The World's Top 100 Universities

Updated August 28, 2021 Updated August 28, 2021

World University Rankings 2022

MIT is the best university in the world for the tenth consecutive year.
This year's World University Rankings feature 1,029 universities in total.

Want to study at one of the world's top 100 universities? The QS World University Rankings offers an annually updated list of top 1,029 universities worldwide. We will be revealing which of these made the top 100.

In the 2022 edition of the QS World University Rankings, just under half of the top 100 universities in the world are located in the US (which has 26 representatives) or the UK (18).

Here’s a complete rundown of the world’s top 100 universities.

Top 100 Universities in the World According to the QS World University Rankings 2022
Rank	University	Location
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
=3	Stanford University	United States
=3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
5	Harvard University	United States
6	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States
7	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
=8	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland
=8	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom
10	University of Chicago	United States
11	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore
12	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore
13	University of Pennsylvania	United States
=14	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland
=14	Yale University	United States
16	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
17	Tsinghua University	Mainland China
18	Peking University	Mainland China
19	Columbia University	United States
20	Princeton University	United States
21	Cornell University	United States
22	University of Hong Kong (UKU)	Hong Kong SAR
=23	University of Tokyo	Japan
=23	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States
25	Johns Hopkins University	United States
26	University of Toronto	Canada
=27	McGill University	Canada
=27	Australian National University	Australia
=27	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
30	Northwestern University	United States
31	Fudan University	Mainland China
32	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States
33	Kyoto University	Japan
34	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	Hong Kong SAR
35	King's College London	United Kingdom
36	Seoul National University	South Korea
37	University of Melbourne	Australia
38	University of Sydney	Australia
39	Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong SAR
40	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States
41	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea
42	New York University (NYU)	United States
43	University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Australia
44	Universite PSL	France
45	Zhejiang University	Mainland China
46	University of British Columbia	Canada
47	University of Queensland	Australia
48	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States
49	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom
=50	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Mainland China
=50	Technical University of Munich	Germany
52	Duke University	United States
=53	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
=53	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR
55	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
56	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
57	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
58	Monash University	Australia
59	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	France
60	Brown University	United States
62	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
62	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
63	Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg	Germany
64	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany
65	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia
66	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong SAR
67	University of Texas at Austin	United States
68	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan
69	Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)	Argentina
=70	KU Leuven	Belgium
=70	University of Zurich	Switzerland
72	Sorbonne University	France
73	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
74	Korea University	South Korea
=75	Osaka University	Japan
=75	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States
77	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
78	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
=79	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
=79	Yonsei University	South Korea
81	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea
=82	Durham University	United Kingdom
=82	Tohoku University	Japan
=82	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
=85	University of Auckland	New Zealand
=85	University of Washington	United States
87	Lund University	Sweden
88	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
89	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
90	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
91	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
92	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
93	University of Western Australia	Australia
94	Rice University	United States
95	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
96	University of Pennsylvania	United States
97	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	South Korea
98	University of Science and Technology of China	Mainland China
99	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
100	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States