2021 Best Universities in the World - Top University QS Ranking Results

Discover the world's top universities. Explore the QS World University Rankings® 2021. 2021 QS World University Rankings reveals the top 1,000 universities from around the world, covering 80 different locations. There are 47 new entrants in this year’s top 1,000 while over 5,500 universities were evaluated and considered for inclusion.

This year’s QS World University Rankings reveals the top 1,000 universities from around the world, covering 80 different locations. There are 47 new entrants in this year’s top 1,000 while over 5,500 universities were evaluated and considered for inclusion.

World university rankings 2021 - This video shows top 25 universities in the world for 2021

This top 25 universities in the world is based on QS world university

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The World's Top 25 Universities - Want to study at one of the world's top universities? The QS World University Rankings offers an annually updated list of top universities worldwide. This video reveals which of these made the top 25. Watch to know the complete rundown of the world's top 25.

QS World University Rankings

QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). Previously known as Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings, the publisher had collaborated with Times Higher Education (THE) magazine to publish its international league tables from 2004 to 2009 before both started to announce their own versions. QS then chose to continue using the pre-existing methodology, while THE adopted a new methodology to create their rankings.

In partnership with Elsevier, the QS system now comprises the global overall and subject rankings (which name the world's top universities for the study of 51 different subjects and five composite faculty areas), alongside five independent regional tables (Asia, Latin America, Emerging Europe and Central Asia, the Arab Region, and BRICS).

Being the only international ranking to have received International Ranking Expert Group (IREG) approval, the QS ranking is viewed as one of the three most-widely read university rankings in the world, along with Academic Ranking of World Universities and Times Higher Education World University Rankings. According to Alexa Internet, it is the most widely viewed university ranking worldwide. However, it has been criticized for its overreliance on subjective indicators and reputation surveys, which tend to fluctuate over the years. Concern also exists regarding the global consistency and integrity of the data used to generate QS ranking results.

TOP 25 UNIVERSITIES 2021

1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)More	United States
2	Stanford UniversityMore	United States
3	Harvard UniversityMore	United States
4	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)More	United States
5	University of OxfordMore	United Kingdom
6	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of TechnologyMore	Switzerland
7	University of CambridgeMore	United Kingdom
8	Imperial College LondonMore	United Kingdom
9	University of ChicagoMore	United States
10	UCLMore	United Kingdom
11	National University of Singapore (NUS)More	Singapore
12	Princeton UniversityMore	United States
13	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)More	Singapore
14	EPFLMore	Switzerland
15	Tsinghua UniversityMore	China (Mainland)
16	University of PennsylvaniaMore	United States
17	Yale UniversityMore	United States
18	Cornell UniversityMore	United States
19	Columbia UniversityMore	United States
20	The University of EdinburghMore	United Kingdom
21	University of Michigan-Ann ArborMore	United States
22	The University of Hong KongMore	Hong Kong SAR
23	Peking UniversityMore	China (Mainland)
24	The University of TokyoMore	Japan
=25	Johns Hopkins UniversityMore	United States

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