The World's Top 100 Universities

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Want to study at one of the world's top 100 universities? The QS World University Rankings offers an annually updated list of not only the top 100 universities in the world, but in fact the top 1,000.

In the 2020 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 29 representatives) or the UK (18). Here's a complete rundown of the world's top 100.

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