Want to study at one of the world's top 100 universities? The QS World University Rankings offers an annually updated list of top 1,029 universities worldwide. We will be revealing which of these made the top 100.
In the 2022 edition of the QS World University Rankings, just under half of the top 100 universities in the world are located in the US (which has 26 representatives) or the UK (18).
Here’s a complete rundown of the world’s top 100 universities.
Top 100 Universities in the World According to the QS World University Rankings 2022
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2. University of Oxford
=3. Stanford University
=3. University of Cambridge
5. Harvard University
6. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
7. Imperial College London
=8. ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
=8. UCL (University College London)
10. University of Chicago
11. National University of Singapore (NUS)
12. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)
13. University of Pennsylvania
=14. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
=14. Yale University
16. University of Edinburgh
17. Tsinghua University
18. Peking University
19. Columbia University
20. Princeton University
21. Cornell University
22. University of Hong Kong (UKU)
=23. University of Tokyo
=23. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
25. Johns Hopkins University
26. University of Toronto
=27. McGill University
=27. Australian National University
=27. University of Manchester
30. Northwestern University
31. Fudan University
32. University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
33. Kyoto University
34. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
35. King's College London
36. Seoul National University
37. University of Melbourne
38. University of Sydney
39. Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
40. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
41. KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
42. New York University (NYU)
43. University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
44. Universite PSL
45. Zhejiang University
46. University of British Columbia
47. University of Queensland
48. University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
49. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
=50. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
=50. Technical University of Munich
52. Duke University
=53. Carnegie Mellon University
=53. City University of Hong Kong
55. University of Amsterdam
56. Tokyo Institute of Technology
57. Delft University of Technology
58. Monash University
59. Institut Polytechnique de Paris
60. Brown University
62. University of Warwick
62. University of Bristol
63. Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg
64. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
65. Universiti Malaya (UM)
66. Hong Kong Polytechnic University
67. University of Texas at Austin
68. National Taiwan University (NTU)
69. Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
=70. KU Leuven
=70. University of Zurich
72. Sorbonne University
73. University of Glasgow
74. Korea University
=75. Osaka University
=75. University of Wisconsin-Madison
77. University of Southampton
78. Lomonosov Moscow State University
=79. University of Copenhagen
=79. Yonsei University
81. Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
=82. Durham University
=82. Tohoku University
=82. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
=85. University of Auckland
=85. University of Washington
87. Lund University
88. Georgia Institute of Technology
89. KTH Royal Institute of Technology
90. University of Birmingham
91. University of St Andrews
92. University of Leeds
93. University of Western Australia
94. Rice University
95. University of Sheffield
96. University of Pennsylvania
97. Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
98. University of Science and Technology of China
99. Technical University of Denmark
100. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill