Highest-ranked universities in the world. 1. 🇺🇸 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2. 🇬🇧 University of Cambridge 3. 🇬🇧 University of Oxford 4. 🇺🇸 Harvard University 5. 🇺🇸 Stanford University 6. 🇬🇧 Imperial College London 7. 🇨🇭 ETH Zurich 8. 🇸🇬 National University of Singapore 9. 🇬🇧 UCL 10. 🇺🇸 University of California, Berkeley 11. 🇺🇸 University of Chicago 12. 🇺🇸 University of Pennsylvania 13. 🇺🇸 Cornell University 14. 🇦🇺 University of Melbourne 15. 🇺🇸 California Institute of Technology 16. 🇺🇸 Yale University 17. 🇨🇳 Peking University 18. 🇺🇸 Princeton University 19. 🇦🇺 University of New South Wales 20. 🇦🇺 University of Sydney 21. 🇨🇦 University of Toronto 22. 🇬🇧 University of Edinburgh 23. 🇺🇸 Columbia University 24. 🇫🇷 Université PSL 25. 🇨🇳 Tsinghua University (Source: QS World University Rankings)