A List Of Best Global Universities For 2019 By US News

With an impressive Global Score of 100, Harvard University ranked first in the world in an annual U.S. News report of world’s top 1,250 universities. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) came in second with a Global Score of 97.6. In third, Stanford University had a Global Score of 93.8.

While the rankings are spread across 75 nations, many nations have multiple institutions in the report. For example, the United States has eight schools in the top ten alone. In addition to the overall global list, the publication also broke out rankings by country.

The United States saw the highest number of universities on the list with 227, followed by China (130 universities), the United Kingdom (78 universities), Japan (67 universities), and Germany (62 universities).

The Top 20 Best Universities In The World, 2019

1. Harvard University, United States
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
3. Stanford University, United States
4. University of California–Berkeley, United States
5. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
6. California Institute of Technology, United States
7. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
8. Princeton University, United States
9. University of Washington, United States
10. Yale University, United States
11. Johns Hopkins University, United States
12. University of California–Los Angeles, United States
13. University of Chicago, United States
14. University of California–San Francisco, United States
15. University of Pennsylvania, United States
16. University of California–San Diego, United States
17. Imperial College London, United Kingdom
18. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, United States
19. University of Toronto, Canada

Top 20 Best Universities In The United Kingdom, 2019

1. University of Oxford (which took 5th place on the global list overall)
2. University of Cambridge (7th)
3. Imperial College London (18th)
4. University College London (21st)
5. University of Edinburgh (27th)
6. King’s College London (39th)
7. University of Manchester (58th)
8. University of Bristol (77th)
9. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicne (79th)
10. University of Southampton (94th)
11. University of Glasgow (95th)
12. University of Birmingham (96th)
13. Queen Mary, University of London (110th)
14. University of Liverpool (130th)
15. University of Sheffield (132nd)
16. University of Warwick (138th)
17. University of Nottingham (45th)
18. University of Leeds (153rd)
19. University of Exeter (156th)
20. Cardiff University (163) (must read: 12 UK Universities Made The Top 100 US News Best Global Universities List, 2019)

Top 20 Best Universities In India, 2019

1. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, #509
2. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, #513
3. Panjab University, Chandigarh, #551
4. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, #637
5. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Roorkee, Uttarakhand, #678
6. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, #685
7. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, #703
8. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, #713
9. Aligarh Muslim University, #717
10. University of Delhi, New Delhi, #741
11. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, #751
12. Banaras Hindu University, Uttar Pradesh, #788
13. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Guwahati, Assam, #880
14. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, #880
15. University of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra, #938
16. University of Hyderabad, #970
17. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, #985
18. Anna University Chennai, Tamil Nadu, #1028
19. University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, #1039
20. Bharathiar University, India Coimbatore, #1084

Top 20 Best Universities In Australia, 2019

1. University of Melbourne, #26
2. University of Sydney, #31
3. University of Queensland Australia, #42
4. Monash University, #62
5. Australian National University, #66
6. University of New South Wales, #70
7. University of Western Australia, #81
8. University of Adelaide, #102
9. Curtin University of Technology, #234
10. Macquarie University, #238
11. Deakin University, #240
12. Griffith University, #240
13. Queensland University of Technology, #242
14. James Cook University, # 245
15. University of Technology Sydney, #245
16. University of Wollongong, #272
17. University of Newcastle, #276
18. University of Tasmania, #320
19. University of Western Sydney, #320
20. RMIT University, 341#