Global University Rankings 2019
TOP 100 UNIVERSITIES
Published 1st March 2019
100 Institutes in this ranking
An exercise in ranking the best higher education institutes of the world is no mean task. Information gathering in itself is an exhaustive exercise, while number-crunching and analysing gives meaning to the massive raw data. The aim of the Youth Incorporated, Education Times and Rediff.com Global University Ranking 2019 through this sophisticated exercise is to identify and ascertain the universities in the world that are fulfilling their commitment to provide quality education.
Rank | Institute | Country | Score | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
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1 | Harvard University | USA | 100 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | USA | 99.8 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
3 | University of Pennsylvania | USA | 99.4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
4 | Stanford University | USA | 99.1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
5 | Cornell University | USA | 98.7 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 |
6 | Princeton University | USA | 98.4 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 8 |
7 | University of Chicago | USA | 98.1 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 10 |
8 | Yale University | USA | 97.7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 11 |
9 | Columbia University | USA | 97.4 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 9 |
10 | California Institute of Technology | USA | 97.1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 7 |
11 | University of Oxford | UK | 96.7 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 16 |
12 | Brown University | USA | 96.3 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 3 |
13 | University of Cambridge | UK | 96.1 | 11 | 16 | 22 | 19 |
14 | London School of Economics | UK | 95.8 | 15 | 19 | 23 | 17 |
15 | University of Waterloo | Canada | 95.5 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 12 |
16 | Imperial College | UK | 95 | 17 | 15 | 17 | 18 |
17 | New York University | USA | 94.5 | 16 | 20 | 19 | 13 |
18 | IE University | Spain | 94.1 | 20 | 22 | 18 | 22 |
19 | Carnegie Mellon University | USA | 93.8 | 18 | 17 | 20 | 20 |
20 | University of Tokyo | Japan | 93.3 | 21 | 12 | 10 | 14 |
21 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | India | 93 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 15 |
22 | University of Melbourne | Australia | 92.6 | 23 | 23 | 19 | 23 |
23 | University of Michigan Ann Arbor | USA | 92.4 | 25 | 24 | 28 | 26 |
24 | University of Virginia | USA | 92 | 27 | 27 | 25 | 25 |
25 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi | India | 91.3 | 29 | 21 | 21 | 21 |
26 | Ecole Normale Superieure | France | 91 | 22 | 28 | 26 | 24 |
27 | University of California at Los Angeles | USA | 90.9 | 26 | 26 | 33 | 38 |
28 | National University Singapore | Singapore | 90.5 | 24 | 25 | 31 | 31 |
29 | Hong Kong University of Science & Technology | China | 90 | 32 | 29 | 24 | 27 |
30 | Rice University | USA | 89 | 34 | 33 | 30 | 29 |
31 | HEC | France | 88.7 | 33 | 39 | 37 | 34 |
32 | Northwestern University | USA | 88.2 | 22 | 34 | 27 | 28 |
33 | University of California at Berkeley | USA | 87.6 | 30 | 43 | 50 | 47 |
34 | Duke University | USA | 87 | 36 | 50 | 41 | 44 |
35 | University of Texas at Austin | USA | 86 | 38 | 30 | 32 | 30 |
36 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen | Germany | 85 | 35 | 32 | 29 | 33 |
37 | University College London | UK | 84.5 | 31 | 35 | 36 | 41 |
38 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 84 | 39 | 36 | 39 | 40 |
39 | King's College London | UK | 83 | 37 | 38 | 40 | 43 |
40 | Universidade de Sao Paulo | Brazil | 82.4 | 41 | 42 | 45 | 37 |
41 | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 82 | 44 | 31 | 34 | 39 |
42 | Johns Hopkins University | USA | 81.6 | 40 | 40 | 38 | 32 |
43 | Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne | Switzerland | 81 | 43 | 37 | 35 | 36 |
44 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | China | 80.6 | 42 | 41 | 44 | 42 |
45 | Dartmouth College | USA | 80 | 46 | 49 | 57 | 64 |
46 | Universitat Heidelberg | Germany | 79 | 48 | 46 | 48 | 46 |
47 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 78 | 49 | 48 | 43 | 35 |
48 | Ecole Polytechnique | France | 77 | 45 | 44 | 52 | 52 |
49 | Emory University | USA | 76 | 47 | 47 | 42 | 45 |
50 | University of Southern California | USA | 75 | 51 | 45 | 54 | 50 |
51 | University of Sydney | Australia | 74 | 50 | 56 | 49 | 54 |
52 | Peking University | China | 73.7 | 53 | 54 | 47 | 54 |
53 | University of Rochester | USA | 73 | 54 | 58 | 53 | 48 |
54 | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | Chile | 72 | 52 | 63 | 75 | 81 |
55 | University of Birmingham | UK | 71 | 56 | |||
56 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | 70.7 | 57 | 62 | 67 | 63 |
57 | University of Navarra | Spain | 70 | 55 | 51 | 58 | 60 |
58 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 69 | 59 | 53 | 56 | 58 |
59 | University of Groningen | Netherlands | 68.5 | 61 | 61 | 64 | 61 |
60 | Australian National University | Australia | 68 | 58 | 64 | 76 | 80 |
61 | Fudan University | China | 67.5 | 62 | 66 | 82 | 78 |
62 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | India | 67 | 60 | 59 | 55 | 56 |
63 | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Argentina | 66.5 | 65 | 52 | 46 | 51 |
64 | Technische Universitat Munchen | Germany | 66.2 | 63 | 55 | 51 | 49 |
65 | Monash University | Australia | 65.7 | 66 | 60 | 59 | 57 |
66 | Vanderbilt University | USA | 65 | 69 | 57 | 60 | 65 |
67 | University of Helsinki | Finland | 64.3 | 64 | 70 | 66 | 62 |
68 | University of Queensland | Australia | 64 | 70 | 71 | 65 | 59 |
69 | Seoul National University | Korea | 63 | 67 | 68 | 62 | 65 |
70 | University of Warwick | UK | 62 | 68 | 72 | 69 | 73 |
71 | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | USA | 61 | 72 | 67 | 70 | 66 |
72 | Tohoku University | Japan | 60 | 74 | 69 | 68 | 71 |
73 | University of Wisconsin Madison | USA | 59 | 71 | 76 | 74 | 70 |
74 | Paris Dauphine University | France | 58 | 73 | 78 | 72 | 74 |
75 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands | 57.5 | 77 | 79 | 80 | 90 |
76 | University of Delhi | India | 57 | 75 | 75 | 71 | 69 |
77 | ESADE Business School | Spain | 56 | 78 | 73 | 63 | 67 |
78 | University of New South Wales | Australia | 55 | 76 | 65 | 78 | 85 |
79 | University of Bern | Switzerland | 54 | 80 | 77 | 73 | 72 |
80 | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico | Mexico | 53 | 79 | 74 | 79 | 79 |
81 | University of Adelaide | Australia | 52 | 84 | 83 | 85 | 76 |
82 | Ecole Centrale de Paris | France | 51 | 85 | 86 | 89 | 89 |
83 | University of Auckland | New Zealand | 50 | 81 | 81 | 83 | 75 |
84 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan | 49 | 87 | 82 | 86 | 86 |
85 | University of Surrey | UK | 48.6 | 83 | 87 | 88 | 88 |
86 | University of Washington | USA | 48 | 82 | 84 | 81 | 87 |
87 | University of York | UK | 47.3 | 86 | 85 | 84 | 84 |
88 | Tsinghua University | China | 47 | 89 | 89 | 61 | 68 |
89 | Washington University St Louis | USA | 46.5 | 90 | 90 | 87 | 77 |
90 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 46 | 92 | 92 | 100 | 99 |
91 | University of Edinburgh | UK | 45 | 88 | 88 | 90 | 82 |
92 | Georgia Institute of Technology | USA | 44 | 91 | 95 | 96 | 94 |
93 | Purdue University | USA | 43.5 | 98 | 91 | 92 | 92 |
94 | University of Sciences Philadelphia | USA | 43 | 95 | - | - | - |
95 | Stockholm University | Sweden | 42.5 | 93 | 100 | 91 | 93 |
96 | Grenoble Ecole de Management | France | 42.2 | 27 | 97 | 94 | 97 |
97 | University of Hawaii Hilo | USA | 41.8 | 96 | 93 | 97 | 98 |
98 | University of Pittsburg Bradford | USA | 41.2 | 99 | 94 | 95 | 91 |
99 | Hofstra University | USA | 40.6 | 94 | 99 | 98 | 95 |
100 | ESIC Spain | Spain | 40.4 | - | - | - | - |