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University of Oxford Tops World University Rankings 2025

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Times Higher Education Announces 2025 World University Rankings.

London, October 9, 2024 — Times Higher Education (THE) has released its World University Rankings 2025.

The University of Oxford has secured the top position, while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology holds the second position.

The ranking encompasses 2,092 universities from 115 countries or regions, with at least one university from 30 of these countries positioned within the top 200.

The United States and the United Kingdom are prominent in the overall ranking and the highest positions. Countries consistently ranking in the top 200 include Germany, China, Australia, the Netherlands, and Japan.

The results are derived from analyzing 18 performance indicators spanning five key metrics: research environment, teaching (learning environment), research quality, industry, and international outlook.

  • Top 200 Universities in the World 2025, according to THE
  1. University of Oxford United Kingdom
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
  3. Harvard University United States
  4. Princeton University United States
  5. University of Cambridge United Kingdom
  6. Stanford University United States
  7. California Institute of Technology United States
  8. University of California, Berkeley United States
  9. Imperial College London United Kingdom
  10. Yale University United States
  11. ETH Zurich Switzerland
  12. Tsinghua University China
  13. Peking University China
  14. The University of Chicago United States
  15. University of Pennsylvania United States
  16. Johns Hopkins University United States
  17. National University of Singapore Singapore
  18. Columbia University United States
  19. University of California, Los Angeles United States
  20. Cornell University United States
  21. University of Toronto Canada
  22. UCL United Kingdom
  23. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States
  24. Carnegie Mellon University United States
  25. University of Washington United States
  26. Technical University of Munich Germany
  27. Duke University United States
  28. The University of Tokyo Japan
  29. University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
  30. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Singapore
  31. Northwestern University United States
  32. Ecole Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne Switzerland
  33. New York University United States
  34. University of California, San Diego United States
  35. University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
  36. Fudan University China
  37. King’s College London United Kingdom
  38. LMU Munich Germany
  39. University of Melbourne Australia
  40. Georgia Institute of Technology United States
  41. University of British Columbia Canada
  42. Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris France
  43. KU Leuven Belgium
  44. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
  45. McGill University Canada
  46. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States
  47. Universität Heidelberg Germany
  48. Zhejiang University China
  49. Karolinska Institute Sweden
  50. London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom
  51. University of Texas at Austin United States
  52. Shanghai Jiao Tong University China
  53. University of Manchester United Kingdom
  54. University of Science and Technology of China China
  55. Kyoto University Japan
  56. Delft University of Technology Netherlands
  57. University of Wisconsin-Madison United States
  58. Brown University United States
  59. Monash University Australia
  60. University of Amsterdam Netherlands
  61. The University of Sydney Australia
  62. Seoul National University South Korea
  63. University of California, Davis United States
  64. Universite Paris-Saclay France
  65. Nanjing University China
  66. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong
  67. University of California, Santa Barbara United States
  68. Wageningen University & Research Netherlands
  69. Washington University in St Louis United States
  70. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States
  71. Institut Polytechnique de Paris France
  72. University of Southern California United States
  73. Australian National University Australia
  74. Leiden University Netherlands
  75. Boston University United States
  76. Sorbonne University France
  77. The University of Queensland Australia
  78. University of Bristol United Kingdom
  79. Purdue University West Lafayette United States
  80. City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
  81. University of Groningen Netherlands
  82. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) South Korea
  83. UNSW Sydney Australia
  84. Humboldt University of Berlin Germany
  85. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong
  86. University of Massachusetts United States
  87. University of Glasgow United Kingdom
  88. University of Minnesota United States
  89. University of Bonn Germany
  90. University of California, Irvine United States
  91. Vanderbilt University United States
  92. RWTH Aachen University Germany
  93. Charite – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Germany
  94. University of Birmingham United Kingdom
  95. KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden
  96. Lund University Sweden
  97. University of Copenhagen Denmark
  98. Emory University United States
  99. University of Sheffield United Kingdom
  100. Penn State (Main campus) United States
  101. University of Tübingen Germany
  102. Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) South Korea
  103. Yonsei University (Seoul campus) South Korea
  104. Free University of Berlin Germany
  105. University of Bern Switzerland
  106. University of Warwick United Kingdom
  107. Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands
  108. University of Helsinki Finland
  109. Aarhus University Denmark
  110. University of Vienna Austria
  111. Ghent University Belgium
  112. Rice University United States
  113. University of Maryland, College Park United States
  114. University of Southampton United Kingdom
  115. McMaster University Canada
  116. Ohio State University (Main campus) United States
  117. University of Alberta Canada
  118. University of Oslo Norway
  119. Tohoku University Japan
  120. University of Gottingen Germany
  121. Michigan State University United States
  122. University of Leeds United Kingdom
  123. Technical University of Denmark Denmark
  124. Université de Montréal Canada
  125. University of Basel Switzerland
  126. University of Rochester United States
  127. University of Adelaide Australia
  128. University of Freiburg Germany
  129. University of Florida United States
  130. Uppsala University Sweden
  131. Maastricht University Netherlands
  132. University of Hamburg Germany
  133. University of Lausanne Switzerland
  134. Wuhan University China
  135. University of Arizona United States
  136. University of Nottingham United Kingdom
  137. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands
  138. Trinity College Dublin Ireland
  139. Technical University of Berlin Germany
  140. Queen Mary University of London United Kingdom
  141. University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus United States
  142. Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands
  143. Texas A&M University United States
  144. University of Colorado Boulder United States
  145. Beijing Normal University China
  146. University of Bologna Italy
  147. University of York United Kingdom
  148. The University of Western Australia Australia
  149. University of Barcelona Spain
  150. Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) South Korea
  151. Harbin Institute of Technology China
  152. University of Auckland New Zealand
  153. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Italy
  154. Tongji University China
  155. University of Technology Sydney Australia
  156. Newcastle University United Kingdom
  157. University of Cologne Germany
  158. Case Western Reserve University United States
  159. TU Dresden Germany
  160. University of Liverpool United Kingdom
  161. Osaka University Japan
  162. University of Virginia (Main campus) United States
  163. University of Waterloo Canada
  164. University of Würzburg Germany
  165. Huazhong University of Science and Technology China
  166. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany
  167. Dartmouth College United States
  168. Lancaster University United Kingdom
  169. University of Antwerp Belgium
  170. University of Geneva Switzerland
  171. Durham University United Kingdom
  172. National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan
  173. University of Exeter United Kingdom
  174. Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium
  175. King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Saudi Arabia
  176. Pompeu Fabra University Spain
  177. Macquarie University Australia
  178. Tufts University United States
  179. University of Cape Town South Africa
  180. University of Macau Macao
  181. University of Twente Netherlands
  182. Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) China
  183. Université Paris Cité France
  184. Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands
  185. Sapienza University of Rome Italy
  186. University of St Andrews United Kingdom
  187. University of Münster Germany
  188. Indiana University United States
  189. Korea University South Korea
  190. Abu Dhabi University United Arab Emirates
  191. Stockholm University Sweden
  192. University of Leicester United Kingdom
  193. University of Ottawa Canada
  194. Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
  195. Aalto University Finland
  196. University of California, Santa Cruz United States
  197. University of Notre Dame United States
  198. Autonomous University of Barcelona Spain
  199. Ulm University Germany
  200. University of Mannheim Germany
  201. University of São Paulo Brazil

Source: Times Higher Education