World University Rankings 2020

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 includes almost 1,400 universities across 92 countries, standing as the largest and most diverse university rankings ever to date. The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The only university ranking to be independently audited by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, and trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments and industry experts, this year’s league table provides great insight into the shifting balance of power in global higher education. View the World University Rankings 2020 methodology For the fourth year in a row, the University of Oxford leads the rankings in first place, while the University of Cambridge falls to third. The California Institute of Technology rises three places to second, while Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Imperial College London all appear in the top ten. Mainland China now provides both of Asia’s top two universities, with Tsinghua and Peking universities finishing at 23rd and 24th place respectively. The country’s universities have continued to expand their influence and presence on the world stage. The US is, once again, extremely well-represented among the global elite, while Canada’s top universities have risen up the table. In Europe, Italy’s top institutions all make headway among the elite top 200 and German representation remains strong. However, the UK faces declines. Elsewhere, Iran has 11 more ranked universities to take its representation up to 40 institutions, while Latin America struggles in a competitive global market – although Brazil adds several more institutions to the list. Several new regions join the rankings this year as Brunei, Cuba, Malta, Montenegro, Puerto Rico and Vietnam all see institutions represented for the first time. Bangladesh also re-joins the table. Read our full analysis of the THE World University Rankings 2020 results To raise your university’s global profile with Times Higher Education, please contact branding@timeshighereducation.com To unlock the data behind THE’s rankings, and access a range of analytical and benchmarking tools, contact data@timeshighereducation.com Read more 2020 Ranking Scores Rank Name Country/Region No. of FTE Students No. of students per staff International Students Female:Male Ratio 401–500 University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka 17,482 10.8 1% 61 : 39 1001+ University of Colombo Sri Lanka 22,322 29.6 1% 61 : 39 1 to 2 of 2 - Page 1 of 1 (filtered from 1,397 total entries) Show entries Top 200 universities in the world 2020 World University Rankings 2020 results  World University Rank 2020   World University rank 2019  University Country/region  1   1  University of Oxford United Kingdom  2   5  California Institute of Technology United States  3   2  University of Cambridge United Kingdom  4   3  Stanford University United States  5   4  Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States  6   7  Princeton University United States  7   6  Harvard University United States  8   8  Yale University United States  9   10  University of Chicago United States  10   9  Imperial College London United Kingdom  11   =12  University of Pennsylvania United States  12   =12  Johns Hopkins University United States  =13   15  University of California, Berkeley United States  =13   11  ETH Zurich Switzerland  15   14  UCL United Kingdom  16   16  Columbia University United States  17   17  University of California, Los Angeles United States  18   21  University of Toronto Canada  19   19  Cornell University United States  20   18  Duke University United States  21   20  University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States  22   25  Northwestern University United States  23   22  Tsinghua University China  24   31  Peking University China  25   23  National University of Singapore Singapore  26   28  University of Washington United States  =27   24  Carnegie Mellon University United States  =27   26  London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom  29   27  New York University United States  30   29  University of Edinburgh United Kingdom  31   30  University of California, San Diego United States  =32   =32  LMU Munich Germany  =32   =32  University of Melbourne Australia  34   37  University of British Columbia Canada  35   36  University of Hong Kong Hong Kong  =36   38  King’s College London United Kingdom  =36   42  The University of Tokyo Japan  =38   35  École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland  =38   34  Georgia Institute of Technology United States  =38   39  University of Texas at Austin United States  41   40  Karolinska Institute Sweden  42   =44  McGill University Canada  43   =44  Technical University of Munich Germany  44   47  Heidelberg University Germany  =45   48  KU Leuven Belgium  =45   41  Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris France  47   41  The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong  =48   50  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States  =48   51  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Singapore  50   49  Australian National University Australia  51   43  University of Wisconsin-Madison United States  52   54  Washington University in St Louis United States  53   53  Brown University United States  54   56  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States  =55   =59  University of California, Davis United States  =55   57  University of Manchester United Kingdom  =57   52  University of California, Santa Barbara United States  =57   53  Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong  59   =59  Wageningen University & Research Netherlands  60   =59  University of Sydney Australia  61   =74  Boston University United States  =62   62  University of Amsterdam Netherlands  =62   66  University of Southern California United States  64   63  Seoul National University South Korea  65   65  Kyoto University Japan  66   69  University of Queensland Australia  =67   58  Delft University of Technology Netherlands  =67   68  Leiden University Netherlands  69   70  Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands  70   =71  Ohio State University (Main campus) United States  71   =96  UNSW Sydney Australia  72   77  McMaster University Canada  73   =79  University of Groningen Netherlands  74   67  Humboldt University of Berlin Germany  =75   =84  Monash University Australia  =75   =74  Utrecht University Netherlands  77   =79  University of Warwick United Kingdom  78   81  Penn State (Main campus) United States  79   =71  University of Minnesota United States  =80   =90  Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Germany  =80   =84  Emory University United States  =80   =93  University of Science and Technology of China China  =80   73  Sorbonne University France  84   =93  Michigan State University United States  85   =90  University of Montreal Canada  86   76  University of Freiburg Germany  87   78  University of Bristol United Kingdom  88   64  Purdue University West Lafayette United States  89   =82  Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) South Korea  90   =90  University of Zurich Switzerland  =91   =82  University of Maryland, College Park United States  =91   89  University of Tübingen Germany  93   108  École Polytechnique France  =94   103  University of Basel Switzerland  =94   =99  Dartmouth College United States  =96   =96  University of California, Irvine United States  =96   =99  University of Helsinki Finland  =96   98  Lund University Sweden  =99   =93  University of Glasgow United Kingdom  =99   =87  RWTH Aachen University Germany  101   =116  University of Copenhagen Denmark  =102   109  Georgetown University United States  =102   =87  Uppsala University Sweden  104   =159  University of Arizona United States  =105   =110  University of Bonn Germany  =105   86  Rice University United States Click the web-link below:- https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2020/world-ranking#!/page/5/length/25/locations/LK/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats