Best Universities In The World For 2018

Stanford University has been recognized as the best university in the world for 2018, according to CEOWORLD magazine, while Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University placed second and third, respectively. Some 500 universities from 54 countries were listed.

The 2018 rankings placed The University of Cambridge in fourth ahead of the University of Oxford into fifth; while California Institute of Technology ranked sixth, and Princeton University seventh.

Overall, among the top 10 in the world for 2018, the eighth, ninth, and tenth positions are held by the University of Chicago, University College London (UCL), and ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Yale University took the No. 11 spot, followed by Columbia University (No.12) and Imperial College London (No.13). Meanwhile, the University of Pennsylvania ranked No. 14 in the CEOWORLD magazine’s ranking of the best universities in the world for 2018.

Cornell University University came in fifteenth place, followed by Johns Hopkins University (sixteenth), the University of California – Berkeley (seventeenth), University of California – Los Angeles (eighteenth), and University of California -San Francisco, ranked nineteenth. Out of 100 universities in the world for 2018, Duke University ranked No. 20th.

Best Universities In The World For 2018:

Rank	University	Country
1	Stanford University	USA
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
3	Harvard University	USA
4	University of Cambridge	UK
5	University of Oxford	UK
6	California Institute of Technology	USA
7	Princeton University	USA
8	University of Chicago	USA
9	UCL	UK
10	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
11	Yale University	USA
12	Columbia University	USA
13	Imperial College London	UK
14	University of Pennsylvania	USA
15	Cornell University	USA
16	Johns Hopkins University	USA
17	University of California, Berkeley	USA
18	University of California, Los Angeles	USA
19	University of California, San Francisco	USA
20	Duke University	USA
21	University of Michigan	USA
22	Northwestern University	USA
23	University of Toronto	Canada
24	University of Edinburgh	UK
25	University of California, San Diego	USA
26	University of Tokyo	Japan
27	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
28	University of Washington	USA
29	Tsinghua University	China
30	King's College London	UK
31	The Rockefeller University	USA
32	New York University	USA
33	University of Melbourne	Australia
34	University of British Columbia	Canada
35	Karolinska Institutet	Sweden
36	Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland
37	University of Manchester	UK
38	University of Wisconsin Madison	USA
39	National University of Singapore	Singapore
40	Peking University	China
41	McGill University	Canada
42	University of Illinois Urbana Champaign	USA
43	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	USA
44	Kyoto University	Japan
45	Carnegie Mellon University	USA
46	Technical University of Munich	Germany
47	Heidelberg University	Germany
48	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	Germany
49	Australian National University	Australia
50	University of Queensland	Australia
51	University of Texas at Austin	USA
52	Ecole normale superieure (Paris)	France
53	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	USA
54	Washington University in St.Β Louis	USA
55	University of Bristol	UK
56	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA
57	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
58	University of Sydney	Australia
59	KU Leuven	Belgium
60	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
61	Mayo Medical School	USA
62	Paris Sciences et Lettres	France
63	Monash University	Australia
64	Utrecht University	Netherlands
65	Brown University	USA
66	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
67	Boston University	USA
68	University of California, Santa Barbara	USA
69	London School of Economics	UK
70	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea
71	Ohio State University	USA
72	Purdue University	USA
73	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
74	University of Helsinki	Finland
75	Rice University	USA
76	University of Maryland, College Park	USA
77	University of Southern California	USA
78	University of Minnesota	USA
79	Pennsylvania State University	USA
80	University of Groningen	Netherlands
81	The University of New South Wales	Australia
82	University of California, Davis	USA
83	Uppsala University	Sweden
84	Leiden University	Netherlands
85	University of Zurich	Switzerland
86	University of Glasgow	UK
87	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany
88	University of Warwick	UK
89	Fudan University	China
90	Osaka University	Japan
91	McMaster University	Canada
92	University of Geneva	Switzerland
93	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
94	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
95	Aarhus University	Denmark
96	University of Paris VI: Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University	France
97	The University of Western Australia	Australia
98	Lund University	Sweden
99	Nagoya University	Japan
100	Ghent University	Belgium
101	Tohoku University	Japan
102	University of Pittsburgh	USA
103	University of Sheffield	UK
104	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands
105	Free University of Berlin	Germany
106	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
107	University of Colorado Boulder	USA
108	University of California, Irvine	USA
109	University of Alberta	Canada
110	University of Basel	Switzerland
111	University of Southampton	UK
112	University of Malaya	Malaysia
113	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
114	University of Oslo	Norway
115	University of Birmingham	UK
116	University of Science and Technology of China	China
117	University of Nottingham	UK
118	Michigan State University	USA
119	University of Leeds	UK
120	University of Adelaide	Australia
121	Vanderbilt University	USA
122	Emory University	USA
123	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
124	Arizona State University	USA
125	Baylor College of Medicine	USA
126	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	USA
127	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	USA
128	Viadrina European University	Germany
129	Indian Institute of Science (IISC) Bangalore	India
130	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel
131	Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin	Germany
132	University of Freiburg	Germany
133	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
134	Moscow State University	Russian Federation
135	KAIST	Republic of Korea
136	University of Gottingen	Germany
137	Zhejiang University	China
138	University of Bern	Switzerland
139	Cardiff University	UK
140	Stockholm University	Sweden
141	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
142	Universite catholique de Louvain UCLouvain	Belgium
143	University of Florida	USA
144	Universite de Montreal	Canada
145	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
146	Queen Mary, University of London	UK
147	University of Durham	UK
148	University of Tubingen	Germany
149	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
150	University of Sao Paulo	Brazil
151	Hokkaido University	Japan
152	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
153	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands
154	University of Virginia	USA
155	University of Exeter	UK
156	University of Paris-Sud	France
157	University of Rochester	USA
158	University of Bonn	Germany
159	Sungkyunkwan University	Republic of Korea
160	RWTH Aachen University	Germany
161	University of Lausanne	Switzerland
162	University of Liverpool	UK
163	Technion Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
164	Texas A&M University	USA
165	University of Bath	UK
166	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan
167	University of Buenos Aires	Argentina
168	University of Arizona	USA
169	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
170	University of Vienna	Austria
171	Case Western Reserve University	USA
172	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Greece
173	Dartmouth College	USA
174	Vrije Universiteit	Netherlands
175	Korea University	Republic of Korea
176	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India
177	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia
178	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento	Italy
179	Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
180	University of York	UK
181	University of Auckland	New Zealand
182	TU Dresden	Germany
183	University of Bordeaux	France
184	University of Nebraska Lincoln	USA
185	China Medical University (Taichung)	China
186	Sichuan University	China
187	Leipzig University	Germany
188	University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester	USA
189	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
190	CentraleSupelec	France
191	Nanjing University	China
192	Rutgers University - New Brunswick	USA
193	Yonsei University	Republic of Korea
194	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	India
195	University of Luxembourg	Luxembourg
196	Indiana University Bloomington	USA
197	Maastricht University	Netherlands
198	Universite libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
199	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea
200	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico
201	University of California, Santa Cruz	USA
202	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Italy
203	Kyushu University	Japan
204	Tel Aviv University	Israel
205	University of Massachusetts Lowell	USA
206	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden
207	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway
208	University of St Andrews	UK
209	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy
210	University of Newcastle	UK
211	Tufts University	USA
212	University of Calgary	Canada
213	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia
214	Ecole normale superieure de Lyon	France
215	University of Aberdeen	UK
216	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
217	Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education	Mexico
218	University of Hamburg	Germany
219	Georgetown University	USA
220	University of Waterloo	Canada
221	Hanyang University	Republic of Korea
222	Waseda University	Japan
223	University of Barcelona	Spain
224	University of Miami	USA
225	University of Notre Dame	USA
226	Grenoble Alpes University	France
227	University of Illinois at Chicago	USA
228	University of Bergen	Norway
229	Macquarie University	Australia
230	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Germany
231	University of Sussex	UK
232	University of Alabama at Birmingham	USA
233	Politecnico di Milano	Italy
234	University of Lancaster	UK
235	University of Massachusetts Amherst	USA
236	University of Strasbourg	France
237	Paris Diderot University	France
238	Vrije Universiteit Brussel	Belgium
239	Curtin University	Australia
240	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
241	University of Munster	Germany
242	University of Bologna	Italy
243	University of Reading	UK
244	Sciences Po	France
245	Queen's University	Canada
246	National University of Sciences And Technology (NUST) Islamabad	Pakistan (Islamic Republic of)
247	Queen's University Belfast	UK
248	Royal Holloway, University of London	UK
249	Technical University of Berlin	Germany
250	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain
251	Universiti Putra Malaysia	Malaysia
252	National University of Malaysia	Malaysia
253	University of Antwerp	Belgium
254	University of Western Ontario	Canada
255	University of Innsbruck	Austria
256	Autonomous University of Barcelona	Spain
257	University of California, Riverside	USA
258	University of Ottawa	Canada
259	Loughborough University	UK
260	University of Dundee	UK
261	American University of Beirut	Lebanon
262	University of Padua	Italy
263	Al-Farabi University	Kazakhstan
264	University of Twente	Netherlands
265	University of Cape Town	South Africa
266	University of Lisbon	Portugal
267	University of Wollongong	Australia
268	University of Cologne	Germany
269	Paris-Sorbonne University	France
270	Sun Yat-sen University	China
271	Queensland University of Technology	Australia
272	University of Leicester	UK
273	University of Tsukuba	Japan
274	Harbin Institute of Technology	China
275	Medical University of Vienna	Austria
276	University of Oregon	USA
277	Oregon Health & Science University	USA
278	University of South Florida	USA
279	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Sweden
280	George Mason University	USA
281	University of Houston	USA
282	Drexel University	USA
283	Claude Bernard University Lyon 1	France
284	University of Missouri	USA
285	University of Turin	Italy
286	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	Saudi Arabia
287	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	UK
288	Medical University of South Carolina	USA
289	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	France
290	Soochow University	China
291	South China University of Technology	China
292	Southeast University	China
293	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	USA
294	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	USA
295	University of Belgrade	Serbia
296	University of Granada	Spain
297	Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)	India
298	University of Lorraine	France
299	Virginia Commonwealth University	USA
300	University of Otago	New Zealand
301	University of Technology Malaysia	Malaysia
302	Beijing Normal University	China
303	National University of Colombia	Colombia
304	Goethe University Frankfurt	Germany
305	Ecole Polytechnique	France
306	University of the Andes	Colombia
307	University of Mannheim	Germany
308	North Carolina State University	USA
309	University of Utah	USA
310	Aalto University	Finland
311	University College Dublin	Ireland
312	Northeastern University	USA
313	University of Technology Sydney	Australia
314	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)	India
315	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology	Taiwan
316	Wuhan University	China
317	Autonomous University of Madrid	Spain
318	Linkoping University	Sweden
319	Pantheon-Sorbonne University	France
320	Ecole des Ponts ParisTech	France
321	University of Navarre	Spain
322	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP)	India
323	Aix-Marseille University	France
324	University of East Anglia	UK
325	Keio University	Japan
326	Deakin University	Australia
327	Polytechnic University of Catalonia	Spain
328	University of Wurzburg	Germany
329	University of Chile	Chile
330	Tilburg University	Netherlands
331	Universitas Indonesia	Indonesia
332	University of Strathclyde	UK
333	National Chiao Tung University	Taiwan
334	University of South Australia	Australia
335	Carlos III University of Madrid	Spain
336	University of Tasmania	Australia
337	Charles University in Prague	Czech Republic
338	University College Cork	Ireland
339	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand
340	National Cheng Kung University	Taiwan
341	The University of Newcastle, Australia	Australia
342	University of Milan	Italy
343	The Katz School at Yeshiva University	USA
344	National Taiwan Normal University	Taiwan
345	Bauman Moscow State Technical University	Russian Federation
346	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain
347	University of Waikato	New Zealand
348	University of Delhi	India
349	Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile	Chile
350	Saint Petersburg State University	Russian Federation
351	University of Jena	Germany
352	University of Hawaii at Manoa	USA
353	SOAS, University of London	UK
354	NUI Galway	Ireland
355	Xi'an Jiaotong University	China
356	Hong Kong Baptist University	Hong Kong
357	University of Delaware	USA
358	University of Iowa	USA
359	University of Ulm	Germany
360	University of Stuttgart	Germany
361	University of Kiel	Germany
362	Politecnico di Torino	Italy
363	University of Surrey	UK
364	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa
365	Birkbeck, University of London	UK
366	Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR)	India
367	Oregon State University	USA
368	Paris Descartes University - Sorbonne Paris CitΓ©	France
369	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals	Saudi Arabia
370	Dalhousie University	Canada
371	Aalborg University	Denmark
372	University of Montpellier	France
373	Massey University	New Zealand
374	Tongji University	China
375	TU Wien	Austria
376	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Brazil
377	Stony Brook University	USA
378	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG)	India
379	University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC)	USA
380	Lincoln University	New Zealand
381	Tomsk State University	Russian Federation
382	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz	Germany
383	University of Porto	Portugal
384	Ruhr University Bochum	Germany
385	National Yang-Ming University	Taiwan
386	Ecole normale superieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris-Saclay)	France
387	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
388	Institut Teknologi Bandung	Indonesia
389	Southern University of Chile	Argentina
390	University of Canterbury	New Zealand
391	University of Tartu	Estonia
392	Belarusian State University	Belarus
393	Mahidol University	Thailand
394	University of Liege	Belgium
395	L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University	Kazakhstan
396	Hiroshima University	Japan
397	University of Belgrano	Argentina
398	Griffith University	Australia
399	The University of Georgia	USA
400	University of Pisa	Italy
401	University of Texas at Dallas	USA
402	Boston College	USA
403	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea
404	City, University of London	UK
405	Florida State University	USA
406	Umea University	Sweden
407	University of Essex	UK
408	Nankai University	China
409	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand
410	Simon Fraser University	Canada
411	University of Victoria	Canada
412	RMIT University	Australia
413	Qatar University	Qatar
414	Universiti Brunei Darussalam	Brunei Darussalam
415	Novosibirsk State University	Russian Federation
416	University of Cincinnati	USA
417	University of Pavia	Italy
418	University of South Carolina	USA
419	Temple University	USA
420	University of Vermont	USA
421	University of Manitoba	Canada
422	University of Milan-Bicocca	Italy
423	Saint Louis University	USA
424	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research	India
425	Western Sydney University	Australia
426	Beihang University	China
427	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	Israel
428	Brigham Young University	USA
429	Capital Medical University	China
430	Central South University	China
431	Chang Gung University	China
432	Chiba University	Japan
433	China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)	China
434	Dalian University of Technology	China
435	East China University of Science and Technology	China
436	ESPCI ParisTech	France
437	Hannover Medical School	Germany
438	Hunan University	China
439	Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)	USA
440	Lanzhou University	China
441	Louisiana State University	USA
442	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	Greece
443	Ocean University of China	China
444	Okayama University	Japan
445	Shandong University	China
446	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	USA
447	University of Central Florida	USA
448	University of Duesseldorf	Germany
449	University of Kentucky	USA
450	University of North Texas	USA
451	University of Santiago de Compostela	Spain
452	University of Tehran	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
453	Toulouse 1 University Capitole	France
454	George Washington University	USA
455	Universite Paris Dauphine, PSL Research University	France
456	University of Tennessee	USA
457	Kyung Hee University	Republic of Korea
458	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology	Russian Federation
459	La Trobe University	Australia
460	University of Jyvaskyla	Finland
461	University of Science Malaysia	Malaysia
462	James Cook University	Australia
463	Virginia Tech	USA
464	Oxford Brookes University	UK
465	Universidade Nova de Lisboa	Portugal
466	Technische Universität Darmstadt	Germany
467	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China
468	Iowa State University	USA
469	University of Turku	Finland
470	Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina	Argentina
471	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	USA
472	Laval University	Canada
473	Tokyo Medical and Dental University	Japan
474	University of the Philippines	Philippines
475	University of Tromso norway	Norway
476	University of Southern Denmark	Denmark
477	Colorado State University	USA
478	University of St.Gallen	Switzerland
479	University of Colorado Denver	USA
480	Aston University	UK
481	Moscow State Institute of International Relations	Russian Federation
482	National Research Nuclear University	Russian Federation
483	University of Kent	UK
484	Ewha Womans University	Republic of Korea
485	Tampere University of Technology	Finland
486	Heriot-Watt University	UK
487	National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)	Russian Federation
488	Brandeis University	USA
489	University of Warsaw	Poland
490	National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University	Russian Federation
491	National Sun Yat-sen University	Taiwan
492	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia
493	University of Connecticut	USA
494	United Arab Emirates University	United Arab Emirates
495	Dublin City University	Ireland
496	National Central University	Taiwan
497	Xiamen University	China
498	The American University in Cairo	Egypt
499	Illinois Institute of Technology	USA
500	HUFS - Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies	Republic of Korea

The United States dominates the ranking: it has 123 institutions represented, and the United Kingdom was second, with 47 universities.

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