The World’s Most International Universities In 2018

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan DhirajCEO AgendaMarch 19, 2018October 19, 2018

Switzerland-based EPFL federal technology institute has been revealed as the most international university in the world, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018, a U.K.-based magazine.

Switzerland also took silver in the list with ETH Zurich coming 2nd, followed by the University on Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, and Imperial College London.

In equal 6th position this year was Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University and the university of Geneva in Switzerland, while the University of Oxford, Cambridge, and Australian National University filled out the top 10.

The rankings consider the “international outlook” of institutions, including levels of international staff, students and research co-authors, as well as universities’ international reputations.

There are three Swiss institutions in the top 10 most international universities. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) secures the number 1 spot, Zurich’s ETH technology institute at No. 2, while University of Geneva claims no. 6.

No US institutions in the top 50: In fact, the top ranked American universtiy this year is Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 30th place. By contrast, there are 8 British institutions in the top 20 most international universities.

The top 200: world’s most international universities, 2018

Rank	University	Country
1	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne	Switzerland
2	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
3	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
4	National University of Singapore	Singapore
5	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
6	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
6	University of Geneva	Switzerland
8	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
9	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
10	Australian National University	Australia
11	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
12	UCL	United Kingdom
13	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
14	King’s College London	United Kingdom
15	University of Vienna	Austria
16	University of Melbourne	Australia
17	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark
18	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
19	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
20	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
21	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
22	University of Zurich	Switzerland
23	University of New South Wales	Australia
24	University of British Columbia	Canada
25	University of Queensland	Australia
26	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
27	Trinity College Dublin	Republic of Ireland
28	École Polytechnique	France
29	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
30	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
31	Durham University	United Kingdom
32	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
33	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
34	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
34	McGill University	Canada
36	University of Auckland	New Zealand
36	University of Sydney	Australia
38	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
38	Monash University	Australia
40	University of Alberta	Canada
41	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
42	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
42	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
44	University of Montreal	Canada
45	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
46	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
47	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
48	University of Exeter	United Kingdom
49	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
50	University of Toronto	Canada
51	Harvard University	United States
51	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium
53	Lund University	Sweden
54	McMaster University	Canada
55	Aalto University	Finland
55	Aarhus University	Denmark
57	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
57	Princeton University	United States
59	Stanford University	United States
60	University of Cape Town	South Africa
60	University of Waterloo	Canada
62	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
63	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
63	University of Oslo	Norway
65	Stockholm University	Sweden
65	University of Groningen	Netherlands
67	Columbia University	United States
68	Leiden University	Netherlands
68	Uppsala University	Sweden
70	Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris	France
71	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
72	Free University of Berlin	Germany
73	KU Leuven	Belgium
74	Purdue University	United States
75	Johns Hopkins University	United States
76	Cornell University	United States
77	Heidelberg University	Germany
78	University of Chicago	United States
79	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany
80	Rice University	United States
81	University of California, Berkeley	United States
82	University of California, Davis	United States
83	Technical University of Munich	Germany
84	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
85	Utrecht University	Netherlands
85	Yale University	United States
87	LMU Munich	Germany
88	University of California, Irvine	United States
89	Ghent University	Belgium
90	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
91	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain
92	Autonomous University of Barcelona	Spain
92	California Institute of Technology	United States
92	Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris 4	France
95	Boston University	United States
96	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
96	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
98	University of Tübingen	Germany
99	University of Southern California	United States
100	Michigan State University	United States
100	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
102	University of Helsinki	Finland
103	Duke University	United States
104	University of Pennsylvania	United States
105	RWTH Aachen University	Germany
106	University of Bonn	Germany
107	Paris-Sud University	France
108	Brown University	United States
109	Northwestern University	United States
110	Tel Aviv University	Israel
111	Polytechnic University of Milan	Italy
112	Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1	France
113	New York University	United States
114	University of Barcelona	Spain
114	University of Massachusetts	United States
116	Ohio State University	United States
117	University of Mannheim	Germany
118	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
119	University of California, San Diego	United States
120	Arizona State University	United States
121	Texas A&M University	United States
122	University of Michigan	United States
123	University of Washington	United States
124	University of Bologna	Italy
125	North Carolina State University	United States
126	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Italy
127	Emory University	United States
128	Washington University in St Louis	United States
129	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States
130	Pennsylvania State University	United States
131	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russian Federation
132	Indiana University	United States
133	University of Notre Dame	United States
134	University of Arizona	United States
135	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy
135	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States
137	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico
138	Yonsei University (Seoul campus)	South Korea
139	University of Colorado Boulder	United States
140	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain
140	Peking University	China
142	Korea University	South Korea
143	University of Florida	United States
143	University of Virginia	United States
145	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey	United States
146	Tomsk State University	Russian Federation
147	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
148	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	South Korea
149	Nanjing University	China
150	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
151	University of Pittsburgh	United States
152	University of Minnesota	United States
152	University of Texas at Austin	United States
154	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology	Russian Federation
155	Dartmouth College	United States
156	Tongji University	China
157	University of Iowa	United States
158	Vanderbilt University	United States
159	National Research Nuclear University MEPhI	Russian Federation
160	The University of Tokyo	Japan
161	Tsinghua University	China
162	Higher School of Economics	Russian Federation
163	Waseda University	Japan
164	Seoul National University	South Korea
165	University of Tsukuba	Japan
166	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
167	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea
168	University of São Paulo	Brazil
169	Fudan University	China
170	Novosibirsk State University	Russian Federation
170	Tohoku University	Japan
172	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
173	Osaka University	Japan
174	Saint Petersburg State University	Russian Federation
175	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
176	Wuhan University	China
177	Kyoto University	Japan
178	State University of Campinas	Brazil
179	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan
180	Hokkaido University	Japan
181	Kyushu University	Japan
182	Nagoya University	Japan
183	Sun Yat-sen University	China
184	Keio University	Japan
185	Harbin Institute of Technology	China
186	University of Science and Technology of China	China
187	Indian Institute of Science	India
188	Zhejiang University	China

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Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj is a publishing executive and economist who is the CEO and editor-in-chief of The CEOWORLD magazine, one of the world’s most influential and recognized global news publications. Additionally, he serves as the chair of the advisory board for the CEOWORLD magazine. He received his Ph.D. in Finance and Banking from the European Global School, Paris, France. He earned his Doctoral Degree in Chartered Accountancy from the European International University Paris, France, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design (KNUTD), Ukraine. Dr. Amarendra also holds a Master of Business Administration degree in International Relations and Affairs from the American University of Athens, Alabama, United States.

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj is CEO and editor-in-chief of CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter.

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