International university ranking: The top 20

The University of Chicago, Princeton and Yale fell out of this year's top 20.

2025 Rank	2024 Rank	Institution	Country
1	1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
2	6	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
3	3	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
4	4	Harvard University	United States
5	2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
6	5	Stanford University	United States
7	7	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland
8	8	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore
9	9	UCL	United Kingdom
10	15	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States
11	12	University of Pennsylvania	United States
12	10	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States
13	14	The University of Melbourne	Australia
14	=17	Peking University	China (Mainland)
15	=26	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore
16	13	Cornell University	United States
17	=26	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR
18	=19	The University of Sydney	Australia
19	=19	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Australia
20	25	Tsinghua University	China (Mainland)

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