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June 9, 2021

QS ranks MIT the World's No. 1 University for 2021-22

• QS announces World University Rankings 2022.

• MIT celebrates a decade as the world’s best university.

Photo: Stata Center, MIT campus, Cambridge, MA. Image credit: Nicole Cho.

Photo: Stanford University. Knight Management Center (Stanford Graduate School of Business, Palo Alto, California). Image Credit: Corey Seeman.

LONDON, June 8, 2021 — QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts, have released the eighteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) celebrates an unprecedented, unbroken decade as the world’s best university.

L. Rafael Reif, President of MIT, said: “We deeply appreciate the recognition of our institution and the faculty, staff, alumni, and students that make MIT what it is - and we also tremendously admire the achievements of academic institutions around the globe. The world benefits from a strong higher education network that delivers countless benefits for humanity, from fundamental discoveries to novel solutions to pressing challenges in climate and health to the education of the next generation of talent. We are proud and grateful to belong to this great human community of scholars, researchers, and educators, striving together to make a better world.”

• The top five universities experience their most significant reconfiguration for half a decade: Harvard University (5th) falls out of the top three - its lowest-ever rank - to be replaced by the University of Oxford (2nd, up from 5th) and the University of Cambridge (joint-3rd, shared with Stanford University).

• Caltech (6th) drops out of the top five for the first time since 2015.

• ETH Zurich remains continental Europe’s best university for a fourteenth consecutive year.

• In a significant milestone, Mainland China is home to two of the world’s top twenty universities for the first time.

• Asia’s two top universities are the National University of Singapore (11th) and Nanyang Technological University (12th).

• Australia’s four top universities rise, with Australian National University re-entering the top 30.

• The progress of Malaysia and Russia slows after years of improvement, but both are home to one of the world’s top 100 universities each.

• 48% of Japan’s universities decline.

• Latin America’s best university is Universidad de Buenos Aires (69th). Hampered by low research impact scores, more of the continent’s universities have fallen.

• Saudi Arabia’s top university - King Abdulaziz University, 109th - reaches a record high.

• QS World University Rankings 2022: Global Top 60

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, United States
2. The University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
3. Stanford University, Stanford, United States
4. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
5. Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
6. California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, United States
7. Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
8. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
9. UCL, London, United Kingdom
10. University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
11. National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore
12. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU), Singapore, Singapore
13. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
14. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
15. Yale University, New Haven, United States
16. The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
17. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (Mainland)
18. Peking University, Beijing, China (Mainland)
19. Columbia University, New York City, United States
20. Princeton University, Princeton, United States
21. Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
22. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
23. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
24. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States
25. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
26. The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
27. McGill University, Montreal, Canada
28. The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
29. The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
30. Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
31. Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Mainland)
32. The University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, United States
33. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
34. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
35. King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
36. Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
37. The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
38. The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
39. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
40. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, United States
41. KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
42. New York University (NYU), New York City, United States
43. The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Sydney, Australia
44. Université PSL, France
45. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (Mainland)
46. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
47. The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
48. The University of California, San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, United States
49. Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau Cedex, France
50. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
51. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, United Kingdom
52. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (Mainland)
53. The Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
54. Duke University, Durham, United States
55. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
56. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR5
57. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
58. Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Tokyo, Japan
59. Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
60. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
61. Brown University, Providence, United States

Source: QS Quacquarelli Symonds

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