Best Universities In The World 2023
Want to study in one of the best universities in the world?
The QS World University Rankings is a list of the best 1,029 universities in the world that is updated every year.
In this article, we’ll show you which of these universities made the top 100.
In the QS World University Rankings for 2022, (26) of the best universities in the world are in the United States or the United Kingdom (18).
Note: For the tenth straight year, MIT has been named the top university in the world. This year’s World University Rankings include a total of 1,029 universities.
Here is a full list of the best universities in the world.
| Rank | University | Location |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
| 2 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| =3 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| =3 | Stanford University | United States |
| 5 | Harvard University | United Kingdom |
| 6 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States |
| 7 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| =8 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | Switzerland |
| =8 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom |
| 10 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 11 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| 12 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore |
| 13 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| =14 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland |
| =14 | Yale University | United Kingdom |
| 16 | University of Edinburgh | United States |
| 17 | Tsinghua University | Mainland China |
| 18 | Peking University | Mainland China |
| 19 | Columbia University | United States |
| 20 | Princeton University | United States |
| 21 | Cornell University | United States |
| 22 | University of Hong Kong (UKU) | Hong Kong SAR |
| =23 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
| =23 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States |
| 25 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 26 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| =27 | McGill University | Canada |
| =27 | Australian National University | Australia |
| =27 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 30 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 31 | Fudan University | Mainland China |
| 32 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States |
| 33 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 34 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | Hong Kong SAR |
| 35 | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
| 36 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 37 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 38 | University of Sydney | Australia |
| 39 | Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong SAR |
| 40 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States |
| 41 | KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | South Korea |
| 42 | New York University (NYU) | United States |
| 43 | University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia |
| 44 | Universite PSL | France |
| 45 | Zhejiang University | Mainland China |
| 46 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 47 | University of Queensland | United Kingdom |
| 48 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States |
| 49 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom |
| =50 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | Mainland China |
| =50 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 52 | Duke University | United States |
| =53 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| =53 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR |
| 55 | University of Amsterdam | The Netherlands |
| 56 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan |
| 57 | Delft University of Technology | The Netherlands |
| 58 | Monash University | Australia |
| 59 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris | France |
| 60 | Brown University | United States |
| 61 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
| 62 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| 63 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg | Germany |
| 64 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany |
| 65 | Universiti Malaya (UM) | Malaysia |
| 66 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong SAR |
| 67 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 68 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan |
| 69 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | Argentina |
| =70 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| =70 | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
| 72 | Sorbonne University | France |
| 73 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| 74 | Korea University | Korea |
| =75 | Osaka University | Japan |
| =75 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
| 77 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
| 78 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia |
| =79 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| =79 | Yonsei University | South Korea |
| 81 | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea |
| =82 | Durham University | United Kingdom |
| =82 | Tohoku University | Japan |
| =82 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 85 | University of Auckland | New Zealand |
| 85 | University of Washington | United States |
| 87 | Lund University | Sweden |
| 88 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 89 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden |
| 90 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
| 91 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom |
| 92 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom |
| 93 | University of Western Australia | Australia |
| 94 | Rice University | United States |
| 95 | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
| 96 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 97 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea |
| 98 | University of Science and Technology of China | Mainland China |
| 99 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| 100 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | United States |
