2012 Rank

University (links to a profile on QS)

Country

Overall Score

2011 Rank

2010 Rank

2009 Rank

2008 Rank

1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

United States

100

3

5

9

9

2

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

99.8

1

1

2

3

3

Harvard University

United States

99.2

2

2

1

1

4

UCL (University College London)

United Kingdom

98.7

7

4

4

7

5

University of Oxford

United Kingdom

98.6

5

6

5

4

6

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

98.3

6

7

5

6

7

Yale University

United States

97.5

4

3

3

2

8

University of Chicago

United States

96.3

8

8

7

8

9

Princeton University

United States

95.4

13

10

8

12

10

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

United States

95.1

12

9

10

5

11

Columbia University

United States

94.7

10

11

11

10

12

University of Pennsylvania

United States

94.5

9

12

12

11

13

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

Switzerland

92.8

18

18

20

24

14

Cornell University

United States

92.1

15

16

15

15

15

Stanford University

United States

91.7

11

13

16

17

16

Johns Hopkins University

United States

91.2

16

17

13

13

17

University of Michigan

United States

91.2

14

15

19

18

18

McGill University

Canada

90.4

17

19

18

20

19

University of Toronto

Canada

89.6

23

29

29

41

20

Duke University

United States

89.5

19

14

14

13

21

University of Edinburgh

United Kingdom

89.2

20

22

20

23

22

University of California, Berkeley (UCB)

United States

88.1

21

28

39

36

23

University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

87.9

22

23

24

26

24

Australian National University

Australia

87.6

26

20

17

16

25

National University of Singapore (NUS)

Singapore

87.2

28

31

30

30

26

King?s College London (University of London)

United Kingdom

87.1

27

21

23

22

27

Northwestern University

United States

85.4

24

26

32

33

28

University of Bristol

United Kingdom

85.4

30

27

34

32

29

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Switzerland

85.1

35

32

42

50

30

The University of Tokyo

Japan

85

25

24

22

19

31

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

United States

84.6

34

35

32

30

32

The University of Manchester

United Kingdom

84.2

29

30

26

29

33

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Hong Kong

83.5

40

40

35

39

34

École Normale Supérieure, Paris

France

83.3

33

33

28

28

35

Kyoto University

Japan

83.3

32

25

25

25

36

The University of Melbourne

Australia

83.2

31

38

36

38

37

Seoul National University

Korea, South

82.2

42

50

47

50

38

University of Wisconsin-Madison

United States

81.4

41

48

61

55

39

The University of Sydney

Australia

81.3

38

37

36

37

40

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

80.1

37

42

46

42

41

Ecole Polytechnique

France

79.6

36

36

36

34

42

Brown University

United States

79.5

39

39

31

27

43

New York University (NYU)

United States

78.9

44

41

52

40

44

Peking University

China

78.8

46

47

52

50

45

University of British Columbia

Canada

78.6

51

44

40

34

46

The University of Queensland

Australia

78.2

48

43

41

43

47

Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Singapore

77.7

58

74

73

77

48

Tsinghua University

China

77.5

47

54

49

56

49

Carnegie Mellon University

United States

77.4

43

34

27

21

50

Osaka University

Japan

76.8

45

49

43

44

51

University of Copenhagen

Denmark

76.7

52

45

51

48

52

The University of New South Wales

Australia

76.6

49

46

47

45

53

Technische Universität München

Germany

76.4

54

58

55

78

54

University of Glasgow

United Kingdom

76.3

59

77

79

73

55

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Germany

75.5

53

51

57

57

56

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

United States

75.5

61

63

63

71

57

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

United States

75.4

55

57

78

102

58

The University of Warwick

United Kingdom

73.9

50

53

58

69

59

University of Washington

United States

73.7

56

55

80

59

60

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Germany

72.9

62

66

98

93

61

Monash University

Australia

72.2

60

61

45

47

62

University of Amsterdam

Netherlands

72.1

63

56

49

53

63

KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology

Korea, South

71.8

90

79

69

95

64

Boston University

United States

71.7

70

64

54

46

65

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Japan

71.4

57

60

55

61

66

The University of Sheffield

United Kingdom

71.3

72

69

82

76

67

Trinity College Dublin

Ireland

71.3

65

52

43

49

68

University of Texas at Austin

United States

71.2

76

67

76

70

69

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

United Kingdom

71.1

64

80

67

66

70

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

United States

70.9

77

65

76

58

71

Lund University

Sweden

70.9

86

72

67

88

72

The University of Nottingham

United Kingdom

70.7

74

73

91

86

73

University of Southampton

United Kingdom

70.7

75

81

95

99

74

University of Geneva

Switzerland

70.6

69

71

72

68

75

Leiden University

Netherlands

70.5

88

82

60

64

75

Tohoku University

Japan

70.5

70

102

97

112

77

University of Birmingham

United Kingdom

70.3

67

59

66

75

78

University of Helsinki

Finland

70.1

89

75

108

91

79

The University of Western Australia

Australia

70

73

89

84

83

80

National Taiwan University (NTU)

Taiwan

69.9

87

94

95

124

81

Uppsala University

Sweden

69.8

83

62

75

63

82

KU Leuven

Belgium

69.7

68

86

65

72

83

The University of Auckland

New Zealand

69.3

82

68

61

65

84

Washington University in St. Louis

United States

69.1

78

75

73

60

85

Utrecht University

Netherlands

68.7

80

83

70

67

86

Nagoya University

Japan

68.6

80

91

92

120

87

Freie Universität Berlin

Germany

68.6

66

70

94

137

88

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

68.4

84

106

86

83

89

Aarhus University

Denmark

68.4

79

84

63

81

90

Fudan University

China

68.3

91

105

103

113

90

University of Zurich

Switzerland

68.3

106

101

92

106

92

Durham University

United Kingdom

67.9

95

92

103

122

93

University of St Andrews

United Kingdom

67.6

97

95

87

83

94

University of Leeds

United Kingdom

67.3

93

85

99

104

95

City University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

66.9

110

129

124

147

95

Purdue University

United States

66.9

85

87

87

99

97

Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)

Korea, South

66.8

98

112

134

188

98

University of Pittsburgh

United States

66.1

116

119

114

97

99

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Netherlands

65.9

103

99

108

126

100

University of California, Davis

United States

65.9