RANKED: The 100 Best Universities In The World; CWUR Rankings 2017

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj, Ph.D., DBAC-Suite IntelligenceOctober 16, 2017October 19, 2018

It’s no surprise that Harvard University has been ranked as the top university in the world for the sixth year in a row, according to the 2017 list ranking by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), followed by Stanford and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The University of Cambridge in the U.K. placed 4th and the University of Oxford followed in 5th place on the list of the top 1,000 universities in the world.

The 2017 rankings placed Columbia University in 6th ahead of University of California (Berkeley) into 7th; while University of Chicago ranked 8th, and Princeton University 9th.

Overall, among the top 15 universities, the 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, and 15th positions are held by the Yale, California Institute of Technology, Cornell, the University of Tokyo, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California (Los Angeles)

There has been no change in the ranking of the top 15 universities, with only 2 new universities entering into the top 20 – Northwestern University (17th, up from 21st) and New York University (19th, up from 22nd).

Johns Hopkins University came in 16th place, followed by Northwestern University (17th), University of California, San Diego (18th), and New York University, ranked 19th. Out of 100 top universities in the world, University of California (San Francisco) ranked No. 20th.

These are the top 100 universities in the world:

Rank	University	Country
1	Harvard University	US
2	Stanford University	US
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
4	University of Cambridge	UK
5	University of Oxford	UK
6	Columbia University	US
7	University of California, Berkeley	US
8	University of Chicago	US
9	Princeton University	US
10	Yale University	US
11	California Institute of Technology	US
12	Cornell University	US
13	University of Tokyo	Japan
14	University of Pennsylvania	US
15	University of California, Los Angeles	US
16	Johns Hopkins University	US
17	Northwestern University	US
18	University of California, San Diego	US
19	New York University	US
20	University of California, San Francisco	US
21	Kyoto University	Japan
22	University of Michigan	US
23	Seoul National University	South Korea
24	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich	Switzerland
25	University of Washington	US
26	University of Washington	US
27	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
28	University of Toronto	Canada
29	Duke University	US
30	University of Texas at Austin	US
31	University College London	UK
32	Keio University	Japan
33	Rockefeller University	US
34	Imperial College London	UK
35	Ecole Polytechnique	France
36	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign	US
37	Waseda University	Japan
38	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	US
39	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel
40	University of Virginia	US
41	McGill University	Canada
42	École normale supérieure - ENS Paris	France
43	University of Pittsburgh	US
44	University of Edinburgh	UK
45	University of Southern California	US
46	University of Minnesota	US
47	Dartmouth College	US
48	Ohio State University	US
49	Rutgers University	US
50	Osaka University	Japan
51	University of California, Davis	US
52	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
53	Washington University in St. Louis	US
54	Peking University	China
55	University of British Columbia	Canada
56	Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University	France
57	Boston University	US
58	Pennsylvania State University	US
59	University of Florida	US
60	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
61	National University of Singapore	Singapore
62	University of Manchester	UK
63	Vanderbilt University	US
64	Purdue University	US
65	Tsinghua University	China
66	University of California, Santa Barbara	US
67	Carnegie Mellon University	US
68	University of Utah	US
69	University of Colorado Boulder	US
70	University of Paris-Sud	France
71	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	Germany
72	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
73	University of Rochester	US
74	University of Sydney	Australia
75	University of Arizona	US
76	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	US
77	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium
78	King's College London	UK
79	Emory University	US
80	University of Maryland, College Park	US
81	Brown University	US
82	University of Melbourne	Australia
83	Utrecht University	Netherlands
84	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy
85	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
86	Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg	Germany
87	Tel Aviv University	Israel
88	Tohoku University	Japan
89	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne	Switzerland
90	University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	US
91	University of Zurich	Switzerland
92	University of Geneva	Switzerland
93	University of Notre Dame	US
94	University of Queensland	Australia
95	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
96	University of California, Irvine	US
97	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
98	Tufts University	US
99	University of Oslo	Norway
100	Ghent University	Belgium

US universities dominate global rankings, claiming the top 3 spots and eight of the top ten.

The US dominated the rankings with 54 institutions in the top 100, followed by U.K. 7 institutions, and Japan 6 universities.

Australia, Canada, and Israel had 3 universities each.
Belgium, China, Germany, Netherlands had 2 universities each.
Denmark, Italy, Norway, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan each had one university.

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Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj, Ph.D., DBA

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj, Ph.D., DBA, is a publishing executive and economist who serves as CEO and Editor-in-Chief of CEOWORLD Magazine, one of the world's most influential and widely read business publications. He also chairs its Advisory Board, shaping the magazine’s editorial vision and global strategy.

Dr. Amarendra earned his Ph.D. in Finance and Banking from the European Global School, Paris, a Doctorate in Chartered Accountancy from the European International University, Paris, and a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design (KNUTD), Ukraine. He also holds an MBA in International Relations and Affairs from the American University of Athens, Alabama.

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