Want to study at one of the world's top 100 universities? The QS World University Rankings offers an annually updated list of not only the top 100 universities in the world, but in fact the top 1,000.
In the 2019 edition of the QS World University Rankings, over half of the top 100 universities in the world are located in the US (which has 33 representatives) or the UK (18). Here's a complete rundown of the world's top 100.
| Rank | University | Location |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
| 2 | Stanford University | United States |
| 3 | Harvard University | United States |
| 4 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States |
| 5 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 6 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 7 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Switzerland |
| 8 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 9 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 10 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom |
| 11 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| 12 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore |
| 13 | Princeton University | United States |
| 14 | Cornell University | United States |
| 15 | Yale University | United States |
| 16 | Columbia University | United States |
| 17 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 18 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 19 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 20 | University of Michigan | United States |
| 21 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 22 | EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 23 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 24 | Australian National University | Australia |
| 25 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 26 | Duke University | United States |
| 27 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States |
| 28 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 29 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 30 | Peking University | China |
| 31 | King's College London | United Kingdom |
| 32 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States |
| 33 | McGill University | Canada |
| 34 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 35 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 36 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 37 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
| 38 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom |
| 39 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 40 | KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | South Korea |
| 41 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States |
| 42 | University of Sydney | Australia |
| 43 | New York University (NYU) | United States |
| 44 | Fudan University | China |
| 45 | University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia |
| 46 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 47 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 48 | University of Queensland | Australia |
| 49 | Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong |
| 50 | Universite PSL | France |
| 51 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| 52 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 53 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
| 54 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
| 55 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 56 | Brown University | United States |
| 57 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 58 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan |
| =59 | Monash University | Australia |
| =59 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
| 61 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 62 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany |
| 63 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 64 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg | Germany |
| 65 | Ecole Polytechnique | France |
| 66 | University of Washington | United States |
| 67 | Osaka University | Japan |
| 68 | Zhejiang University | China |
| =69 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| =69 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| 71 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 72 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan |
| 73 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | Argentina |
| 74 | Durham University | United Kingdom |
| =75 | Sorbonne University | France |
| =75 | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
| 77 | Tohoku Univeristy | Japan |
| 78 | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
| =79 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
| =79 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| 81 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 82 | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom |
| =83 | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea |
| =83 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | United States |
| 85 | University of Auckland | New Zealand |
| 86 | Korea University | South Korea |
| =87 | Rice University | United States |
| =87 | Universiti Malaya (UM) | Malaysia |
| 89 | Ohio State University | United States |
| 90 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia |
| 91 | University of Western Australia | Australia |
| 92 | Lund University | Sweden |
| =93 | Boston University | United States |
| =93 | University of Leeds | Leeds |
| 95 | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
| 96 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
| 97 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom |
| 98 | University of Science and Technology of China | China |
| 99 | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands |
| =100 | Purdue University | United States |
| =100 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea |
| =100 | University of California, Davis | United States |
| =100 | Washington University in St Louis | United States |
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This article was originally published in June 2013. It was updated in June 2018 with the most-recent rankings data.
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