The Best Universities in 2016 : Harvard and Cambridge Drops In World Ranking

The top 20 (with last year’s ranking in brackets):

1.(1) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.)
2.(3=) Stanford University (U.S.)
3.(2) Harvard University (U.S.)

4.(3=) Cambridge University (U.K.)
5.(5) California Institute of Technology (U.S.)
6.(6) Oxford University (U.K.)
7.(7) University College London (U.K.)

8.(9) ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
9.(8) Imperial College London (U.K.)
10.(10) University of Chicago (U.S.)

11.(11) Princeton University (U.S.)
12.(12) National University of Singapore (Singapore)
13.(13) Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
14.(14) Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Switzerland)
15.(15) Yale University (U.S.)

16.(17) Cornell University (U.S.)
17.(16) Johns Hopkins University (U.S.)
18.(18) University of Pennsylvania (U.S.)
19.(21) University of Edinburgh (U.K.)

20.(22) Columbia University (U.S.)

Source: QS World University Rankings 2016/17