QS World University Overall Ranking January 2023

The Overall World Ranking in QS World University Rankings offers a holistic evaluation of universities worldwide. It considers key performance indicators such as academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, citations per faculty, international faculty, and international research networks. This ranking serves as a trusted guide for prospective students and academics when comparing institutions globally.

According to the rankings data as of January 31, 2023, three universities secured the top positions with an index score in the Overall World Ranking category:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Index: 100 (1st position) University of Cambridge - Index: 98.8 (2nd position) Stanford University - Index: 98.5 (3rd position) These universities have consistently excelled across multiple indicators, showcasing their academic excellence, global reputation, research impact, and commitment to fostering a diverse and international environment.

The QS World University Rankings on Overall World Ranking provide a comprehensive assessment of universities' overall performance, helping individuals make informed decisions when seeking higher education opportunities.

QS World University Overall Ranking January 2023 (Index, January 2023)

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Rank	University	Country	Index
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100
2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	98.8
3	Stanford University	United States	98.5
4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	98.4
5	Harvard University	United States	97.6
6	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	97
6	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	97
7	UCL	United Kingdom	95
8	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland	93.6
9	University of Chicago	United States	93.2
10	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	92.7
11	Peking University	China	91.3
12	University of Pennsylvania	United States	90.6
13	Tsinghua University	China	90.1
14	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	89.5
15	EPFL	Switzerland	89.2
15	Princeton University	United States	89.2
16	Yale University	United States	89
17	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore	88.4
18	Cornell University	United States	87.2
19	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	87
20	Columbia University	United States	86.7
21	The University of Tokyo	Japan	85.3
22	Johns Hopkins University	United States	85.1
23	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	84.4
24	Université PSL	France	83.8
25	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	82.7
26	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	82.3
27	Seoul National University	South Korea	82.2
28	The Australian National University	Australia	82.1
29	McGill University	Canada	81.9
30	Northwestern University	United States	81.8
31	The University of Melbourne	Australia	81.6
32	Fudan University	China	81.5
32	University of Toronto	Canada	81.5
33	Kyoto University	Japan	81.4
34	King's College London	United Kingdom	81.2
35	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	80.6
36	New York University (NYU)	United States	80.3
37	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	79.8
38	The University of Sydney	Australia	79.6
39	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea	79.3
39	Zhejiang University	China	79.3
40	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	78.7
41	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Australia	78
42	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	77.4
43	University of British Columbia	Canada	77
44	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	France	76.8
45	Technical University of Munich	Germany	76.4
46	Duke University	United States	74.8
46	The University of Queensland	Australia	74.8
47	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	74.6
48	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	74.5
49	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	73.6
50	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)	Japan	72.5
51	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	72.3
52	Monash University	Australia	71.6
53	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	71.1
54	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	70.4
55	Sorbonne University	France	70.1
56	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	70
56	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	70
57	Brown University	United States	69.6
58	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	69.1
59	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	69
59	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	69
60	Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)	Argentina	68.9
61	Osaka University	Japan	68.2
62	Université Paris-Saclay	France	68.1
63	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	67.9
64	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea	67.7
65	University of Texas at Austin	United States	67.4
66	Yonsei University	South Korea	67
67	Korea University	South Korea	66.9
68	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	66.8
69	KU Leuven	Belgium	66
70	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	65.7
71	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	65
72	Tohoku University	Japan	64.9
73	University of Washington	United States	64.7
74	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	64.6
75	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	64.1
76	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	63.7
76	University of Zurich	Switzerland	63.7
77	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	63.6
78	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	62.8
79	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	62.7
80	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	62.3
81	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	62.1
82	The University of Western Australia	Australia	61.7
83	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	61.1
84	Durham University	United Kingdom	60.9
85	Pennsylvania State University	United States	60.8
86	University of Science and Technology of China	China	60.7
87	Lund University	Sweden	60.1
88	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	59.5
88	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	59.5
89	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	Ireland	59.1
90	Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU)	South Korea	58.9
91	Rice University	United States	58.8
92	University of Oslo	Norway	58.7
93	University of California, Davis	United States	58.2
93	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	58.2
94	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	58
94	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	58
95	King Abdulaziz University (KAU)	Saudi Arabia	57.8
95	University of Helsinki	Finland	57.8
96	Boston University	United States	57.2
97	The University of Adelaide	Australia	57
98	University of Alberta	Canada	56.9
99	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France	56.6
100	Nagoya University	Japan	56.3
100	Utrecht University	Netherlands	56.3
101	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	56.2
102	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	56.1
103	Aalto University	Finland	55.9
103	Université de Montréal	Canada	55.9
104	Freie Universitaet Berlin	Germany	55.8
104	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	55.8
105	University of Bern	Switzerland	55.7
106	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)	Chile	54.9
107	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	54.8
108	Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)	Malaysia	54.7
109	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands	54.6
110	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden	54.5
110	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom	54.5
110	University of Geneva	Switzerland	54.5
111	Uppsala University	Sweden	54.3
112	Purdue University	United States	54.2
112	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)	Malaysia	54.2
113	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	54.1
113	Leiden University	Netherlands	54.1
114	Nanjing University	China	53.9
115	University of Southern California	United States	53.7
116	Kyushu University	Japan	53.5
117	University of Basel	Switzerland	53.3
118	University of Technology Sydney	Australia	53.2
119	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	52.7
120	Politecnico di Milano	Italy	52.4
121	The Ohio State University	United States	52
122	Hokkaido University	Japan	51.9
122	KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	51.9
123	Ghent University	Belgium	51.6
123	Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)	Malaysia	51.6
124	University of Groningen	Netherlands	51.4
125	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	51.2
126	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	51.1
126	University of Rochester	United States	51.1
127	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	50.9
128	Al-Farabi Kazakh National University	Kazakhstan	50.8
129	University of Vienna	Austria	50.6
130	McMaster University	Canada	50.4
131	Stockholm University	Sweden	50.1
132	University of Waterloo	Canada	50
133	Emory University	United States	49.5
133	Indian Institute of Science	India	49.5
134	Hanyang University	South Korea	49.4
135	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)	Germany	49.3
136	Michigan State University	United States	48.9
137	King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals	Saudi Arabia	48.8
138	Aarhus University	Denmark	48.6
139	University of York	United Kingdom	48.4
140	The University of Exeter	United Kingdom	48.2
141	Texas A&M University	United States	47.9
141	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	47.9
142	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	47.8
143	Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna	Italy	47.5
143	Universidad de Chile	Chile	47.5
144	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	47.2
145	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Mexico	47.1
146	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	46.8
147	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India	46.7
147	Western University	Canada	46.7
148	Ecole des Ponts ParisTech	France	46.5
148	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	India	46.5
149	Case Western Reserve University	United States	46.2
150	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	45.9
151	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain	45.8
152	Technische Universität Wien	Austria	45.7
152	University of Bath	United Kingdom	45.7
153	Khalifa University of Science and Technology	United Arab Emirates	45.6
153	University College Dublin	Ireland	45.6
153	University of Pittsburgh	United States	45.6
154	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain	45.5
155	University of Gothenburg	Sweden	45.4
155	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	United States	45.4
155	University of Wollongong	Australia	45.4
156	University of Florida	United States	45.3
157	Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg	Germany	45.2
158	RMIT University	Australia	44.6
158	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	44.6
159	The University of Newcastle, Australia (UON)	Australia	44.5
160	Curtin University	Australia	44.4
161	Wuhan University	China	44.3
162	Macquarie University	Australia	44.2
162	Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)	Belgium	44.2
163	Keio University	Japan	44.1
163	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)	South Korea	44.1
164	Vanderbilt University	United States	43.9
165	Technische Universität Dresden	Germany	43.6
166	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	Germany	43.3
167	National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University	Taiwan	43.2
168	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia	Malaysia	43
168	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	43
169	Dartmouth College	United States	42.8
169	Waseda University	Japan	42.8
170	University of Bergen	Norway	42.7
171	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	42.6
171	Qatar University	Qatar	42.6
172	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	Brazil	42.5
172	Universite libre de Bruxelles	Belgium	42.5
173	Tongji University	China	42.4
173	University of Twente	Netherlands	42.4
174	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands	42.3
175	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	42.2
175	University of Göttingen	Germany	42.2
176	Harbin Institute of Technology	China	42
176	University of Otago	New Zealand	42
177	Arizona State University	United States	41.8
178	Universidad de los Andes	Colombia	41.6
178	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	41.6
179	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	Australia	41.5
179	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	41.5
180	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand	41.4
180	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)	Taiwan	41.4
181	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain	41.2
181	Southern University of Science and Technology	China	41.2
182	Universität Hamburg	Germany	40.7
183	University of Reading	United Kingdom	40.4
184	Bauman Moscow State Technical University	Russia	40.3
185	Gadjah Mada University	Indonesia	40.2
186	Radboud University	Netherlands	40
187	Queen's University Belfast	United Kingdom	39.9
187	Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)	Spain	39.9
188	Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)	Indonesia	39.5
188	University of California, Irvine	United States	39.5
189	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia	39.4
189	University of Cape Town	South Africa	39.4
189	University of Ottawa	Canada	39.4
190	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	39.2
190	USI - Università della Svizzera italiana	Switzerland	39.2
191	University of Calgary	Canada	39
192	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Colombia	38.9
192	Università di Padova	Italy	38.9
192	University of Notre Dame	United States	38.9
193	Queen's University at Kingston	Canada	38.8
193	Yeshiva University	United States	38.8
194	Universitas Indonesia	Indonesia	38.7
194	Université Paris Cité	France	38.7
195	Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)	India	38.6
196	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)	Belgium	38.5
197	American University of Beirut (AUB)	Lebanon	38.4
198	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States	38.3
198	University of Navarra	Spain	38.3
198	University of Virginia	United States	38.3
199	Loughborough University	United Kingdom	38.1
199	Mahidol University	Thailand	38.1
199	Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD)	Brunei	38.1
200	Sciences Po	France	38
201	Novosibirsk State University	Russia	37.9
201	Tel Aviv University	Israel	37.9
202	Beijing Normal University	China	37.8
202	The University of Arizona	United States	37.8
203	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)	India	37.6
203	Tomsk State University	Russia	37.6
204	Deakin University	Australia	37.5
205	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT / Moscow Phystech)	Russia	37.3
205	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	United States	37.3
205	Sun Yat-sen University	China	37.3
206	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP)	India	37.2
206	Kyung Hee University	South Korea	37.2
206	National University of Ireland Galway	Ireland	37.2
206	Saint Petersburg State University	Russia	37.2
207	University of Porto	Portugal	37.1
208	Technical University of Darmstadt	Germany	36.9
208	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand	36.9
209	L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU)	Kazakhstan	36.8
210	Maastricht University	Netherlands	36.7
211	University of Leicester	United Kingdom	36.6
212	University of Antwerp	Belgium	36.5
213	Georgetown University	United States	36.3
213	Heriot-Watt University	United Kingdom	36.3
213	Hong Kong Baptist University	Hong Kong	36.3
214	University of Canterbury \| Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha	New Zealand	36.2
215	Graz University of Technology	Austria	36.1
215	Taylor's University	Malaysia	36.1
215	UCSI University	Malaysia	36.1
215	University of Warsaw	Poland	36.1
216	Belarusian State University	Belarus	36
216	Charles University	Czech Republic	36
216	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)	South Korea	36
217	University of Turku	Finland	35.8
218	Massey University	New Zealand	35.7
219	Jagiellonian University	Poland	35.6
219	University of Tasmania	Australia	35.6
220	RUDN University	Russia	35.5
221	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia	35.4
221	United Arab Emirates University	United Arab Emirates	35.4
221	University of Miami	United States	35.4
221	University of Tartu	Estonia	35.4