The top 200 universities in the world, as ranked by higher education data specialists QS

Rank 2014	Rank 2013	Institution	Country	Overall score
1	1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100
2=	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	99.4
2=	4	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	99.4
4	2	Harvard University	United States	99.3
5=	6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	99.2
5=	4	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	99.2
7	7	Stanford University	United States	98.3
8	10=	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	97.1
9	10=	Princeton University	United States	96.6
10	8	Yale University	United States	96.5
11	9	University of Chicago	United States	95.5
12	12	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	95.3
13	13	University of Pennsylvania	United States	94.5
14=	14	Columbia University	United States	94.1
14=	16	Johns Hopkins University	United States	94.1
16	19=	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	92.9
17=	17=	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	92.8
17=	19=	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	92.8
19	15	Cornell University	United States	92.6
20	17=	University of Toronto	Canada	92.4
21	21	McGill University	Canada	91.5
22	24	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	91.1
23	22	University of Michigan	United States	90.3
24	28	Ecole normale supérieure, Paris	France	90.2
25=	27	Australian National University	Australia	89.7
25=	23	Duke University	United States	89.7
27	25	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	89.5
28	26	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	88.8
29	30	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	88.5
30	33	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	86.9
31=	32	The University of Tokyo	Japan	86.7
31=	35	Seoul National University	Korea, South	86.7
33	31	The University of Melbourne	Australia	86.5
34	29	Northwestern University	United States	86
35	41=	Ecole Polytechnique	France	85
36	35=	Kyoto University	Japan	84.7
37=	40	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	84.3
37=	38	The University of Sydney	Australia	84.3
39	41=	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	84
40	34	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	83.3
41=	44	New York University (NYU)	United States	82.5
41=	37	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	82.5
43=	49	University of British Columbia	Canada	82.4
43=	43	The University of Queensland	Australia	82.4
45	45	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	82
46	39	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	81.9
47	48	Tsinghua University	China	81.3
48	52	The University of New South Wales	Australia	81.2
49	50	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	81.1
50	58	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	80.5
51	60	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	Korea, South	79.9
52=	65	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	79.8
52=	47	Brown University	United States	79.8
54	53	Technische Universität München	Germany	79.7
55=	55	Osaka University	Japan	79.6
55=	51	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	79.6
57=	46	Peking University	China	78.8
57=	78	University of Zurich	Switzerland	78.8
59	63	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	78.6
60	67	Lund University	Sweden	78.3
61	64	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	78.1
62	54	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	77.5
63	56	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	76.9
64	62	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	76.7
65=	59	University of Washington	United States	76.5
65=	57	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	76.5
67	69	University of Helsinki	Finland	76.4
68	66	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	76.3
69	71=	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	75.7
70	69=	Monash University	Australia	75.5
71=	88	Fudan University	China	75.3
71=	68	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	75.3
71=	75=	Tohoku University	Japan	75.3
71=	61	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	75.3
75	74	Leiden University	Netherlands	75.2
76	82	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	75.1
77	75=	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	74.9
78	79=	Boston University	United States	74.8
79	71=	University of Texas at Austin	United States	74.6
80	81	Utrecht University	Netherlands	74.5
81	79=	Uppsala University	Sweden	74.2
82	77	KU Leuven	Belgium	74.1
83	92=	Université de Montréal	Canada	73.6
84	96	University of Alberta	Canada	73.3
85	71=	University of Geneva	Switzerland	73.1
86=	95	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	72.9
86=	107=	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	Korea, South	72.9
88	83	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	72.7
89	84	The University of Western Australia	Australia	72.6
90=	97=	University of Groningen	Netherlands	72.1
90=	92=	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	72.1
92=	94	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	72
92=	90	Durham University	United Kingdom	72
94	86=	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	71.9
95	85	University of California, Davis	United States	71.7
96	91	Aarhus University	Denmark	71.6
97	97=	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	71.3
98	115	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)	United Kingdom	71.2
99	86=	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	70.8
100	104=	The University of Adelaide	Australia	70.5
101	89	University of Oslo	Norway	70.1
102	99=	Purdue University	United States	69.5
103	99=	Nagoya University	Japan	69.4
104	123	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	69.1
105	111	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	68.9
106	114	Yonsei University	Korea, South	68.4
107	99=	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	68.3
108	104=	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	68.2
109	113	Ohio State University	United States	68.1
110	118	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	67.9
111	106	University of Pittsburgh	United States	67.7
112	107=	Pennsylvania State University	United States	67.5
113	140	McMaster University	Canada	67.4
114	120	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	66.9
115	112	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France	66.2
116=	145=	Korea University	Korea, South	66
116=	110	University of Basel	Switzerland	66
118	121	Maastricht University	Netherlands	65.8
119	102=	University of Minnesota	United States	65.7
120	124	University of York	United Kingdom	65.1
121	102=	Universität Freiburg	Germany	64.8
122	116=	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	64.7
123=	136=	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	64.5
123=	130=	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	64.5
123=	134=	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	64.5
126	133	Kyushu University	Japan	64.4
127=	116=	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	Germany	64.3
127=	129	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	64.3
129=	122	University of Ghent	Belgium	64.2
129=	136=	Rice University	United States	64.2
131	125	University of Southern California	United States	64
132=	127	Universidade de São Paulo (USP)	Brazil	63.9
132=	130=	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	63.9
134	126	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	63.7
135	144	Hokkaido University	Japan	63.4
136	119	Dartmouth College	United States	63.3
137	148	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	62.9
138	141=	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	62.7
139	139	University College Dublin	Ireland	62.6
140	162	Sungkyunkwan University	Korea, South	62.2
141=	145=	University of Cape Town	South Africa	62
141=	134=	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	62
141=	132	University of Virginia	United States	62
144	165	Zhejiang University	China	61.9
145	154	University of Bern	Switzerland	61.8
146	128	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	61.5
147=	147	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany	61.2
147=	174	University of Science and Technology of China	China	61.2
147=	157	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	61.2
150	109	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	61.1
151=	167	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	61
151=	150	Wageningen University	Netherlands	61
153	149	University of California, Irvine	United States	60.8
154	138	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium	60.7
155	151=	University of Bergen	Norway	60.3
156=	158=	University of Vienna	Austria	60
156=	143	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands	60
156=	141=	Emory University	United States	60
159	155	University of Otago	New Zealand	59.9
160	156	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	59.7
161	168=	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	59.6
162=	175=	Nanjing University	China	59.3
162=	161	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	59.3
164	151=	University of Rochester	United States	59
165	153	Texas A&M University	United States	58.8
166	178	University of Barcelona	Spain	58.7
167=	166	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Chile	58.3
167=	199=	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	58.3
169	180	University of Waterloo	Canada	57.8
170	172=	Queen's University of Belfast	United Kingdom	57.7
171=	181=	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	57.6
171=	–	University of Calgary	Canada	57.6
173=	–	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain	57.5
173=	168=	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	Belgium	57.5
175=	163=	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	56.9
175=	–	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden	56.9
177	163=	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	Germany	56.8
178	195	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	56.5
179=	158=	Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France	56.3
179=	187	University of Bath	United Kingdom	56.3
181	172=	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)	Belgium	56.2
182=	188	University of Bologna	Italy	55.8
182=	170	Stockholm University	Sweden	55.8
182=	–	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	55.8
182=	181=	Vanderbilt University	United States	55.8
186	192	University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)	United States	55.7
187=	189=	Queen's University, Ontario	Canada	55.5
187=	196=	Aalto University	Finland	55.5
189	175=	Case Western Reserve University	United States	55.4
190	183=	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Israel	55.3
191	–	Western University	Canada	55.2
192=	183=	Technische Universität Berlin	Germany	54.9
192=	186	Universität Hamburg	Germany	54.9
192=	179	University of Florida	United States	54.9
195=	171	Michigan State University	United States	54.6
195=	196=	Tel Aviv University	Israel	54.6
197	193=	Keio University	Japan	54.4
198=	–	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Argentina	54.3
198=	–	University of Tsukuba	Japan	54.3
200=	193=	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	53.9
200=	189=	Georgetown University	United States	53.9