Getting into a Top UK University – a How To Guide
Part 6. Our advice.
1. Oxbridge
If you are academic, have a genuine and wide-ranging interest in your subject and are driven to learn, do apply to Oxbridge.There are too many myths about its being only for the wealthy – and too many students give up even before even thinking about applying.Do research the application process. You will be interviewed and there is a huge body of advice available on how to manage the Oxbridge process. The best schools should provide significant hand-holding – but you will need to independently work out why you are applying. Do not even think about applying for a subject you are not driven to explore further. Never apply as a means to an end for a successful career. We recommend you do apply to individual colleges – and think carefully about applying to the most over-subscribed colleges in terms of applications (for example, King’s College Cambridge). It will not hurt your application to have visited your chosen college prior to interview. In terms of preparation and Personal Statement our best advice is to concentrate on the subject matter you want to study rather than extra-curricular and broader personal interests. Be objective, questioning and inspiring throughout the application process. Most courses require a dedicated examination as part of the application process – but there are exceptions (for example, Archaeology).
2. Focus on your eventual career, not the course or UniversityThe best universities for a given career may not be those you have heard of. Oxbridge, London and the Russell Group do not have the monopoly on the best education available in every subject. The BA (Hons) Automotive and Transport Design course at Coventry University, for example, provides a recognised talent pool for automotive companies worldwide. The fees are around half those you would expect to pay for an engineering course at Cambridge. The RADA BA (Hons) in Acting is recognised throughout the world – but there are only 28 places awarded each year. There are many other “hidden” courses that are recognised by employers – the best schools in the UAE have departments whose job it is to guide applicants to these courses where they fit the potential and ambitions of each individual student.
3. Changing employmentThe world is changing. Many professions we take for granted as offering employment are likely to be computerised over the next two decades. Many believe that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have impacts not only in replacing millions of manual jobs but also many so called middle class professions including law, banking, teaching and accountancy. Even today, governments and Industry, particularly in the technology sector, are considering the impacts of AI automation and the potential need for radical solutions including Basic Incomes. What this means is that ideally students, and schools, should have some awareness of the bigger picture of which professions are likely to still exist in the next fifty years. These will probably include many subjects related to computer science, engineering and the creative industries.
4. Alternatives to university. University is no longer a passport to secure employment. There are significantly more graduates each year than jobs. The impact of debt on families and students can be very significant and should be weighed in the balance. Alternatives are available, particularly in the form of Apprenticeships whose availability in Europe in particular is growing. These are very competitive, but many top employers do offer direct-to-industry routes for the brightest students at 18 – and will often pay for studying during Apprenticeships.Again, the best schools will be developing links with top blue-chips both in the UAE and worldwide. Technical qualifications including BTECs, both independently and within the International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme, and soon to launch T Levels, should further strengthen links between schools and industry. Schools today need to have departments proactively building links with organisations like Emirates Airlines to nurture talent pools for direct-to-industry work for young men and women leaving school. Parents should be asking about industry links as part of weighing up moving children at 16 to those schools in the Emirates who have invested in dedicated teams set up to manage post school leaving options for their students.
Bottom line? Careers advice and mentoring should be at the heart of education. Without it, education becomes an ivory tower and loses all sense of meaning. In the emirate’s best schools every child is individually mentored and guided so that their academic journey matches their potential and aspirations – and their journey from school, whether into industry or graduate study, is mapped out and managed. If your child is currently studying at a school without serious dedicated career’s programmes and mentoring, and dedicated Sixth Form or equivalent provision providing guidance for all the many steps involved in eventually leaving school, there is every reason to explore alternative schools.Schools are not ends in themselves – and the best schools understand this only too well. (Updated May 2021).
Ranking | University Name | Teaching Quality (%) | Student Experiance(%) | Graduate Prospects(%) | Student – Staff Ratio | Total |
1st | University of Cambridge | 82.9 | 85.5 | 88.3 | 11 | 1000 |
2nd | University of Oxford | 82 | 86.5 | 84.3 | 10.5 | 968 |
3rd | University of St Andrews | 88.4 | 91 | 83.3 | 11.6 | 929 |
4th | Durham University | 82.1 | 86.4 | 83.3 | 14.7 | 857 |
5th | Imperial College London | 74.8 | 83.2 | 90.5 | 11.1 | 840 |
6th | University College London | 75.5 | 81.9 | 87.2 | 10.2 | 838 |
7th | University of Warwick | 80.1 | 84.4 | 80.4 | 12.5 | 813 |
8th | London School of Economics and Political Science | 68.5 | 73.1 | 84.6 | 11.6 | 808 |
9th | University of Exeter | 83.3 | 87.9 | 80.2 | 15.8 | 807 |
10th | Lancaster University | 82.3 | 87.8 | 82.5 | 13.4 | 807 |
11th | Loughborough University | 81.9 | 87.9 | 85.3 | 14.6 | 793 |
12th | University of Bath | 81.6 | 85.1 | 85.4 | 15.5 | 786 |
13th | University of Leeds | 82.7 | 87.8 | 81.4 | 13.5 | 780 |
14th | University of Surrey | 83.7 | 87.3 | 81.1 | 13.9 | 774 |
15th | University of East Anglia | 83 | 87.4 | 74.2 | 13.2 | 769 |
16th | University of Birmingham | 80.8 | 84.4 | 85.3 | 14 | 761 |
17th | University of York | 83.8 | 87.5 | 77 | 14.5 | 758 |
18th | University of Sussex | 79.7 | 86 | 86.2 | 15.3 | 744 |
19th | University of Bristol | 78.8 | 84 | 79 | 13.8 | 741 |
20th | University of Nottingham | 81.2 | 86 | 82.7 | 13.2 | 738 |
21st | University of Southampton | 78.8 | 84.7 | 78.4 | 12 | 737 |
22nd | Newcastle University | 82.9 | 87.8 | 82.6 | 15.5 | 728 |
23rd | University of Kent | 80.9 | 85.9 | 80.6 | 12.7 | 723 |
24th | University of Sheffield | 80.7 | 86.7 | 81.3 | 14.6 | 716 |
25th | University of Leicester | 80.5 | 85.8 | 75.3 | 12.9 | 713 |
26th | Queen’s University, Belfast | 82.8 | 88.7 | 80.3 | 15.1 | 710 |
27th | King’s College London | 74.9 | 80.3 | 88 | 11.7 | 709 |
28th | University of Dundee | 85.9 | 88.8 | 80.9 | 12.6 | 706 |
29th | University of Glasgow | 79.4 | 85.6 | 81.8 | 14.5 | 704 |
30th | University of Essex | 82.4 | 87.2 | 73.4 | 16.5 | 701 |
31st | University of Reading | 80.2 | 84.8 | 73.6 | 14.7 | 696 |
32nd | University of Manchester | 77.3 | 83.4 | 82.2 | 13.4 | 694 |
33rd | Aston University Birmingham | 81.9 | 86.8 | 82.3 | 19 | 693 |
34th | Royal Holloway, University of London | 81.9 | 83.9 | 69.3 | 15.3 | 688 |
35th | Soas | 79.5 | 83.1 | 70.8 | 11.1 | 687 |
36th | Harper Adams University | 85.1 | 89.8 | 72.8 | 15.4 | 681 |
37th | University of Edinburgh | 71.8 | 79.6 | 73 | 12 | 676 |
38th | Heriot-Watt University | 80 | 85.3 | 79.7 | 15.6 | 676 |
39th | University of Liverpool | 79.7 | 84.4 | 76.9 | 11.8 | 672 |
40th | Queen Mary, University of London | 76.7 | 80.7 | 79.8 | 11.9 | 665 |
41st | University of Buckingham | 90.2 | 91.5 | 71.4 | 9.6 | 661 |
42nd | Keele University | 87.2 | 90.4 | 79.5 | 13.2 | 657 |
43rd | University of Stirling | 80.4 | 83.7 | 77.5 | 14.9 | 656 |
44th | University of Aberdeen | 78.1 | 84.4 | 78.5 | 13.5 | 653 |
45th | Swansea University | 81.2 | 84.6 | 80.5 | 14.7 | 653 |
46th | Cardiff University | 79 | 84.8 | 73.9 | 13.7 | 642 |
47th | Coventry University | 87.6 | 89.8 | 79.9 | 14.6 | 639 |
48th | University of Strathclyde | 76.3 | 84.7 | 77.2 | 19.4 | 629 |
49th | Liverpool Hope University | 89.9 | 89.6 | 78 | 16.2 | 622 |
50th | City, University of London | 80.1 | 84.3 | 82.6 | 16.6 | 620 |
51st | University of Lincoln | 85.1 | 88.5 | 71.9 | 15.7 | 619 |
52nd | Falmouth University | 83.6 | 83.7 | 79.3 | 18.9 | 593 |
53rd | University for the Creative Arts | 84.4 | 83.5 | 53.6 | 12.1 | 591 |
54th | Brunel University London | 78.6 | 83.2 | 71.2 | 15.7 | 588 |
55th | Goldsmiths, University of London | 77.4 | 76.8 | 59.8 | 13.8 | 588 |
56th | Aberystwyth University | 85 | 87 | 68.2 | 19.1 | 583 |
57th | Nottingham Trent University | 84.6 | 85.7 | 73.1 | 16.7 | 580 |
58th | Edge Hill University | 85 | 86 | 71.5 | 14.8 | 579 |
59th | University of Portsmouth | 82.7 | 85.4 | 72 | 15.4 | 575 |
60th | University of the West of England | 83 | 86.2 | 76.4 | 18.5 | 565 |
61st | Bangor University | 84.8 | 86.4 | 66.3 | 16.9 | 557 |
62nd | Bournemouth University | 78.2 | 82.1 | 71.6 | 17.3 | 555 |
63rd | Royal Agricultural University | 77.2 | 83.9 | 74.7 | 20.8 | 551 |
64th | Arts University Bournemouth | 80.7 | 81.2 | 73.9 | 14.9 | 546 |
65th | University of Hull | 78.9 | 84.1 | 72.7 | 16.2 | 543 |
66th | Northumbria University | 81.2 | 83.8 | 71.9 | 17.1 | 543 |
67th | De Montfort University | 79.9 | 83.1 | 75.5 | 18.6 | 541 |
68th | Ulster University | 81.5 | 86.9 | 65.6 | 17.1 | 539 |
69th | Oxford Brookes University | 81.3 | 84 | 70.9 | 18.3 | 537 |
70th | St George’s, University of London | 72.7 | 77.2 | 95.1 | 12.8 | 536 |
71st | University of Gloucestershire | 82.9 | 84.9 | 63.9 | 18.3 | 532 |
72nd | Manchester Metropolitan University | 80 | 82.7 | 66.5 | 15.6 | 527 |
73rd | University of Winchester | 81.7 | 83.3 | 61.2 | 16.7 | 527 |
74th | Middlesex University | 79.3 | 82.3 | 70.3 | 16.3 | 522 |
75th | Bath Spa University | 81.4 | 81.6 | 61 | 18.5 | 521 |
76th | University of Bradford | 76.9 | 83 | 78.8 | 16 | 520 |
77th | University of Huddersfield | 83.6 | 84.8 | 73.4 | 20.6 | 519 |
78th | University of Roehampton | 77.4 | 79.8 | 64.2 | 14.9 | 517 |
79th | Sheffield Hallam University | 80 | 83.4 | 68.6 | 16.5 | 515 |
80th | Plymouth University | 81.1 | 83.2 | 69.8 | 16.4 | 514 |
81st | University of Chester | 82.9 | 81.6 | 64.3 | 14 | 513 |
82nd | University of Chichester | 82.9 | 84.9 | 58.5 | 16 | 511 |
83rd | University of Derby | 83.5 | 83.9 | 64 | 14.8 | 507 |
84th | University of West London | 81.9 | 84.4 | 68.9 | 15.6 | 499 |
85th | Abertay University | 83 | 84.5 | 68.4 | 19.3 | 498 |
86th | Liverpool John Moores University | 80.5 | 84.1 | 67 | 18.1 | 497 |
87th | Robert Gordon University | 78.8 | 82.3 | 77.5 | 18.4 | 497 |
88th | Norwich University of the Arts | 79.3 | 79.1 | 57.7 | 17.8 | 491 |
89th | Cardiff Metropolitan University | 77.2 | 81.3 | 70.4 | 17.9 | 490 |
90th | University of Worcester | 82.5 | 84.1 | 68 | 17.3 | 486 |
91st | University of Hertfordshire | 78.2 | 81.8 | 77.5 | 17.5 | 483 |
92nd | Staffordshire University | 82.5 | 83.2 | 56.9 | 15.7 | 480 |
93rd | Birmingham City University | 81.4 | 81.5 | 69.1 | 19.1 | 479 |
94th | Edinburgh Napier University | 80.1 | 83.3 | 72.3 | 20.1 | 479 |
95th | Bishop Grosseteste University | 86.3 | 86.2 | 67.1 | 25.1 | 477 |
96th | Leeds Trinity University | 79.7 | 79.7 | 70.6 | 21.6 | 468 |
97th | University of Northampton | 80.4 | 82.1 | 56.8 | 18.6 | 466 |
98th | University of Salford | 80.2 | 81.6 | 61.5 | 16.7 | 465 |
99th | Glasgow Caledonian University | 75.7 | 81.8 | 71.2 | 21.1 | 460 |
100th | University of Sunderland | 80.5 | 83.1 | 66.8 | 16.3 | 459 |
101st | University of Central Lancashire | 79.7 | 82.3 | 64.5 | 16.7 | 457 |
102nd | Queen Margaret University Edinburgh | 80.6 | 83.3 | 57.8 | 18.3 | 457 |
103rd | Teesside University | 83.1 | 84.8 | 66.4 | 17.4 | 457 |
104th | University of Brighton | 77.6 | 79.5 | 71.3 | 17.4 | 454 |
105th | University of St Mark & St John, Plymouth | 82.9 | 85.4 | 63 | 21.5 | 451 |
106th | University of the West of Scotland | 82.1 | 83.6 | 69.9 | 19.8 | 445 |
107th | University of Greenwich | 77.3 | 80.4 | 66 | 18.6 | 442 |
108th | Anglia Ruskin University | 83.5 | 84 | 56.8 | 17.3 | 439 |
109th | University of the Arts London | 76.4 | 73.9 | 61.2 | 17 | 437 |
110th | Southampton Solent University | 79.3 | 81.8 | 57 | 16.9 | 431 |
111th | York St John University | 79.9 | 81.1 | 61.7 | 18.5 | 431 |
112th | Leeds Beckett University | 79.2 | 83.8 | 66.1 | 20.7 | 429 |
113th | Newman University, Birmingham | 80.9 | 80.9 | 67.7 | 16.9 | 429 |
114th | Canterbury Christ Church University | 79.8 | 80.8 | 61 | 16 | 427 |
115th | University of South Wales | 78.4 | 79.4 | 56.4 | 17.4 | 418 |
116th | St Mary’s University, Twickenham | 79 | 83.3 | 70.1 | 20.2 | 415 |
117th | University of Westminster | 73.5 | 81.3 | 58.1 | 19.8 | 407 |
118th | Buckinghamshire New University | 81.2 | 81.9 | 61.4 | 17.6 | 403 |
119th | University of Cumbria | 80 | 78.8 | 66.3 | 19.7 | 402 |
120th | London South Bank University | 77.1 | 81.2 | 75.4 | 17.2 | 400 |
121st | University of Bedfordshire | 80.1 | 82.5 | 61.7 | 17.4 | 393 |
122nd | Kingston University | 75.2 | 79.7 | 64.6 | 19.3 | 383 |
123rd | University of East London | 79.9 | 82.6 | 52.3 | 20 | 370 |
124th | University of Bolton | 82.4 | 81.6 | 59.1 | 15.9 | 369 |
125th | Wrexham Glyndwr University | 83.5 | 82.4 | 58.9 | 22.1 | 358 |
126th | University of Suffolk | 77.8 | 79.4 | 61 | 20 | 320 |
127th | London Metropolitan University | 77.3 | 81.4 | 59.2 | 17.4 | 313 |
128th | University of the Highlands and Islands | 78.6 | 74.1 | 51.1 | n/a | 240 |
Ranking | University Name | No. of FTE Students | Student:Staff Ratio | International Students | Female:Male Ratio | |
1st | University of Oxford | 19,718 | 11 | 35% | 46:54:00 | |
2nd | California Institute of Technology | 2,181 | 6.7 | 27% | 31 : 69 | |
3rd | Stanford University | 15,658 | 7.7 | 22% | 42:58:00 | |
4th | University of Cambridge | 18,605 | 11.3 | 35% | 45:55:00 | |
5th | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 11,192 | 8.8 | 34% | 37 : 63 | |
6th | Harvard University | 19,890 | 8.8 | 25% | n/a | |
7th | Princeton University | 7,925 | 8.4 | 23% | 45:55:00 | |
8th | Imperial College London | 15,236 | 11.3 | 52% | 37 : 63 | |
9th | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | 18,616 | 14.9 | 37% | 31 : 69 | |
10th | University of California, Berkeley | 34,834 | 12 | 16% | 52:48:00 | |
11th | University of Chicago | 13,486 | 6.2 | 24% | 42:58:00 | |
12th | Yale University | 11,946 | 4.4 | 21% | 49:51:00 | |
13th | University of Pennsylvania | 20,367 | 6.5 | 20% | 51:49:00 | |
14th | University of California, Los Angeles | 38,392 | 9.9 | 16% | 53:47:00 | |
15th | University College London | 28,602 | 10.5 | 47% | 56:44:00 | |
16th | Columbia University | 25,659 | 6 | 30% | n/a | |
17th | Johns Hopkins University | 15,303 | 3.5 | 24% | 51:49:00 | |
18th | Duke University | 15,204 | 4.8 | 17% | 49:51:00 | |
19th | Cornell University | 21,593 | 9.9 | 20% | 49:51:00 | |
20th | Northwestern University | 18,570 | 14 | 16% | 48:52:00 | |
21st | University of Michigan | 41,912 | 8.8 | 16% | 48:52:00 | |
22nd | University of Toronto | 68,093 | 18.8 | 16% | n/a | |
23rd | Carnegie Mellon University | 12,311 | 13.2 | 38% | 38 : 62 | |
24th | National University of Singapore | 31,111 | 16.7 | 32% | 50:50:00 | |
25th | London School of Economics and Political Science | 9,401 | 11.5 | 70% | 53:47:00 | |
26th | University of Washington | 45,162 | 11.9 | 15% | 53:47:00 | |
27th | University of Edinburgh | 25,279 | 12.5 | 37% | 59:41:00 | |
28th | Karolinska Institute | 7,723 | 11.3 | 23% | 69:31:00 | |
29th | Peking University | 42,977 | 8.8 | 15% | 48:52:00 | |
30th | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | 9,750 | 11.2 | 54% | 27 : 73 | |
31st | LMU Munich | 36,180 | 15.7 | 14% | 61:39:00 | |
32nd | New York University | 43,021 | 6.6 | 25% | 55:45:00 | |
33rd | Georgia Institute of Technology | 19,847 | 19.8 | 26% | 31 : 69 | |
34th | University of Melbourne | 42,273 | 24.8 | 37% | 55:45:00 | |
35th | Tsinghua University | 41,537 | 14.1 | 10% | 32 : 68 | |
36th | University of British Columbia | 51,889 | 18.2 | 29% | 54:46:00 | |
37th | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 43,202 | 18.3 | 22% | 46:54:00 | |
38th | King’s College London | 21,986 | 11.3 | 38% | 61:39:00 | |
39th | University of Tokyo | 26,080 | 7 | 10% | n/a | |
40th | KU Leuven | 46,381 | 41.9 | 16% | 49:51:00 | |
41st | University of California, San Diego | 28,416 | 6.6 | 14% | 47:53:00 | |
42nd | McGill University | 30,911 | 13.5 | 24% | 57:43:00 | |
43rd | Heidelberg University | 29,527 | 24.9 | 17% | 55:45:00 | |
44th | University of Hong Kong | 20,095 | 17.8 | 39% | 51:49:00 | |
45th | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 40,048 | 11 | 12% | 51:49:00 | |
46th | Technical University of Munich | 36,929 | 51.9 | 22% | 33 : 67 | |
47th | Australian National University | 15,402 | 19.9 | 35% | 52:48:00 | |
48th | University of California, Santa Barbara | 22,267 | 27.4 | 12% | 51:49:00 | |
49th | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 11,960 | 27.3 | 38% | n/a | |
50th | University of Texas at Austin | 48,689 | 17.2 | 10% | 51:49:00 | |
51st | Brown University | 8,694 | 10.2 | 20% | n/a | |
52nd | University of California, Davis | 36,060 | 13.7 | 15% | 55:45:00 | |
53rd | University of Minnesota | 46,625 | 17.5 | 13% | 52:48:00 | |
54th | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | 25,278 | 16.1 | 32% | 49:51:00 | |
55th | University of Manchester | 34,015 | 14.3 | 36% | 52:48:00 | |
56th | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 26,412 | 7.5 | 8% | 57:43:00 | |
57th | Humboldt University of Berlin | 31,043 | 54.8 | 17% | n/a | |
58th | Washington University in St Louis | 12,528 | 5.7 | 17% | n/a | |
59th | Delft University of Technology | 16,174 | 18.9 | 25% | 27 : 73 | |
60th | University of Queensland | 38,892 | 35.4 | 25% | 55:45:00 | |
61st | University of Southern California | 38,466 | 13.6 | 23% | 52:48:00 | |
62nd | University of Sydney | 42,678 | 19 | 29% | 57:43:00 | |
63rd | University of Amsterdam | 25,344 | 14.3 | 10% | 58:42:00 | |
64th | Boston University | 24,714 | 8.4 | 19% | 59:41:00 | |
65th | Wageningen University & Research | 9,535 | 15.6 | 23% | 56:44:00 | |
66th | École Normale Supérieure | 1,548 | 9.6 | 18% | 40 : 60 | |
67th | University of Maryland, College Park | 31,353 | 16.8 | 10% | 48:52:00 | |
68th | Pennsylvania State University | 45,359 | 12.3 | 13% | 46:54:00 | |
69th | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 21,854 | 20.6 | 19% | 49:51:00 | |
70th | Purdue University | 38,788 | 17.7 | 22% | 42:58:00 | |
71st | University of Bristol | 18,544 | 14.6 | 25% | 52:48:00 | |
72nd | Ohio State University | 52,497 | 12.8 | 12% | 49:51:00 | |
73rd | Seoul National University | 26,777 | 13.1 | 11% | n/a | |
74th | Monash University | 44,217 | 34.5 | 25% | 57:43:00 | |
75th | Free University of Berlin | 32,909 | 53.9 | 21% | 58:42:00 | |
76th | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 18,433 | 10.5 | 27% | n/a | |
77th | Leiden University | 23,597 | 17.8 | 11% | 59:41:00 | |
78th | University of New South Wales | 39,121 | 26.3 | 32% | 46:54:00 | |
79th | RWTH Aachen University | 42,298 | 54.9 | 17% | 32 : 68 | |
80th | University of Groningen | 25,281 | 24.4 | 13% | 52:48:00 | |
81st | University of Pittsburgh | 26,501 | 5.9 | 10% | 51:49:00 | |
82nd | Dartmouth College | 6,109 | 6.7 | 15% | 47:53:00 | |
83rd | Emory University | 12,649 | 4.4 | 19% | 57:43:00 | |
84th | Technical University of Berlin | 20,548 | 60.3 | 19% | 34 : 66 | |
85th | University of Warwick | 18,558 | 14.6 | 38% | 47:53:00 | |
86th | Utrecht University | 31,142 | 15.6 | 7% | 59:41:00 | |
87th | Rice University | 6,447 | 9 | 27% | 43:57:00 | |
88th | University of Glasgow | 22,856 | 15.6 | 32% | 57:43:00 | |
89th | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | 9,327 | 9.5 | 9% | 0.888888889 | |
90th | University of Tübingen | 28,074 | 37.3 | 11% | 58:42:00 | |
91st | University of Helsinki | 23,369 | 17 | 6% | 65:35:00 | |
92nd | Kyoto University | 22,547 | 5.5 | 7% | n/a | |
93rd | Uppsala University | 25,275 | 16.6 | 12% | 57:43:00 | |
94th | Maastricht University | 16,030 | 18.3 | 47% | 58:42:00 | |
95th | University of Freiburg | 25,890 | 33.7 | 16% | 52:48:00 | |
96th | Durham University | 15,705 | 15.5 | 26% | 54:46:00 | |
97th | Lund University | 28,852 | 12 | 15% | 53:47:00 | |
98th | Aarhus University | 24,633 | 13.9 | 14% | 55:45:00 | |
99th | University of Basel | 12,560 | 17.4 | 24% | 54:46:00 | |
100th | University of California, Irvine | 29,304 | 17.2 | 18% | 53:47:00 | |
Ranking | University Name | No. of FTE Students | Student – Staff Ratio | International Students | Female – Male Ratio | |
1st | Harvard University | 19,890 | 8.8 | 25% | n/a | |
2nd | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 11,192 | 8.8 | 34% | 37 : 63 | |
3rd | Stanford University | 15,658 | 7.7 | 22% | 42:58:00 | |
4th | University of Cambridge | 18,605 | 11.3 | 35% | 45:55:00 | |
5th | University of Oxford | 19,718 | 11 | 35% | 46:54:00 | |
6th | University of California, Berkeley | 34,834 | 12 | 16% | 52:48:00 | |
7th | Princeton University | 7,925 | 8.4 | 23% | 45:55:00 | |
8th | Yale University | 11,946 | 4.4 | 21% | 49:51:00 | |
9th | Columbia University | 25,659 | 6 | 30% | n/a | |
10th | California Institute of Technology | 2,181 | 6.7 | 27% | 31 : 69 | |
11th | University of Chicago | 13,486 | 6.2 | 24% | 42:58:00 | |
12th | University of Tokyo | 26,080 | 7 | 10% | n/a | |
13th | University of California, Los Angeles | 38,392 | 9.9 | 16% | 53:47:00 | |
14th | University of Michigan | 41,912 | 8.8 | 16% | 48:52:00 | |
15th | Imperial College London | 15,236 | 11.3 | 52% | 37 : 63 | |
16th | University of Pennsylvania | 20,367 | 6.5 | 20% | 51:49:00 | |
17th | Cornell University | 21,593 | 9.9 | 20% | 49:51:00 | |
18th | Tsinghua University | 41,537 | 14.1 | 10% | 32 : 68 | |
19th | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | 18,616 | 14.9 | 37% | 31 : 69 | |
20th | University College London | 28,602 | 10.5 | 47% | 56:44:00 | |
21st | Peking University | 42,977 | 8.8 | 15% | 48:52:00 | |
22nd | Johns Hopkins University | 15,303 | 3.5 | 24% | 51:49:00 | |
23rd | University of Toronto | 68,093 | 18.8 | 16% | n/a | |
24th | London School of Economics and Political Science | 9,401 | 11.5 | 70% | 53:47:00 | |
25th | New York University | 43,021 | 6.6 | 25% | 55:45:00 | |
26th | National University of Singapore | 31,111 | 16.7 | 32% | 50:50:00 | |
27th | Kyoto University | 22,547 | 5.5 | 7% | n/a | |
28th | Duke University | 15,204 | 4.8 | 17% | 49:51:00 | |
29th | University of Washington | 45,162 | 11.9 | 15% | 53:47:00 | |
30th | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 43,202 | 18.3 | 22% | 46:54:00 | |
31st | Lomonosov Moscow State University | 29,563 | 7.4 | 21% | 45:55:00 | |
32nd | Northwestern University | 18,570 | 14 | 16% | 48:52:00 | |
33rd | Carnegie Mellon University | 12,311 | 13.2 | 38% | 38 : 62 | |
34th | University of Texas at Austin | 48,689 | 17.2 | 10% | 51:49:00 | |
35th | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 40,048 | 11 | 12% | 51:49:00 | |
36th | University of California, San Diego | 28,416 | 6.6 | 14% | 47:53:00 | |
37th | University of British Columbia | 51,889 | 18.2 | 29% | 54:46:00 | |
38th | University of Edinburgh | 25,279 | 12.5 | 37% | 59:41:00 | |
39th | McGill University | 30,911 | 13.5 | 24% | 57:43:00 | |
40th | Georgia Institute of Technology | 19,847 | 19.8 | 26% | 31 : 69 | |
41st | LMU Munich | 36,180 | 15.7 | 14% | 61:39:00 | |
42nd | University of California, San Francisco | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |
43rd | King’s College London | 21,986 | 11.3 | 38% | 61:39:00 | |
44th | Pennsylvania State University | 45,359 | 12.3 | 13% | 46:54:00 | |
45th | University of California, Davis | 36,060 | 13.7 | 15% | 55:45:00 | |
46th | University of Hong Kong | 20,095 | 17.8 | 39% | 51:49:00 | |
47th | Seoul National University | 26,777 | 13.1 | 11% | n/a | |
48th | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | 9,750 | 11.2 | 54% | 27 : 73 | |
49th | University of Manchester | 34,015 | 14.3 | 36% | 52:48:00 | |
50th | University of Melbourne | 42,273 | 24.8 | 37% | 55:45:00 | |
51st | University of Minnesota | 46,625 | 17.5 | 13% | 52:48:00 | |
52nd | Delft University of Technology | 16,174 | 18.9 | 25% | 27 : 73 | |
53rd | Heidelberg University | 29,527 | 24.9 | 17% | 55:45:00 | |
54th | Humboldt University of Berlin | 31,043 | 54.8 | 17% | n/a | |
55th | Karolinska Institute | 7,723 | 11.3 | 23% | 69:31:00 | |
56th | University of Maryland, College Park | 31,353 | 16.8 | 10% | 48:52:00 | |
57th | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 26,412 | 7.5 | 8% | 57:43:00 | |
58th | Ohio State University | 52,497 | 12.8 | 12% | 49:51:00 | |
59th | Osaka University | 23,087 | 7.6 | 9% | 30 : 70 | |
60th | Purdue University | 38,788 | 17.7 | 22% | 42:58:00 | |
61st | Technical University of Munich | 36,929 | 51.9 | 22% | 33 : 67 | |
62nd | University of Amsterdam | 25,344 | 14.3 | 10% | 58:42:00 | |
63rd | Australian National University | 15,402 | 19.9 | 35% | 52:48:00 | |
64th | École Normale Supérieure | 1,548 | 9.6 | 18% | 40 : 60 | |
65th | KU Leuven | 46,381 | 41.9 | 16% | 49:51:00 | |
66th | Michigan State University | 45,297 | 15.8 | 17% | 51:49:00 | |
67th | University of Southern California | 38,466 | 13.6 | 23% | 52:48:00 | |
68th | University of Sydney | 42,678 | 19 | 29% | 57:43:00 | |
69th | Tohoku University | 17,349 | 5.4 | 9% | 26 : 74 | |
70th | Washington University in St Louis | 12,528 | 5.7 | 17% | n/a | |
71st | Boston University | 24,714 | 8.4 | 19% | 59:41:00 | |
72nd | Brown University | 8,694 | 10.2 | 20% | n/a | |
73rd | University of California, Santa Barbara | 22,267 | 27.4 | 12% | 51:49:00 | |
74th | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 18,433 | 10.5 | 27% | n/a | |
75th | Free University of Berlin | 32,909 | 53.9 | 21% | 58:42:00 | |
76th | Fudan University | 32,449 | 12.1 | 11% | 50:50:00 | |
77th | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 11,960 | 27.3 | 38% | n/a | |
78th | University of Pittsburgh | 26,501 | 5.9 | 10% | 51:49:00 | |
79th | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 36,535 | 12.3 | 6% | 41:59:00 | |
80th | Texas A&M University | 53,694 | 22.1 | 9% | 47:53:00 | |
81st | Indiana University (Bloomington) | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |
82nd | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | 9,327 | 9.5 | 9% | 0.888888889 | |
83rd | Leiden University | 23,597 | 17.8 | 11% | 59:41:00 | |
84th | London Business School | 1,423 | 14.3 | 90% | 30 : 70 | |
85th | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | 25,278 | 16.1 | 32% | 49:51:00 | |
86th | National Taiwan University | 31,581 | 11.6 | 8% | 40 : 60 | |
87th | Pierre and Marie Curie University | 28,473 | 8 | 17% | 48:52:00 | |
88th | RWTH Aachen University | 42,298 | 54.9 | 17% | 32 : 68 | |
89th | Saint Petersburg State University | 21,924 | 5.5 | 7% | 64:36:00 | |
90th | Tokyo Institute of Technology | 9,587 | 7.4 | 13% | 0.602083333 | |
91st | University of Warwick | 18,558 | 14.6 | 38% | 47:53:00 | |
92nd | Zhejiang University | 47,845 | 15.2 | 5% | 41:59:00 | |
93rd | Arizona State University | 43,082 | 20.1 | 16% | 44:56:00 | |
94th | University of Colorado Boulder | 29,741 | 16.3 | 9% | 44:56:00 | |
95th | École Polytechnique | 2,669 | 5 | 31% | 0.806944444 | |
96th | Insead | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |
97th | Lund University | 28,852 | 12 | 15% | 53:47:00 | |
98th | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology | 5,535 | 7.8 | 12% | n/a | |
99th | Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1 | 40,121 | 32.8 | 20% | 60:40:00 | |
100th | University of São Paulo | 83,201 | 14.7 | 4% | 48:52:00 |
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