Check The List of Global Top Universities In 2021, Harvard Ranked On Top

Global University Rankings in 2021

List of world’s top 100 Universities in 2021

Once again the Harvard University secured its No. 1 rank, while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in at No. 2. Stanford University and the University of California — Berkeley are third and fourth, respectively. The United Kingdom’s University of Oxford finishes out the top five in the overall ranking.

Best Global Universities Rankings by U.S. News & World Report presents all the top universities from the U.S. and 60 other countries around the world. U.S. News Rankings are released every year and list universities which provide outstanding undergraduate majors, graduate degrees, and PhDs. Data for this list of universities is collected from annual surveys and diverse data resources. The overall Best Global Universities rankings encompass nearly 1,500 top institutions spread across 86 countries, up from 81 countries last year.

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Harvard Is Again Ranked on #1 In The List Of Top 100 Global Universities

Universities	Location	2020	2019	2018
Harvard University	Cambridge, MA, United States	1	1	1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Cambridge, MA, United States	2	2	2
Stanford University	Stanford, CA, United States	3	3	3
University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley, CA, United States	4	4	4
University of Oxford	Oxford, ENG, United Kingdom	5	5	5
California Institute of Technology – Caltech	Pasadena, CA, United States	6	6	6
Columbia University	New York City, NY, United States	7	8	8
Princeton University	Princeton, NJ, United States	8	9	9
University of Cambridge	Cambridge, ENG, United Kingdom	9	7	7
University of Washington	Seattle, WA, United States	10	10	10
Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD, United States	11	12	10
Yale University	New Haven, CT, United States	12	11	10
University of Chicago	Chicago, IL, United States	13	14	14
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	Los Angeles, CA, United States	14	13	13
University of California, San Francisco	San Francisco, CA, United States	15	15	15
University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA, United States	16	16	19
University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, MI, United States	17	18	17
University of Toronto	Toronto, Canada	18	20	20
University of California, San Diego	San Diego, CA, United States	19	17	16
Imperial College London	London, ENG, United Kingdom	20	18	17
University College London (UCL)	London, ENG, United Kingdom	21	21	22
Duke University	Durham, NC, United States	22	22	21
Cornell University	Ithaca, NY, United States	23	23	23
Northwestern University	Evanston, IL, United States	24	24	24
ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Zürich, Switzerland	25	25	25
Melbourne Business School	Melbourne, 07, Australia	26	–	–
University of Melbourne	Melbourne, 07, Australia	26	26	26
University of Sydney	Sydney, 02, Australia	27	31	34
New York University	New York City, NY, United States	28	28	28
The University of Edinburgh	Edinburgh, SCT, United Kingdom	28	27	30
University of British Columbia	Vancouver, Canada	30	29	27
Washington University in St. Louis	Saint Louis, MO, United States	31	32	32
University of Copenhagen	Copenhagen, Denmark	32	34	37
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, NC, United States	33	32	34
National University of Singapore	Singapore, Singapore	34	38	43
University of Texas at Austin	Austin, TX, United States	34	36	32
Tsinghua University	Beijing, China	36	50	64
King’s College London	London, ENG, United Kingdom	37	39	41
Sorbonne University	Paris, France	37	–	38
University of Wisconsin Madison	Madison, WI, United States	37	35	31
University of Amsterdam	Amsterdam, Netherlands	40	51	55
University of California, Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara, CA, United States	41	37	28
University of Queensland	Brisbane, 04, Australia	42	42	45
Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich	München, Germany	43	46	40
Nanyang Technological University	Singapore, Singapore	43	49	55
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne	Lausanne, Switzerland	45	40	36
The Ohio State University	Columbus, OH, United States	45	46	46
University of Minnesota Twin Cities	Minneapolis, MN, United States	47	41	42
University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA, United States	47	43	48
McGill University	Montréal, Canada	49	43	49
University of Colorado at Boulder	Boulder, CO, United States	50	43	44
Boston University	Boston, MA, United States	51	46	39
Karolinska Institute	Stockholm, Sweden	51	51	52
King Abdulaziz University	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	51	76	110
University of Maryland	College Park, MD, United States	51	51	50
Utrecht University	Utrecht, Netherlands	55	56	57
Heidelberg University	Heidelberg, Germany	56	54	59
KU Leuven	Leuven, Belgium	56	57	63
University of Zurich	Zürich (Kreis 1), Switzerland	58	61	59
Monash University	Melbourne, 07, Australia	59	62	68
Peking University	Beijing, China	59	68	65
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	Urbana, IL, United States	59	54	51
Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta, GA, United States	62	69	71
Rockefeller University	New York City, NY, United States	62	66	52
The University of Manchester	Manchester, ENG, United Kingdom	64	58	59
University of California, Davis	Davis, CA, United States	64	60	52
University of New South Wales	Sydney, 02, Australia	64	70	69
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Manhattan, NY, United States	67	75	115
Australian National University	Canberra, 01, Australia	69	66	69
University of Southern California	Los Angeles, CA, United States	69	62	62
Emory University	Atlanta, GA, United States	71	73	71
Pennsylvania State University	University Park, PA, United States	72	71	66
Vanderbilt University	Nashville, TN, United States	72	74	67
Erasmus University Rotterdam	Rotterdam, Netherlands	74	71	73
The University of Tokyo	Tokyo, Japan	74	62	57
University of California, Santa Cruz	Santa Cruz, CA, United States	76	58	47
Technical University of Munich	München, Germany	77	80	80
University of California, Irvine (UCI)	Irvine, CA, United States	78	–	75
Wageningen University and Research	Wageningen, Netherlands	79	85	88
University of Adelaide	Adelaide, 05, Australia	80	102	122
University of Bristol	Bristol, ENG, United Kingdom	81	77	73
Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, PA, United States	82	81	77
PSL Research University	Paris, France	82	84	–
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Amsterdam, Netherlands	82	86	85
University of Arizona	Tucson, AZ, United States	85	81	77
The University of Western Australia	Perth, 08, Australia	86	81	88
Ghent University	Gent, Belgium	87	92	88
University of Helsinki	Helsinki, Finland	87	92	81
Leiden University	Leiden, Netherlands	89	86	79
University of Glasgow	Glasgow, SCT, United Kingdom	89	95	102
Humboldt University Berlin	Berlin, Germany	91	90	87
Lund University	Lund, Sweden	91	88	85
University of Oslo	Oslo, Norway	91	98	104
University of Geneva	Genève, Switzerland	94	88	88
University of Southampton	Southampton, ENG, United Kingdom	94	94	97
University of Birmingham	Birmingham, ENG, United Kingdom	96	96	107
University of Groningen	Groningen, Netherlands	96	101	94
University of Barcelona	Barcelona, Spain	98	96	81
Weizmann Institute of Science	Tel Aviv Yaffo, Israel	99	112	104
The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR)	100	103	109

Final Thoughts: These institutions from the U.S. and more than 80 other countries have been ranked based on 13 indicators that measure their academic research performance and their global and regional reputations. Students can use these rankings to explore the higher education options that exist beyond their own countries’ borders and to compare key aspects of schools’ research missions.

Information Source: USNews