Ranking of universities in the world 2018, the best universities

The best universities in the world are the preserve of the most successful people who want to get an excellent education and make their lives better. To choose the really best university, you need to consider the ranking policy, and then choose the right educational institution. In total, there are 2 generally accepted organizations that evaluate data from more than 2500 universities, and then present the results.

QS - ranking of the best universities in the world 2018

Initially, the QS ranking of universities in the world indicates the relevance of an educational institution in accordance with its achievements in education and science. To identify leaders and the correct distribution of places among them, experts study the following set of features:

activity;
the quality of scientific activity;
employers' opinion;
career opportunities for graduates;
internationalization;
features of teaching.

Top 100 QS World University Rankings 2018

A place	University name	Country	Final score
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA	100
2	Stanford University	USA	98.7
3	Harvard University	USA	98.4
4	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	USA	97.7
5	Cambridge university	United Kingdom	95.6
6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	95.3
7	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	94.6
8	Imperial college london	United Kingdom	93.7
9	University of Chicago	USA	93.5
10	Swiss Higher Technical School Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	93.3
11	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	92.2
12	Lausanne Polytechnic School	Switzerland	91.2
13	Princeton University	USA	91
14	Cornell University	USA	90.7
15	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	90.5
16	Yale university	USA	90.4
17	Johns Hopkins University	USA	89.8
18	Columbia University	USA	88.9
19	University of Pennsylvania	USA	88.7
20	Australian National University	Australia	87.1
21	Duke University	USA	87
21	University of Michigan	USA	87
23	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	86.9
24	Edinburgh University	United Kingdom	86.8
25	Tsinghua University	China	85.6
26	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	85.5
27	University of California, Berkeley (ucb)	USA	84.9
28	Northwestern University	USA	84.8
28	University of Tokyo	Japan	84.8
30	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	84.3
31	University of Toronto	Canada	84
32	McGill University	Canada	83.9
33	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	USA	83.6
34	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	83
35	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	81.8
36	Kyoto University	Japan	81.5
36	Seoul National University	South Korea	81.5
38	Peking University	China	80.8
38	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	USA	80.8
40	Fudan University	China	80.6
41	Melbourne University	Australia	80.4
41	KAIST - Korea Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea	80.4
43	Higher Normal School (Paris)	France	79.9
44	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	79.5
45	University of New South Wales	Australia	78.9
46	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	78.8
47	University of Queensland	Australia	78.6
47	Carnegie Mellon University	USA	78.6
49	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	78.4
50	University of Sydney	Australia	78
51	University of British Columbia	Canada	77.9
52	New York University (New York University)	USA	77.3
53	Brown University	USA	76.5
54	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	76.1
55	University of Wisconsin-Madison	USA	75.8
56	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	74.8
57	University of Warwick	United Kingdom	74.4
58	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	74.3
59	Polytechnic school	France	74
60	Monash University	Australia	73.1
61	Washington State University	USA	72.9
62	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	72.5
63	Osaka University	Japan	72.1
64	Munich Technical University	Germany	72
65	Glasgow University	United Kingdom	71.6
66	Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich	Germany	70.8
67	University of Texas at Austin	USA	70.6
68	Ruprecht-Karls-Heidelberg University	Germany	70.4
69	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	USA	70.3
70	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	70.1
71	KU Leuven	Belgium	69.4
71	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea	69.4
73	Copenhagen University	Denmark	69.2
73	University of Zurich (Oh)	Switzerland	69.2
75	University of Buenos Aires	Argentina	69.1
76	Tohoku University	Japan	69
76	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	69
78	Lund University	Sweden	68.5
78	Durham University	United Kingdom	68.5
80	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	USA	67.8
81	Boston University	USA	67.2
82	Auckland University	new Zealand	67
82	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	67
84	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	66.8
84	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	66.8
86	Ohio State University	USA	66.1
87	Zhejiang University	China	65.9
88	Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin	Ireland	65.7
89	Rice University	USA	65.6
90	Korea University	South Korea	65.5
90	University of Alberta	Canada	65.5
92	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	65.3
93	Pennsylvania State University	USA	65.2
93	University of Western Australia	Australia	65.2
95	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	65
95	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	65
97	University of Science and Technology of China	China	64.9
98	Royal Institute of Technology KTH	Sweden	64.7
98	University of Geneva	Switzerland	64.7
100	Washington University in St. Louis	USA	64.6

Thus, according to these statistics, the best university in the world is Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, the Russian University. Lomonosov was also included in the rating because of his achievements in a number of industries, including the activities of the Faculty of Bioengineering and Economics.

Times Higher Education - World University Rankings 2018

If we look at the 2018 World University Rankings, the complete list is 980 educational institutions, although it is estimated at about six thousand. At the same time, they are selected based on a whole range of factors:

statistical analysis of activities;
audited data;
annual global survey of the academic community;
employers' assessments.

Top 100 Times higher education world university rankings 2018

A place	Name	Final score
1	University of Oxford	94.3
2	Cambridge university	93.2
3	California Institute of Technology	93.0
3	Stanford University	93.0
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	92.5
6	Harvard University	91.8
7	Princeton University	91.1
8	Imperial college london	89.2
9	University of Chicago	88.6
10	ETH Zurich-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	87.7
10	University of Pennsylvania	87.7
12	Yale university	87.6
13	Johns Hopkins University	86.5
14	Columbia University	86.0
15	University of California, Los Angeles	85.7
16	University of London	85.3
17	Duke University	85.1
18	University of California, Berkeley	84.3
19	Cornell University	84.2
20	Northwestern University	83.3
21	University of Michigan	83.1
22	National University of Singapore	82.8
22	University of Toronto	82.8
24	Carnegie Mellon University	81.9
25	London School of Economics and Political Science	79.4
25	Washington State University	79.4
27	Edinburgh University	79.2
27	New York University	79.2
27	Peking University	79.2
30	Tsinghua University	79.0
31	University of California, San Diego	78.7
32	University of Melbourne	77.5
33	Georgia Institute of Technology	77.0
34	University of British Columbia	76.2
34	LMU Munich	76.2
36	King's College London	75.6
37	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	75.4
38	Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne	75.3
38	Karolinska Institute	75.3
40	University of Hong Kong	75.1
41	Munich Technical University	73.5
42	McGill University	73.2
43	University of Wisconsin-Madison	73.1
44	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	72.7
45	Heidelberg University	72.3
46	University of Tokyo	72.2
47	KU Leuven	71.8
48	Australian National University	71.6
49	University of Texas at Austin	71.4
50	Brown University	70.8
50	Washington University in St. Louis	70.8
52	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	70.5
53	University of California, Santa Barbara	70.0
54	University of California, Davis	69.5
54	University of Manchester	69.5
56	University of Minnesota	69.0
56	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	69.0
58	Chinese University of Hong Kong	68.5
59	University of Amsterdam	68.4
60	Purdue University	68.2
61	University of Sydney	67.8
62	Berlin Humboldt University	67.4
63	Delft University of Technology	67.3
64	Wageningen University & Research	67.2
65	University of Queensland	67.0
66	University of Southern California	66.8
67	Leiden University	66.0
68	Utrecht University	65.8
69	University of Maryland, College Park	65.7
70	Boston University	65.4
70	Ohio State University	65.4
72	Erasmus University, Rotterdam	65.2
72	Paris Science and Literature - Studies by SLP University Paris	65.2
74	Kyoto University	64.9
74	Seoul National University	64.9
76	University of Bristol	64.8
77	Pennsylvania State University	64.6
78	McMaster University	63.4
79	University of Aachen	63.3
80	Glasgow University	63.2
80	Monash University	63.2
82	Freiburg University	62.9
83	University of Groningen	62.8
83	University of Michigan	62.8
85	University of New South Wales	62.5
86	Rice University	62.2
86	Uppsala University	62.2
88	Free University of Berlin	62.1
89	Dartmouth College	62.0
90	University of Helsinki	61.7
91	University of Warwick	61.6
92	Berlin Technical University	61.5
93	Lund University	61.3
94	University of Tübingen	61.2
95	Basel University	60.9
95	Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	60.9
97	Durham University	60.8
98	Emory University	60.7
99	University of California, Irvine	60.6
100	University of Bonn	60.5

The above ranking of the best universities in the world singled out British Oxford as the leader, while Russian universities were completely excluded. There are many reasons for such a decision, among which the most significant were: productivity and citation, scientific activity of specialists over 16 years and the presence of at least 50 scientific papers.

It is almost impossible to objectively choose the most prestigious university in the world, because each educational institution has its own individual merits. Moreover, each TOP allows you to select the best representatives according to certain criteria.

Ranking of universities in the world 2018, the best universities

QS - ranking of the best universities in the world 2018

Times Higher Education - World University Rankings 2018

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