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TOP 20 WORLD’S BEST UNIVERSITIES 2023
Many wish to study at the best universities in the world but may not know which is on top of the list of the best.
Do you wish to study at one of the top 20 universities in the world? The World University Rankings provide an annually updated list of more than 1,400 top universities in the world, according to QS. Here is the list of the top 20 universities (the universities in the world that are in the top 20 for the 2023 universities ranking, in our latest college/university education blog post of today.
In the most recent 2023 edition of the QS World University Rankings, only 4 countries made it to the top 20 – 9 universities from the United States (US), 5 from the United Kingdom (UK), and 2 each from China, Switzerland, and Singapore. In addition, the US (27 represented) or the UK (17) in just under half of the top 100 universities in the world provided in the ranking.
Here’s a complete rundown of the world’s top 20 universities.
| Top 20 Universities in 2023 QS World University Ranking | ||
| Rank | University | Location |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
| 2 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 3 | Stanford University | United States |
| 4 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 5 | Harvard University | United States |
| =6 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States |
| =6 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 8 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom |
| 9 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | Switzerland |
| 10 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 11 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| 12 | Peking University | Mainland China |
| 13 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 14 | Tsinghua University | Mainland China |
| 15 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| =16 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland |
| =16 | Princeton University | United States |
| 18 | Yale University | United States |
| 19 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore |
| 20 | Cornell University | United States |
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BEST 20 UNIVERSITIES IN WORLD 2022
The 2022 World University Ranking of the top 20 recognized higher-education institutions in the world meeting the following uniRank selection ranking on appropriate higher education-related organization accreditation in each country, degrees – (bachelor degrees) or postgraduate degrees (master or doctoral degrees) offered and delivering courses predominantly in a traditional, face-to-face, non-distance education format
The best 20 Universities ranking in the world was based on valid, unbiased, and non-influenceable web metrics provided by independent web intelligence sources rather than data submitted by the Universities themselves, according to 4icu.org.
In the ranking 18 of the universities are located in the US and the remaining 2 in the UK.
