QS has published its annual ranking of universities. The universities around the world has been ranked since 2013 evaluating their academic reputation, employer reputation, student-to-faculty ratio, and international reputation. QS used a points system with 100 being the highest score. Overall, 400 universities were ranked throughout the world. Here are the top 30.
30. McGill University, Canada: overall rating — 84.1
29. University of Manchester, UK: overall rating — 84.8
28. University of California at Berkeley, US: overall rating — 85.2
27. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: overall rating — 85.4
26. Northwestern University, US: overall rating — 85.7
T24. Duke University, US: overall rating — 86
T24. Tsinghua University, China: overall rating – 86
23. University of Michigan, US: overall rating — 86.4
22. The Australian National University, Australia: overall rating — 87.3
21. King's College London, UK: overall rating — 87.7
20. Columbia University, US: overall rating — 88.6
19. University of Edinburgh, UK: overall rating — 88.9
18. University of Pennsylvania, US: overall rating — 89
17. Johns Hopkins University, US: overall rating — 89.3
16. Cornell University, US: overall rating — 90.1
15. Yale University, US: overall rating — 90.9
14. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland: overall rating — 91.1
13. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: overall rating — 91.4
12. National University of Singapore, Singapore: overall rating — 91.5
11. Princeton University, US: overall rating — 92.8
10. University of Chicago, US: overall rating — 93
9. Imperial College London, UK: overall rating — 94.1
8. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland: overall rating — 94.2
7. University College London, UK: overall rating — 95.6
6. University of Oxford, UK: overall rating — 96.8
5. California Institute of Technology (CalTech), US: overall rating — 96.9
4. University of Cambridge, UK: overall rating — 97.2
3. Harvard University, US: overall rating — 98.3
2. Stanford University, US: overall rating — 98.7
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US: overall rating — 100