India |