Rankings

Global University Rankings 2013

Top 100 Universities

Published 1st March 2013

100 Institutes in this ranking

An exercise in ranking the best higher education institutes of the world is no mean task. Information gathering in itself is an exhaustive exercise, while number-crunching and analysing gives meaning to the massive raw data. The aim of the Youth Incorporated, Education Times and Rediff.com Global University Rankings 2013 through this sophisticated exercise is to identify and ascertain the universities in the world that are fulfilling their commitment to provide quality education.

Rank	Institute	Country	Score	2011-12 Rank
1	Harvard University	USA	100	1
2	Stanford University	USA	99.8	2
3	University of Pennsylvania	USA	99.7	7
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	99.5	3
5	University of Oxford	UK	99.4	4
6	University of Chicago	USA	99.3	5
7	Yale University	USA	99.2	6
8	Columbia University	USA	99.1	8
9	Princeton University	USA	99	11
10	Cornell University	USA	98.9	10
11	University of Cambridge	UK	98.7	18
12	California Institute of Technology	USA	98.4	12
13	Imperial College London	UK	98.2	9
14	Brown University	USA	98.1	24
15	University of Waterloo	Canada	97.6	NEW
16	London School of Economics	UK	97.4	20
17	University of Tokyo	Japan	97.2	17
18	Northwestern University	USA	97	14
19	Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai	India	96.7	31
20	University of Michigan Ann Arbor	USA	96.5	15
21	University of California at Los Angeles	USA	96.3	23
22	Carnegie Mellon University	USA	96	22
23	New York University	USA	95.9	25
24	University of Melbourne	Australia	95.7	19
25	Ecole Normale Superieure	France	95.5	21
26	National University Singapore	Singapore	95.3	29
27	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	India	95.2	NEW
28	Duke University	USA	95	28
29	IE University	Spain	94.9	37
30	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	94.7	27
31	University of California at Berkeley	USA	94.6	30
32	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen	Germany	94.3	32
33	Hong Kong University of Science & Technology	China	94.2	35
34	Johns Hopkins University	USA	94.1	34
35	Emory University	USA	94	33
36	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne	Switzerland	93.9	36
37	University College London	UK	93.7	26
38	Dartmouth College	USA	93.6	41
39	University of Virginia	USA	93.4	43
40	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	93.1	38
41	Universidade de Sao Paulo	Brazil	92.6	47
42	University of Zurich	Switzerland	92.5	39
43	King's College London	UK	92.3	40
44	Rice University	USA	92	44
45	University of Texas at Austin	USA	91.5	45
46	University of British Columbia	Canada	91.1	42
47	Peking University	China	91	52
48	Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile	Chile	90.9	48
49	Universitat Heidelberg	Germany	90.7	50
50	Technische Universitat Munchen	Germany	90.5	53
51	University of Helsinki	Finland	90.2	51
52	University of Sydney	Australia	90.1	46
53	HEC	France	89	55
54	Vanderbilt University	USA	88.7	49
55	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Argentina	88.3	56
56	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	88.1	61
57	Fudan University	China	87.9	69
58	Australian National University	Australia	87.6	58
59	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	87.3	66
60	Seoul National University	Korea	87.1	60
61	University of Southern California	USA	87	57
62	University of Warwick	UK	86.6	75
63	University of Wisconsin Madison	USA	86.2	62
64	Ecole Polytechnique	France	86	71
65	Monash University	Australia	85	67
66	University of Birmingham	UK	84	NEW
67	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	83	70
68	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	Mexico	82	68
69	University of New South Wales	Australia	81.5	59
70	University of Edinburgh	UK	81	64
71	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	USA	80	65
72	University of Auckland	New Zealand	79.7	76
73	Tohoku University	Japan	79.5	73
74	Tsinghua University	China	79	72
75	Uppsala University	Sweden	78.6	74
76	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	78.3	82
77	University of Queensland	Australia	78	77
78	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	77.8	78
79	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	India	77.5	NEW
80	University of Rochester	USA	77	84
81	University of Groningen	Netherlands	76.9	80
82	University of Bern	Switzerland	76.3	81
83	University of Adelaide	Australia	76	83
84	University of Surrey	UK	75	NEW
85	Paris Dauphine University	France	74.5	85
86	Ecole Centrale de Paris	France	74	88
87	Stockholm University	Sweden	73	91
88	Tel Aviv University	Israel	72	100
89	University of Washington	USA	71	89
90	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	70	86
91	University of York	UK	69	94
92	Washington University St Louis	USA	68.7	87
93	University of Pittsburg Bradford	USA	68.5	NEW
94	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain	68	98
95	University of Sciences Philadelphia	USA	67.5	NEW
96	Purdue University	USA	67	92
97	Heriot-Watt University	UK	66	NEW
98	Bradley University	USA	65	NEW
99	University of Delhi	India	64.5	NEW
100	Grenoble Ecole de Management	France	64	NEW

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