Each year global university rankings are published, focusing on teaching, research, among other factors. With millions of students graduating, undertaking research and publishing scientific papers annually from universities globally, these rankings play an important role in affirming the quality of the learning process. Carefully calibrated performance indicators are used to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.
Here are the top 20 best universities in the world.
| Rank | University | Score |
| 1. | University of Oxford | 95.7 |
| 2. | California Institute of Technology | 95.0 |
| 3. | Harvard University | 95.0 |
| 4. | Stanford University | 94.9 |
| 5. | University of Cambridge | 94.6 |
| 6. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 94.6 |
| 7. | Princeton University | 93.6 |
| 8. | University of California, Berkeley | 92.2 |
| 9. | Yale University | 90.8 |
| 10. | The University of Chicago | 89.8 |
| 11. | Columbia University | 89.6 |
| 12. | Imperial College London | 89.3 |
| 13. | Johns Hopkins University | 88.4 |
| 14. | University of Pennsylvania | 88.4 |
| 15. | ETH Zurich | 88.2 |
| 16. | Peking University | 87.5 |
| 17. | Tsinghua University | 87.5 |
| 18. | University of Toronto | 87.2 |
| 19. | UCL | 87.2 |
| 20. | University of California, Los Angeles | 86.7 |
