Top colleges and universities in the world

Q: Is Harvard #1 in the world?

In U.S. News and World Reports 2022-2023 Best Global Universities Rankings, Harvard is listed as number one out of 2,000 colleges and universities from 90 countries around the world. The Ivy League school known for its rigor and exclusivity has maintained its global #1 spot for several years.

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1 Harvard University

1 1 1 2 Stanford University

3 2 4 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1 4 15 4 University of Oxford

14 6 5 5 University of California Berkeley

4 3 27 6 University of Michigan

8 12 8 7 University of Washington

6 69 10 8 Cornell University

5 15 23 9 Columbia University New York

9 8 18 10 Johns Hopkins University

16 36 7 11 University of Cambridge

21 5 14 11 University of Pennsylvania

13 11 19 13 University of California Los Angeles UCLA

20 9 20 14 Yale University

10 13 29 15 UCL University College London

43 10 6 16 University of Toronto

35 26 13 17 University of California San Diego

27 7 24 18 Pennsylvania State University

11 35 58 19 University of Wisconsin Madison

12 25 54 20 University of Minnesota System

15 20 52 21 Duke University

29 14 33 22 Northwestern University

31 19 37 23 New York University

26 31 44 24 Princeton University

7 16 121 25 University of Texas Austin

19 29 72 26 Tsinghua University / 清华大学

112 82 3 27 University of Chicago

22 23 90 28 University of British Columbia

40 28 39 29 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

32 22 56 30 University of Southern California

23 21 81 31 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich / Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

46 42 34 32 Imperial College London

95 17 16 33 University of Florida

34 32 66 34 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

25 45 75 35 Ohio State University

41 68 46 36 University of California Davis

37 33 67 37 University of California Irvine

17 24 128 38 Peking University / 北京大学

91 160 12 39 University of California San Francisco

76 18 32 40 University of Melbourne

101 55 21 41 University of Maryland College Park

28 41 110 42 Washington University Saint Louis

47 27 73 43 University of Edinburgh

54 66 50 44 Purdue University

24 75 119 45 University of New South Wales

88 63 30 46 University of Pittsburgh

49 50 70 47 Michigan State University

30 53 118 48 National University of Singapore

118 67 22 49 Carnegie Mellon University

18 39 182 50 Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

38 56 112 51 University of Sydney

146 49 17 52 University of Queensland

110 40 31 53 Texas A&M University

45 59 104 54 University of Arizona

33 57 136 55 Arizona State University

36 37 137 56 Boston University

44 44 113 57 Monash University

142 38 28 58 Vanderbilt University

62 52 93 59 California Institute of Technology Caltech

55 30 111 60 McGill University

72 47 91 61 University of Manchester

103 43 65 62 Georgia Institute of Technology

65 60 100 63 University of Utah

50 73 135 64 University of Tokyo / 東京大学

90 211 55 65 University of Virginia

39 62 171 66 Utrecht University / Universiteit Utrecht

126 85 40 67 King's College London

144 34 42 68 Shanghai Jiao Tong University / 上海交通大学

241 227 9 68 University of Alberta

100 65 87 70 Emory University

104 48 88 71 Zhejiang University (National Che Kiang University) / 浙江大学

259 177 11 72 Universidade de São Paulo USP

130 74 63 73 University of Amsterdam / Universiteit van Amsterdam

141 83 51 74 University of Copenhagen / Københavns Universitet

175 71 45 75 University of California Santa Barbara

53 46 201 76 North Carolina State University

51 117 197 77 Brown University

61 76 188 78 University of Hong Kong

132 80 89 79 Catholic University of Leuven / Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

188 72 57 80 Australian National University

86 61 167 81 Chinese University of Hong Kong

139 89 95 82 University of Iowa

69 77 195 83 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

56 122 211 84 University of Leeds

107 119 144 84 University of Groningen / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

162 133 79 86 Technische Universität München

178 105 78 87 University of Waterloo

85 121 184 88 Nanyang Technological University

301 96 36 89 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

129 64 155 90 University of Calgary

127 97 140 91 University of Helsinki / Helsingin yliopisto

128 120 141 92 Universität Zürich

185 78 98 93 Indiana University Bloomington

52 128 301 94 University of Oslo / Universitetet i Oslo

138 113 152 95 Delft University of Technology TU Delft

120 167 165 96 Kyoto University / 京都大学

133 148 150 97 Seoul National University / 서울대학교

216 84 94 97 University of Science & Technology of China / 中国科学技术大学

322 224 41 99 University of Massachusetts Amherst

70 98 271 100 Iowa State University

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Who is the No 1 University in world?

List of top 1000 universities in the world.

Is Harvard #1 in the world?

In U.S. News and World Report's 2022-2023 Best Global Universities Rankings, Harvard is listed as number one out of 2,000 colleges and universities from 90 countries around the world. The Ivy League school known for its rigor and exclusivity has maintained its global #1 spot for several years.