Top 100 Universities in THE Rankings 2025 with an Interactive Map

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