Best Universities in the World

Can you name the top 50 universities around the world?
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Rank
Country
Subdivision
University
1
United States
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2
United Kingdom
England
Imperial College London
3
United States
California
Stanford University
4
United Kingdom
England
University of Oxford
5
United States
Massachusetts
Harvard University
6
United Kingdom
England
University of Cambridge
7
Switzerland
Zürich
ETH Zurich
8
Singapore
Central
National University of Singapore (NUS)
9
United Kingdom
England
UCL
10
United States
California
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
11
China
Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong
12
Singapore
South West
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)
13
United States
Illinois
University of Chicago
14
China
Beijing
Peking University
15
United States
Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
16
New York
Cornell University
17 (tie)
China
Beijing
Tsinghua University
United States
California
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
19
Australia
Victoria
The University of Melbourne
20
New South Wales
The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
21
United States
Connecticut
Yale University
22 (tie)
Switzerland
Vaud
EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Germany
Bavaria
Technical University of Munich
24
United States
Maryland
Johns Hopkins University
25 (tie)
New Jersey
Princeton University
Australia
New South Wales
The University of Sydney
27
Canada
Quebec
McGill University
28
France
Île-de-France
Université PSL
29
Canada
Ontario
University of Toronto
30
China
Shanghai
Fudan University
31
United Kingdom
England
King's College London
32 (tie)
Australia
Australian Capital Territory
Australian National University (ANU)
China
Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
34
United Kingdom
Scotland
The University of Edinburgh
35
England
The University of Manchester
36 (tie)
Australia
Victoria
Monash University
Japan
Kantō
The University of Tokyo
38 (tie)
United States
New York
Columbia University
South Korea
Seoul
Seoul National University
40
Canada
British Columbia
University of British Columbia
41
France
Île-de-France
Institut Polytechnique de Paris
42 (tie)
United States
Illinois
Northwestern University
Australia
Queensland
The University of Queensland
44
China
Hong Kong
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
45
United States
Michigan
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
46
California
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
47 (tie)
Netherlands
South Holland
Delft University of Technology
China
Shanghai
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
49
Zhejiang
Zhejiang University
50
South Korea
Seoul
Yonsei University
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