Harvard University is ranked No. i inwards the world, ahead of Stanford University (3rd globally) together with the University of Cambridge (up from fourth inwards 2016 to tertiary inwards 2017), according to the ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2017:
i Harvard University
two Stanford University
iii University of Cambridge
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
five University of California, Berkeley
vi Princeton University
seven University of Oxford
viii Columbia University
nine California Institute of Technology
x University of Chicago
xi Yale University
12 University of California, Los Angeles
thirteen University of Washington
fourteen Cornell University
fifteen University of California, San Diego
sixteen University College London
17 University of Pennsylvania
xviii Johns Hopkins University
xix Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
xx Washington University inwards St. Louis
21 University of California, San Francisco
22 Northwestern University
23 University of Toronto
24 The University of Tokyo
24 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
26 Duke University
27 Imperial College London
28 University of Wisconsin - Madison
29 New York University
xxx University of Copenhagen
31 University of British Columbia
32 The University of Edinburgh
33 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
34 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
35 Kyoto University
36 Rockefeller University
37 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
38 The University of Manchester
39 The University of Melbourne
xl Pierre together with Marie Curie University - Paris
41 University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11)
42 Heidelberg University
43 University of Colorado at Boulder
44 Karolinska Institute
45 University of California, Santa Barbara
46 King's College London
47 Utrecht University
48 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
48 Tsinghua University
l Technical University Munich
51 The University of Texas at Austin
52 Vanderbilt University
53 University of Maryland, College Park
54 University of Southern California
55 The University of Queensland
56 University of Helsinki
57 University of Munich
58 University of Zurich
59 University of Groningen
lx University of Geneva
61 University of Bristol
62 University of Oslo
63 Uppsala University
64 University of California, Irvine
65 Aarhus University
66 McMaster University
67 McGill University
68 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus
69 Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris
69 Ghent University
71 Mayo Medical School
71 Peking University
73 Erasmus University
74 Rice University
74 Stockholm University
76 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
77 Purdue University - West Lafayette
78 Monash University
79 Rutgers, The State University of New Bailiwick of Jersey - New Brunswick
fourscore Boston University
fourscore Carnegie Mellon University
fourscore The Ohio State University - Columbus
83 University of Sydney
84 Nagoya University
85 Georgia Institute of Technology
85 Pennsylvania State University - University Park
85 University of California, Davis
88 Leiden University
88 University of Florida
xc KU Leuven
91 National University of Singapore
91 The University of Western Commonwealth of Australia
93 Moscow State University
93 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
95 University of Basel
95 University of Goettingen
97 The Australian National University
98 University of California, Santa Cruz
99 Cardiff University
99 University of Arizona
Source: ARWU
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