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Brief analysis of top institutions ranking variations (QS Ranking)


MIT showed the least variability with its position consistently at No. 1 from 2012 - 2020.
The overall position was arranged according to 2020 position. The shorter the bar, the higher the overall position of the institution.



Stanford University showed consistent improvement overall.  Cambridge showed gradual decline during the time period. Overall, the top 5 positions were dominated by the same universities for the last 4 years (MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Caltech and Oxford)



Times Higher Education WORLD TOP 200 Universities 2020

Congratulations to the top 200 universities in 2020!

1 University of Oxford
2 California Institute of Technology
3 University of Cambridge
4 Stanford University
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 Princeton University
7 Harvard University
8 Yale University
9 University of Chicago
10 Imperial College London
11 University of Pennsylvania
12 Johns Hopkins University
13= University of California, Berkeley
13= ETH Zurich
15 University College London
16 Columbia University
17 University of California, Los Angeles
18 University of Toronto
19 Cornell University
20 Duke University
21 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
22 Northwestern University
23 Tsinghua University
24 Peking University
25 National University of Singapore
26 University of Washington
27= Carnegie Mellon University
27= London School of Economics and Political Science
29 New York University
30 University of Edinburgh
31 University of California, San Diego
32= LMU Munich
32= University of Melbourne
34 University of British Columbia
35 University of Hong Kong
36= King's College London
36= The University of Tokyo
38= Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
38= Georgia Institute of Technology
41 Karolinska Institute
42 McGill University
43 Technical University of Munich
44 Heidelberg University
45= KU Leuven
45= Paris Sciences et Lettres - PSL Research University Paris
47 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
48= University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
48= Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
50 Australian National University
51 University of Winsconsin-Madison
52 Washington University in St Louis
53 Brown University
54 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
55= University of California, Davis
55= University of Manchester
57= University of California, Santa Barbara
57= Chinese University of Hong Kong
59 Wageningen University & Research
60 University of Sydney
61 Boston University
62= University of Amsterdam
62= University of Southern California
64 Seoul National University
65 Kyoto University
66 The University of Queensland
67= Delft University of Technology
67= Leiden University
69 Erasmus University Rotterdam
70 Ohio State University (Main Campus)
71 University of New South Wales
72 McMaster University
73 University of Groningen
74 Humboldt University of Berlin
75= Monash University
75= Utrecht University
77 University of Warwick
78 Penn State University
79 University of Minnesota
80= Charite - Uniersitatsmedizin Berlin
80= Emory University
80= University of Science and Technology China
80= Sorbonne University
84 Michigan State University
85 University of Montreal
86 University of Freiburg
87 University of Bristol
88 Purdue University West lafayette
89 Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
90 University of Zurich
91= University of Maryland, College Park
91= University of Tubingen
93 Ecole Polytechnique
94= University of Basel
94= Darthmouth College
96= University of California, Irvine
96= University of Helsinki
96= Lund University
99= University of Glasgow
99= RWTH Aachen University
101 University of Copenhagen
102 Georgetown University
102 Uppsala University
104 University of Arizona
105 University of Bonn
105 Rice University
107 University of Virginia (Main campus)
107 Zhejiang University
109 Fudan University
110 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
110 Queen Mary University of London
112 University of Birmingham
113 University of Bern
113 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus
115 Aarhus University
116 Vanderbilt University
117 Free University of Berlin
117 University of Sheffield
119 Case Western Reserve University
120 University of Adelaide
120 National Taiwan University
122 University of Southampton
123 Ghent University
124 University of Colorado Boulder
125 University of Göttingen
126 City University of Hong Kong
127 Maastricht University
128 Radboud University Nijmegen
128 University of York
130 University of Paris
131 University of Oslo
131 University of Western Australia
133 Durham University
134 Indiana University
134 University of Vienna
136 University of Alberta
136 University of Cape Town
138 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
139 Lancaster University
139 Tufts University
141 University of Ottawa
141 Ulm University
143 Pompeu Fabra University
144 University of Geneva
144 Nanjing University
146 University of Exeter
146 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
146 University of Sussex
149 University of Hamburg
149 Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies – Pisa
149 Technical University of Berlin
152 Université Catholique de Louvain
152 University of Nottingham
152 Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
155 Arizona State University (Tempe)
155 University of Leeds
157 Autonomous University of Barcelona
157 University of Cologne
157 University of Mannheim
157 University of Notre Dame
157 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
157 TU Dresden
163 University of Würzburg
164 Trinity College Dublin
165 University of Liverpool
166 Bielefeld University
166 University of Leicester
168 University of Aberdeen
168 University of Bologna
168 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
171 Hong Kong Polytechnic University
172 University of Alabama at Birmingham
173 Northeastern University
173 University of Rochester
175 University of Florida
175 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
175 Stockholm University
178 Texas A&M University
179 University of Auckland
179 University of California, Santa Cruz
179 Korea University
179 Queensland University of Technology
183 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
184 Aalto University
184 Technical University of Denmark
186 Eindhoven University of Technology
186 University of Gothenburg
188 Télécom Paris
189 Lomonosov Moscow State University
189 University of Münster
189 Tel Aviv University
192 University of East Anglia
193 University of Canberra
194 University of Duisburg-Essen
194 University of Technology Sydney
194 University of the Witwatersrand
197 Yonsei University (Seoul campus)
198 University of Antwerp
198 Cardiff University
198 George Washington University
198 University of Lausanne
198 University of St Andrews

Top 50 universities in The Times Higher Education Impact Ranking 2020

Here are the top 50 universities in The Times Higher Education Impact Ranking 2020

The dominating universities hail from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and UK, with a good representation from Ireland, the US, and some EU countries. In Asia, only China, (Hong Kong, Taiwan), South Korea and Indonesian institutions made it to the top 50 whereas Brazil is the only candidate from South America.

According to the THE website the "Impact Rankings are the only global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)"
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Rank University Country
1 University of Auckland
New Zealand
2 University of Sydney
Australia
3 Western Sydney University
Australia
4 La Trobe University
Australia
5 Arizona State University (Tempe)
United States
6 University of Bologna
Italy
7 University of British Columbia
Canada
8 University of Manchester
United Kingdom
9 King’s College London
United Kingdom
11 University of Leeds
United Kingdom
11 Newcastle University
United Kingdom
13 Tongji University
China
14 University of São Paulo
Brazil
14 Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
16 University of Waterloo
Canada
17 McMaster University
Canada
17 Monash University
Australia
19 Simon Fraser University
Canada
20 Aix-Marseille University
France
21 University of Leicester
United Kingdom
22 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
United States
23 Aalborg University
Denmark
23 Auckland University of Technology
New Zealand
23 University of Otago
New Zealand
26 Western University
Canada
27 Northumbria University
United Kingdom
28 University of Toronto
Canada
29 University of Calgary
Canada
30 University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
31 University of Wollongong
Australia
32 University College Cork
Ireland
33 York University
Canada
34 University College Dublin
Ireland
35 Penn State (Main campus)
United States
36 Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
37 Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University
Russian Federation
38 National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)
Taiwan
39 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Netherlands
40 University of Malaga
Spain
41 University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
41 Laval University
Canada
43 Glasgow Caledonian University
United Kingdom
44 University of Dundee
United Kingdom
45 University of Gothenburg
Sweden
45 University of Newcastle
Australia
47 Aalto University
Finland
47 University of Indonesia
Indonesia
47 University of Tasmania
Australia
47 Yonsei University (Seoul campus)
South Korea