QS World University Rankings 2021
QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts, released the seventeenth edition of the QS World University Rankings – the world’s most-consulted, most-covered source of comparative information about university performance.[1] 26 Asian universities place among the global top-100 – the highest number ever.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology is named the world’s best university for a record-breaking ninth consecutive year;
- The top three institutions remain American: MIT is followed by Stanford University (2nd) and Harvard University (3rd);
- Britain’s top institution is the University of Oxford, which falls to fifth. Its compatriot competitor, the University of Cambridge, remains 7th;
- 112 of America’s 153 ranked universities fall, with only 34 recording improvements. This is primarily due to collective relative decline in QS’s measures of academic standing and research impact;
- Continental Europe’s best university is ETH Zurich (6th no-change);
- Asia’s top university is the National University of Singapore (11th);
- China’s Tsinghua University reaches a new all-time high (15th);
- Latin America’s leader is the Universidad de Buenos Aires (66th, up 8 places). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (100th) becomes the first Mexican university ever to achieve a top-100 place;
- Universities in Russia and Malaysia continue to rise: Lomonosov Moscow State University (74th) and Universiti Malaya (59th) reach record highs.
Ben Sowter, QS Director of Research, said: “The American higher education hegemony continues to diminish in the face of increasing competitiveness across the world: a competitiveness driven by strategic funding, internationalization efforts, and strong links between education and industry.”
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QS World University Rankings 2021: Global Top 20 |
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2021 |
2020 |
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1 |
1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
USA |
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2 |
2 |
Stanford University |
USA |
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3 |
3 |
Harvard University |
USA |
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4 |
5 |
California Institute of Technology |
USA |
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5 |
4 |
University of Oxford |
UK |
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6 |
6 |
ETH Zurich |
Switzerland |
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7 |
7 |
University of Cambridge |
UK |
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8 |
9 |
Imperial College London |
UK |
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9 |
10 |
University of Chicago |
USA |
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10 |
8 |
University College London |
UK |
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11 |
11= |
National University of Singapore |
Singapore |
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12 |
13 |
Princeton University |
USA |
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13 |
11= |
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) |
Singapore |
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14 |
18= |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
Switzerland |
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15 |
16 |
Tsinghua University |
China (Mainland) |
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16 |
15 |
University of Pennsylvania |
USA |
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17 |
17 |
Yale University |
USA |
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18 |
14 |
Cornell University |
USA |
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19 |
18= |
Columbia University |
USA |
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20 |
20 |
University of Edinburgh |
UK |
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© QS Quacquarelli Symonds www.TopUniversities.com |
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Methodological details can be found here. To view the full rankings: www.TopUniversities.com
[1] ‘Most-consulted according to data from independent monitoring platforms, including Google Analytics, SimilarWeb, Meltwater, and Alexa.
SOURCE QS Quacquarelli Symonds