Rankings
THE World University Ranking

THE World University Ranking

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings published an annual ranking of world universities.

University Ranking

University	Country	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018
University of Oxford	United Kingdom	1	1	1	1	1
California Institute of Technology	United States	2	4	2	5	3
Harvard University	United States	3	3	7	6	6
Stanford University	United States	4	2	4	3	4
University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	5	6	3	2	2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	6	5	5	4	5
Princeton University	United States	7	9	6	7	7
University of California, Berkeley	United States	8	7	13	15	18
Yale University	United States	9	8	8	8	12
The University of Chicago	United States	10	10	9	10	9
Columbia University	United States	11	17	16	16	14
Imperial College London	United Kingdom	12	11	10	9	8
Johns Hopkins University	United States	13	12	12	12	13
University of Pennsylvania	United States	14	13	11	13	11
ETH Zurich	Switzerland	15	14	13	11	10
Peking University	China	16	23	24	31	27
Tsinghua University	China	17	20	23	22	30
University of Toronto	Canada	18	18	18	21	23
UCL	United Kingdom	19	16	15	14	16
University of California, Los Angeles	United States	20	15	17	17	15
National University of Singapore	Singapore	21	25	25	23	22
Cornell University	United States	22	19	19	19	19
Duke University	United States	23	20	20	18	17
University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor	United States	24	22	21	20	21
Northwestern University	United States	25	24	22	25	20
New York University	United States	26	26	29	27	27
London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	27	27	28	26	25
Carnegie Mellon University	United States	28	28	27	24	24
University of Washington	United States	29	20	26	28	26
University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	30	30	30	29	27
University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	31	39	35	36	40
LMU Munich	Germany	32	32	32	32	35
University of Melbourne	Australia	33	31	33	33	32
University of California, San Diego	United States	34	33	31	30	31
King’s College London	United Kingdom	35	35	36	38	36
The University of Tokyo	Japan	36	37	37	42	46
University of British Columbia	Canada	37	34	34	37	34
Technical University of Munich	Germany	38	41	43	45	41
Karolinska Institute	Sweden	39	36	41	40	39
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	40	43	37	35	38
Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris	France	41	46	46	42	73
Heidelberg University	Germany	42	42	44	47	45
KU Leuven	Belgium	43	45	45	48	47
McGill University	Canada	44	40	42	44	42
Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	45	38	39	34	33
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Singapore	46	47	49	51	52
University of Texas at Austin	United States	47	44	40	39	49
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	48	48	48	50	37
Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	49	56	58	53	58
University of Manchester	United States	50	51	56	57	55