Ranking the 100 best universities in the world
The ranking of the top 100 universities has been published.
British universities are recognized as the best in the world for the second year in a row, this time taking the top two positions in the prestigious ranking of The World University Rankings.
This annual ranking, compiled by Times Higher Education, takes into account the success of universities in teaching, research, knowledge sharing and international interaction.
Oxford University came in first place, ahead of the last-year American champion, the California Institute of Technology, last year.
Thanks to notable successes in improving the quality of research, the University of Cambridge moved from fourth to second place.
For the first time in thirteen years of the rating, two European universities were at the top. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Swiss Institute of Technology) was able to stay in the top ten, moving from ninth place to tenth place.
Although Trinity College Dublin did not enter the top 100, it is worth noting the sharp spurt to the top and the fact that it moved at once to fourteen positions up, being in 117th place!
Italy and Spain are in the ranking thanks to the success of two universities representing these countries: Italian Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and Spanish Pompeu Fabra University.
The progress of Asians, who are ahead in the ranking, for example, the best institution of Germany LMU Munich is obvious. At once the two leading Chinese universities were higher in this year’s ranking.
There are seven universities in the top 30 from Europe and three from Asia, while last year there were ten and two respectively. In general, Europe is deservedly considered the home of the world’s best universities, because in the expanded ranking of two hundred institutions 101 universities represent this part of the planet.
However, given the trend towards Asian universities and the possible complex consequences of the UK’s exit from the European Union, Europe and the UK will need to do even more to maintain leadership in the future.
| Place in 2018 | Previous place | The name of the graduate house | Country |
| 1 | 1 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 2 | 4 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 3 | 2 | California Institute of Technology | United States |
| 4 | 3 | Stanford University | United States |
| 5 | 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 6 | 6 | Harvard University | United States |
| 7 | 7 | Princeton University | United States |
| 8 | 8 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 9 | 10 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 10 | 9 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
| 11 | 13 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 12 | 12 | Yale University | United States |
| 13 | 17 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 14 | 16 | Columbia University | United States |
| 15 | 14 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
| 16 | 15 | University College London | United Kingdom |
| 17 | 18 | Duke University | United States |
| 18 | 10 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
| 19 | 19 | Cornell University | United States |
| 20 | 20 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 21 | 21 | University of Michigan | United States |
| 22 | 24 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 23 | 22 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 24 | 23 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 25 | 25 | London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom |
| 26 | 25 | University of Washington | United States |
| 27 | 27 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 28 | 32 | New York University | United States |
| 29 | 29 | Peking University | China |
| 30 | 35 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 31 | 41 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
| 32 | 33 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 33 | 33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 34 | 36 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 35 | 30 | LMU Munich | Germany |
| 36 | 36 | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
| 37 | 36 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 38 | 30 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 39 | 28 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| 40 | 43 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 41 | 46 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 42 | 42 | McGill University | Canada |
| 43 | 45 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
| 44 | 49 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
| 45 | 43 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 46 | 39 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 47 | 40 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 48 | 47 | Australian National University | Australia |
| 49 | 50 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 50 | 51 | Brown University | United States |
| 51 | 57 | Washington University in St Louis | United States |
| 52 | 54 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| 53 | 48 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States |
| 54 | 51 | University of California, Davis | United States |
| 55 | 55 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 56 | 53 | University of Minnesota | United States |
| 57 | 56 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States |
| 58 | 76 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 59 | 63 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 60 | 70 | Purdue University | United States |
| 61 | 60 | University of Sydney | Australia |
| 62 | 57 | Humboldt University of Berlin | Germany |
| 63 | 59 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 64 | 65 | Wageningen University & Research | Netherlands |
| 65 | 60 | University of Queensland | Australia |
| 66 | 60 | University of Southern California | United States |
| 67 | 77 | Leiden University | Netherlands |
| 68 | 86 | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| 69 | 67 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
| 70 | 64 | Boston University | United States |
| 71 | 72 | Ohio State University | United States |
| 72 | 69 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| 73 | NR | Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris | France |
| 74 | 91 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 75 | 72 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 76 | 71 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| 77 | 68 | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
| 78 | 113 | McMaster University | Canada |
| 79 | 78 | RWTH Aachen University | Germany |
| 80 | 88 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| 81 | 74 | Monash University | Australia |
| 82 | 95 | University of Freiburg | Germany |
| 83 | 80 | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| 84 | 101 | Michigan State University | United States |
| 85 | 78 | University of New South Wales | Australia |
| 86 | 87 | Rice University | United States |
| 87 | 93 | Uppsala University | Sweden |
| 88 | 75 | Free University of Berlin | Germany |
| 89 | 82 | Dartmouth College | United States |
| 90 | 91 | University of Helsinki | Finland |
| 91 | 82 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
| 92 | 82 | Technical University of Berlin | Germany |
| 93 | 96 | Lund University | Sweden |
| 94 | 89 | University of Tübingen | Germany |
| 95 | 98 | University of Basel | Switzerland |
| 96 | 89 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea |
| 97 | 96 | Durham University | United Kingdom |
| 98 | 82 | Emory University | United States |
| 99 | 98 | University of California, Irvine | United States |
| 100 | 113 | University of Bonn | Germany |
| 101 | 116 | University of Colorado Boulder | United States |
| 102 | 80 | University of Pittsburgh | United States |