World’s 100 Best Global Universities List: US News Rankings 2018

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj, Ph.D., DBABoardroom AdvisoryOctober 24, 2017October 19, 2018

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	US
98	University of Southampton	UK
99	Uppsala University	Sweden
100	University Paris Diderot - Paris 7	France

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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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