Top Universities in the World 2015 - With nearly 5 million students jumping on the study abroad bandwagon, universities across the world are getting into serious competition to attract international students to their classrooms. World university rankings, in this case, are a major focal point around which international students are increasingly basing their decisions.
An interesting point to consider here is that while most of the major rankings platforms - Times Higher education (THE), Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and the Shanghai based ARWU are diversifying into new rankings like best international universities or reputation ranking- the World University Ranking is still the most important and awaited ranking of the year as it helps in a comprehensive analysis of the universities based on major grounds like faculty, citations and research avenues.
American Universities yet again prove their dominance in the World University Rankings 2015, with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard and Caltech making it to the top of the three league tables. The 2015 top universities ranking saw some major movements in some of top countries. While USA is slowly losing its stronghold in the THE Ranking with 6 universities making it to the top 10 compared to 7 last year, it was UK who took blow in QS with all its universities in the top 10 falling from their positions.
Among the better performing countries, European countries like Switzerland and Netherlands have made major headways in the league tables with Switzerland’s ETH Zurich at the 9th place zooming into the World top 10 for the first time in QS ranking.
The list below reflects the Top universities in the World 2015 according to THE, QS and ARWU. Students can make a comparative analysis of the best universities in the world 2015 by comparing the ranking given by these agencies.
Check the List of Top Universities in the world 2015
University
Country
QS
THE
ARWU
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
USA
1
5
3
Harvard University
2
6
University of Cambridge
UK
4
Stanford University
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
7
University of Oxford
10
UCL (University College London)
14
18
Imperial College London
8
23
ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Switzerland
9
20
University of Chicago
Princeton University
11
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
12
26
101-150
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)
13
55
151-200
EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
31
Yale University
15
Johns Hopkins University
16
Cornell University
17
University of Pennsylvania
King’s College London
19
27
The Australian National University
Australia
52
77
The University of Edinburgh
21
24
47
Columbia University
22
Ecole normale supérieure, Paris
France
54
72
McGill University
Canada
38
64
Tsinghua University
China
25
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
28
59
201-300
Duke University
29
The University of Hong Kong
30
44
University of Michigan
Northwestern University
32
The University of Manchester
33
56
41
University of Toronto
34
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
35
Seoul National University
South Korea
36
85
University of Bristol
37
69
66
Kyoto University
Japan
88
The University of Tokyo
39
43
Ecole Polytechnique
40
101
301-400
Peking University
42
The University of Melbourne
KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
148
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
The University of Sydney
45
The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia)
46
82
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The University of Queensland
60
The University of Warwick
48
80
92
Brown University
49
51
75
University of British Columbia
50
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
138
Fudan University
201-250
New York University (NYU)
53
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
58
101-500
Tokyo Institute of Technology
City University of Hong Kong
57
Osaka University
251-300
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Technische Universität München
Germany
Durham University
61
70
Carnegie Mellon University
62
University of Glasgow
76
Delft University of Technology
65
University of Washington
Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg
Monash University
67
73
University of St Andrews
68
86
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
The University of Nottingham
143
Lund University
Sweden
90
National Taiwan University (NTU)
Taiwan
301-350
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tohoku University
74
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
University of Birmingham
119
University of Texas at Austin
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
78
160
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
79
63
The University of Sheffield
97
University of Southampton
81
110
The University of Auckland
New Zealand
172
KU Leuven
Belgium
Georgia Institute of Technology
84
University of Zurich
104
University of California, Davis
University of Leeds
87
133
Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)
116
University of Geneva
89
131
Purdue University
113
Boston University
91
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
155
KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
93
Utrecht University
94
Leiden University
95
University of Alberta
96
137
University of Helsinki
Finland
The University of Western Australia
98
109
The Ohio State University
99
University of Groningen
100
Pennsylvania State University
Uppsala University
102
University of York
103
Korea University
Yonsei University
105
Rice University
106
Aarhus University
107
149
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russia
108
161
Queen Mary University of London
Washington University in St. Louis
Zhejiang University
Technical University of Denmark
112
167
The University of Adelaide
University of Science and Technology of China
Université de Montréal
115
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Eindhoven University of Technology
117
176
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
118
153
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Nagoya University
120
Lancaster University
121
130
Cardiff University
122
182
University of Minnesota
123
Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Argentina
124
Ghent University
71
Erasmus University Rotterdam
126
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
University of Maryland, College Park
401-500
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
129
University of Southern California
Nanjing University
Chalmers University of Technology
132
201- 250
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
University of Pittsburgh
Wageningen University
135
University of Oslo
Norway
University of Aberdeen
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)
University of Basel
139
Aalto University
Hokkaido University
Kyushu University
142
University of Lausanne
144
Universidade de São Paulo
Brazil
RWTH Aachen University
145
Universiti Malaya (UM)
Malaysia
146
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore
India
147
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel
178
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
McMaster University
University of Liverpool
151
157
University of Waterloo
152
179
University of Vienna
Austria
University College Dublin
154
National Tsing Hua University
Ecole Centrale de Paris
156
University of Reading
164
Dartmouth College
158
University of Bath
159
401-300
Texas A&M University
193
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Mexico
The University of Exeter
Newcastle University
162
196
University of California, Irvine
163
Michigan State University
Emory University
165
University of Bern
166
University of Barcelona
Spain
Georg-August-University Goettingen
168
Maastricht University
169
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)
Chiles
170
University of Cape Town
South Africa
171
University of Virginia
University of Otago
173
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
University of Colorado Boulder
175
127
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Radboud University
177
125
Technische Universität Berlin
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
University of Florida
180
83
University of Bergen
181
Queen's University Belfast
200
National Chiao Tung University
Stockholm University
136
University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)
185
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
186
University of Sussex
187
140
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
University of Twente
188
Ãcole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
University of Rochester
190
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
The University of Western Ontario
192
Hanyang University
351-400
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
194
University of Notre Dame
195
Universidade estadual de Campinas(Unicamp)
Vienna University of Technology
197
251-400
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
198
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Saudi Arabia
199
501-600
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