QS World University Rankings
Overall rankings
Columns: 2013/14 | 2012/13 | 2011/12 | 2010/11 | Institute | Region
1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | Harvard University | United States | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | University College London | United Kingdom | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 7 | 15 | 11 | 13 | Stanford University | United States | 8 | 7 | 4 | 3 | Yale University | United States | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | University of Chicago | United States | 10 | 10 | 12 | 9 | California Institute of Technology | United States | 10 | 9 | 13 | 10 | Princeton University | United States | 13 | 12 | 9 | 12 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 14 | 11 | 10 | 11 | Columbia University | United States | 15 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Cornell University | United States | 16 | 16 | 16 | 17 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 17 | 21 | 20 | 22 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 17 | 19 | 23 | 29 | University of Toronto | Canada | 19 | 26 | 27 | 21 | King's College London | United Kingdom | 21 | 18 | 17 | 19 | McGill University | Canada | 22 | 17 | 14 | 15 | University of Michigan | United States | 23 | 20 | 19 | 14 | Duke University | United States | 24 | 25 | 28 | 31 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 25 | 22 | 21 | 28 | University of California, Berkeley | United States | 26 | 23 | 22 | 23 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 27 | 24 | 26 | 20 | Australian National University | Australia | 28 | 34 | 33 | 33 | Ecole Normale Supérieure | France | 29 | 27 | 24 | 26 | Northwestern University | United States | 30 | 28 | 30 | 27 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 31 | 36 | 31 | 38 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 32 | 30 | 25 | 24 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 33 | 32 | 29 | 30 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 34 | 33 | 40 | 40 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong | 35 | 35 | 32 | 25 | Kyoto University | Japan | 35 | 37 | 42 | 50 | Seoul National University | South Korea | 37 | 38 | 41 | 48 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 38 | 39 | 38 | 37 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 39 | 40 | 37 | 42 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 40 | 31 | 34 | 35 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States | 41 | 41 | 36 | 36 | Ecole Polytechnique | France | 41 | 47 | 58 | 74 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 43 | 46 | 48 | 43 | The University of Queensland | Australia | 44 | 43 | 44 | 41 | New York University | United States | 45 | 51 | 52 | 45 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 46 | 44 | 46 | 47 | Peking University | China | 47 | 42 | 39 | 39 | Brown University | United States | 48 | 48 | 47 | 54 | Tsinghua University | China | 49 | 45 | 51 | 44 | University of British Columbia | Canada