Top Universities in the World 2018
The Times Higher Education Overall Rankings
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More Times World University Rankings
* Schools within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.
| Rank | Name | Country | No. of FTE Students | No. of students per staff | International Students | Female:Male Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Oxford | (United Kingdom) | 20,409 | 11.2 | 38% | 46 : 54 |
| 2 | University of Cambridge | (United Kingdom) | 18,389 | 10.9 | 35% | 45 : 55 |
| =3 | California Institute of Technology | (United States) | 2,209 | 6.5 | 27% | 31 : 69 |
| =3 | Stanford University | (United States) | 15,845 | 7.5 | 22% | 42 : 58 |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | (United States) | 11,177 | 8.7 | 34% | 37 : 63 |
| 6 | Harvard University | (United States) | 20,326 | 8.9 | 26% | n/a |
| 7 | Princeton University | (United States) | 7,955 | 8.3 | 24% | 45 : 55 |
| 8 | Imperial College London | (United Kingdom) | 15,857 | 11.4 | 55% | 37 : 63 |
| 9 | University of Chicago | (United States) | 13,525 | 6.2 | 25% | 44 : 56 |
| =10 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | (Switzerland) | 19,233 | 14.6 | 38% | 31 : 69 |
| =10 | University of Pennsylvania | (United States) | 20,361 | 6.5 | 20% | 50 : 50 |
| 12 | Yale University | (United States) | 12,155 | 4.3 | 21% | 49 : 51 |
| 13 | Johns Hopkins University | (United States) | 15,498 | 4.3 | 24% | 52 : 48 |
| 14 | Columbia University | (United States) | 26,587 | 6.1 | 32% | n/a |
| 15 | University of California, Los Angeles | (United States) | 39,279 | 9.6 | 17% | 53 : 47 |
| 16 | University College London | (United Kingdom) | 30,304 | 10.5 | 49% | 56 : 44 |
| 17 | Duke University | (United States) | 15,256 | 4.5 | 22% | 49 : 51 |
| 18 | University of California, Berkeley | (United States) | 36,182 | 13.1 | 17% | 52 : 48 |
| 19 | Cornell University | (United States) | 21,850 | 9.8 | 24% | 49 : 51 |
| 20 | Northwestern University | (United States) | 17,466 | 12.8 | 18% | 48 : 52 |
| 21 | University of Michigan | (United States) | 41,818 | 8.6 | 16% | 48 : 52 |
| =22 | National University of Singapore | (Singapore) | 30,602 | 17.0 | 30% | 51 : 49 |
| =22 | University of Toronto | (Canada) | 69,427 | 18.7 | 17% | n/a |
| 24 | Carnegie Mellon University | (United States) | 12,676 | 13.5 | 45% | 39 : 61 |
| =25 | London School of Economics and Political Science | (United Kingdom) | 10,065 | 12.2 | 71% | 52 : 48 |
| =25 | University of Washington | (United States) | 44,945 | 11.4 | 16% | 52 : 48 |
| =27 | University of Edinburgh | (United Kingdom) | 26,759 | 12.5 | 40% | 59 : 41 |
| =27 | New York University | (United States) | 43,860 | 9.6 | 26% | 56 : 44 |
| =27 | Peking University | (China) | 42,136 | 8.9 | 16% | 47 : 53 |
| 30 | Tsinghua University | (China) | 42,089 | 13.7 | 9% | 32 : 68 |
| 31 | University of California, San Diego | (United States) | 29,633 | 12.8 | 17% | 46 : 54 |
| 32 | University of Melbourne | (Australia) | 42,116 | 26.6 | 40% | 55 : 45 |
| 33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | (United States) | 20,773 | 20.7 | 27% | 31 : 69 |
| =34 | University of British Columbia | (Canada) | 51,889 | 18.1 | 29% | 54 : 46 |
| =34 | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | (Germany) | 36,091 | 15.6 | 15% | 61 : 39 |
| 36 | King’s College London | (United Kingdom) | 23,207 | 12.0 | 41% | 62 : 38 |
| 37 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | (United States) | 43,402 | 22.8 | 23% | 46 : 54 |
| =38 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | (Switzerland) | 9,928 | 11.2 | 55% | 28 : 72 |
| =38 | Karolinska Institute | (Sweden) | 7,424 | 10.9 | 19% | 68 : 32 |
| 40 | University of Hong Kong | (Hong Kong) | 18,364 | 18.0 | 42% | 54 : 46 |
| 41 | Technical University of Munich | (Germany) | 38,689 | 54.4 | 23% | 34 : 66 |
| 42 | McGill University | (Canada) | 30,940 | 13.3 | 26% | 57 : 43 |
| 43 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | (United States) | 38,960 | 10.7 | 12% | 51 : 49 |
| 44 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | (Hong Kong) | 10,214 | 23.1 | 31% | n/a |
| 45 | Heidelberg University | (Germany) | 28,876 | 23.2 | 17% | 55 : 45 |
| 46 | University of Tokyo | (Japan) | 26,000 | 6.7 | 10% | n/a |
| 47 | KU Leuven | (Belgium) | 44,412 | 37.1 | 15% | 50 : 50 |
| 48 | Australian National University | (Australia) | 15,986 | 19.3 | 35% | 52 : 48 |
| 49 | University of Texas at Austin | (United States) | 48,561 | 17.1 | 10% | 51 : 49 |
| =50 | Brown University | (United States) | 8,898 | 10.7 | 20% | n/a |
| =50 | Washington University in St Louis | (United States) | 12,600 | 7.5 | 17% | n/a |
| 52 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | (Singapore) | 25,499 | 16.3 | 31% | 48 : 52 |
| 53 | University of California, Santa Barbara | (United States) | 23,054 | 28.1 | 14% | 52 : 48 |
| =54 | University of California, Davis | (United States) | 37,365 | 13.8 | 10% | 56 : 44 |
| =54 | University of Manchester | (United Kingdom) | 35,318 | 14.6 | 38% | 52 : 48 |
| =56 | University of Minnesota | (United States) | 60,949 | 17.4 | 11% | 51 : 49 |
| =56 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | (United States) | 34,684 | 9.7 | 8% | 56 : 44 |
| 58 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | (Hong Kong) | 18,072 | 17.3 | 31% | n/a |
| 59 | University of Amsterdam | (Netherlands) | 23,495 | 12.3 | 12% | 57 : 43 |
| 60 | Purdue University | (United States) | 38,770 | 17.4 | 23% | 42 : 58 |
| 61 | University of Sydney | (Australia) | 44,553 | 21.6 | 32% | 57 : 43 |
| 62 | Humboldt University of Berlin | (Germany) | 32,172 | 56.5 | 17% | n/a |
| 63 | Delft University of Technology | (Netherlands) | 17,057 | 19.6 | 27% | 28 : 72 |
| 64 | Wageningen University & Research Centre | (Netherlands) | 12,326 | 19.7 | 29% | 55 : 45 |
| 65 | University of Queensland | (Australia) | 38,968 | 35.7 | 26% | 55 : 45 |
| 66 | University of Southern California | (United States) | 38,380 | 12.8 | 23% | 53 : 47 |
| 67 | Leiden University | (Netherlands) | 24,825 | 18.2 | 12% | 57 : 43 |
| 68 | Utrecht University | (Netherlands) | 31,522 | 15.2 | 7% | 59 : 41 |
| 69 | University of Maryland, College Park | (United States) | 31,772 | 16.5 | 10% | 48 : 52 |
| =70 | Boston University | (United States) | 24,833 | 8.6 | 25% | 60 : 40 |
| =70 | Ohio State University | (United States) | 53,190 | 12.7 | 13% | 49 : 51 |
| =72 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | (Netherlands) | 22,047 | 20.1 | 20% | 49 : 51 |
| =72 | Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris | (France) | 19,978 | 10.1 | 25% | n/a |
| =74 | Kyoto University | (Japan) | 22,481 | 8.7 | 8% | 24 : 76 |
| =74 | Seoul National University | (South Korea) | 26,470 | 12.6 | 11% | n/a |
| 76 | University of Bristol | (United Kingdom) | 19,995 | 13.7 | 27% | 53 : 47 |
| 77 | Pennsylvania State University | (United States) | 45,411 | 15.2 | 14% | 46 : 54 |
| 78 | McMaster University | (Canada) | 23,693 | 24.7 | 15% | 52 : 48 |
| 79 | RWTH Aachen University | (Germany) | 43,721 | 57.7 | 18% | 32 : 68 |
| =80 | University of Glasgow | (United Kingdom) | 23,389 | 15.4 | 36% | 58 : 42 |
| =80 | Monash University | (Australia) | 46,846 | 33.7 | 28% | 57 : 43 |
| 82 | University of Freiburg | (Germany) | 20,871 | 40.3 | 19% | 57 : 43 |
| =83 | University of Groningen | (Netherlands) | 26,197 | 24.1 | 17% | 52 : 48 |
| =83 | Michigan State University | (United States) | 44,556 | 17.0 | 17% | 51 : 49 |
| 85 | University of New South Wales | (Australia) | 40,133 | 26.7 | 34% | 46 : 54 |
| =86 | Rice University | (United States) | 6,441 | 9.0 | 28% | 43 : 57 |
| =86 | Uppsala University | (Sweden) | 25,174 | 17.3 | 11% | 57 : 43 |
| 88 | Free University of Berlin | (Germany) | 34,114 | 57.0 | 21% | 59 : 41 |
| 89 | Dartmouth College | (United States) | 6,100 | 6.6 | 15% | 47 : 53 |
| 90 | University of Helsinki | (Finland) | 22,532 | 16.2 | 6% | 65 : 35 |
| 91 | University of Warwick | (United Kingdom) | 18,424 | 13.0 | 39% | 48 : 52 |
| 92 | Technical University of Berlin | (Germany) | 22,390 | 64.3 | 20% | 34 : 66 |
| 93 | Lund University | (Sweden) | 28,663 | 12.1 | 16% | 55 : 45 |
| 94 | University of Tübingen | (Germany) | 27,844 | 38.5 | 13% | 59 : 41 |
| =95 | University of Basel | (Switzerland) | 12,729 | 17.7 | 27% | 55 : 45 |
| =95 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | (South Korea) | 9,464 | 10.6 | 9% | 20 : 80 |
| 97 | Durham University | (United Kingdom) | 16,310 | 14.9 | 29% | 54 : 46 |
| 98 | Emory University | (United States) | 12,649 | 4.4 | 19% | 57 : 43 |
| 99 | University of California, Irvine | (United States) | 30,419 | 17.0 | 21% | 52 : 48 |
| =100 | University of Bonn | (Germany) | 35,619 | 77.9 | 13% | 55 : 45 |
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