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

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