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The World's Top 100 Universities

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By Staff Writer

Updated June 8, 2023

• MIT is the best university in the world for the 11th consecutive year. 
• This year's QS World University Rankings feature over 1,400 universities in total.

In the 2023 edition of the QS World University Rankings, just under half of the top 100 universities in the world are located in the US (which has 27 representatives) or the UK (17). 

Top 100 Universities in the World According to the QS World University Rankings 2023
Rank	University	Location
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
3	Stanford University	United States
4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
5	Harvard University	United States
=6	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States
=6	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
8	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom
9	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland
10	University of Chicago	United States
11	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore
12	Peking University	Mainland China
13	University of Pennsylvania	United States
14	Tsinghua University	Mainland China
15	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
=16	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland
=16	Princeton University	United States
18	Yale University	United States
19	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore
20	Cornell University	United States
21	University of Hong Kong (UKU)	Hong Kong SAR
22	Columbia University	United States
23	University of Tokyo	Japan
24	Johns Hopkins University	United States
25	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States
26	Universite PSL	France
27	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States
28	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
29	Seoul National University	South Korea
30	Australian National University	Australia
31	McGill University	Canada
32	Northwestern University	United States
33	University of Melbourne	Australia
=34	Fudan University	Mainland China
=34	University of Toronto	Canada
36	Kyoto University	Japan
37	King's College London	United Kingdom
38	Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong SAR
39	New York University (NYU)	United States
40	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	Hong Kong SAR
41	University of Sydney	Australia
=42	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea
=42	Zhejiang University	Mainland China
44	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States
45	University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Australia
46	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Mainland China
47	University of British Columbia	Canada
48	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	France
49	Technical University of Munich	Germany
=50	Duke University	United States
=50	University of Queensland	Australia
52	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
53	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States
54	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR
55	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
56	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom
57	Monash University	Australia
58	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
59	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany
60	Sorbonne University	France
=61	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
=61	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
63	Brown University	United States
64	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
=65	Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg	Germany
=65	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong SAR
67	Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)	Argentina
68	Osaka University	Japan
69	Universit Paris-Saclay	France
70	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia
71	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea
72	University of Texas at Austin	United States
73	Yonsei University	South Korea
74	Korea University	South Korea
75	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
76	KU Leuven	Belgium
77	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan
78	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
79	Tohoku University	Japan
80	University of Washington	United States
81	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
82	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
=83	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States
=83	University of Zurich	Switzerland
85	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
86	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
87	University of Auckland	New Zealand
88	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
89	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
90	University of Western Australia	Australia
91	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
92	Durham University	United Kingdom
93	Pennsylvania State University	United States
94	University of Science and Technology of China	Mainland China
95	Lund University	Sweden
=96	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
=96	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
98	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	Ireland
99	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	South Korea
100	Rice University	United States

This article was originally published in June 2013. It was last updated in June 2023