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The best universities in the world are the prerogative of the most successful people who want to get an excellent education and arrange their lives. To choose the really best university, you need to consider the ranking policy, and then choose the right educational institution. In total, there are 2 generally accepted organizations that evaluate data from more than 2500 universities, and then present the results.

QS - ranking of the best universities in the world 2018

Initially, the ranking of universities in the world QS indicates the relevance of the institution in accordance with its achievements in education and science. To identify leaders and the correct distribution of places between them, experts study the following set of features:

activity;
quality of scientific activity;
opinion of employers;
career opportunities for graduates;
internationalization;
teaching features.

Top 100 QS World University Rankings 2018

A place	University name	Country	Total score
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA	100
2	Stanford University	USA	98.7
3	Harvard University	USA	98.4
4	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	USA	97.7
5	Cambridge university	Great Britain	95.6
6	University of Oxford	Great Britain	95.3
7	UCL (University College London)	Great Britain	94.6
8	Imperial College London	Great Britain	93.7
9	University of Chicago	USA	93.5
10	Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	93.3
11	Nanyang University of Technology (NTU)	Singapore	92.2
12	Polytechnic School of Lausanne	Switzerland	91.2
13	Princeton University	USA	91
14	Cornell University	USA	90.7
15	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	90.5
16	Yale university	USA	90.4
17	Johns Hopkins University	USA	89.8
18	Columbia University	USA	88.9
19	University of Pennsylvania	USA	88.7
20	Australian National University	Australia	87.1
21	Duke University	USA	87
21	University of Michigan	USA	87
23	King's College London (KCL)	Great Britain	86.9
24	University of Edinburgh	Great Britain	86.8
25	Tsinghua University	China	85.6
26	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	85.5
27	University of California, Berkeley (ucb)	USA	84.9
28	Northwestern University	USA	84.8
28	University of Tokyo	Japan	84.8
30	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	84.3
31	University of Toronto	Canada	84
32	McGill University	Canada	83.9
33	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	USA	83.6
34	University of Manchester	Great Britain	83
35	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	Great Britain	81.8
36	Kyoto University	Japan	81.5
36	National University of Seoul	South Korea	81.5
38	Peking University	China	80.8
38	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	USA	80.8
40	Fudan University	China	80.6
41	University of Melbourne	Australia	80.4
41	KAIST - Korean Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea	80.4
43	Higher Normal School (Paris)	France	79.9
44	University of Bristol	Great Britain	79.5
45	University of New South Wales	Australia	78.9
46	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	78.8
47	University of Queensland	Australia	78.6
47	Carnegie Mellon University	USA	78.6
49	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	78.4
50	University of Sydney	Australia	78
51	University of British Columbia	Canada	77.9
52	New York University (New York University)	USA	77.3
53	Brown University	USA	76.5
54	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	76.1
55	University of Wisconsin-Madison	USA	75.8
56	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	74.8
57	University of Warwick	Great Britain	74.4
58	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	74.3
59	Polytechnic School	France	74
60	Monash University	Australia	73.1
61	University of Washington	USA	72.9
62	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	72.5
63	Osaka University	Japan	72.1
64	Technical University of Munich	Germany	72
65	University of Glasgow	Great Britain	71.6
66	Ludwig-Maximilian-Munich University	Germany	70.8
67	University of Texas at Austin	USA	70.6
68	Ruprecht-Karls-Heidelberg University	Germany	70.4
69	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	USA	70.3
70	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	70.1
71	KU Leven	Belgium	69.4
71	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea	69.4
73	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	69.2
73	University of Zurich (Oh)	Switzerland	69.2
75	Buenos Aires University	Argentina	69.1
76	Tohoku University	Japan	69
76	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	69
78	Lund University	Sweden	68.5
78	Durham University	Great Britain	68.5
80	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	USA	67.8
81	Boston University	USA	67.2
82	University of Auckland	new Zealand	67
82	University of Sheffield	Great Britain	67
84	University of Nottingham	Great Britain	66.8
84	University of Birmingham	Great Britain	66.8
86	Ohio State University	USA	66.1
87	Zhejiang University	China	65.9
88	Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin	Ireland	65.7
89	Rice University	USA	65.6
90	Korean university	South Korea	65.5
90	University of Alberta	Canada	65.5
92	University of St Andrews	Great Britain	65.3
93	Pennsylvania State University	USA	65.2
93	University of Western Australia	Australia	65.2
95	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	65
95	Moscow State University Named After M.V. Lomonosov	Russia	65
97	University of Science and Technology of China	China	64.9
98	Royal Institute of Technology KTH	Sweden	64.7
98	University of Geneva	Switzerland	64.7
100	University of Washington at St. Louis	USA	64.6

Thus, according to these statistics, the best university in the world is the Massachusetts Technological University. In addition, Russian University. Lomonosov was also ranked because of his achievements in a number of industries, including the activities of the Department of Bioengineering and Economics.

Times Higher Education - World University Rankings 2018

If we consider the ranking of world universities in 2018, the full list is 980 educational institutions, although about six thousand are estimated. Moreover, they are selected on the basis of a whole range of factors:

statistical analysis of activities;
Audited data
annual global survey of the academic community;
employer ratings.

Top 100 Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018

A place	Name	Total score
1	University of Oxford	94.3
2	Cambridge university	93.2
3	California Institute of Technology	93.0
3	Stanford University	93.0
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	92.5
6	Harvard University	91.8
7	Princeton University	91.1
8	Imperial College London	89.2
9	University of Chicago	88.6
10	ETH Zurich-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	87.7
10	University of Pennsylvania	87.7
12	Yale university	87.6
13	Johns Hopkins University	86.5
14	Columbia University	86.0
15	University of California Los Angeles	85.7
16	University of London	85.3
17	Duke University	85.1
18	University of California, Berkeley	84.3
19	Cornell University	84.2
20	Northwestern University	83.3
21	University of Michigan	83.1
22	National University of Singapore	82.8
22	University of Toronto	82.8
24	Carnegie Mellon University	81.9
25	London School of Economics and Political Science	79.4
25	University of Washington	79.4
27	University of Edinburgh	79.2
27	New York University	79.2
27	Peking University	79.2
30	Tsinghua University	79.0
31	University of California, San Diego	78.7
32	University of Melbourne	77.5
33	Georgia Institute of Technology	77.0
34	University of British Columbia	76.2
34	LMU Munich	76.2
36	King's College London	75.6
37	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	75.4
38	Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne	75.3
38	Carolina Institute	75.3
40	University of Hong Kong	75.1
41	Technical University of Munich	73.5
42	McGill University	73.2
43	University of Wisconsin-Madison	73.1
44	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	72.7
45	University of Heidelberg	72.3
46	University of Tokyo	72.2
47	KU Leven	71.8
48	Australian National University	71.6
49	University of Texas at Austin	71.4
50	Brown University	70.8
50	University of Washington at St. Louis	70.8
52	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	70.5
53	University of California, Santa Barbara	70.0
54	University of California, Davis	69.5
54	University of Manchester	69.5
56	University of Minnesota	69.0
56	Chapel Hill University of North Carolina	69.0
58	University of Hong Kong, China	68.5
59	University of Amsterdam	68.4
60	Purdue University	68.2
61	University of Sydney	67.8
62	Humboldt University of Berlin	67.4
63	Delft University of Technology	67.3
64	Wageningen University And Research	67.2
65	University of Queensland	67.0
66	University of Southern California	66.8
67	Leiden University	66.0
68	University of Utrecht	65.8
69	University of Maryland College Park	65.7
70	Boston University	65.4
70	Ohio State University	65.4
72	Erasmus University, Rotterdam	65.2
72	Paris Science and Literature - SLP Studies University of Paris	65.2
74	Kyoto University	64.9
74	National University of Seoul	64.9
76	University of Bristol	64.8
77	Pennsylvania State University	64.6
78	McMaster University	63.4
79	University of Aachen	63.3
80	University of Glasgow	63.2
80	Monash University	63.2
82	University of Freiburg	62.9
83	University of Groningen	62.8
83	University of Michigan	62.8
85	University of New South Wales	62.5
86	Rice University	62.2
86	Uppsala University	62.2
88	Free University of Berlin	62.1
89	Dartmouth College	62.0
90	University of Helsinki	61.7
91	University of Warwick	61.6
92	Berlin Technical University	61.5
93	Lund University	61.3
94	University of Tübingen	61.2
95	University of Basel	60.9
95	Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	60.9
97	Durham University	60.8
98	Emory University	60.7
99	University of California, Irvine	60.6
100	University of Bonn	60.5

The above ranking of the best universities in the world singled out British Oxford as the leader, while Russian universities were completely excluded. There are a lot of reasons for such a decision, among which the most significant were: productivity and citation, scientific activity of specialists over 16 years and the presence of at least 50 scientific papers.

It is almost impossible to choose the most prestigious university in the world objectively, because each educational institution has its own individual advantages. Moreover, each TOP allows you to select the best representatives according to certain criteria.

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