| Rank | University Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 2 | Stanford University | United States |
| 3 | Harvard University | United States |
| 4 | California Institute of Technology | United States |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 6 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 7 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
| 8 | Yale University | United States |
| 9 | Princeton University | United States |
| 10 | The University of Chicago | United States |
| 11 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 12 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 13 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 14 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
| 15 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
| 16 | UCL | United Kingdom |
| 17 | Columbia University | United States |
| 18 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 19 | Cornell University | United States |
| 20= | Duke University | United States |
| 20= | Tsinghua University | China |
| 22 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States |
| 23 | Peking University | China |
| 24 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 25 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 26 | New York University | United States |
| 27 | London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom |
| 28 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 29 | University of Washington | United States |
| 30 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 31 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 32 | LMU Munich | Germany |
| 33 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
| 34 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 35 | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
| 36= | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| 36= | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 38 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 39 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 40 | McGill University | Canada |
| 41 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 42 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 43 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 44 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 45 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 46 | Paris Sciences et Lettres-PSL Research University Paris | France |
| 47 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | Singapore |
| 48 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 49 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
| 50 | Washington University in St Louis | United States |
| 51= | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 51= | University of Sydney | Australia |
| 53 | University of Southern California | United States |
| 54= | Boston University | United States |
| 54= | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 56= | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 56= | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
| 56= | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States |
| 59 | Australian National University | Australia |
| 60 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 61 | Brown University | United States |
| 62= | The University of Queensland | Australia |
| 62= | Wageningen University & Research | Netherlands |
| 64= | University of California, Davis | United States |
| 64= | Monash University | Australia |
| 66 | University of Amsterdam | Australia |
| 67 | UNSW Sydney | United States |
| 68 | University of California, Santa Barbara | Netherlands |
| 69 | McMaster University | Canada |
| 70= | Fudan University | China |
| 70= | Leiden University | Netherlands |
| 72 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| 73= | University of Montreal | Canada |
| 73= | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
| 75= | Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin | Germany |
| 75= | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| 77 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
| 78= | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 78= | University of Tübingen | Germany |
| 80= | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| 80= | Humboldt University of Berlin | Germany |
| 80= | Ohio State University (Main campus) | United States |
| 83 | University of Freiburg | Germany |
| 84 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| 85= | Emory University | United States |
| 85= | University of Minnesota | United States |
| 87= | École Polytechnique | France |
| 87= | University of Science and Technology of China | China |
| 87= | Sorbonne University | France |
| 90 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
| 91 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| 92= | University of Basel | Switzerland |
| 92= | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| 94= | Purdue University West Lafayette | United States |
| 94= | Zhejiang University | China |
| 96 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea |
| 97 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan |
| 98= | University of California, Irvine | United States |
| 98= | University of Helsinki | Finland |
| 100 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
* The above information comes from Times Higher Education – World University Ranking 2021. All information is for reference only.
