World University Index

Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities (2025)

2025 edition. Published by UNSW Sydney.

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129 institutions
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Citing other editions of this index

  • For the second consecutive year, ARTU has considered UPV to be the best polytechnic university in Spain and number 1 among Valencian universities

    Universitat Politecnica de Valencia , source , retrieved

  • UOW is ranked at 188 in the world, and 11 in Australia, in the new Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities (ARTU) system created by the University of NSW Sydney (UNSW Sydney).

    University of Wollongong , source , retrieved

Recorded placements 129

Institutions the Index records in this table. A placement here is a placement anywhere: the Index reports each institution's best, whatever its scope.

Rank Institution Claim
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1st in the world
2 Stanford University 2nd in the world
=3 Harvard University 3rd in the world
=3 University of Oxford 3rd in the world
5 University of Cambridge 5th in the world
6 California Institute of Technology 6th in the world
7 University of California, Berkeley 7th in the world
8 Princeton University 8th in the world
9 Imperial College London 9th in the world
10 University of Chicago 10th in the world
11 ETH Zurich 11th in the world
12 Yale University 12th in the world
13 University of Pennsylvania 13th in the world
14 University College London 14th in the world
15 Cornell University 15th in the world
16 Tsinghua University 16th in the world
17 Peking University 17th in the world
18 Johns Hopkins University 18th in the world
19 Columbia University 19th in the world
20 University of Toronto 20th in the world
21 University of California, Los Angeles 21st in the world
22 National University of Singapore 22nd in the world
23 University of Tokyo 23rd in the world
=24 University of Melbourne 24th in the world
=24 Technical University of Munich 24th in the world
26 University of Edinburgh 26th in the world
=27 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 27th in the world
=27 EPFL 27th in the world
29 Northwestern University 29th in the world
30 Fudan University 30th in the world
31 PSL University 31st in the world
32 University of Hong Kong 32nd in the world
33 Zhejiang University 33rd in the world
34 New York University 34th in the world
35 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 35th in the world
36 University of Washington 36th in the world
37 King's College London 37th in the world
38 Nanyang Technological University 38th in the world
39 University of California, San Diego 39th in the world
40 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 40th in the world
41 Duke University 41st in the world
42 University of Manchester 42nd in the world
43 University of British Columbia 43rd in the world
44 McGill University 44th in the world
45 University of Sydney 45th in the world
=47 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 47th in the world
=47 Kyoto University 47th in the world
49 University of Texas at Austin 49th in the world
50 Monash University 50th in the world
51 Seoul National University 51st in the world
52 University of New South Wales 52nd in the world
53 Heidelberg University 53rd in the world
54 KU Leuven 54th in the world
55 University of Queensland 55th in the world
56 Sorbonne University 56th in the world
57 Carnegie Mellon University 57th in the world
58 Chinese University of Hong Kong 58th in the world
59 University of Wisconsin-Madison 59th in the world
60 Australian National University 60th in the world
61 University of Science and Technology of China 61st in the world
62 University of Copenhagen 62nd in the world
63 University of Bristol 63rd in the world
64 City University of Hong Kong 64th in the world
66 Brown University 66th in the world
67 University of Amsterdam 67th in the world
68 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 68th in the world
70 Lund University 70th in the world
71 Purdue University 71st in the world
72 Boston University 72nd in the world
73 University of Southern California 73rd in the world
75 Delft University of Technology 75th in the world
77 University of Glasgow 77th in the world
=79 Yonsei University 79th in the world
=79 Pennsylvania State University 79th in the world
=85 University of Alberta 85th in the world
=85 University of Warwick 85th in the world
89 Institut Polytechnique de Paris 89th in the world
=90 London School of Economics and Political Science 90th in the world
=90 University of Birmingham 90th in the world
92 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 92nd in the world
93 Georgia Institute of Technology 93rd in the world
94 Rice University 94th in the world
96 University of Minnesota 96th in the world
97 University of Western Australia 97th in the world
98 University of Vienna 98th in the world
=100 University of Sheffield 100th in the world
=100 University of Nottingham 100th in the world
103 University of Adelaide 103rd in the world
106 University of Maryland, College Park 106th in the world
108 Ohio State University 108th in the world
111 University of Leeds 111th in the world
114 RWTH Aachen University 114th in the world
116 Vanderbilt University 116th in the world
117 University of Southampton 117th in the world
118 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 118th in the world
120 Korea University 120th in the world
122 Tohoku University 122nd in the world
129 Queen Mary University of London 129th in the world
130 University of Auckland 130th in the world
131 Osaka University 131st in the world
134 Trinity College Dublin 134th in the world
136 University of Sao Paulo 136th in the world
139 University of Technology Sydney 139th in the world
141 University of Montreal 141st in the world
152 University of Pittsburgh 152nd in the world
162 Durham University 162nd in the world
169 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 169th in the world
170 Macquarie University 170th in the world
185 Tel Aviv University 185th in the world
186 University of St Andrews 186th in the world
187 Politecnico di Milano 187th in the world
189 Deakin University 189th in the world
199 Curtin University 199th in the world
205 RMIT University 205th in the world
208 Queensland University of Technology 208th in the world
227 University of Wollongong 227th in the world
230 Swinburne University of Technology 230th in the world
239 Griffith University 239th in the world
244 La Trobe University 244th in the world
=255 University of Newcastle 255th in the world
=255 Universiti Malaya 255th in the world
283 University of Otago 283rd in the world
291 Western Sydney University 291st in the world
302 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 302nd in the world
322 Flinders University 322nd in the world
324 James Cook University 324th in the world
330 National Autonomous University of Mexico 330th in the world
371 Murdoch University 371st in the world
377 University of Southern Queensland 377th in the world