World University Rankings – Aggregated

Harvard University leads the way in the aggregated world university rankings that are dominated by American institutions, as compiled by University Guidance. MIT and Stanford complete the podium, followed by England’s ancient universities of Cambridge and Oxford.

UNIVERSITY GUIDANCE TOP TEN GLOBAL UNIVERSITIES

Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Stanford University
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
California institute of Technology (Caltech)
Princeton University
University of Chicago
University of California, Berkeley
Columbia University

Nearly two-thirds (25) of the world’s leading 40 universities are based in the United States, according to this new ranking, with 6 from the UK, 3 from Canada, 2 from Germany and 1 each from Australia, Belgium, Japan and Switzerland.

This table, produced by University Guidance, is an aggregate of each university’s position in the five leading global rankings, which are:

Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
Center for World University Rankings (CWUR)
QS World University Rankings (QS)
Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE)
US News Best Global University Rankings (USN)

Each ranking uses its own methodology – detailed on the individual websites – which explains why each varies to some degree or another. Having said that, the top 5 institutions in the aggregated table feature in each of the top 10s, so there is a level of consistency across the top end of each ranking.

Harvard achieves three 1st places, plus a 2nd and a 6th to take overall top spot with a score of 11. MIT and Stanford are tied with a score of 14 for 2nd, but MIT takes the runners-up spot as it achieved a 1st place whereas Stanford did not.

There are some US institutions – notably Berkeley and Columbia – that have lost places in the aggregated table due to their lower positioning by the two UK-based rankings, namely QS and THE, whereas European institutions Imperial College London and ETH Zürich do well with QS and THE – 8th and 9th respectively in each – when compared to their placings in the other three rankings.

Of course, as important as rankings are to the universities – particularly those who score well – they should always be used by students as just one part of the research process, rather than the only element for consideration.

		Overall	ARWU	CWUR	QS	THE	USN
1.	Harvard University	11	1	1	2	6	1
2.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	14	3	3	1	5	2
3.	Stanford University	14	2	2	3	3	4
4.	University of Cambridge	22	5	4	3	4	6
5.	University of Oxford	28	10	5	6	2	5
6.	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	32	7	12	5	1	7
7.	Princeton University	46	6	9	11	7	13
8.	University of Chicago	47	9	8	10	10	10
9.	University of California, Berkeley	53	4	7	26	13	3
10.	Columbia University	60	8	6	22	15	9
11.	Yale University	63	11	11	15	12	14
12.	Johns Hopkins University	71	16	16	16	11	12
13.	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	78	12	15	27	16	8
14.	Cornell University	79	13	10	17	18	21
15.	University of Pennsylvania (U.Penn)	80	17	14	18	17	14
16.	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	85	20	20	9	9	27
17.	UCL	88	18	27	7	14	22
18.	Imperial College London	92	23	35	8	8	18
19.	University of Michigan – Ann Arbor	109	22	19	30	21	17
20.	University of Toronto	126	25	32	34	19	16
21.	Duke University	128	31	28	29	20	20
22.	Northwestern University	131	27	22	32	25	25
23.	University of California, San Diego	137	14	21	44	39	19
24.	University of Tokyo	147	21	13	39	43	31
25.	University of Washington – Seattle	154	15	31	65	32	11
26.	New York University (NYU)	162	27	18	53	30	34
27.	University of Wisconsin-Madison	179	24	25	54	50	26
28.	University of Edinburgh	184	47	55	21	24	37
29.	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	200	29	33	59	36	43
30.	University of British Columbia	219	40	62	50	34	33
31.	University of Texas at Austin	220	37	30	77	46	30
32.	McGill University	221	64	42	24	38	53
33.	University of Melbourne	252	44	93	42	33	40
34.	King’s College London	256	55	94	19	27	61
35.	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	262	46	76	66	37	37
36.	Carnegie Mellon University	277	61	61	62	22	71
37.	University of California, Davis	278	57	53	85	44	39
38.	Ludwig Maximilians Universität Müchen	288	52	79	75	29	53
39.	University of California, Santa Barbara	294	38	64	129	39	24
40.	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)	333	90	82	82	35	44

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