Which 19 Cities Have The Most Top-Ranked Universities, 2017?

Thanks to its impressive number of internationally ranked elite institutions, the sprawling metropolis of London and Los Angeles tie in first place with four top-ranked universities found in both cities.

In order to find out which cities around the world has the most top-ranked universities in them, we used the data from 2017 edition of the World University Ranking of Times Higher Education.

Hong Kong, Berlin, and Boston/Cambridge occupy the 2nd place with 3 top-ranked universities in them.

Third place, on the other hand, is shared by 14 cities which have 2 top-ranked universities found in each city.

These 14 cities include Singapore, Beijing, New York, Atlanta, Durham/Chapel Hill, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Melbourne, Sydney, Liege, Utrecht, Stockholm, Munich, and the Hague.

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Which 19 cities have the highest concentration of top-ranked universities, 2017

1. London, U.K.
   Universities in the top 100: 4
   Universities: King’s College, Imperial College London, London School of Economics and Political Science, and University College London
2. Los Angeles, USA
   Universities in the top 100: 4
   Universities: UCLA, University of California – Irvine, California Institute of Technology, and University of Southern California
3. Hong Kong
   Universities in the top 100: 3
   Universities: Chines University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
4. Boston/Cambridge, USA
   Universities in the top 100: 3
   Universities: MIT, Boston University, Harvard University
5. Berlin, Germany
   Universities in the top 100: 3
   Universities: Humboldt University, Technical University of Berlin, and Free University of Berlin
6. Beijing, China
   Universities in the top 100: 2
   Universities: Peking University and Tsinghua University
7. Atlanta, USA
   Universities in the top 100: 2
   Universities: Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology
8. Chicago, USA
   Universities in the top 100: 2
   Universities: Northwestern University and University of Chicago
9. Durham/Chapel Hill, USA
   Universities in the top 100: 2
   Universities: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University
10. Liege, Belgium
    Universities in the top 100: 2
    Universities: RWTH Aachen University and Maastricht University
11. Melbourne, Australia
    Universities in the top 100: 2
    Universities: Monash University and University of Melbourne
12. Munich, Germany
    Universities in the top 100: 2
    Universities: Technical University of Munich and LMU Munich
13. New York, USA
    Universities in the top 100: 2
    Universities: New York University and Columbia University
14. Pittsburgh, USA
    Universities in the top 100: 2
    Universities: Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh
15. Singapore
    Universities in the top 100: 2
    Universities: Nanyang Technological University and Singapore National University
16. Stockholm, Sweden
    Universities in the top 100: 2
    Universities: Uppsala University and Karolinska Institute
17. Sydney, Australia
    Universities in the top 100: 2
    Universities: The University of Sydney and University of New South Wales
18. The Hague, Netherlands
    Universities in the top 100: 2
    Universities: Leiden University and Delft University of Technology
19. Utrecht, Netherlands
    Universities in the top 100: 2
    Universities: Utrecht University and the Wageningen University