# Top 500 World Universities

Here is a list of the top 500 Universities in the world by rank as determined in a study from the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

A detailed description of the criteria used, rankings by geographic area, FAQ's and the questionnaire itself can be found at: http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2004/2004Main.htm

World Rank | Institution* | Country | Total Score
1 | Harvard University | USA | 100.0
2 | Stanford University | USA | 77.2
3 | University Cambridge | UK | 76.2
4 | University California - Berkeley | USA | 74.2
5 | Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT) | USA | 72.4
6 | California Inst Tech | USA | 69.0
7 | Princeton University | USA | 63.6
8 | University Oxford | UK | 61.4
9 | Columbia University | USA | 61.2
10 | University Chicago | USA | 60.5
11 | Yale University | USA | 58.6
12 | Cornell University | USA | 55.5
13 | University California - San Diego | USA | 53.8
14 | Tokyo University | Japan | 51.9
15 | University Pennsylvania | USA | 51.8
16 | University California - Los Angeles | USA | 51.6
17 | University California - San Francisco | USA | 50.8
18 | University Wisconsin - Madison | USA | 50.0
19 | University Michigan - Ann Arbor | USA | 49.3
20 | University Washington - Seattle | USA | 49.1
21 | Kyoto University | Japan | 48.3
22 | Johns Hopkins University | USA | 47.5
23 | Imperial Coll London | UK | 46.4
24 | University Toronto | Canada | 44.6
25 | University Coll London | UK | 44.3
25 | University Illinois - Urbana Champaign | USA | 43.3
27 | Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Zurich | Switzerland | 43.2
28 | Washington University - St. Louis | USA | 43.1
29 | Rockefeller University | USA | 40.2
30 | Northwestern University | USA | 39.5
31 | Duke University | USA | 38.9
32 | New York University | USA | 38.7
33 | University Minnesota - Twin Cities | USA | 38.3
34 | University Colorado - Boulder | USA | 37.8
35 | University California - Santa Barbara | USA | 37.0
36 | University British Columbia | Canada | 36.3
36 | University Texas Southwestern Med Center | USA | 36.3
38 | Vanderbilt University | USA | 35.1
39 | University Utrecht | Netherlands | 34.9
40 | University Texas - Austin | USA | 34.8
41 | University Paris 06 | France | 33.9
42 | University California - Davis | USA | 33.6
43 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | USA | 33.5
44 | Rutgers State University - New Brunswick | USA | 33.4
45 | Tech University Munich | Germany | 33.3
46 | Karolinska Inst Stockholm | Sweden | 33.0
47 | University Edinburgh | UK | 32.9
48 | University Paris 11 | France | 32.5
48 | University Southern California | USA | 32.5
48 | University Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh | USA | 32.5
51 | University Munich | Germany | 32.4
52 | University Rochester | USA | 32.0
53 | Australian Natl University | Australia | 31.9
54 | Osaka University | Japan | 31.5
55 | University California - Irvine | USA | 31.4
56 | University North Carolina - Chapel Hill | USA | 31.2
57 | University Zurich | Switzerland | 31.1
57 | University Maryland - Coll Park | USA | 31.1
59 | University Copenhagen | Denmark | 31.0
60 | University Bristol | UK | 30.6
61 | McGill University | Canada | 30.4
62 | Carnegie Mellon University | USA | 30.3
63 | University Leiden | Netherlands | 29.8
64 | University Heidelberg | Germany | 29.7
65 | Case Western Reserve University | USA | 29.6
66 | Moscow State University | Russia | 29.5
67 | University Florida | USA | 29.3
68 | University Oslo | Norway | 29.2
69 | University Sheffield | UK | 28.8
69 | Tohoku University | Japan | 28.8
71 | Purdue University - West Lafayette | USA | 28.7
72 | University Helsinki | Finland | 28.6
73 | Ohio State University - Columbus | USA | 28.5
74 | Uppsala University | Sweden | 28.4
75 | Rice University | USA | 28.3
76 | University Arizona | USA | 28.1
77 | King's Coll London | UK | 28.0
78 | University Manchester | UK | 27.9
79 | University Goettingen | Germany | 27.4
80 | Michigan State University | USA | 27.0
80 | University Nottingham | UK | 27.0
82 | Brown University | USA | 26.8
82 | University Melbourne | Australia | 26.8
82 | University Strasbourg 1 | France | 26.8
85 | Ecole Normale Super Paris | France | 26.5
86 | University Vienna | Austria | 26.3
86 | Boston University | USA | 26.3
88 | University Freiburg | Germany | 26.0
88 | McMaster University | Canada | 26.0
90 | Hebrew University Jerusalem | Israel | 25.9
91 | University Basel | Switzerland | 25.8
92 | Lund University | Sweden | 25.6
93 | University Birmingham | UK | 25.5
93 | University Roma - La Sapienza | Italy | 25.5
95 | Humboldt University Berlin | Germany | 25.4
95 | University Utah | USA | 25.4
97 | Stockholm University | Sweden | 25.2
97 | Nagoya University | Japan | 25.2
99 | University Bonn | Germany | 25.1
99 | Tufts University | USA | 25.1
101-152 | Aarhus University | Denmark | \
101-152 | Arizona State University - Tempe | USA | \
101-152 | Baylor Coll Med | USA | \
101-152 | Dartmouth Coll | USA | \
101-152 | Emory University | USA | \
101-152 | Georgia Inst Tech | USA | \
101-152 | Hokkaido University | Japan | \
101-152 | Indiana University - Bloomington | USA | \
101-152 | Kyushu University | Japan | \
101-152 | Natl University Singapore | Singapore | \
101-152 | North Carolina State University - Raleigh | USA | \
101-152 | Oregon State University | USA | \
101-152 | State University New York - Stony Brook | USA | \
101-152 | Tel Aviv University | Israel | \
101-152 | Texas A&M University - Coll Station | USA | \
101-152 | Tokyo Inst Tech | Japan | \
101-152 | Tsukuba University | Japan | \
101-152 | University Alberta | Canada | \
101-152 | University Amsterdam | Netherlands | \
101-152 | University Bern | Switzerland | \
101-152 | University California - Riverside | USA | \
101-152 | University California - Santa Cruz | USA | \
101-152 | University Frankfurt | Germany | \
101-152 | University Geneva | Switzerland | \
101-152 | University Georgia | USA | \
101-152 | University Ghent | Belgium | \
101-152 | University Glasgow | UK | \
101-152 | University Groningen | Netherlands | \
101-152 | University Hamburg | Germany | \
101-152 | University Hawaii - Manoa | USA | \
101-152 | University Illinois - Chicago | USA | \
101-152 | University Iowa | USA | \
101-152 | University Kiel | Germany | \
101-152 | University Leeds | UK | \
101-152 | University Leuven | Belgium | \
101-152 | University Libre Bruxelles | Belgium | \
101-152 | University Liverpool | UK | \
101-152 | University Louvain | Belgium | \
101-152 | University Massachusetts - Amherst | USA | \
101-152 | University Miami | USA | \
101-152 | University Milan | Italy | \
101-152 | University Muenster | Germany | \
101-152 | University Paris 07 | France | \
101-152 | University Pisa | Italy | \
101-152 | University Queensland | Australia | \
101-152 | University Sussex | UK | \
101-152 | University Sydney | Australia | \
101-152 | University Tennessee - Knoxville | USA | \
101-152 | University Tuebingen | Germany | \
101-152 | University Virginia | USA | \
101-152 | University Wuerzburg | Germany | \
101-152 | Weizmann Inst Sci | Israel | \
153-201 | Cardiff University | UK | \
153-201 | Coll France | France | \
153-201 | Colorado State University | USA | \
153-201 | Erasmus University | Netherlands | \
153-201 | Florida State University | USA | \
153-201 | Free University Amsterdam | Netherlands | \
153-201 | Gothenburg University | Sweden | \
153-201 | Iowa State University | USA | \
153-201 | Mt Sinai Sch Med | USA | \
153-201 | Natl Taiwan University | China-tw | \
153-201 | Oregon Health & Sci University | USA | \
153-201 | Queen's University | Canada | \
153-201 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst | USA | \
153-201 | Royal Inst Tech | Sweden | \
153-201 | Seoul Natl University | South Korea | \
153-201 | Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Lausanne | Switzerland | \
153-201 | Tech University Denmark | Denmark | \
153-201 | University Alabama - Birmingham | USA | \
153-201 | University Autonoma Madrid | Spain | \
153-201 | University Calgary | Canada | \
153-201 | University Cincinnati - Cincinnati | USA | \
153-201 | University Connecticut - Storrs | USA | \
153-201 | University Delaware | USA | \
153-201 | University Grenoble 1 | France | \
153-201 | University Koeln | Germany | \
153-201 | University Leicester | UK | \
153-201 | University Leipzig | Germany | \
153-201 | University Mainz | Germany | \
153-201 | University Marburg | Germany | \
153-201 | University Maryland - Baltimore | USA | \
153-201 | University Montpellier 2 | France | \
153-201 | University Montreal | Canada | \
153-201 | University Nacl Autonoma Mexico | Mexico | \
153-201 | University Nebraska - Lincoln | USA | \
153-201 | University New South Wales | Australia | \
153-201 | University Notre Dame | USA | \
153-201 | University Padua | Italy | \
153-201 | University Sao Paulo | Brazil | \
153-201 | University Southampton | UK | \
153-201 | University Texas Health Sci Center - Houston | USA | \
153-201 | University Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center | USA | \
153-201 | University Turin | Italy | \
153-201 | University Wageningen | Netherlands | \
153-201 | University Waterloo | Canada | \
153-201 | University Western Australia | Australia | \
153-201 | Virginia Commonwealth University | USA | \
153-201 | Virginia Tech | USA | \
153-201 | Washington State University - Pullman | USA | \
153-201 | Yeshiva University | USA | \
202-301 | Brandeis University | USA | \
202-301 | Chalmers University Tech | Sweden | \
202-301 | Chinese University Hong Kong | China-hk | \
202-301 | Dalhousie University | Canada | \
202-301 | Delft University Tech | Netherlands | \
202-301 | Ecole Polytechnique | France | \
202-301 | Free University Berlin | Germany | \
202-301 | George Mason University | USA | \
202-301 | George Washington University | USA | \
202-301 | Georgetown University | USA | \
202-301 | Hiroshima University | Japan | \
202-301 | Hong Kong University Sci & Tech | China-hk | \
202-301 | Indian Inst Sci | India | \
202-301 | Innsbruck University | Austria | \
202-301 | Kansas State University | USA | \
202-301 | Keio University | Japan | \
202-301 | Kobe University | Japan | \
202-301 | London Sch Economics | UK | \
202-301 | Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge | USA | \
202-301 | Monash University | Australia | \
202-301 | Okayama University | Japan | \
202-301 | Peking University | China | \
202-301 | Polytechnic Inst Milan | Italy | \
202-301 | Queen Mary Coll | UK | \
202-301 | State University New York - Albany | USA | \
202-301 | State University New York - Buffalo | USA | \
202-301 | Swedish University Agr Sci | Sweden | \
202-301 | Syracuse University | USA | \
202-301 | Tech University Aachen | Germany | \
202-301 | Tech University Berlin | Germany | \
202-301 | Technion Israel Inst Tech | Israel | \
202-301 | Thomas Jefferson University | USA | \
202-301 | Trinity Coll Dublin | Ireland | \
202-301 | Tsing Hua University | China | \
202-301 | Tulane University | USA | \
202-301 | Umea University | Sweden | \
202-301 | University Adelaide | Australia | \
202-301 | University Alaska - Fairbanks | USA | \
202-301 | University Antwerp | Belgium | \
202-301 | University Auckland | New Zealand | \
202-301 | University Barcelona | Spain | \
202-301 | University Bochum | Germany | \
202-301 | University Bologna | Italy | \
202-301 | University Bordeaux 1 | France | \
202-301 | University Buenos Aires | Argentina | \
202-301 | University Cape Town | South Africa | \
202-301 | University Colorado Health Sci Center | USA | \
202-301 | University Dundee | UK | \
202-301 | University Durham | UK | \
202-301 | University East Anglia | UK | \
202-301 | University Erlangen Nuernberg | Germany | \
202-301 | University Florence | Italy | \
202-301 | University Genoa | Italy | \
202-301 | University Graz | Austria | \
202-301 | University Guelph | Canada | \
202-301 | University Halle - Wittenberg | Germany | \
202-301 | University Hong Kong | China-hk | \
202-301 | University Houston | USA | \
202-301 | University Kansas - Lawrence | USA | \
202-301 | University Karlsruhe | Germany | \
202-301 | University Kentucky | USA | \
202-301 | University Laval | Canada | \
202-301 | University Liege | Belgium | \
202-301 | University Lyon 1 | France | \
202-301 | University Manchester Inst Sci & Tech | UK | \
202-301 | University Manitoba | Canada | \
202-301 | University Massachusetts - Worcester | USA | \
202-301 | University Med & Dentistry New Jersey | USA | \
202-301 | University Missouri - Columbia | USA | \
202-301 | University Naples Federico II | Italy | \
202-301 | University New Mexico - Albuquerque | USA | \
202-301 | University Newcastle | UK | \
202-301 | University Nijmegen | Netherlands | \
202-301 | University Oregon | USA | \
202-301 | University Otago | New Zealand | \
202-301 | University Ottawa | Canada | \
202-301 | University Paris 05 | France | \
202-301 | University Reading | UK | \
202-301 | University Regensburg | Germany | \
202-301 | University Rhode Island | USA | \
202-301 | University Saskatchewan | Canada | \
202-301 | University South Carolina - Columbia | USA | \
202-301 | University South Florida | USA | \
202-301 | University Southern Denmark | Denmark | \
202-301 | University St Andrews | UK | \
202-301 | University Stuttgart | Germany | \
202-301 | University Szeged | Hungary | \
202-301 | University Texas Health Sci Center - San Antonio | USA | \
202-301 | University Texas Med Branch - Galveston | USA | \
202-301 | University Toulouse 3 | France | \
202-301 | University Turku | Finland | \
202-301 | University Twente | Netherlands | \
202-301 | University Ulm | Germany | \
202-301 | University Vermont | USA | \
202-301 | University Warwick | UK | \
202-301 | University Western Ontario | Canada | \
202-301 | University York | UK | \
202-301 | Wake Forest University | USA | \
202-301 | Wayne State University | USA | \
202-301 | Yonsei University | South Korea | \
302-403 | Bar Ilan University | Israel | \
302-403 | Ben Gurion University | Israel | \
302-403 | Carleton University | Canada | \
302-403 | Charles University Prague | Czech | \
302-403 | Chiba University | Japan | \
302-403 | City University Hong Kong | China-hk | \
302-403 | City University New York - City Coll | USA | \
302-403 | Clemson University | USA | \
302-403 | Ecole Natl Super Mines - Paris | France | \
302-403 | Ecole Normale Super Lyon | France | \
302-403 | Ecole Super Phys & Chem Industry | France | \
302-403 | Eindhoven University Tech | Netherlands | \
302-403 | Fudan University | China | \
302-403 | Gifu University | Japan | \
302-403 | Gunma University | Japan | \
302-403 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | China-hk | \
302-403 | Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis | USA | \
302-403 | Jagiellonian University | Poland | \
302-403 | Kanazawa University | Japan | \
302-403 | Korea Advanced Inst Sci & Tech | South Korea | \
302-403 | Lehigh University | USA | \
302-403 | Macquarie University | Australia | \
302-403 | Med Coll Georgia | USA | \
302-403 | Med Coll Wisconsin | USA | \
302-403 | Med University South Carolina | USA | \
302-403 | Michigan Tech University | USA | \
302-403 | Nagasaki University | Japan | \
302-403 | Nanjing University | China | \
302-403 | Nanyang Tech University | Singapore | \
302-403 | Natl Tsing Hua University | China-tw | \
302-403 | Nihon University | Japan | \
302-403 | Niigata University | Japan | \
302-403 | Norwegian University Sci & Tech | Norway | \
302-403 | Open University | UK | \
302-403 | Pohang University Sci & Tech | South Korea | \
302-403 | Queen's University Belfast | UK | \
302-403 | Royal Veterinary & Agr University | Denmark | \
302-403 | San Diego State University | USA | \
302-403 | Simon Fraser University | Canada | \
302-403 | Southern Methodist University | USA | \
302-403 | St Petersburg State University | Russia | \
302-403 | St. Louis University | USA | \
302-403 | Sungkyunkwan University | South Korea | \
302-403 | Tech University Braunschweig | Germany | \
302-403 | Tech University Darmstadt | Germany | \
302-403 | Tech University Dresden | Germany | \
302-403 | Tech University Helsinki | Finland | \
302-403 | Temple University | USA | \
302-403 | Texas Tech University | USA | \
302-403 | Tokyo Med & Dent University | Japan | \
302-403 | Tokyo Metropolitan University | Japan | \
302-403 | Tokyo University Agr & Tech | Japan | \
302-403 | University Aberdeen | UK | \
302-403 | University Athens | Greece | \
302-403 | University Bath | UK | \
302-403 | University Bayreuth | Germany | \
302-403 | University Bergen | Norway | \
302-403 | University Bielefeld | Germany | \
302-403 | University Bordeaux 2 | France | \
302-403 | University Cagliari | Italy | \
302-403 | University Chile | Chile | \
302-403 | University Complutense - Madrid | Spain | \
302-403 | University Connecticut Health Center | USA | \
302-403 | University Duesseldorf | Germany | \
302-403 | University Essex | UK | \
302-403 | University Estadual Campinas | Brazil | \
302-403 | University Fed Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | \
302-403 | University Ferrara | Italy | \
302-403 | University Giessen | Germany | \
302-403 | University Greifswald | Germany | \
302-403 | University Jena | Germany | \
302-403 | University Jyvaskyla | Finland | \
302-403 | University Konstanz | Germany | \
302-403 | University Lancaster | UK | \
302-403 | University Lausanne | Switzerland | \
302-403 | University Mediterranee | France | \
302-403 | University Montana - Missoula | USA | \
302-403 | University Nancy 1 | France | \
302-403 | University Nevada - Reno | USA | \
302-403 | University New Hampshire - Durham | USA | \
302-403 | University Newcastle | Australia | \
302-403 | University Oklahoma - Norman | USA | \
302-403 | University Palermo | Italy | \
302-403 | University Paris 09 | France | \
302-403 | University Pavia | Italy | \
302-403 | University Perugia | Italy | \
302-403 | University Roma - Tor Vergata | Italy | \
302-403 | University Sci & Tech China | China | \
302-403 | University Tasmania | Australia | \
302-403 | University Thessaloniki | Greece | \
302-403 | University Tokushima | Japan | \
302-403 | University Valencia | Spain | \
302-403 | University Victoria | Canada | \
302-403 | University Warsaw | Poland | \
302-403 | University Witwatersrand | South Africa | \
302-403 | University Wyoming | USA | \
302-403 | Utah State University | USA | \
302-403 | Vienna Tech University | Austria | \
302-403 | Vrije University Brussel | Belgium | \
302-403 | Waseda University | Japan | \
302-403 | Yamaguchi University | Japan | \
302-403 | Zhejiang University | China | \
404-502 | Auburn University | USA | \
404-502 | Birkbeck Coll | UK | \
404-502 | Boston Coll | USA | \
404-502 | Brigham Young University - Provo | USA | \
404-502 | Budapest University Tech | Hungary | \
404-502 | Catholic University America | USA | \
404-502 | Coll William & Mary | USA | \
404-502 | Drexel University | USA | \
404-502 | Ehime University | Japan | \
404-502 | Eotvos Lorand University | Hungary | \
404-502 | Flinders University South Australia | Australia | \
404-502 | Florida International University | USA | \
404-502 | Hannover Med Sch | Germany | \
404-502 | Hanyang University | South Korea | \
404-502 | Himeji Inst Tech | Japan | \
404-502 | Howard University | USA | \
404-502 | Indian Inst Tech - Kharagpur | India | \
404-502 | Jichi Med Sch | Japan | \
404-502 | Jilin University | China | \
404-502 | Juntendo University | Japan | \
404-502 | Kagoshima University | Japan | \
404-502 | Kent State University | USA | \
404-502 | Korea University | South Korea | \
404-502 | Kumamoto University | Japan | \
404-502 | Kyungpook Natl University | South Korea | \
404-502 | La Trobe University | Australia | \
404-502 | Linkoping University | Sweden | \
404-502 | London Sch Hygiene & Tropical Med | UK | \
404-502 | Loyola University - Chicago | USA | \
404-502 | Massey University | New Zealand | \
404-502 | Med University Innsbruck | Austria | \
404-502 | Memorial University Newfoundland | Canada | \
404-502 | Montana State University - Bozeman | USA | \
404-502 | Murdoch University | Australia | \
404-502 | Nara Inst Sci & Tech | Japan | \
404-502 | Natl Cheng Kung University | China-tw | \
404-502 | New Jersey Inst Tech | USA | \
404-502 | New Mexico State University - Las Cruces | USA | \
404-502 | Northeastern University | USA | \
404-502 | Northern Arizona University | USA | \
404-502 | Oklahoma State University | USA | \
404-502 | Old Dominion University | USA | \
404-502 | Osaka City University | Japan | \
404-502 | Polytechnic Inst Turin | Italy | \
404-502 | Polytechnic University - Brooklyn | USA | \
404-502 | Royal Holloway Coll | UK | \
404-502 | Scuola Normale Super - Pisa | Italy | \
404-502 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | \
404-502 | Shinshu University | Japan | \
404-502 | University Aix Marseille 1 | France | \
404-502 | University Akron | USA | \
404-502 | University Arkansas - Little Rock | USA | \
404-502 | University Autonoma Barcelona | Spain | \
404-502 | University Bari | Italy | \
404-502 | University Bradford | UK | \
404-502 | University Bremen | Germany | \
404-502 | University Calcutta | India | \
404-502 | University Central Florida | USA | \
404-502 | University Coll Cork | Ireland | \
404-502 | University Coll Dublin | Ireland | \
404-502 | University Duisburg Essen | Germany | \
404-502 | University Estadual Paulista | Brazil | \
404-502 | University Exeter | UK | \
404-502 | University Fribourg | Switzerland | \
404-502 | University Granada | Spain | \
404-502 | University Haifa | Israel | \
404-502 | University Idaho | USA | \
404-502 | University Kaiserslautern | Germany | \
404-502 | University Kansas Med Center | USA | \
404-502 | University KwaZulu-Natal | South Africa | \
404-502 | University Lisbon | Portugal | \
404-502 | University Louisville | USA | \
404-502 | University Maastricht | Netherlands | \
404-502 | University Maine - Orono | USA | \
404-502 | University Maryland - Baltimore County | USA | \
404-502 | University Massachusetts - Boston | USA | \
404-502 | University Mississippi - Oxford | USA | \
404-502 | University Nebraska Med Center | USA | \
404-502 | University Osaka Prefecture | Japan | \
404-502 | University Oulu | Finland | \
404-502 | University Parma | Italy | \
404-502 | University Pretoria | South Africa | \
404-502 | University Quebec | Canada | \
404-502 | University Rennes 1 | France | \
404-502 | University Saarlandes | Germany | \
404-502 | University Santiago Compostela | Spain | \
404-502 | University Sevilla | Spain | \
404-502 | University Sherbrooke | Canada | \
404-502 | University Siena | Italy | \
404-502 | University Surrey | UK | \
404-502 | University Tennessee Health Sci Center | USA | \
404-502 | University Trent | Italy | \
404-502 | University Trieste | Italy | \
404-502 | University Tromso | Norway | \
404-502 | University Wales - Swansea | UK | \
404-502 | University Wuppertal | Germany | \
404-502 | University Zaragoza | Spain | \
404-502 | West Virginia University | USA | \
404-502 | York University | Canada | \

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