| World University Rank 2018 | World University Rank 2017 | University | Country/Region |
| 1 | 1 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 2 | 4 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| =3 | 2 | California Institute of Technology | United States |
| =3 | 3 | Stanford University | United States |
| 5 | 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 6 | 6 | Harvard University | United States |
| 7 | 7 | Princeton University | United States |
| 8 | 8 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 9 | =10 | University of Chicago | United States |
| =10 | 9 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
| =10 | 13 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 12 | 12 | Yale University | United States |
| 13 | 17 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 14 | 16 | Columbia University | United States |
| 15 | 14 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
| 16 | 15 | University College London | United Kingdom |
| 17 | 18 | Duke University | United States |
| 18 | =10 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
| 19 | 19 | Cornell University | United States |
| 20 | 20 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 21 | 21 | University of Michigan | United States |
| =22 | 24 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| =22 | 22 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 24 | 23 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| =25 | =25 | London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom |
| =25 | =25 | University of Washington | United States |
| =27 | 27 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| =27 | 32 | New York University | United States |
| =27 | 29 | Peking University | China |
| 30 | 35 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 31 | 41 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
| 32 | =33 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 33 | =33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| =34 | =36 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| =34 | =30 | LMU Munich | Germany |
| 36 | =36 | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
| 37 | =36 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| =38 | =30 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| =38 | 28 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| 40 | =43 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 41 | 46 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 42 | 42 | McGill University | Canada |
| 43 | 45 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
| 44 | 49 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
| 45 | =43 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 46 | 39 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 47 | 40 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 48 | 47 | Australian National University | Australia |
| 49 | 50 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| =50 | =51 | Brown University | United States |
| =50 | =57 | Washington University in St Louis | United States |
| 52 | 54 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | Singapore |
| 53 | 48 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States |
| =54 | =51 | University of California, Davis | United States |
| =54 | 55 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| =56 | 53 | University of Minnesota | United States |
| =56 | 56 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States |
| 58 | 76 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 59 | 63 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 60 | 70 | Purdue University | United States |
| 61 | =60 | University of Sydney | Australia |
| 62 | =57 | Humboldt University of Berlin | Germany |
| 63 | 59 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 64 | 65 | Wageningen University & Research | Netherlands |
| 65 | =60 | University of Queensland | Australia |
| 66 | =60 | University of Southern California | United States |
| 67 | 77 | Leiden University | Netherlands |
| 68 | 86 | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| 69 | 67 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
| =70 | 64 | Boston University | United States |
| =70 | =72 | Ohio State University | United States |
| =72 | 69 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| =72 | NR | Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris | France |
| =74 | =91 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| =74 | =72 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 76 | 71 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| 77 | 68 | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
| 78 | =113 | McMaster University | Canada |
| 79 | =78 | RWTH Aachen University | Germany |
| =80 | 88 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| =80 | 74 | Monash University | Australia |
| 82 | 95 | University of Freiburg | Germany |
| =83 | =80 | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| =83 | 101 | Michigan State University | United States |
| 85 | =78 | University of New South Wales | Australia |
| =86 | 87 | Rice University | United States |
| =86 | 93 | Uppsala University | Sweden |
| 88 | 75 | Free University of Berlin | Germany |
| 89 | =82 | Dartmouth College | United States |
| 90 | =91 | University of Helsinki | Finland |
| 91 | =82 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
| 92 | =82 | Technical University of Berlin | Germany |
| 93 | =96 | Lund University | Sweden |
| 94 | =89 | University of Tübingen | Germany |
| =95 | =98 | University of Basel | Switzerland |
| =95 | =89 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea |
| 97 | =96 | Durham University | United Kingdom |
| 98 | =82 | Emory University | United States |
| 99 | =98 | University of California, Irvine | United States |
| =100 | =113 | University of Bonn | Germany |
| =100 | =116 | University of Colorado Boulder | United States |
| =100 | =80 | University of Pittsburgh | United States |
| 103 | 94 | Maastricht University | Netherlands |
| 104 | 109 | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
| =105 | =110 | University of Bern | Switzerland |
| =105 | 108 | Vanderbilt University | United States |
| 107 | 118 | Ghent University | Belgium |
| 108 | 103 | University of Montreal | Canada |
| =109 | =98 | Aarhus University | Denmark |
| =109 | 120 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| =111 | =137 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea |
| =111 | 125 | University of Western Australia | Australia |
| =113 | 112 | University of Göttingen | Germany |
| =113 | =121 | University of Virginia | United States |
| 115 | =116 | École Polytechnique | France |
| 116 | 155 | Fudan University | China |
| =117 | 150 | Indiana University | United States |
| =117 | =131 | Trinity College Dublin | Republic of Ireland |
| =119 | 107 | University of Alberta | Canada |
| =119 | 119 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 121 | =113 | Queen Mary University of London | United Kingdom |
| 122 | =121 | Radboud University Nijmegen | Netherlands |
| =123 | =104 | Georgetown University | United States |
| =123 | =121 | Pierre and Marie Curie University | France |
| 125 | 102 | University of Mannheim | Germany |
| =126 | 131 | Arizona State University | United States |
| =126 | NR | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin | Germany |
| =126 | =121 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
| 129 | 128 | Université Catholique de Louvain | Belgium |
| =130 | =126 | University of Exeter | United Kingdom |
| =130 | =137 | University of Geneva | Switzerland |
| 132 | =153 | University of Science and Technology of China | China |
| 133 | =144 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany |
| =134 | 142 | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| =134 | =144 | Stockholm University | Sweden |
| 136 | 106 | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
| =137 | =104 | Pohang University of Science and Technology | South Korea |
| =137 | 129 | University of York | United Kingdom |
| 139 | 133 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom |
| 140 | 175 | Pompeu Fabra University | Spain |
| =141 | 130 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
| =141 | 177 | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands |
| =143 | 134 | University of Florida | United States |
| =143 | =110 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom |
| 145 | =170 | University of Cologne | Germany |
| 146 | 132 | University of Oslo | Norway |
| =147 | 163 | Autonomous University of Barcelona | Spain |
| =147 | 147 | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom |
| =147 | 149 | University of Sussex | United Kingdom |
| =150 | =137 | Lancaster University | United Kingdom |
| =150 | 143 | University of Notre Dame | United States |
| 152 | =151 | University of Lausanne | Switzerland |
| =153 | 176 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| =153 | =151 | University of Rochester | United States |
| =155 | =190 | Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna | Italy |
| =155 | 164 | TU Dresden | Germany |
| =155 | =135 | Ulm University | Germany |
| 158 | =126 | Case Western Reserve University | United States |
| =159 | 172 | University of Leicester | United Kingdom |
| =159 | 169 | Texas A&M University | United States |
| 161 | =156 | University of Arizona | United States |
| =162 | 146 | University of California, Santa Cruz | United States |
| =162 | =182 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom |
| =162 | 160 | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | Germany |
| =165 | =161 | University of Vienna | Austria |
| =165 | =156 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| =165 | =186 | University of Würzburg | Germany |
| 168 | NR | University of Alabama at Birmingham | United States |
| =169 | 201-250 | Nanjing University | China |
| =169 | =135 | Tufts University | United States |
| 171 | 148 | University of Cape Town | South Africa |
| 172 | 141 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | United States |
| =173 | 159 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden |
| =173 | =161 | University of Münster | Germany |
| =175 | 201-250 | Université Libre de Bruxelles | Belgium |
| =175 | =190 | Newcastle University | United Kingdom |
| =177 | 158 | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom |
| =177 | 201-250 | Zhejiang University | China |
| =179 | 178 | University of Luxembourg | Luxembourg |
| =179 | =153 | University of Twente | Netherlands |
| 181 | 179 | Paris-Sud University | France |
| =182 | 201-250 | École Normale Supérieure de Lyon | France |
| =182 | =192 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong |
| 184 | =137 | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa | Italy |
| 185 | =188 | University of Aberdeen | United Kingdom |
| 186 | =182 | University of Miami | United States |
| 187 | =180 | University of Dundee | United Kingdom |
| =188 | =165 | University of East Anglia | United Kingdom |
| =188 | 201-250 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
| 190 | 201-250 | Aalto University | Finland |
| 191 | =165 | University of Massachusetts | United States |
| 192 | =165 | University of Auckland | New Zealand |
| 193 | =182 | Northeastern University | United States |
| 194 | =188 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russian Federation |
| 195 | =198 | Tilburg University | Netherlands |
| 196 | 351-400 | Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris 4 | France |
| 197 | =173 | Royal Holloway, University of London | United Kingdom |
| =198 | =165 | University of California, Riverside | United States |
| =198 | =170 | University of Gothenburg | Sweden |
| =198 | =195 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan |
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