Name↕ | Country↕ | City↕ | Founded↕ | Type↕ | World Ranking (Approx)↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | Cambridge, MA | 1861 | Private | 1 |
University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | Cambridge | 1209 | Public | 2 |
University of Oxford | United Kingdom | Oxford | 1096 | Public | 3 |
Harvard University | United States | Cambridge, MA | 1636 | Private | 4 |
Stanford University | United States | Stanford, CA | 1885 | Private | 5 |
ETH Zurich | Switzerland | Zurich | 1855 | Public | 7 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States | Pasadena, CA | 1891 | Private | 10 |
Imperial College London | United Kingdom | London | 1907 | Public | 6 |
National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | Singapore | 1905 | Public | 8 |
University of Chicago | United States | Chicago, IL | 1890 | Private | 11 |
University of Pennsylvania (Penn) | United States | Philadelphia, PA | 1740 | Private | 12 |
Princeton University | United States | Princeton, NJ | 1746 | Private | 16 |
Yale University | United States | New Haven, CT | 1701 | Private | 17 |
University of Tokyo | Japan | Tokyo | 1877 | Public | 28 |
Peking University | China | Beijing | 1898 | Public | 14 |
Tsinghua University | China | Beijing | 1911 | Public | 20 |
University of Toronto | Canada | Toronto | 1827 | Public | 21 |
Columbia University | United States | New York, NY | 1754 | Private | 18 |
University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | Edinburgh | 1583 | Public | 22 |
University of Melbourne | Australia | Melbourne | 1853 | Public | 13 |
Seoul National University | South Korea | Seoul | 1946 | Public | 31 |
Technical University of Munich | Germany | Munich | 1868 | Public | 37 |
University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong (China) | Hong Kong | 1911 | Public | 26 |
EPFL (Lausanne) | Switzerland | Lausanne | 1853 | Public | 36 |
University of Michigan | United States | Ann Arbor, MI | 1817 | Public | 33 |
UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom | London | 1826 | Public | 9 |
Cornell University | United States | Ithaca, NY | 1865 | Private / Public (land-grant) | 15 |
University of Sydney | Australia | Sydney | 1850 | Public | 19 |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | Singapore | 1981 | Public | 15 |
McGill University | Canada | Montreal | 1821 | Public | 30 |
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