Best Global Universities Ranking by US.News

 These institutions from the U.S. and nearly 50 other countries have been ranked based on 10 indicators that measure their academic research performance and their global and regional reputations. Students can use these rankings to explore the higher education options that exist beyond their own countries' borders and to compare key aspects of schools' research missions. These are the world's top 500 universities.





Showing 1-50 of 500 schools sorted by Global Rank

#1 Harvard University     United States Cambridge, Massachusetts    

#2  Massachusetts Institute of Technology  United States Cambridge, Massachusetts

#3  University of California--Berkeley  United States Berkeley, California

#4  Stanford University    United States Stanford, California

#5  University of Oxford  United Kingdom Oxford

#6  University of Cambridge  United Kingdom Cambridge

#7  California Institute of Technology  United States Pasadena, California

#8 University of California--Los Angeles  United States Los Angeles, California

#9  University of Chicago  United States Chicago, Illinois

#10    Columbia University United States New York, New York

#11 Johns Hopkins University  United States Baltimore, Maryland  

#12  Imperial College London  United Kingdom London

#13 Princeton University  United States Princeton, New Jersey

#14 University of Michigan United States Ann Arbor, Michigan  

#14 (Tie) University of Toronto  Canada Toronto, Ontario

#14 (Tie)  University of Washington  United States Seattle, Washington

#17 Yale University  United States New Haven, Connecticut  

#18 University of California--San Diego  United States La Jolla, California  

#19 University of Pennsylvania  United States Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#20  Duke University United States Durham, North Carolina

#21 University College London United Kingdom London

#22 University of California--San Francisco United States San Francisco, California

#23 Cornell University  United States Ithaca, New York  

#24  University of Tokyo  Japan Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo  

#25  Northwestern University    United States Evanston, Illinois  

#26 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich  Switzerland Zurich  

#27 University of Wisconsin--Madison  United States Madison, Wisconsin  

#28  University of California--Santa Barbara  United States Santa Barbara, California  

#29  University of Minnesota--Twin Cities  United States Minneapolis, Minnesota

#30 (Tie) University of British Columbia  Canada Vancouver, British Columbia  

#30 (Tie)  University of Texas--Austin  United States Austin, Texas  

#32 (Tie)  University of Melbourne  Australia Parkville, Victoria

#32 (Tie)  University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill  United States Chapel Hill, North Carolina

#34  Ohio State University   United States Columbus, Ohio  

#35  University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign  United States Champaign, Illinois  

#36 New York University  United States New York, New York

#37 (Tie)  Boston University  United States Boston, Massachusetts  

#37 (Tie)  University of California--Davis  United States Davis, California

#39 Peking University  China Beijing  

#40  University of Edinburgh  United Kingdom Edinburgh, Scotland  

#41  Washington University in St. Louis  United States St. Louis, Missouri

#42 ( Tie)  University of Hong Kong  Hong Kong Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong  

#42 (Tie)  University of Pittsburgh  United States Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#44  McGill University  Canada Montréal, Québec  

#45 University of Sydney  Australia Sydney, New South Wales  

#46  Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6  France Paris

#47  University of Queensland Australia  Australia Brisbane, Queensland  

#48 University of Munich  Germany Munich

#49 University of Manchester  United Kingdom Manchester

#50 University of Southern California  United States Los Angeles, California