World’s 50 Best Universities For 2018: US Heavyweights MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Caltech, and UChicago Tops

In all, eighteen American universities have been named among the top 50 best in the world, according to the UK education specialists QS 2018 World University Rankings. US heavyweight Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has topped the rankings for a 6th year running.

Stanford University was a close 2nd, and Harvard University trailed just behind, followed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The next four were British institutions – Cambridge (5th), Oxford (6th), University College London (7th) and Imperial College London in 8th. The University of Chicago takes 9th place and ETH Zurich comes in 10th.

Universities were being evaluated according to the following 6 metrics: international student ratio (5%), international faculty radio (5%), employee reputation (10%), citations per faculty (20%), faculty/student ratio (20%), and academic reputation (40%). Surveyed more than 75,000 academics and more than 40,000 employers.

World’s 50 Best Universities For 2018:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
2. Stanford University, United States
3. Harvard University, United States
4. California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States
5. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
6. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
7. UCL (University College London), United Kingdom
8. Imperial College London, United Kingdom
9. University of Chicago, United States
10. ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technolog, Switzerland
11. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU), Singapore
12. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
13. Princeton University, United States
14. Cornell University, United States
15. National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
16. Yale University, United States
17. Johns Hopkins University, United States
18. Columbia University, United States
19. University of Pennsylvania, United States
20. The Australian National University, Australia
21. Duke University, United States
22. University of Michigan, United States
23. King’s College London, United Kingdom
24. The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
25. Tsinghua University, China
26. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
27. University of California, Berkeley (UCB), United States
28. The University of Tokyo, Japan
29. Northwestern University, United States
30. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
31. University of Toronto, Canada
32. McGill University, Canada
33. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States
34. The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
35. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom
36. Seoul National University, South Korea
37. Kyoto University, Japan
38. Peking University, China
39. University of California, San Diego (UCSD), United States
40. Fudan University, China
41. KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea
42. The University of Melbourne, Australia
43. Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France
44. University of Bristol, United Kingdom
45. The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia
46. 46 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong
47. Carnegie Mellon University, United States
48. The University of Queensland, Australia
49. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
50. The University of Sydney, Australia