The Times Higher Education World University Rankings is something that most aspiring international students will encounter at least once in their journey to gaining admission to an international institution. THE is a globally recognized and respected ranking system that evaluates universities based on a comprehensive range of performance indicators, including teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook. These rankings are incredibly useful for prospective students, as they provide insights into the academic reputation, research strengths, and overall quality of universities worldwide, helping students make informed decisions about where to pursue their higher education dreams.

 

THE World University Rankings for 2025 have been released, featuring 2,092 ranked universities, with 185 new entries compared to last year. In total, 472,694 datapoints were collected from 2,860 institutions that submitted data. The detailed methodology, trusted worldwide by students, teachers, academics, governments, and industry experts, is based on 157 million citations, 18 million research publications, and survey responses from more than 93,000 scholars globally. 

 

Top 100 Universities in THE Rankings 2025

 

 

Rank University Name Country
1 University of Oxford United Kingdom
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
3 Harvard University United States
4 Princeton University United States
5 University of Cambridge United Kingdom
6 Stanford University United States
7 California Institute of Technology United States
8 University of California, Berkeley United States
9 Imperial College London United Kingdom
10 Yale University United States
11 ETH Zurich Switzerland
12 Tsinghua University China
13 Peking University China
14 The University of Chicago United States
14 University of Pennsylvania United States
16 Johns Hopkins University United States
17 National University of Singapore Singapore
18 Columbia University United States
18 University of California, Los Angeles United States
20 Cornell University United States
21 University of Toronto Canada
22 UCL United Kingdom
22 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States
24 Carnegie Mellon University United States
25 University of Washington United States
26 Technical University of Munich Germany
27 Duke University United States
28 The University of Tokyo Japan
29 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
30 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Singapore
31 Northwestern University United States
32 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
33 New York University United States
34 University of California, San Diego United States
35 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
36 Fudan University China
36 King’s College London United Kingdom
38 LMU Munich Germany
39 University of Melbourne Australia
40 Georgia Institute of Technology United States
41 University of British Columbia Canada
42 Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris France
43 KU Leuven Belgium
44 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
45 McGill University Canada
46 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States
47 Universität Heidelberg Germany
47 Zhejiang University China
49 Karolinska Institute Sweden
50 London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom
50 University of Texas at Austin United States
52 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China
53 University of Manchester United Kingdom
53 University of Science and Technology of China China
55 Kyoto University Japan
56 Delft University of Technology Netherlands
56 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States
58 Brown University United States
58 Monash University Australia
58 University of Amsterdam Netherlands
61 The University of Sydney Australia
62 Seoul National University South Korea
62 University of California, Davis United States
64 Université Paris-Saclay France
65 Nanjing University China
66 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong
67 University of California, Santa Barbara United States
67 Wageningen University & Research Netherlands
69 Washington University in St Louis United States
70 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States
71 Institut Polytechnique de Paris France
72 University of Southern California United States
73 Australian National University Australia
73 Leiden University Netherlands
75 Boston University United States
76 Sorbonne University France
77 The University of Queensland Australia
78 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
78 University of Bristol United Kingdom
79 Purdue University West Lafayette United States
80 University of Groningen Netherlands
82 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) South Korea
83 UNSW Sydney Australia
84 Humboldt University of Berlin Germany
84 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong
84 University of Massachusetts United States
87 University of Glasgow United Kingdom
87 University of Minnesota United States
89 University of Bonn Germany
90 University of California, Irvine United States
90 Vanderbilt University United States
92 RWTH Aachen University Germany
93 Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Germany
93 University of Birmingham United Kingdom
95 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden
95 Lund University Sweden
97 University of Copenhagen Denmark
98 Emory University United States
98 University of Sheffield United Kingdom
100 Penn State (Main campus) United States
100 University of Tübingen Germany

 

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