World University Rankings

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World University Rankings

The World University Rankings published by Times Higher Education is an annual ranking of higher education institutions. Every year, this list shows you which universities achieved high scores in the global rankings, helping students just like you decide where they ought to study if they want to attend one of the top universities in the world.

Ranked Universities on ShortCoursesPortal

Universities Location 2025 2024 2023
University of Oxford Oxford, ENG, United Kingdom 1 1 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States 2 3 5
Harvard University Cambridge, MA, United States 3 4 2
Harvard Business School Online Boston, MA, United States 3 4 2
Harvard Medical School Online Boston, MA, United States 3 4 2
Princeton University Princeton, NJ, United States 4 6 7
University of Cambridge Cambridge, ENG, United Kingdom 5 5 3
Stanford University Stanford, CA, United States 6 2 3
Stanford University - Summer Sessions Stanford, CA, United States 6 2 3
California Institute of Technology - Caltech Pasadena, CA, United States 7 7 6
University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, United States 8 9 8
Imperial London, ENG, United Kingdom 9 8 10
Yale University New Haven, CT, United States 10 10 9
ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland 11 11 11
Tsinghua University Beijing, China 12 12 16
Peking University Beijing, China 13 14 17
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, United States 14 16 14
University of Chicago Chicago, IL, United States 14 13 13
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, United States 16 15 15
National University of Singapore Singapore, Singapore 17 19 19
Columbia University New York City, NY, United States 18 17 11
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, CA, United States 18 18 21
Teachers College at Columbia University Manhattan, NY, United States 18 17 11
Cornell University Ithaca, NY, United States 20 20 20

How World University Rankings are Made?

The full ranking is available on Times Higher Education Rankings .

World University Rankings created by Times Higher Education takes into account the reputation of research done by universities and how often papers produced by universities were quoted around the world. Times Higher Education also measures the international outlook of universities, the number of students compared to the university staff, and how universities are perceived globally.

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