Top 200 World’s Most International Universities 2016

The World’s Most International Universities 2016

Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings (WUR) data reveal the top 200 most outward-looking institutions. The best universities in the world are truly global institutions – ones that attract students and scholars from all over the world and collaborate with leading departments no matter where they are based.

All of the universities that feature in the THE World University Rankings (WUR) place internationalisation high on their agenda. But which ones are the most international? Qatar University tops the list, which is based on the results of the “international outlook” indicator in the THE World University Rankings 2015-2016, while the UK is the nation that does the best on this measure overall.

The international outlook indicator considers each institution’s proportion of international staff, proportion of international students and proportion of research papers published with at least one co-author from another country. All the institutions that feature in the top 800 of the overall 2015-2016 ranking have been considered.

How you choose your university would depend on what is important to you. Do you prefer universities that are ranked according to quality of their core missions (i.e teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook)? If yes, look up the Top 200 World’s Best Global Universities 2016. Or you're more concerned with schools ranked according to the level of their 'international outlook'? In that case, the list below is the way to go. Our candid advise is that you scrutinize both rankings to create a balance in your final choice(s).

Below is a list of the 200 most international universities in the world.

Top 200 most international universities in the world 2016

Rank	Institution	Country
1	Qatar University	Qatar
2	University of Luxembourg	Luxembourg
3	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
4	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
5	University of Geneva	Switzerland
6	University of Macau	Macao
7	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
8	University of St Gallen	Switzerland
9	National University of Singapore	Singapore
10	Imperial College London	UK
11	University of Innsbruck	Austria
12	Auckland University of Technology	New Zealand
12	American University of Sharjah	United Arab Emirates
14	Maastricht University	Netherlands
15	United Arab Emirates University	United Arab Emirates
16	University of Basel	Switzerland
17	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
18	University of Oxford	UK
18	University College London	UK
20	King’s College London	UK
21	University of Essex	UK
22	London School of Economics and Political Science	UK
23	Queen Mary University of London	UK
24	Queen’s University Belfast	UK
25	Australian National University	Australia
26	Curtin University	Australia
27	American University of Beirut	Lebanon
27	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia
29	École Polytechnique	France
30	Royal Holloway, University of London	UK
31	University of Western Australia	Australia
31	University of Vienna	Austria
33	Aston University	UK
34	University of St Andrews	UK
35	Brunel University London	UK
36	University of Cambridge	UK
37	University of Neuchâtel	Switzerland
37	University of Aberdeen	UK
39	University of Canterbury	New Zealand
40	University of British Columbia	Canada
40	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
40	University of Auckland	New Zealand
43	University of Zurich	Switzerland
43	University of Surrey	UK
45	University of Warwick	UK
46	University of Technology, Sydney	Australia
46	Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland	Ireland
46	Heriot-Watt University	UK
49	Macquarie University	Australia
50	University of Otago	New Zealand
50	Birkbeck, University of London	UK
52	University of Edinburgh	UK
53	City University London	UK
54	University of New South Wales	Australia
55	University of Queensland	Australia
56	University of Lausanne	Switzerland
57	University of South Australia	Australia
58	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand
59	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark
60	University of Southampton	UK
61	Murdoch University	Australia
61	University of Sussex	UK
63	Monash University	Australia
64	University of Fribourg	Switzerland
65	University of Exeter	UK
66	University of Kent	UK
67	University of Melbourne	Australia
68	University of Waikato	New Zealand
68	University of Manchester	UK
68	Lancaster University	UK
71	University of Wollongong	Australia
72	University of Leicester	UK
73	Durham University	UK
74	University College Dublin	Ireland
75	University of Glasgow	UK
76	McGill University	Canada
76	École Normale Supérieure	France
78	University of Liverpool	UK
79	University of Adelaide	Australia
79	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
79	University of Reading	UK
82	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia
82	University of Bath	UK
84	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
84	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals	Saudi Arabia
86	University of Sydney	Australia
86	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
88	Newcastle University	UK
89	University of Montreal	Canada
90	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
90	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
92	University of Bern	Switzerland
93	University of York	UK
93	University of East Anglia	UK
95	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
96	University of Bristol	UK
97	RMIT University	Australia
98	University of Birmingham	UK
99	University of Sheffield	UK
99	University of Westminster	UK
101	University of Greenwich	UK
102	Griffith University	Australia
102	Medical University of Vienna	Austria
102	Semmelweis University	Hungary
102	Royal Veterinary College	UK
106	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
107	Bangor University	UK
108	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
109	Middlesex University	UK
110	University of Alberta	Canada
111	University of Nottingham	UK
112	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
112	Massey University	New Zealand
114	University of Cape Town	South Africa
115	University of Twente	Netherlands
116	University of Nice Sophia Antipolis	France
117	University of Portsmouth	UK
118	University of Tasmania	Australia
118	University of Bradford	UK
120	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
120	Ulster University	UK
122	University of Hertfordshire	UK
123	University of Dundee	UK
123	Princeton University	US
125	Dalhousie University	Canada
126	Cardiff University	UK
127	La Trobe University	Australia
128	University of Toronto	Canada
129	University of Stirling	UK
130	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden
131	Concordia University	Canada
131	University of Leeds	UK
133	Vienna University of Technology	Austria
134	Harvard University	US
135	Deakin University	Australia
136	Aarhus University	Denmark
136	Kingston University	UK
138	Dublin City University	Ireland
139	National University of Ireland, Galway	Ireland
139	University of Limerick	Ireland
141	Stanford University	US
142	McMaster University	Canada
142	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
144	Queensland University of Technology	Australia
145	University of Newcastle	Australia
146	National University of Ireland, Maynooth	Ireland
147	University College Cork	Ireland
147	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia
149	Hong Kong Baptist University	Hong Kong
150	University of Cyprus	Cyprus
151	University of Waterloo	Canada
152	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium
153	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
153	Lund University	Sweden
155	University of Western Ontario	Canada
156	Columbia University	US
157	University of Hull	UK
158	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
159	Loughborough University	UK
160	Keele University	UK
161	Swansea University	UK
162	Aberystwyth University	UK
163	University of Southern Denmark	Denmark
164	University of Strasbourg	France
164	Tilburg University	Netherlands
166	Sultan Qaboos University	Oman
166	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
168	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
169	Aalborg University	Denmark
169	University of Strathclyde	UK
171	Bournemouth University	UK
172	Dublin Institute of Technology	Ireland
173	James Cook University	Australia
174	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands
175	University of Victoria	Canada
176	University of Calgary	Canada
177	University of Bergen	Norway
177	Johns Hopkins University	US
179	University of Ottawa	Canada
180	University of Liège	Belgium
181	Coventry University	UK
182	St George’s, University of London	UK
183	Graz University of Technology	Austria
183	Paris Dauphine University	France
185	Free University of Berlin	Germany
186	University of Graz	Austria
186	Oxford Brookes University	UK
188	Edith Cowan University	Australia
189	KU Leuven	Belgium
190	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa
191	University of Oslo	Norway
192	Toulouse 1 Capitole University	France
193	Blaise Pascal University	France
193	Rice University	US
195	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
196	University of Salford	UK
196	Purdue University	US
198	University of Turku	Finland
199	UiT The Arctic University of Norway	Norway
200	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France

Source: Times Higher Education

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