TOP 20 UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD | TOP UNIVERSITIES

TOP 20 UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD | Top Universities

Top 20 Universities In The World

20. The University of Edinburgh
Scotland, United Kingdom
The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.
19. columbia university
New York, United States America
Columbia was established as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain in reaction to the founding of Princeton College.[9] It was renamed Columbia College in 1784 following the American Revolution
18.cornell university
New York, United States America
the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied.

17. Yale university
New Haven, Connecticut
Chartered by Connecticut Colony, the "Collegiate School" was established in 1701 by clergy to educate Congregational ministers. It moved to New Haven in 1716 and shortly after was renamed Yale College
16. University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The University claims a founding date of 1740 and is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

15. Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Since its establishment in 1911, it has graduated Chinese leaders in science, engineering, politics, business, academia, and culture.

14. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
It is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, and it has three main missions: education, research and technology transfer at the highest international level.

13. Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Ave, Singapore
With 33,500 students, and 10,000 faculty and staff, NTU is the second largest university in Singapore.

12. Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.

11. National University of Singapore
Lower Kent Ridge Rd, Singapore
Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest higher education institution in Singapore

10. University of London
London, England
Established in 1826 as London University by founders inspired by the radical ideas of Jeremy Bentham, UCL was the first university institution to be established in London

9.University of Chicago
Chicago, America
The university is composed of the undergraduate college as well as various graduate programs and interdisciplinary committees organized into five academic research divisions.

8. Imperial College London
London, united kingdom
Dating back to the Royal College of Chemistry's foundation in 1845, Imperial grew out of Prince Albert's vision of an area for culture, including the Royal Albert Hall, Imperial Institute, numerous museums, and the Royal Colleges that would go on to form the college

7. University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by King Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's fourth-oldest surviving university.

6. ETH Zurich
Zürich, Switzerland
Founded by the Swiss Federal Government in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the school focuses exclusively on science, technology, engineering and mathematics

5 .University of Cambridge
Oxford, England
There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation.

4. california institute of technology
Pasadena, California
Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphasis on science and engineering, managing $332 million in 2011 in sponsored research.[10] Its 124-acre (50 ha) primary campus is located approximately 11 mi (18 km) northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

3. Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The university is composed of eleven principal academic units—ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—with campuses throughout Greater Boston

2. Stanford University
Stanford, California
The university was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The institute is a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant university, with an urban campus that extends more than a mile alongside the Charles River.