World University Rankings 2015

World Universities are ranked by several magazines and newspapers. This is a comparative list of such rankings published during 2015. Included below are the University which are ranked in the top 50 by at least one of the following:

- = Not in 50

University

Country

ARWU (Academic Ranking of World Universities) World Ranking 2015

QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World Rankings 2015

THE (Times Higher Education) World Ranking 2015

Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)

US

3

1

5

Harvard University

US

1

2

6

University of Cambridge

UK

5

3

4

Stanford University

US

2

3

3

California Institute of Technology(Caltech)

US

7

5

1

University of Oxford

UK

10

6

2

University College London(UCL)

UK

18

7

14

Imperial College London

UK

23

8

8

ETH Zurich

Switzerland

20

9

9

University of Chicago

US

9

10

10

Princeton University

US

6

11

7

National University of Singapore (NUS)

Singapore

-

12

26

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)

Singapore

-

13

-

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Switzerland

-

14

31

Yale University

US

11

15

12

Johns Hopkins University

US

16

16

11

Cornell University

US

13

17

18

University of Pennsylvania

US

17

18

17

King's College London

UK

-

19

27

The Australian National University

Australia

-

19

-

The University of Edinburgh

UK

47

21

24

Columbia University

US

8

22

15

Ecole normale supérieure, Paris

France

-

23

-

McGill University

Canada

-

24

38

Tsinghua University

China

-

25

47

University of California, Berkeley (UCB)

US

4

26

13

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

US

12

27

16

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Hong Kong

-

28

-

Duke University

US

31

29

20

The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

-

30

44

University of Michigan

US

22

30

21

The University of Manchester

UK

41

33

-

University of Toronto

Canada

25

34

19

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

UK

-

35

23

Seoul National University

South Korea

-

36

-

University of Bristol

UK

-

37

-

Kyoto University

Japan

26

38

-

The University of Tokyo

Japan

21

39

43

Ecole Polytechnique

France

-

40

-

Peking University

China

-

41

42

The University of Melbourne

Australia

44

42

33

KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)

South Korea

-

43

-

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

US

14

44

39

The University of Sydney

Australia

-

45

-

University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia)

Australia

-

46

-

The University of Queensland

Australia

-

46

-

University of Warwick

UK

-

48

-

Brown University

US

-

49

-

University of British Columbia

Canada

40

50

34

New York University (NYU)

US

27

-

30

University of Wisconsin-Madison

US

24

-

50

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

US

29

-

36

Carnegie Mellon University

US

-

-

22

University of Washington

US

15

-

32

Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg

Germany

46

-

37

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Germany

-

-

29

University of Texas at Austin

US

37

-

46

Georgia Institute of Technology

US

-

-

41

University of California, Davis

US

-

-

44

Washington University in St. Louis

US

32

-

-

University of Minnesota

US

32

-

-

Humboldt University of Berlin

Germany

-

-

49

University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

US

38

-

39

University of Southern California

US

49

-

-

Pierre and Marie Curie University Or Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)

France

36

-

-

University of California, Irvine

US

50

-

-

University of Colorado Boulder

US

34

-

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