Times Higher Education Magazine issued World University Ranking 2014 -2015 powered by Thomson Reuters. The ranking was done on basis of global university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings utilized 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.
| Rank |
Institution |
Location |
Overall scorechange criteria |
| 1 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
United States |
94.3 |
| 2 |
Harvard University |
United States |
93.3 |
| 3 |
University of Oxford |
United Kingdom |
93.2 |
| 4 |
Stanford University |
United States |
92.9 |
| 5 |
University of Cambridge |
United Kingdom |
92.0 |
| 6 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
United States |
91.9 |
| 7 |
Princeton University |
United States |
90.9 |
| 8 |
University of California, Berkeley |
United States |
89.5 |
| 9 |
Imperial College London |
United Kingdom |
87.5 |
| 9 |
Yale University |
United States |
87.5 |
| 11 |
University of Chicago |
United States |
87.1 |
| 12 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
United States |
85.5 |
| 13 |
ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich |
Switzerland |
84.6 |
| 14 |
Columbia University |
United States |
84.4 |
| 15 |
Johns Hopkins University |
United States |
83.0 |
| 16 |
University of Pennsylvania |
United States |
81.0 |
| 17 |
University of Michigan |
United States |
80.9 |
| 18 |
Duke University |
United States |
79.9 |
| 19 |
Cornell University |
United States |
79.4 |
| 20 |
University of Toronto |
Canada |
79.3 |
| 21 |
Northwestern University |
United States |
79.2 |
| 22 |
University College London (UCL) |
United Kingdom |
78.7 |
| 23 |
The University of Tokyo |
Japan |
76.1 |
| 24 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
United States |
74.3 |
| 25 |
National University of Singapore (NUS) |
Singapore |
73.3 |
| 26 |
University of Washington |
United States |
73.2 |
| 27 |
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) |
United States |
72.8 |
| 28 |
University of Texas at Austin |
United States |
72.3 |
| 29 |
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
United States |
71.9 |
| 29 |
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
Germany |
71.9 |
| 29 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
United States |
71.9 |
| 32 |
University of British Columbia |
Canada |
71.8 |
| 33 |
University of Melbourne |
Australia |
71.2 |
| 34 |
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Switzerland |
70.9 |
| 34 |
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
United Kingdom |
70.9 |
| 36 |
University of Edinburgh |
United Kingdom |
70.4 |
| 37 |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
United States |
70.0 |
| 38 |
New York University (NYU) |
United States |
69.9 |
| 39 |
McGill University |
Canada |
69.6 |
| 40 |
King's College London |
United Kingdom |
69.4 |
| 41 |
University of California, San Diego |
United States |
68.6 |
| 42 |
Washington University in St Louis |
United States |
67.8 |
| 43 |
The University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
67.5 |
| 44 |
Karolinska Institute |
Sweden |
66.8 |
| 45 |
Australian National University |
Australia |
66.5 |
| 46 |
University of Minnesota |
United States |
65.9 |
| 46 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
United States |
65.9 |
| 48 |
Peking University |
China |
65.2 |
| 49 |
Tsinghua University |
China |
65.1 |
| 50 |
Seoul National University |
Republic of Korea |
64.8 |
| 51 |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Hong Kong |
64.7 |
| 52 |
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) |
Republic of Korea |
64.5 |
| 52 |
University of Manchester |
United Kingdom |
64.5 |
| 54 |
Brown University |
United States |
64.1 |
| 55 |
University of California, Davis |
United States |
63.7 |
| 55 |
KU Leuven |
Belgium |
63.7 |
| 57 |
Boston University |
United States |
63.6 |
| 58 |
Pennsylvania State University |
United States |
62.9 |
| 59 |
Kyoto University |
Japan |
62.8 |
| 60 |
University of Sydney |
Australia |
62.7 |
| 61 |
École Polytechnique |
France |
62.2 |
| 61 |
Nanyang Technological University |
Singapore |
62.2 |
| 63 |
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
Italy |
61.9 |
| 64 |
Leiden University |
Netherlands |
61.3 |
| 65 |
University of Queensland Australia |
Australia |
61.2 |
| 66 |
Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech) |
Republic of Korea |
61.1 |
| 67 |
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
Germany |
61.0 |
| 68 |
Ohio State University |
United States |
60.7 |
| 69 |
Rice University |
United States |
59.8 |
| 70 |
Universität Heidelberg |
Germany |
59.6 |
| 71 |
Delft University of Technology |
Netherlands |
59.2 |
| 72 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Netherlands |
59.1 |
| 73 |
Wageningen University and Research Center |
Netherlands |
59.0 |
| 74 |
University of Bristol |
United Kingdom |
58.9 |
| 75 |
Universität Basel |
Switzerland |
58.4 |
| 75 |
University of Southern California |
United States |
58.4 |
| 77 |
University of Amsterdam |
Netherlands |
58.2 |
| 78 |
École Normale Supérieure |
France |
58.1 |
| 79 |
Utrecht University |
Netherlands |
58.0 |
| 80 |
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Germany |
57.9 |
| 81 |
Freie Universität Berlin |
Germany |
57.6 |
| 82 |
Michigan State University |
United States |
57.3 |
| 83 |
Durham University |
United Kingdom |
56.9 |
| 83 |
Monash University |
Australia |
56.9 |
| 85 |
Middle East Technical University |
Turkey |
56.6 |
| 86 |
University of Arizona |
United States |
56.5 |
| 86 |
University of Notre Dame |
United States |
56.5 |
| 88 |
University of California, Irvine |
United States |
56.4 |
| 88 |
Tufts University |
United States |
56.4 |
| 90 |
Ghent University |
Belgium |
56.2 |
| 91 |
University of Massachusetts |
United States |
56.1 |
| 91 |
University of Pittsburgh |
United States |
56.1 |
| 93 |
Emory University |
United States |
55.5 |
| 94 |
University of Glasgow |
United Kingdom |
55.3 |
| 94 |
McMaster University |
Canada |
55.3 |
| 96 |
Vanderbilt University |
United States |
55.2 |
| 97 |
University of Colorado Boulder |
United States |
55.1 |
| 98 |
Stockholm University |
Sweden |
54.6 |
| 98 |
Technische Universität München |
Germany |
54.6 |
| 98 |
Uppsala University |
Sweden |
54.6 |
| 101 |
Maastricht University |
Netherlands |
54.3 |
| 102 |
Purdue University |
United States |
54.0 |
| 103 |
University of Helsinki |
Finland |
53.9 |
| 103 |
Université Pierre et Marie Curie |
France |
53.9 |
| 103 |
University of Warwick |
United Kingdom |
53.9 |
| 103 |
University of Zürich |
Switzerland |
53.9 |
| 107 |
University of Geneva |
Switzerland |
53.8 |
| 107 |
Queen Mary University of London |
United Kingdom |
53.8 |
| 109 |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
United States |
53.7 |
| 109 |
University of New South Wales |
Australia |
53.7 |
| 111 |
University of St Andrews |
United Kingdom |
53.6 |
| 111 |
University of Sussex |
United Kingdom |
53.6 |
| 113 |
University of Montreal |
Canada |
53.4 |
| 113 |
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
Germany |
53.4 |
| 113 |
University of York |
United Kingdom |
53.4 |
| 116 |
Case Western Reserve University |
United States |
53.2 |
| 117 |
University of Groningen |
Netherlands |
53.1 |
| 118 |
Royal Holloway, University of London |
United Kingdom |
53.0 |
| 119 |
Lund University |
Sweden |
52.9 |
| 120 |
Université Paris-Sud |
France |
52.8 |
| 121 |
University of Rochester |
United States |
52.7 |
| 121 |
University of Sheffield |
United Kingdom |
52.7 |
| 121 |
Technical University of Denmark |
Denmark |
52.7 |
| 124 |
University of Alberta |
Canada |
52.6 |
| 124 |
University of Cape Town |
South Africa |
52.6 |
| 126 |
Boston College |
United States |
52.5 |
| 126 |
University of Florida |
United States |
52.5 |
| 126 |
KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
Sweden |
52.5 |
| 129 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
52.4 |
| 130 |
University of Virginia |
United States |
52.1 |
| 131 |
Lancaster University |
United Kingdom |
52.0 |
| 132 |
University of Bern |
Switzerland |
51.9 |
| 132 |
University of Maryland, College Park |
United States |
51.9 |
| 132 |
University of Southampton |
United Kingdom |
51.9 |
| 135 |
Technische Universität Dresden |
Germany |
51.6 |
| 136 |
Université de Lausanne |
Switzerland |
51.4 |
| 136 |
VU University Amsterdam |
Netherlands |
51.4 |
| 138 |
Trinity College Dublin |
Republic of Ireland |
51.2 |
| 139 |
Boğaziçi University |
Turkey |
51.1 |
| 140 |
Radboud University |
Netherlands |
51.0 |
| 141 |
Colorado School of Mines |
United States |
50.9 |
| 141 |
Texas A&M University |
United States |
50.9 |
| 141 |
Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Japan |
50.9 |
| 144 |
Eindhoven University of Technology |
Netherlands |
50.5 |
| 144 |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
United States |
50.5 |
| 146 |
University of Leeds |
United Kingdom |
50.4 |
| 147 |
Brandeis University |
United States |
50.3 |
| 148 |
University of Birmingham |
United Kingdom |
50.2 |
| 148 |
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) |
Republic of Korea |
50.2 |
| 150 |
University of California, Riverside |
United States |
50.1 |
| 150 |
Indiana University |
United States |
50.1 |
| 152 |
Dartmouth College |
United States |
50.0 |
| 153 |
Aarhus University |
Denmark |
49.9 |
| 154 |
University of Exeter |
United Kingdom |
49.7 |
| 155 |
National Taiwan University |
Taiwan |
49.3 |
| 156 |
RWTH Aachen University |
Germany |
49.2 |
| 157 |
University of Liverpool |
United Kingdom |
49.1 |
| 157 |
Osaka University |
Japan |
49.1 |
| 157 |
University of Western Australia |
Australia |
49.1 |
| 160 |
University of Copenhagen |
Denmark |
49.0 |
| 160 |
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon |
France |
49.0 |
| 162 |
University of Utah |
United States |
48.6 |
| 163 |
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
Germany |
48.3 |
| 164 |
University of Adelaide |
Australia |
48.2 |
| 165 |
Istanbul Technical University |
Turkey |
48.1 |
| 165 |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Germany |
48.1 |
| 165 |
Pompeu Fabra University - Barcelona |
Spain |
48.1 |
| 165 |
Tohoku University |
Japan |
48.1 |
| 169 |
University of Miami |
United States |
48.0 |
| 170 |
University of Antwerp |
Belgium |
47.9 |
| 171 |
Université Catholique de Louvain |
Belgium |
47.8 |
| 171 |
University of Nottingham |
United Kingdom |
47.8 |
| 173 |
Georgetown University |
United States |
47.7 |
| 173 |
University of Victoria |
Canada |
47.7 |
| 175 |
University of Auckland |
New Zealand |
47.5 |
| 175 |
University of Iowa |
United States |
47.5 |
| 177 |
Syracuse University |
United States |
47.3 |
| 178 |
University of Aberdeen |
United Kingdom |
47.1 |
| 178 |
Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble |
France |
47.1 |
| 180 |
University of Delaware |
United States |
47.0 |
| 180 |
Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 |
France |
47.0 |
| 182 |
Arizona State University |
United States |
46.9 |
| 182 |
Sabanci University |
Turkey |
46.9 |
| 182 |
University of Vienna |
Austria |
46.9 |
| 185 |
Northeastern University |
United States |
46.8 |
| 186 |
University of Oslo |
Norway |
46.7 |
| 186 |
Yeshiva University |
United States |
46.7 |
| 188 |
University of Ottawa |
Canada |
46.6 |
| 188 |
Stony Brook University |
United States |
46.6 |
| 188 |
Tel Aviv University |
Israel |
46.6 |
| 191 |
University at Buffalo |
United States |
46.5 |
| 192 |
City University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
46.3 |
| 193 |
Fudan University |
China |
46.2 |
| 193 |
Iowa State University |
United States |
46.2 |
| 195 |
Universität Bonn |
Germany |
46.1 |
| 196 |
Lomonosov Moscow State University |
Russian Federation |
46.0 |
| 196 |
St George's, University of London |
United Kingdom |
46.0 |
| 198 |
University of East Anglia |
United Kingdom |
45.9 |
| 199 |
University of Leicester |
United Kingdom |
45.7 |
| 200 |
Florida Institute of Technology |
United States |
45.6 |
| 200 |
George Washington University |
United States |
45.6 |
Asian Universities left many UK universities behind in Global Rankings