Name of Institution
| Country / Region
| 2020 QS World University Rankings
|
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
| United States
| #1 |
Stanford University | United States | #2 |
Harvard University | United States
| #3 |
University of Oxford | United Kingdom | #4 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States
| #5 |
ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Switzerland | #6 |
University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | #7
|
UCL (University College London)
| United Kingdom | #8
|
Imperial College London
| United Kingdom
| #9
|
University of Chicago
| United States
| #10
|
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | =11
|
National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore
| =11
|
Princeton University
| United States
| #13 |
Cornell University
| United States | #14
|
University of Pennsylvania
| United States | #15
|
Tsinghua University | China - Mainland | #16
|
Yale University | United States
| #17
|
Columbia University
| United States
| =18
|
EPFL
| Switzerland
| =18
|
The University of Edinburgh
| United Kingdom
| #20
|
University of Michigan-Ann Abor
| United States
| #21
|
Peking University
| China - Mainland | =22
|
The University of Tokyo
| Japan
| =22
|
John Hopkins University
| United States
| #24
|
Duke University
| United States
| =25
|
University of Hong Kong
| Hong Kong SAR
| =25
|
The University of Manchester | United Kingdom
| #27
|
University of California, Berkely (UCB)
| United States
| #28
|
The Australian National University | Australia
| =29
|
University of Toranto
| Canada
| =29 |
Northwestern University | United States
| #31
|
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong SAR
| #32
|
King's College
| London
| =33
|
Kyoto University | Japan | =33
|
McGill University | Canada | =35
|
University of California, Los Angeles
| United States
| =35
|
Seol National University | South Korea
| #37
|
The University of Melbourne | Australia | #38
|
New York University (NYU) | United States | #39
|
Fudan University | China Mainland
| #40
|
KAIST-Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | South Korea | #41
|
The University of Sydney
| Australia
| #42
|
The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia | #43
|
The London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom
| #44
|
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States
| #45
|
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong SAR
| #46
|
The University of Queensland | Australia | #47
|
Carnegie Mellon University | United States | #48
|
University of Bristol | United Kingdom
| #49
|
Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | #50
|
University of British Coloumbia | Canada
| #51
|
City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR | #52
|
University of PSL
| France | #53
|
Zhejiang University
| China Mainland
| #54
|
Technical University of Munich | Germany
| #55
|
University of Wisconsin-Madison
| United States
| #56
|
Brown University
| United States
| #57
|
Monash University
| Australia | =58
|
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | Japan | =58
|
Ecole Polytechnique | France | =60
|
Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China Mainland
| =60
|
University of Warwick | United Kingdom | #62
|
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen | Germany | #63
|
University of Amsterdam | Netherlands
| #64
|
University of Texas at Austin | United States | #65
|
Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat-Heidelberg
| Germany
| #66
|
University of Glasgow | United Kingdom
| #67
|
University of Washington
| United States | #68
|
National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | #69
|
Universiti Malaya (UM) | Malaysia | #70
|
Osaka University
| Japan
| #71
|
Georgia Institute of Technology
| United States | =72
|
Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
| Argentina
| #74
|
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
| United States
| #75
|
University of Zurich
| Switzerland | #76
|
Sorbonne University
| France | #77
|
Durham University
| United Kingdom | =78
|
The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | =78
|
KU Leuven | Belgium | #80
|
University of Birmingham
| United Kingdom
| #81
|
University of Copenhagen | Denmark
| =81
|
Tohoku University | Japan | #82
|
Korea University
| South Korea
| #83
|
The University of Auckland | New Zealand | =83
|
Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia | #84
|
Rice University | United States
| #85
|
The University of Western Australia | Australia | #86
|
Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea | #87
|
University of Science and Technology of China
| China Mainland | #89
|
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
| United States | #90
|
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong SAR | #91
|
Lund University
| Sweden
| #92
|
Pennsylvania State University | United States
| =93
|
University of Leeds
| United Kingdom
| =93
|
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea | #95
|
University of Nottingham
| United Kingdom
| #96
|
University of Southampton
| United Kingdom
| #97
|
Boston University
| United States | =98 |
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
| Sweden
| =98
|
University of St Andrews
| United Kingdom
| #100
|