Harvard University was ranked number 1 out of 1,250 institutions in 74 countries in the newest US News Rankings 2018, followed by MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley and Oxford in the U.K.
Behind Oxford came Caltech, Cambridge, Columbia, Princeton, and Johns Hopkins University in 10th place.
The U.S. leads the global rankings with 221 universities on the list, including eight of the top ten. China came in 2nd with 136 institutions in the rankings. Japan had 76 institutions on the list, the United Kingdom had 73 and Germany had 58.
Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College in London, and the University of Toronto were the only four non-US institutions to feature in the global top 20.
At 43rd place, National University of Singapore was the highest ranked institutions in Asia.
The world’s 100 best global universities for 2018
Rank
University
Country
1
Harvard University
US
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
US
3
Stanford University
US
4
University of California--Berkeley
US
5
University of Oxford
UK
6
California Institute of Technology
US
7
University of Cambridge
UK
8
Columbia University
US
9
Princeton University
US
10
Johns Hopkins University
US
11
University of Washington
US
12
Yale University
US
13
University of California--Los Angeles
US
14
University of Chicago
US
15
University of California--San Francisco
US
16
University of California--San Diego
US
17
Imperial College London
UK
18
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
US
19
University of Pennsylvania
US
20
University of Toronto
Canada
21
Duke University
US
22
University College London
UK
23
Cornell University
US
24
Northwestern University
US
25
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
26
University of Melbourne
Australia
27
University of British Columbia
Canada
28
New York University
US
29
University of California--Santa Barbara
US
30
University of Edinburgh
UK
31
University of Wisconsin--Madison
US
32
University of Texas--Austin
US
33
Washington University in St. Louis
US
34
niversity of North Carolina--Chapel Hill
US
35
University of Sydney
Australia
36
École Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne
Switzerland
37
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
38
Pierre and Marie Curie University
France
39
Boston University
US
40
University of Munich
Germany
41
King's College London
UK
42
University of Minnesota--Twin Cities
US
43
National University of Singapore
Singapore
44
University of Colorado--Boulder
US
45
University of Queensland Australia
Australia
46
Ohio State University--Columbus
US
47
University of California--Santa Cruz
US
48
University of Pittsburgh
US
49
McGill University
Canada
50
University of Maryland--College Park
US
51
University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign
US
52
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
53
Rockefeller University
US
54
University of California--Davis
US
55
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
56
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
57
University of Tokyo
Japan
58
Utrecht University
Netherlands
59
Heidelberg University
Germany
60
University of Manchester
UK
61
University of Zurich
Switzerland
62
University of Southern California
US
63
Catholic University of Leuven
Belgium
64
Tsinghua University
China
65
Peking University
China
66
Pennsylvania State University--University Park
US
67
Vanderbilt University
US
68
Monash University
Australia
69
Australian National University
Australia
70
University of New South Wales
Australia
71
Emory University
US
72
Georgia Institute of Technology
US
73
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands
74
University of Bristol
UK
75
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
UK
76
University of California--Irvine
US
77
Carnegie Mellon University
US
78
University of Arizona
US
79
Leiden University
Netherlands
80
Technical University of Munich
Germany
81
Michigan State University
US
82
Rice University
US
83
University of Barcelona
Spain
84
University of Helsinki
Finland
85
Lund University
Sweden
86
VU University Amsterdam
Netherlands
87
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Germany
88
Ghent University
Belgium
89
University of Geneva
Switzerland
90
University of Western Australia
Australia
91
Wageningen University and Research Center
Netherlands
92
Brown University
US
93
Université Paris-Sud
France
94
University of Groningen
Netherlands
95
Aarhus University
Denmark
96
University of Florida
US
97
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick
Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj is the CEO and editorial director at CEOWORLD magazine, the leading global business magazine written strictly for CEOs, CFOs, top managers, company directors, investors, senior executives, business leaders, high net worth individuals, and the most globally powerful men and women.