World University Rankings List and Introduction to Major Universities 2025

**University of Oxford** will be ranked 1st in the **QS World University Rankings 2025** by 2025. 3rd placeoccupied. 1st place is Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), second place went to **Imperial College London**.

but Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2025In Oxford University ranks firstI took over. The rankings are based on a variety of indicators including education, research, citations, industry income, and international outlook.

Ranking of top 20 universities in the world

1. University of Oxford (UK) https://www.ox.ac.uk/
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) https://www.mit.edu/
3. Imperial College London (UK) https://www.imperial.ac.uk/
4. Harvard University (USA) https://www.harvard.edu/
5. University of Cambridge (UK) https://www.cam.ac.uk/
6. Stanford University (USA)
7. ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
8. National University of Singapore (NUS, Singapore)
9. UCL (University College London, UK)
10. California Institute of Technology (Caltech, USA)
11. University of Pennsylvania (USA)
12. Tsinghua University (China)
13. Peking University (China)
14. University of Chicago (USA)
15. Princeton University (USA)
16. Yale University (USA)
17. Johns Hopkins University (USA)
18. Columbia University (USA)
19. University of California, Berkeley (USA)
20. University of Tokyo (Japan)

List of universities ranked 21st to 100th

21. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, USA)
22. Cornell University (USA)
23. Duke University (USA)
24. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (USA)
25. University of Toronto (Canada)
26. University of Edinburgh (UK)
27. Karolinska Institutet (Sweden)
28. University of Melbourne (Australia)
29. McGill University (Canada)
30. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland)
31. Seoul National University (SNU, South Korea)
32. University of California, San Diego (USA)
33. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany)
34. University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
35. University of British Columbia (Canada)
36. KU Leuven (Belgium)
37. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA)
38. King's College London (UK)
39. University of Manchester (UK)
40. Northwestern University (USA)
41. Australian National University (Australia)
42. University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
43. University of Texas at Austin (USA)
44. Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
45. University of Washington (USA)
46. University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
47. Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
48. University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
49. Sorbonne University (France)
50. University of Queensland (Australia)
51. Monash University (Australia)
52. University of Sydney (Australia)
53. Kyoto University (Japan)
54. University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
55. Technical University of Munich (Germany)
56. Heidelberg University (Germany)
57. University of Zurich (Switzerland)
58. University of California, Davis (USA)
59. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)
60. University of Southern California (USA)
61. University of Bristol (UK)
62. Brown University (USA)
63. University of Oslo (Norway)
64. Leiden University (Netherlands)
65. University of Groningen (Netherlands)
66. University of Helsinki (Finland)
67. Wageningen University & Research (Netherlands)
68. University of Alberta (Canada)
69. University of Freiburg (Germany)
70. University of Geneva (Switzerland)
71. Utrecht University (Netherlands)
72. University of Basel (Switzerland)
73. University of Glasgow (UK)
74. University of Southampton (UK)
75. Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands)
76. University of Sheffield (UK)
77. University of Leeds (UK)
78. University of Birmingham (UK)
79. University of Adelaide (Australia)
80. University of Western Australia (Australia)
81. Lund University (Sweden)
82. University of St Andrews (UK)
83. Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
84. University of Bern (Switzerland)
85. University of California, Irvine (USA)
86. University of Maryland, College Park (USA)
87. Boston University (USA)
88. Pennsylvania State University (USA)
89. University of Pittsburgh (USA)
90. Washington University in St Louis (USA)
91. Ohio State University (USA)
92. University of Arizona (USA)
93. University of Minnesota Twin Cities (USA)
94. Purdue University (USA)
95. Emory University (USA)
96. University of Rochester (USA)
97. University of Florida (USA)
98. Vanderbilt University (USA)
99. Rice University (USA)
100. University of Colorado Boulder (USA)

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