Universities

Rank-ordered by FWUR composite (trimmed mean of six agencies). Filter by country to narrow the list; click a row for the full per-agency breakdown.

3.179 institutions in the FWUR universe

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Top universities by FWUR composite rank, with country and in-country position.
RankInstitutionCountryCountry #
#1Harvard UniversityUnited States#1
#2Harvard Medical SchoolUnited States#2
#3Stanford UniversityUnited States#3
#4Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States#4
#5University of OxfordUnited Kingdom#1
#6University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom#2
#7California Institute of TechnologyUnited States#5
#8University of PennsylvaniaUnited States#6
#9Yale UniversityUnited States#7
#10Northwestern UniversityUnited States#8
#11Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States#9
#12University of California, BerkeleyUnited States#10
#13Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom#3
#14University of ChicagoUnited States#11
#15Princeton UniversityUnited States#12
#16Cornell UniversityUnited States#13
#17Tsinghua UniversityChina#1
#18University of California, Los AngelesUnited States#14
#19Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichSwitzerland#1
#20Columbia University in the City of New YorkUnited States#15
#21University College LondonUnited Kingdom#4
#22Peking UniversityChina#2
#23University of TorontoCanada#1
#24University of MichiganUnited States#16
#25University of WashingtonUnited States#17
#26University of California, San FranciscoUnited States#18
#27The University of MelbourneAustralia#1
#28New York UniversityUnited States#19
#29The University of TokyoJapan#1
#30University of the Chinese Academy of SciencesChina#3
#31Zhejiang UniversityChina#4
#32Duke UniversityUnited States#20
#33University of California, San DiegoUnited States#21
#34Karolinska InstitutetSweden#1
#35Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina#5
#36Fudan UniversityChina#6
#37King's College LondonUnited Kingdom#5
#38North Western UniversityBangladesh#1
#39The University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom#6
#40National University of SingaporeSingapore#1
#41Washington University in St. LouisUnited States#22
#42Polytechnic Institute of ParisFrance#1
#43McGill UniversityCanada#2
#44Paris-Saclay UniversityFrance#2
#45University of California Los Angeles UCLAUnited States#23
#46The University of British ColumbiaCanada#3
#47Sorbonne UniversitéFrance#3
#48Technische Universität MünchenGermany#1
#49The University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom#7
#50Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and TechnologyUnited States#24

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