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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

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

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