US News and World Report: World's Best Universities in 2013

 

 

World's Best Universities

The U.S. News World's Best Universities rankings, based on the QS World University Rankings, evaluated schools in countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, China, and more, and identified these to be the world's top universities. See the methodology.

Rank		School	Overall Score	Academic Reputation Score	Employer Reputation Score	Faculty-Student Ratio Score	International Faculty Score	International Students Score	Citations per Faculty Score
#1		Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	100	100	100	99.9	86.4	96.5	99.3
#2		University of Cambridge United Kingdom	99.8	100	100	98.3	98.2	96	97
#3		Harvard University United States	99.2	100	100	98.6	90	78.4	100
#4		UCL (University College London) United Kingdom	98.7	99.6	95.6	98.4	96.3	99.9	94
#5		University of Oxford United Kingdom	98.6	100	100	100	98	95.8	89.4
#6		Imperial College London United Kingdom	98.3	99.8	100	99.8	99.8	99.6	87.3
#7		Yale University United States	97.5	100	100	100	92.7	63.9	93.3
#8		University of Chicago United States	96.3	99.9	96	95.6	68.9	77.8	96.4
#9		Princeton University United States	95.4	100	88.5	90.7	85.5	63.5	99.8
#10		California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States	95.1	99	51.3	100	96	91.1	100
#11		Columbia University United States	94.7	99.9	100	97.2	16.2	84.9	96.3
#12		University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) United States	94.5	98.5	96.2	99.6	55.7	66.8	92.4
#13		ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland	92.8	99.3	94	67	100	98.7	97.2
#14		Cornell University United States	92.1	99.7	96.4	73.9	74.3	67.4	98.8
#15		Stanford University United States	91.7	100	100	72.4	41.9	83.5	100
#16		Johns Hopkins University United States	91.2	94.6	60.2	100	56.8	74.7	99.1
#17		University of Michigan United States	91.2	99.8	96.1	92	50.6	46.5	87.3
#18		McGill University Canada	90.4	98.5	95.1	89.6	86	91.3	69.1
#19		University of Toronto Canada	89.6	99.9	94.3	73.8	96.1	74.8	80.2
#20		Duke University United States	89.5	95.1	81.9	99.7	16.4	44.5	96.9
#21		University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	89.2	99.1	96.8	72.1	89.6	93.8	77.1
#22		University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States	88.1	100	100	47	86.1	78.8	97.9
#23		University of Hong Kong (HKU) Hong Kong	87.9	99.3	83.8	94.2	100	99.1	50.5
#24		Australian National University (ANU) Australia	87.6	99.7	82.5	79.6	100	96.3	64.3
#25		National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore	87.2	100	99.4	81.4	100	98.2	51.1