Top 200 World Class University List and Admission

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-2015 list the best global universities and are the only international university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

Top 200 World Class University List and Admission

 

You can view the full World University Rankings 2014-2015 top 400 below and explore the criteria used to assess the world’s greatest universities, while our in-depth analysis of the results shines more light on the data.

 

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World University Rankings 2014-2015

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Rank	Institution	Location	Overall scorechange criteria
1	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	94.3
2	Harvard University	United States	93.3
3	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	93.2
4	Stanford University	United States	92.9
5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	92.0
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	91.9
7	Princeton University	United States	90.9
8	University of California, Berkeley	United States	89.5
9	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	87.5
9	Yale University	United States	87.5
11	University of Chicago	United States	87.1
12	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	85.5
13	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	84.6
14	Columbia University	United States	84.4
15	Johns Hopkins University	United States	83.0
16	University of Pennsylvania	United States	81.0
17	University of Michigan	United States	80.9
18	Duke University	United States	79.9
19	Cornell University	United States	79.4
20	University of Toronto	Canada	79.3
21	Northwestern University	United States	79.2
22	University College London (UCL)	United Kingdom	78.7
23	The University of Tokyo	Japan	76.1
24	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	74.3
25	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	73.3
26	University of Washington	United States	73.2
27	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)	United States	72.8
28	University of Texas at Austin	United States	72.3
29	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	Germany	71.9
29	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	71.9
29	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	71.9
32	University of British Columbia	Canada	71.8
33	University of Melbourne	Australia	71.2
34	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	70.9
34	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	70.9
36	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	70.4
37	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	70.0
38	New York University (NYU)	United States	69.9
39	McGill University	Canada	69.6
40	King's College London	United Kingdom	69.4
41	University of California, San Diego	United States	68.6
42	Washington University in St Louis	United States	67.8
43	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	67.5
44	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	66.8
45	Australian National University	Australia	66.5
46	University of Minnesota	United States	65.9
46	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	65.9
48	Peking University	China	65.2
49	Tsinghua University	China	65.1
50	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea	64.8
51	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	64.7
52	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	Republic of Korea	64.5
52	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	64.5
54	Brown University	United States	64.1
55	KU Leuven	Belgium	63.7
55	University of California, Davis	United States	63.7
57	Boston University	United States	63.6
58	Pennsylvania State University	United States	62.9
59	Kyoto University	Japan	62.8
60	University of Sydney	Australia	62.7
61	École Polytechnique	France	62.2
61	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	62.2
63	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Italy	61.9
64	Leiden University	Netherlands	61.3
65	University of Queensland	Australia	61.2
66	Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech)	Republic of Korea	61.1
67	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	61.0
68	Ohio State University	United States	60.7
69	Rice University	United States	59.8
70	Heidelberg University	Germany	59.6
71	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	59.2
72	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	59.1
73	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands	59.0
74	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	58.9
75	Universität Basel	Switzerland	58.4
75	University of Southern California	United States	58.4
77	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	58.2
78	École Normale Supérieure	France	58.1
79	Utrecht University	Netherlands	58.0
80	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany	57.9
81	Free University of Berlin	Germany	57.6
82	Michigan State University	United States	57.3
83	Durham University	United Kingdom	56.9
83	Monash University	Australia	56.9
85	Middle East Technical University	Turkey	56.6
86	University of Arizona	United States	56.5
86	University of Notre Dame	United States	56.5
88	Tufts University	United States	56.4
88	University of California, Irvine	United States	56.4
90	Ghent University	Belgium	56.2
91	University of Massachusetts	United States	56.1
91	University of Pittsburgh	United States	56.1
93	Emory University	United States	55.5
94	McMaster University	Canada	55.3
94	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	55.3
96	Vanderbilt University	United States	55.2
97	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	55.1
98	Stockholm University	Sweden	54.6
98	Technical University of Munich	Germany	54.6
98	Uppsala University	Sweden	54.6
101	Maastricht University	Netherlands	54.3
102	Purdue University	United States	54.0
103	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France	53.9
103	University of Helsinki	Finland	53.9
103	University of Warwick	United Kingdom	53.9
103	University of Zürich	Switzerland	53.9
107	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom	53.8
107	University of Geneva	Switzerland	53.8
109	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States	53.7
109	University of New South Wales	Australia	53.7
111	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	53.6
111	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	53.6
113	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	53.4
113	University of Montreal	Canada	53.4
113	University of York	United Kingdom	53.4
116	Case Western Reserve University	United States	53.2
117	University of Groningen	Netherlands	53.1
118	Royal Holloway, University of London	United Kingdom	53.0
119	Lund University	Sweden	52.9
120	Paris-Sud University	France	52.8
121	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	52.7
121	University of Rochester	United States	52.7
121	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	52.7
124	University of Alberta	Canada	52.6
124	University of Cape Town	South Africa	52.6
126	Boston College	United States	52.5
126	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	52.5
126	University of Florida	United States	52.5
129	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	52.4
130	University of Virginia	United States	52.1
131	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	52.0
132	University of Bern	Switzerland	51.9
132	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	51.9
132	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	51.9
135	Technische Universität Dresden	Germany	51.6
136	Université de Lausanne	Switzerland	51.4
136	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	51.4
138	Trinity College Dublin	Republic of Ireland	51.2
139	Boğaziçi University	Turkey	51.1
140	Radboud University	Netherlands	51.0
141	Colorado School of Mines	United States	50.9
141	Texas A&M University	United States	50.9
141	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	50.9
144	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	50.5
144	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	United States	50.5
146	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	50.4
147	Brandeis University	United States	50.3
148	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	Republic of Korea	50.2
148	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	50.2
150	Indiana University	United States	50.1
150	University of California, Riverside	United States	50.1
152	Dartmouth College	United States	50.0
153	Aarhus University	Denmark	49.9
154	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	49.7
155	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	49.3
156	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	49.2
157	Osaka University	Japan	49.1
157	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	49.1
157	University of Western Australia	Australia	49.1
160	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France	49.0
160	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	49.0
162	University of Utah	United States	48.6
163	Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg	Germany	48.3
164	University of Adelaide	Australia	48.2
165	Istanbul Technical University	Turkey	48.1
165	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	48.1
165	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain	48.1
165	Tohoku University	Japan	48.1
169	University of Miami	United States	48.0
170	University of Antwerp	Belgium	47.9
171	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium	47.8
171	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	47.8
173	Georgetown University	United States	47.7
173	University of Victoria	Canada	47.7
175	University of Auckland	New Zealand	47.5
175	University of Iowa	United States	47.5
177	Syracuse University	United States	47.3
178	Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble	France	47.1
178	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	47.1
180	Paris Diderot University - Paris 7	France	47.0
180	University of Delaware	United States	47.0
182	Arizona State University	United States	46.9
182	Sabanci University	Turkey	46.9
182	University of Vienna	Austria	46.9
185	Northeastern University	United States	46.8
186	University of Oslo	Norway	46.7
186	Yeshiva University	United States	46.7
188	Stony Brook University	United States	46.6
188	Tel Aviv University	Israel	46.6
188	University of Ottawa	Canada	46.6
191	University at Buffalo	United States	46.5
192	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	46.3
193	Fudan University	China	46.2
193	Iowa State University	United States	46.2
195	Universität Bonn	Germany	46.1
196	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russian Federation	46.0
196	St George's, University of London	United Kingdom	46.0
198	University of East Anglia	United Kingdom	45.9
199	University of Leicester	United Kingdom	45.7
200	Florida Institute of Technology	United States	45.6
200	George Washington University	United States