University Rankings 2015/16 : Top 50

The primary aim is to help students make informed comparisons of leading universities around the world.    Based on six performance indicators, the rankings are designed to assess universities in four areas: research, teaching, employability and internationalization.

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 2   Harvard University 3   University of Cambridge 3   Stanford University 5 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 6   University of Oxford 7 UCL (University College London) 8 Imperial College London 9 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 10 University of Chicago 11 Princeton University 12 National University of Singapore (NUS) 13 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) 14 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 15 Yale University 16 Johns Hopkins University 17 Cornell University 18 University of Pennsylvania 19 King's College London 19 The Australian National University 21 The University of Edinburgh 22 Columbia University 23 Ecole normale supérieure, Paris 24 McGill University 25 Tsinghua University 26 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) 27 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 28 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 29 Duke University 30 The University of Hong Kong 30 University of Michigan 32 Northwestern University 33 The University of Manchester 34 University of Toronto 35 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 36   Seoul National University 37 University of Bristol 38 Kyoto University 39 The University of Tokyo 40 Ecole Polytechnique 41 Peking University 42 The University of Melbourne 43 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology 44 University of California, San Diego (UCSD) 45 The University of Sydney 46 The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) 46 The University of Queensland 48 The University of Warwick 49 Brown University 50 University of British Columbia