MIT Is U.S. No. 1 In Times Higher Ed’s 2025 World University Ranking

by: Times Higher Education on October 09, 2024 | 1,000 Views

TOP 100 UNIVERSITIES IN THE’S WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2025 

Higher education institution Country Rank 2025 Rank 2024
University of Oxford United Kingdom 1  1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 2  3
Harvard University United States 3  4
Princeton University United States 4  6
University of Cambridge United Kingdom 5  5
Stanford University United States 6  2
California Institute of Technology United States 7  7
University of California, Berkeley United States 8  9
Imperial College London United Kingdom 9  8
Yale University United States 10  10
ETH Zurich Switzerland 11  11
Tsinghua University China 12  12
Peking University China 13  14
The University of Chicago United States =14  13
University of Pennsylvania United States =14  16
Johns Hopkins University United States 16  15
National University of Singapore Singapore 17  19
Columbia University United States =18  17
University of California, Los Angeles United States =18  18
Cornell University United States 20  20
University of Toronto Canada 21  21
UCL United Kingdom =22  22
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States =22  23
Carnegie Mellon University United States 24  24
University of Washington United States 25  25
Technical University of Munich Germany 26  =30
Duke University United States 27  26
The University of Tokyo Japan 28  29
University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 29  =30
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Singapore 30  32
Northwestern University United States 31  28
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland 32  33
New York University United States 33  27
University of California, San Diego United States 34  34
University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 35  35
Fudan University China =36  44
King’s College London United Kingdom =36  =38
LMU Munich Germany 38  =38
University of Melbourne Australia 39  37
Georgia Institute of Technology United States 40  36
University of British Columbia Canada 41  41
Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris France 42  40
KU Leuven Belgium 43  45
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 44  53
McGill University Canada 45  49
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States 46  42
Universität Heidelberg Germany =47  47
Zhejiang University China =47  =55
Karolinska Institute Sweden 49  50
London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom =50  46
University of Texas at Austin United States =50  52
Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 52  43
University of Manchester United Kingdom =53  51
University of Science and Technology of China China =53  57
Kyoto University Japan 55  =55
Delft University of Technology Netherlands =56  48
University of Wisconsin-Madison United States =56  63
Brown University United States =58  =64
Monash University Australia =58  54
University of Amsterdam Netherlands =58  61
The University of Sydney Australia 61  60
Seoul National University South Korea =62  62
University of California, Davis United States =62  59
Université Paris-Saclay France 64  58
Nanjing University China 65  73
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 66  =64
University of California, Santa Barbara United States =67  69
Wageningen University & Research Netherlands =67  =64
Washington University in St Louis United States 69  68
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States 70  72
Institut Polytechnique de Paris France 71  71
University of Southern California United States 72  74
Australian National University Australia =73  67
Leiden University Netherlands =73  77
Boston University United States 75  78
Sorbonne University France 76  75
The University of Queensland Australia 77  70
University of Bristol United Kingdom 78  81
Purdue University West Lafayette United States 79  86
City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong =80  82
University of Groningen Netherlands =80  79
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) South Korea 82  83
UNSW Sydney Australia 83  84
Humboldt University of Berlin Germany =84  =87
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong =84  =87
University of Massachusetts United States =84  =123
University of Glasgow United Kingdom =87  =87
University of Minnesota United States =87  85
University of Bonn Germany 89  91
University of California, Irvine United States =90  =92
Vanderbilt University United States =90  =92
RWTH Aachen University Germany 92  90
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Germany =93  94
University of Birmingham United Kingdom =93  101
KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden =95  =97
Lund University Sweden =95  =106
University of Copenhagen Denmark 97  =103
Emory University United States =98  =106
University of Sheffield United Kingdom =98  105
Penn State (Main campus) United States =100  122
University of Tübingen Germany =100  =95
Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings; = joint

U.S. UNIVERSITIES FROM 51-1,000 IN THE’S WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2025 

University Rank 2025 Rank 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison =56  63
Brown University =58  =64
University of California, Davis =62  59
University of California, Santa Barbara =67  69
Washington University in St Louis 69  68
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 70  72
University of Southern California 72  74
Boston University 75  78
Purdue University West Lafayette 79  86
University of Massachusetts =84  =123
University of Minnesota =87  85
University of California, Irvine =90  =92
Vanderbilt University =90  =92
Emory University =98  =106
Penn State (Main campus) =100  122
Rice University =112  =119
University of Maryland, College Park =112  114
Ohio State University (Main campus) =116  =99
Michigan State University 122  =116
University of Rochester 127  133
University of Florida =130  132
University of Arizona =136  =155
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus =141  =145
Texas A&M University =143  118
University of Colorado Boulder =143  =138
Case Western Reserve University 159  =164
University of Virginia (Main campus) =163  166
Dartmouth College =168  =161
Tufts University 179  =191
Indiana University =189  198
University of California, Santa Cruz =196  201–250
University of Notre Dame =196  =199
Arizona State University (Tempe) 201–250  182
Georgetown University 201–250  =187
George Washington University 201–250  201–250
Northeastern University, US 201–250  201–250
University of Illinois Chicago 201–250  201–250
University of Miami 201–250  201–250
University of Utah 201–250  201–250
Boston College 251–300  251–300
North Carolina State University 251–300  251–300
Stony Brook University 251–300  251–300
University at Buffalo 251–300  301–350
University of California, Riverside 251–300  251–300
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa 251–300  201–250
University of Iowa 251–300  201–250
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 251–300  251–300
Florida State University 301–350  251–300
Oregon Health and Science University 301–350  301–350
Rutgers University – New Brunswick 301–350  201–250
The University of Tennessee-Knoxville 301–350  301–350
University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus 301–350  351–400
University of Connecticut 301–350  351–400
Drexel University 351–400  301–350
Illinois Institute of Technology 351–400  351–400
Temple University 351–400  351–400
University of Delaware 351–400  401–500
University of Georgia 351–400  351–400
University of Kansas 351–400  351–400
University of South Florida 351–400  251–300
Brandeis University 401–500  251–300
Colorado School of Mines 401–500  NR
Colorado State University, Fort Collins 401–500  401–500
Florida International University 401–500  401–500
George Mason University 401–500  401–500
Iowa State University 401–500  351–400
Missouri University of Science and Technology 401–500  401–500
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 401–500  401–500
Saint Louis University 401–500  401–500
Stevens Institute of Technology 401–500  401–500
Syracuse University 401–500  401–500
Tulane University 401–500  401–500
University of California, Merced 401–500  401–500
University of Central Florida 401–500  401–500
University of Houston 401–500  501–600
University of Kentucky 401–500  401–500
University of Nebraska-Lincoln 401–500  401–500
University of Oregon 401–500  401–500
University of South Carolina-Columbia 401–500  401–500
University of Texas at Dallas 401–500  351–400
Virginia Commonwealth University 401–500  401–500
Wake Forest University 401–500  401–500
Washington State University 401–500  301–350
Georgia State University 501–600  401–500
Mizzou – University of Missouri 501–600  401–500
New Jersey Institute of Technology 501–600  401–500
Rush University 501–600  501–600
SUNY University at Albany 501–600  NR
The University of Tulsa 501–600  501–600
University of Arkansas 501–600  601–800
University of Nebraska Medical Center 501–600  501–600
Wayne State University 501–600  501–600
American University 601–800  601–800
Auburn University 601–800  501–600
Baylor University 601–800  601–800
Clark University 601–800  601–800
Florida Atlantic University 601–800  801–1000
Kansas State University 601–800  601–800
Lehigh University 601–800  601–800
Louisiana State University 601–800  601–800
Mississippi State University 601–800  601–800
Ohio University (Main campus) 601–800  601–800
Oklahoma State University 601–800  601–800
Rochester Institute of Technology 601–800  801–1000
SUNY Binghamton University 601–800  601–800
Texas Tech University 601–800  601–800
The Catholic University of America 601–800  601–800
The University of Texas at San Antonio 601–800  501–600
University of Alaska Fairbanks 601–800  501–600
University of Denver 601–800  501–600
University of Maryland, Baltimore County 601–800  601–800
University of Nevada, Las Vegas 601–800  601–800
University of North Carolina at Charlotte 601–800  601–800
University of Texas at Arlington 601–800  601–800
University of Toledo 601–800  601–800
University of Wyoming 601–800  601–800
William & Mary 601–800  601–800
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 601–800  601–800
Florida Institute of Technology 801–1000  801–1000
New Mexico State University (Main campus) 801–1000  801–1000
Northern Illinois University 801–1000  601–800
Old Dominion University 801–1000  601–800
Portland State University 801–1000  801–1000
Southern Illinois University Carbondale 801–1000  NR
The University of Alabama 801–1000  601–800
University of Memphis 801–1000  801–1000
University of Rhode Island 801–1000  601–800
University of Texas at El Paso 801–1000  801–1000
Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings; =joint

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