According to the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking of 2018, Britain sits at the top of world education, with two of its universities ranked the best in the world, Oxford University and the University of Cambridge. These institutions are ahead of the prestigious American universities such as California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Masachussetts Institute of Technology, Havard University and Princeton University.
Apart from Great Britain, only one Swiss university is also in the top 10 institutions in the world rankings. This is the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), at the 10th position.
Other European countries are however on the list, such as Germany and Sweden, which have several institutions in the top 50, as well as Belgium, the Netherlands and Finland, which also feature in the ranking.
While the United States and Europe continue to dominate the ranking of the best universities in the world, there is growing evidence of a rise of Asian countries. At the top of this group are Singapore, with the National University of Singapore, and China, with Peking University and Tsinghua University, which are in the top 30. Countries like Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea are also welle represented.
No doubt we′ll see more Asian institutions in the list in the years to come.
Below is the complete list of the best universities in the world according to THE 2018 ranking:
Position | Institution | Country |
1 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
2 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
3 | California Institute of Technology | United States |
4 | Stanford University | United States |
5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
6 | Harvard University | United States |
7 | Princeton University | United States |
8 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
9 | University of Chicago | United States |
10 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
11 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
12 | Yale University | United States |
13 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
14 | Columbia University | United States |
15 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
16 | University College London | United Kingdom |
17 | Duke University | United States |
18 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
19 | Cornell University | United States |
20 | Northwestern University | United States |
21 | University of Michigan | United States |
22 | National University of | Singapore |
23 | University of Toronto | Canada |
24 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
25 | London School of Economics and Science Science | United Kingdom |
26 | University of Washington | United States |
27 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
28 | New York University | United States |
29 | Peking University | China |
30 | Tsinghua University | China |
31 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
32 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
34 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
35 | LMU Munich | Germany |
36 | King′s College London | United Kingdom |
37 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
38 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne | Switzerland |
39 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
40 | University of | Hong Kong |
41 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
42 | McGill University | Canada |
43 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
44 | Hong Kong | |
45 | University of Heidelberg | Germany |
46 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
47 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
48 | Australia | |
49 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
50 | Brown University | United States |
51 | University of Washington at St Louis | United States |
52 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
53 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States |
54 | University of California, Davis | United States |
55 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
56 | University of Minnesota | United States |
57 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States |
58 | Chinese University of | Hong Kong |
59 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
60 | Purdue University | United States |
61 | University of Sydney | Australia |
62 | Humboldt University of Berlin | Germany |
63 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
64 | University of Wageningen and research | Netherlands |
65 | University of Queensland | Australia |
66 | University of Southern California | United States |
67 | University of Leiden | Netherlands |
68 | University of Utrecht | Netherlands |
69 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
70 | Boston University | United States |
71 | Ohio State University | United States |
72 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
73 | Paris Sciences et Lettres – Université de Recherche PSL Paris | France |
74 | Kyoto University | Japan |
75 | National University of Seoul | South Korea |
76 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
77 | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
78 | McMaster University | Canada |
79 | RWTH University Aachen | Germany |
80 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
81 | Monash University | Australia |
82 | University of Freiburg | Germany |
83 | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
84 | University of Michigan | United States |
85 | University of New South Wales | Australia |
86 | Rice University | United States |
87 | University of Uppsala | Sweden |
88 | Free University of Berlin | Germany |
89 | Dartmouth College | United States |
90 | University of Helsinki | Finland |
91 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
92 | Technical University of Berlin | Germany |
93 | University of Lund | Sweden |
94 | University of Tübingen | Germany |
95 | University of Basel | Switzerland |
96 | Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea |
97 | University of Durham | United Kingdom |
98 | Emory University | United States |
99 | University of California, Irvine | United States |
100 | University of Bonn | Germany |