Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020

Check out the top 100 universities in the world according to the most recent Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2020.

The methodology of this prestigious annual world university ranking depends on 5 areas, which are: teaching (30%), research (30%), citation (30%), industry connections (2.5%), and international outlook (7.5%).Find the best program for you at some of these top world universities with IDP.

Rank	University Name	Country
1	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
2	California Institute of Technology	United States
3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
4	Stanford University	United States
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
6	Princeton University	United States
7	Harvard University	United States
8	Yale University	United States
9	University of Chicago	United States
10	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
11	University of Pennsylvania	United States
12	Johns Hopkins University	United States
13	University of California, Berkeley	United States
13	ETH Zurich	Swtizerland
15	UCL	United Kingdom
16	Columbia University	United States
17	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
18	University of Toronto	Canada
19	Cornell University	United States
20	Duke University	United States
21	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States
22	Northwestern University	United States
23	Tsinghua University	China
24	Peking University	China
25	National University of Singapore	Singapore
26	University of Washington	United States
27	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
27	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
29	New York University	United States
30	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
31	University of California, San Diego	United States
32	LMU Munich	Germany
32	University of Melbourne	Australia
34	University of British Columbia	Canada
35	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
36	King’s College London	United Kingdom
36	The University of Tokyo	Japan
38	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
38	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
38	University of Texas at Austin	United States
41	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
42	McGill University	Canada
43	Technical University of Munich	Germany
44	Heidelberg University	Germany
45	KU Leuven	Belgium
45	Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris	France
47	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
48	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
48	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Singapore
50	Australian National University	Australia
51	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States
52	Washington University in St Louis	United States
53	Brown University	United States
54	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
55	University of California, Davis	United States
55	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
57	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
57	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
59	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands
60	University of Sydney	Australia
61	Boston University	United States
62	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
62	University of Southern California	United States
64	Seoul National University	South Korea
65	Kyoto University	Japan
66	University of Queensland	Australia
67	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
67	Leiden University	Netherlands
69	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
70	Ohio State University (Main campus)	United States
71	UNSW Sydney	Australia
72	McMaster University	Canada
73	University of Groningen	Netherlands
74	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany
75	Monash University	Australia
75	Utrecht University	Netherlands
77	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
78	Penn State (Main campus)	United States
79	University of Minnesota	United States
80	Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin	Germany
80	Emory University	United States
80	University of Science and Technology of China	China
80	Sorbonne University	France
84	Michigan State University	United States
85	University of Montreal	Canada
86	University of Freiburg	Germany
87	University of Bristol United	United Kingdom
88	Purdue University West Lafayette	United States
89	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	South Korea
90	University of Zurich	Switzerland
91	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
91	University of Tübingen	Germany
93	École Polytechnique	France
94	University of Basel	Switzerland
94	Dartmouth College	United States
96	University of California, Irvine	United States
96	University of Helsinki	Finland
99	Lund University	Sweden
99	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom

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