Top 20 universities in the world
- Find out the top 20 universities, as ranked by the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, based on quality of education, faculty, research output and academic performance per capita. (Wikipedia)
- Rank: 20. Institution: University College London, London, England. Notable alumni: Mahatma Gandhi and Ricky Gervais. (LordHarris/Wikipedia.org)
- Rank: 19. Institution: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin. Notable alumni: The Onion founders Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson. (James Steakley /Wikipedia.org)
- Rank: 18. Institution: The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Notable alumni: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and Michael Bloomberg. (Ottawa80/Wikipedia.org)
- Rank: 17. Institution: University of California, San Francisco, Calif. Notable alumni: Julie Gerberding, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Masur/Wikipedia.org)
- Rank: 16. Institution: University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Notable alumni: Beverly Cleary, Orin C. Smith (former CEO and president of Starbucks) and several NASA astronauts. (Joe Mabel/Wikipedia.org)
- Rank: 15. Institution: University of California, San Diego, Calif. Notable alumni: Animator and director Mike Judge and early Apple Macintosh developer Bill Atkinson. (Rydel/Wikipedia.org)
- Rank: 14. Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Notable alumni: Football legend John Heisman and Donald Trump. (LordHarris/Wikipedia.org)
- Rank: 13. Institution: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Notable alumni: Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison and E.B. White. (Eustress/Wikipedia.org)
- Rank: 12. Institution: University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif. Notable alumni: Tim Robbins and Jim Morrison. (Indianhilbilly/Wikipedia.org)
- Rank: 11. Institution: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Notable alumni: U.S. Presidents William Howard Taft and Bill Clinton, composer Cole Porter and economist Irving Fischer. (Ragesoss /Wikipedia.org)
- Rank: 10. Institution: University of Oxford, England. Notable alumni: Former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, U.S. President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister David Cameron, J.R.R. Tolkein, Rupert Murdoch and Hugh Grant. (Shutterstock)
- Rank: 9. Institution: University of Chicago, Illinois. Notable alumni: Roger Ebert, Milton Friedman and David Suzuki. (Shutterstock)
- Rank: 8. Institution: Columbia University, New York. Notable alumni: U.S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Barack Obama, J.D. Salinger and composer Oscar Hammerstein II. (Shutterstock)
- Rank: 7. Institution: Princeton University, New Jersey. Notable alumni: U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson, First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama and James Stewart. (Shutterstock)
- Rank: 6. Institution: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. Notable alumni: Arnold Beckman (creator of the pH scale) and Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia. (Shutterstock)
- Rank: 5. Institution: University of Cambridge, England. Notable alumni: Sir Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Douglas Adams and Emma Thompson. (Shutterstock)
- Rank: 4. Institution: University of California, Berkley, Calif. Notable alumni: Former President of the World Bank and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Former President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Gregory Peck. (Falcorian/Wikipedia)
- Rank: 3. Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts. Notable alumni: Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, physicist Richard Feynman and author Charles Murray. (Shutterstock)
- Rank: 2. Institution: Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. Notable alumni: William Hewlett and David Packard, Doris Fisher (Gap founder) and Rachel Maddow. (Jawed/Wikipedia)
- Rank: 1. Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts. Notable alumni: Former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy, Henry David Thoreau, T.S. Eliot and Mark Zuckerberg. (Shutterstock)
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