The World’s top 50 Best Universities
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✓ MIT is the best university in the world for the 11th consecutive year.
✓ This year’s World University Rankings feature over 1,400 universities in total.
✓ In the 2023 edition of the QS World University Rankings, just under half of the top 50 universities in the world are located in the US (which has 17 representatives) or the UK (7).
Here’s a complete rundown of the world’s top 100 universities.
Top 50 Universities in the World According to the QS World University Ranking 2023
| RANKS | UNIVERSITIES | LOCATIONS |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
| 2 | University of Cambridge | United kingdom |
| 3 | Stanford University | United States |
| 4 | University of Oxford | United kingdom |
| 5 | Harvard University | United States |
| 6 | California Institute Technology (Caltech) | United States |
| 7 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 8 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom |
| 9 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | Switzerland |
| 10 | University Of Chicago | United States |
| 11 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| 12 | Peking University | Mainland China |
| 13 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 14 | Tsinghua University | Mainland chaina |
| 15 | University of Edinburgh | United kingdom |
| 16 | Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland |
| 17 | Princeton University | United States |
| 18 | Yale University | United States |
| 19 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore |
| 20 | Cornell University | United States |
| 21 | University of Hong Kong (UKU) | Hong Kong SAR |
| 22 | Columbia University | United States |
| 23 | University Of Tokyo | Japan |
| 24 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 25 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States |
| 26 | University Of PSL | France |
| 27 | University Of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States |
| 28 | University Of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 29 | Seoul NatIonal University | South Korea |
| 30 | Australian National University | Australia |
| 31 | McGill University | Canada |
| 32 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 33 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 34 | Fudan University | Mainland china |
| 35 | University Of Toronto | Canada |
| 36 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 37 | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
| 38 | Chinese University Of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong SAR |
| 39 | New York University (NYU) | United States |
| 40 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | Hong Kong SAR |
| 41 | University Of Sydney | Australia |
| 42 | KAIST – Korea Advance Institute Of Science & Technology | South Korea |
| 43 | Zhejiang University | Mainland China |
| 44 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States |
| 45 | University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia |
| 46 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | Mainland China |
| 47 | University Of British Columbia | Canada |
| 48 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris | France |
| 49 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
