Top 200 World's Best Global Universities 2016

The World's Best Global Universities 2016

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016 list the best global universities and are the only international university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

In addition to the list below which is a ranking of the best universities in the world in terms of the perfomance breakdown (i.e. teaching, international outlook, research, and citations); another list of the most international universities in the world in terms of proportion of international staff, proportion of international students and proportion of research papers published with at least one co-author from another country has also been ranked by Times Higher Education.

How you choose your university would depend on what is important to you. Do you want universities that are very 'international' in outlook? If yes, look up the Top 200 World’s Most International Universities 2016. Or you're more concerned with schools ranked according to quality of perfomance breakdown as described above i.e. teaching, research, etc? 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 top 200 best universities in the world.

Top 200 best global universities in the world 2016

Rank	Institution	Country
1	California Institute of Technology	United States of America
2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
3	Stanford University	United States of America
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States of America
6	Harvard University	United States of America
7	Princeton University	United States of America
8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
9	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
10	University of Chicago	United States of America
11	Johns Hopkins University	United States of America
12	Yale University	United States of America
13	University of California, Berkeley	United States of America
14	University College London	United Kingdom
15	Columbia University	United States of America
16	University of California, Los Angeles	United States of America
17	University of Pennsylvania	United States of America
18	Cornell University	United States of America
19	University of Toronto	Canada
20	Duke University	United States of America
21	University of Michigan	United States of America
22	Carnegie Mellon University	United States of America
23	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
24	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
25	Northwestern University	United States of America
26	National University of Singapore	Singapore
27	King’s College London	United Kingdom
28	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
29	LMU Munich	Germany
30	New York University	United States of America
31	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
32	University of Washington	United States of America
33	University of Melbourne	Australia
34	University of British Columbia	Canada
35	KU Leuven	Belgium
36	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States of America
37	Heidelberg University	Germany
38	McGill University	Canada
=39	University of California, San Diego	United States of America
=39	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States of America
41	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States of America
42	Peking University	China
43	University of Tokyo	Japan
=44	University of California, Davis	United States of America
=44	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
46	University of Texas at Austin	United States of America
=47	Tsinghua University	China
=47	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands
49	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany
50	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States of America
51	Brown University	United States of America
52	Australian National University	Australia
53	Technical University of Munich	Germany
54	École Normale Supérieure	France
55	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
=56	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
=56	University of Sydney	Australia
58	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
59	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
=60	The University of Queensland	Australia
=60	Washington University in St Louis	United States of America
62	Utrecht University	Netherlands
63	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States of America
64	Boston University	United States of America
=65	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
=65	University of Minnesota	United States of America
67	Leiden University	Netherlands
68	University of Southern California	United States of America
69	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
70	Durham University	United Kingdom
71	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
72	Free University of Berlin	Germany
73	Monash University	Australia
74	University of Groningen	Netherlands
75	Pennsylvania State University	United States of America
=76	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
=76	University of Helsinki	Finland
78	University of Tübingen	Germany
79	University of Pittsburgh	United States of America
80	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
81	Uppsala University	Sweden
=82	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
=82	University of New South Wales	Australia
84	University of Freiburg	Germany
85	Seoul National University	South Korea
86	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
87	Vanderbilt University	United States of America
=88	Kyoto University	Japan
=88	Maastricht University	Netherlands
=90	Emory University	United States of America
=90	Lund University	Sweden
=90	Ohio State University	United States of America
93	University of Exeter	United Kingdom
=94	University of Bonn	Germany
=94	Georgetown University	United States of America
=94	McMaster University	Canada
97	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
98	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom
=99	University of Göttingen	Germany
=99	Michigan State University	United States of America
=101	University of Basel	Switzerland
=101	École Polytechnique	France
=101	Rice University	United States of America
=104	Dartmouth College	United States of America
=104	University of Zurich	Switzerland
=106	Aarhus University	Denmark
=106	University of California, Irvine	United States of America
=106	University of Mannheim	Germany
108	University of Notre Dame	United States of America
109	University of Western Australia	Australia
=110	RWTH Aachen University	Germany
=110	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
112	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Italy
=113	University of Montreal	Canada
=113	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
=113	Purdue University	United States of America
116	Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea
117	University of Maryland, College Park	United States of America
118	Ghent University	Belgium
119	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
=120	University of Bern	Switzerland
=120	University of Cape Town	South Africa
=120	University of Florida	United States of America
=123	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Germany
=123	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey	United States of America
=125	University of Münster	Germany
=125	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands
=127	University of Colorado Boulder	United States of America
=127	Tufts University	United States of America
129	Royal Holloway, University of London	United Kingdom
130	Lancaster University	United Kingdom
=131	University of Geneva	Switzerland
=131	University of York	United Kingdom
=133	Case Western Reserve University	United States of America
=133	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
135	University of Oslo	Norway
136	Stockholm University	Sweden
137	University of Alberta	Canada
=138	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
=138	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
140	University of Sussex	United Kingdom
141	University of Massachusetts	United States of America
142	University of Vienna	Austria
143	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
=144	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States of America
=144	University of Lausanne	Switzerland
146	Autonomous University of Barcelona	Spain
147	University of Virginia	United States of America
148	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea
=149	University of Adelaide	Australia
=149	University of East Anglia	United Kingdom
=149	University of Twente	Netherlands
153	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	South Korea
154	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands
155	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
156	University of Cologne	Germany
157	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom
=158	TU Dresden	Germany
=158	University of Rochester	United States of America
160	Trinity College Dublin	Republic of Ireland
=161	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russian Federation
=161	University of Miami	United States of America
163	University of Arizona	United States of America
=164	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain
=164	University of Reading	United Kingdom
=164	Yeshiva University	United States of America
=167	University of California, Riverside	United States of America
=167	University of Leicester	United Kingdom
=167	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
=167	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
=167	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium
=172	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom
=172	University of Auckland	New Zealand
174	University of Barcelona	Spain
175	University of Konstanz	Germany
=176	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
=176	University College Dublin	Republic of Ireland
178	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
179	University of Waterloo	Canada
=180	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
=180	Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna	Italy
=182	University of Bergen	Norway
=182	Cardiff University	United Kingdom
=182	University of Utah	United States of America
=185	Brandeis University	United States of America
=185	University of Dundee	United Kingdom
=185	University of Würzburg	Germany
188	Paris-Sud University	France
189	Arizona State University	United States of America
=190	University of Antwerp	Belgium
=190	Boston College	United States of America
192	Ulm University	Germany
=193	University of Luxembourg	Luxembourg
=193	Texas A&M University	United States of America
195	Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin	Germany
=196	Newcastle University	United Kingdom
=196	St George’s, University of London	United Kingdom
198	University of Trento	Italy
199	Paris Diderot University – Paris 7	France
200	Queen’s University Belfast	United Kingdom

NOTE: The international outlook is an indicator that looks at 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.

Source: Times Higher Education

Related: Top 200 World’s Most International Universities 2016 (ranked according to the results of the “international outlook” indicator)