Top 200 Universities in the World

Introduction

What are the most popular Universities in the world? uniRank answers this question by publishing the 2025 uniRank World University Ranking of the top 200 higher-education institutions in the world meeting the following uniRank selection criteria:

being chartered, licensed or accredited by the appropriate higher education-related organization in each country
offering at least three-year bachelor's degrees or postgraduate master's or doctoral degrees
delivering courses predominantly in a traditional, non-distance education format

uniRank aims to provide a non-academic League Table of the top Universities in the world based on valid, unbiased and non-influenceable web metrics provided by independent web intelligence sources rather than data submitted by the Universities themselves.

Rank	University	Country
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	us
2	Harvard University	us
3	Stanford University	us
4	Cornell University	us
5	University of California, Berkeley	us
6	University of Washington	us
7	University of Michigan	us
8	Columbia University in the City of New York	us
9	University of Pennsylvania	us
10	University of Oxford	gb
11	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	mx
12	Yale University	us
13	University of California, Los Angeles	us
14	University of Wisconsin-Madison	us
15	The University of Texas at Austin	us
16	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	us
17	University of Toronto	ca
18	Purdue University	us
19	University of Cambridge	gb
20	University of Chicago	us
21	New York University	us
22	Princeton University	us
23	University of California, Davis	us
24	University of California, San Diego	us
25	University of Florida	us
26	University of Southern California	us
27	The University of British Columbia	ca
28	Carnegie Mellon University	us
29	Johns Hopkins University	us
30	Duke University	us
31	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	us
32	Michigan State University	us
33	Arizona State University	us
34	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	us
35	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	us
36	Texas A&M University	us
37	University of Colorado Boulder	us
38	University of Maryland	us
39	University of Virginia	us
40	University College London	gb
41	The University of Arizona	us
42	Northwestern University	us
43	The Ohio State University	us
44	University of California, Irvine	us
45	Washington University in St. Louis	us
46	North Carolina State University	us
47	Penn State University	us
48	Boston University	us
49	Indiana University Bloomington	us
50	McGill University	ca
51	The University of Utah	us
52	University of Pittsburgh	us
53	University of Edinburgh	gb
54	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	us
55	Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich	ch
56	Brigham Young University	us
57	University of California, Santa Barbara	us
58	Georgetown University	us
59	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	us
60	Georgia Institute of Technology	us
61	Tufts University	us
62	University of Waterloo	ca
63	University of New South Wales	au
64	The University of Sydney	au
65	University of Georgia	us
66	Brown University	us
67	Oregon State University	us
68	University of Rochester	us
69	California Institute of Technology	us
70	University of Iowa	us
71	University of Alberta	ca
72	Monash University	au
73	The London School of Economics and Political Science	gb
74	University of Massachusetts Amherst	us
75	George Washington University	us
76	George Mason University	us
77	Iowa State University	us
78	Simon Fraser University	ca
79	Colorado State University	us
80	University at Buffalo, State University of New York	us
81	University of Connecticut	us
82	Vanderbilt University	us
83	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	de
84	University of California, San Francisco	us
85	Syracuse University	us
86	Florida State University	us
87	University of Houston	us
88	University of Oregon	us
89	The University of Melbourne	au
90	Washington State University	us
91	University of Southampton	gb
92	University of Notre Dame	us
93	Emory University	us
94	University of South Florida	us
95	University of Manchester	gb
96	Universidade de São Paulo	br
97	The University of Queensland	au
98	The University of Tokyo	jp
99	Rice University	us
100	Dartmouth College	us
101	Universität Wien	at
102	University of California, Santa Cruz	us
103	University of Calgary	ca
104	University of Illinois Chicago	us
105	University of Kentucky	us
106	Imperial College London	gb
107	University of California, Riverside	us
108	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	be
109	University of Central Florida	us
110	University of Glasgow	gb
111	Université de Montréal	ca
112	Australian National University	au
113	Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna	it
114	National University of Singapore	sg
115	Universiteit Utrecht	nl
116	University of Warwick	gb
117	Georgia State University	us
118	University of Kansas	us
119	University of Birmingham	gb
120	Universiteit van Amsterdam	nl
121	York University	ca
122	King's College London	gb
123	Technische Universität München	de
124	University of Missouri	us
125	University of Delaware	us
126	Helsingin yliopisto	fi
127	Universiteit Leiden	nl
128	Technische Universiteit Delft	nl
129	Northeastern University	us
130	Universitetet i Oslo	no
131	University of South Carolina	us
132	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	de
133	Freie Universität Berlin	de
134	Université Laval	ca
135	University of Leeds	gb
136	University of New Mexico	us
137	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen	nl
138	University of Miami	us
139	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	de
140	Universidad de Barcelona	es
141	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	us
142	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	ch
143	Tecnológico de Monterrey	mx
144	Københavns Universitet	dk
145	Technische Universität Berlin	de
146	Louisiana State University	us
147	The University of Hong Kong	hk
148	Western University	ca
149	Rochester Institute of Technology	us
150	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	de
151	Univerzita Karlova	cz
152	King Saud University	sa
153	Boston College	us
154	Kyoto University	jp
155	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet	no
156	University of Cincinnati	us
157	University of North Texas	us
158	Temple University	us
159	Universität Zürich	ch
160	Queen's University	ca
161	University of Victoria	ca
162	McMaster University	ca
163	Universität Hamburg	de
164	Technische Universität Wien	at
165	Universiteit Gent	be
166	Ruhr-Universität Bochum	de
167	San Diego State University	us
168	Durham University	gb
169	University of Nottingham	gb
170	The University of Oklahoma	us
171	The University of York	gb
172	Toronto Metropolitan University	ca
173	Lunds Universitet	se
174	Drexel University	us
175	Newcastle University	gb
176	Florida International University	us
177	University of Vermont	us
178	Université de Strasbourg	fr
179	University of New Hampshire	us
180	University of Exeter	gb
181	Universidad de Buenos Aires	ar
182	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	de
183	Uppsala Universitet	se
184	Universidad Complutense de Madrid	es
185	University of Liverpool	gb
186	Case Western Reserve University	us
187	Lancaster University	gb
188	Université de Genève	ch
189	Clemson University	us
190	University of St Andrews	gb
191	Aarhus Universitet	dk
192	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	de
193	Fordham University	us
194	Tampereen yliopisto	fi
195	Universität zu Köln	de
196	Kungliga Tekniska högskolan	se
197	Carleton University	ca
198	Virginia Commonwealth University	us
199	Oklahoma State University	us
200	Université de Liège	be

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Introduction