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WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2021 – WHAT ARE THE BEST UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD?

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WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2021 - WHAT ARE THE BEST UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD?

World University Rankings 2021 (BEST UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD)

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021 include more than 1,500 universities across 93 countries and regions, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date.

The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

Rank	Name Country/Region	No. of FTE Students	No. of students per staff	International Students	Female:Male Ratio
1	University of Oxford United Kingdom	20,774	11.1	41%	46 : 54
2	Stanford University United States	16,223	7.4	23%	44 : 56
3	Harvard University United States	21,261	9.3	25%	49 : 51
4	California Institute of Technology United States	2,238	6.3	33%	36 : 64
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States	11,276	8.4	34%	39 : 61
6	University of Cambridge United Kingdom	19,370	11.0	38%	47 : 53
7	University of California, Berkeley United States	39,918	19.8	17%	51 : 49
8	Yale University United States	12,910	6.0	20%	50 : 50
9	Princeton University United States	8,091	8.0	23%	46 : 54
10	The University of Chicago United States	14,292	5.9	31%	46 : 54
11	Imperial College London United Kingdom	17,176	11.6	58%	39 : 61
12	Johns Hopkins University United States	16,432	4.4	27%	52 : 48
13	University of Pennsylvania United States	20,771	6.4	21%	52 : 48
14	ETH Zurich Switzerland	19,632	13.1	40%	32 : 68
15	University of California, Los Angeles United States	41,673	10.0	17%	55 : 45
16	UCL United Kingdom	34,590	10.8	55%	57 : 43
17	Columbia University United States	27,384	5.7	39%	n/a
18	University of Toronto Canada	74,502	20.0	22%	59 : 41
19	Cornell University United States	23,016	10.2	25%	50 : 50
=20	Duke University United States	15,489	4.3	21%	49 : 51
=20	Tsinghua University China	37,484	11.6	13%	34 : 66
22	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	43,873	8.3	17%	50 : 50
23	Peking University China	38,583	11.1	16%	43 : 57
24	Northwestern University United States	18,529	13.0	19%	49 : 51
25	National University of Singapore Singapore	30,943	18.0	26%	50 : 50
26	New York University United States	44,474	8.8	34%	57 : 43
27	London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom	10,660	12.0	72%	54 : 46
28	Carnegie Mellon University United States	14,058	13.7	48%	43 : 57
29	University of Washington United States	46,258	10.7	17%	53 : 47
30	University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	30,649	12.1	42%	60 : 40
31	University of Melbourne Australia	50,094	27.0	48%	57 : 43
32	LMU Munich Germany	34,249	33.6	17%	61 : 39
33	University of California, San Diego United States	34,232	12.0	30%	47 : 53
34	University of British Columbia Canada	53,123	18.7	32%	55 : 45
35	King’s College London United Kingdom	27,400	12.4	46%	62 : 38
=36	Karolinska Institute Sweden	7,696	8.8	26%	68 : 32
=36	The University of Tokyo Japan	25,935	10.6	13%	n/a
38	Georgia Institute of Technology United States	26,043	23.6	27%	33 : 67
39	University of Hong Kong Hong Kong	18,135	18.2	43%	54 : 46
40	McGill University Canada	31,578	12.8	31%	59 : 41
41	Technical University of Munich Germany	32,377	39.8	31%	36 : 64
42	Heidelberg University Germany	20,020	14.5	18%	54 : 46
43	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland	10,942	12.2	60%	29 : 71
44	University of Texas at Austin United States	49,510	16.9	10%	52 : 48
45	KU Leuven Belgium	45,617	36.1	15%	50 : 50
46	Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris France	20,701	14.7	24%	46 : 54
47	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Singapore	23,902	14.8	25%	48 : 52
48	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	45,980	17.8	24%	48 : 52
49	University of Wisconsin-Madison United States	39,451	9.8	13%	n/a
50	Washington University in St Louis United States	13,693	7.5	21%	n/a
=51	University of Manchester United Kingdom	36,557	14.4	41%	53 : 47
=51	University of Sydney Australia	46,453	19.4	43%	58 : 42
53	University of Southern California United States	41,953	13.0	23%	49 : 51
=54	Boston University United States	26,510	11.1	28%	59 : 41
=54	Kyoto University Japan	22,935	9.3	11%	25 : 75
=56	Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong	18,675	19.3	33%	n/a
=56	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong	9,976	21.6	30%	n/a
=56	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	30,956	8.2	8%	58 : 42
59	Australian National University Australia	18,801	17.8	47%	53 : 47
60	Seoul National University South Korea	26,757	15.1	11%	n/a
61	Brown University United States	9,695	10.8	20%	n/a
=62	The University of Queensland Australia	40,389	35.5	38%	55 : 45
=62	Wageningen University & Research Netherlands	14,356	21.0	27%	54 : 46
=64	University of California, Davis United States	36,395	13.6	17%	58 : 42
=64	Monash University Australia	57,406	41.7	43%	57 : 43
66	University of Amsterdam Netherlands	24,747	12.8	24%	57 : 43
67	UNSW Sydney Australia	46,234	41.0	44%	47 : 53
68	University of California, Santa Barbara United States	24,780	28.2	18%	53 : 47
69	McMaster University Canada	25,285	30.5	18%	55 : 45
=70	Fudan University China	32,597	11.2	13%	52 : 48
=70	Leiden University Netherlands	30,178	19.0	18%	59 : 41
72	Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands	26,453	26.8	22%	50 : 50
=73	University of Montreal Canada	36,774	20.2	21%	n/a
=73	University of Zurich Switzerland	22,960	14.8	21%	57 : 43
=75	Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Germany	7,431	17.4	20%	65 : 35
=75	Utrecht University Netherlands	32,022	14.0	10%	58 : 42
77	University of Warwick United Kingdom	21,777	13.3	41%	49 : 51
=78	Delft University of Technology Netherlands	19,594	17.4	31%	30 : 70
=78	University of Tübingen Germany	27,590	36.6	14%	58 : 42
=80	University of Groningen Netherlands	28,392	23.9	23%	51 : 49
=80	Humboldt University of Berlin Germany	33,388	56.3	18%	n/a
=80	Ohio State University (Main campus) United States	54,650	12.1	13%	50 : 50
83	University of Freiburg Germany	14,878	32.5	21%	54 : 46
84	University of Copenhagen Denmark	30,746	4.2	17%	62 : 38
=85	Emory University United States	12,923	4.0	20%	59 : 41
=85	University of Minnesota United States	61,994	12.4	11%	53 : 47
=87	École Polytechnique France	2,850	5.6	44%	23 : 77
=87	University of Science and Technology of China China	16,434	7.2	5%	n/a
=87	Sorbonne University France	43,585	12.8	20%	58 : 42
90	University of Maryland, College Park United States	33,671	16.6	11%	48 : 52
91	University of Bristol United Kingdom	22,981	14.5	28%	55 : 45
=92	University of Basel Switzerland	9,229	12.3	30%	55 : 45
=92	University of Glasgow United Kingdom	26,533	14.7	38%	59 : 41
=94	Purdue University West Lafayette United States	41,573	16.3	22%	43 : 57
=94	Zhejiang University China	33,825	10.8	23%	23 : 77
96	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) South Korea	9,514	10.4	9%	20 : 80
97	National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan	24,880	9.9	12%	43 : 57
=98	University of California, Irvine United States	35,040	17.5	27%	52 : 48
=98	University of Helsinki Finland	22,137	15.9	5%	66 : 34
100	Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	38,556	11.9	11%	39 : 61