Which universities are better? Here's USNEWS World University Rankings list.
| Rank | University | National |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
| 2 | Stanford University | United States |
| 3 | Harvard University | United States |
| 4 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States |
| 5 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 6 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 7 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom |
| 8 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 9 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 10 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Switzerland |
| 11 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore |
| 12 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland |
| 13 | Princeton University | United States |
| 14 | Cornell University | United States |
| 15 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| 16 | Yale University | United States |
| 17 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 18 | Columbia University | United States |
| 19 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 20 | The Australian National University | Australia |
| 21 | Duke University | United States |
| 21 | University of Michigan | United States |
| 23 | King's College London | United Kingdom |
| 23 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 25 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 26 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong kong |
| 27 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States |
| 28 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 28 | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 30 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong kong |
| 31 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 32 | McGill University | Canada |
| 33 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States |
| 34 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 35 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom |
| 36 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 36 | Seoul National University | R.O.Korea |
| 38 | Peking University | China |
| 38 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States |
| 40 | Fudan University | China |
| 41 | The University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 41 | KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | R.O.Korea |
| 43 | Ecole normale supérieure, Paris | France |
| 44 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| 45 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia |
| 46 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong kong |
| 47 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 47 | The University of Queensland | Australia |
| 49 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong kong |
| 50 | The University of Sydney | Australia |