Which universities are better? Here's USNEWS World University Rankings list.
| Rank | University | National |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 2 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 3 | California Institute of Technology | United States |
| 3 | Stanford University | United States |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 6 | Harvard University | United States |
| 7 | Princeton University | United States |
| 8 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 9 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 10 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
| 10 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 12 | Yale University | United States |
| 13 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 14 | Columbia University | United States |
| 15 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
| 16 | University College London | United Kingdom |
| 17 | Duke University | United States |
| 18 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
| 19 | Cornell University | United States |
| 20 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 21 | University of Michigan | United States |
| 22 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 22 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 24 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 25 | London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom |
| 25 | University of Washington | United States |
| 27 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 27 | New York University | United States |
| 27 | Peking University | China |
| 30 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 31 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
| 32 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 34 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 34 | LMU Munich | Germany |
| 36 | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
| 37 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 38 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 38 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| 40 | University of Hong Kong | Hong kong |
| 41 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 42 | McGill University | Canada |
| 43 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
| 44 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong kong |
| 45 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 46 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 47 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 48 | Australian National University | Australia |
| 49 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 50 | Brown University | United States |
| 50 | Washington University in St Louis | United States |