The world's top 100 universities 2013 - the full list

MIT has been named the world's top university for the second year in a row. See how it compare to the rest of the world's top 100 institutions in the QS' 2013 rankings
• Get the 2012 data

Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been named the best university in the world in the latest QS rankings. Photograph: Brian Snyder/ BRIAN SNYDER/Reuters/Corbis

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has maintained its position at the top of the QS World University Rankings, beating Harvard and Cambridge for the second year in a row.

Cambridge has slipped to third place as Harvard come in second. University College London (UCL) and Imperial are placed fourth and fifth respectively.

Despite Cambridge dropping to third place and Oxford falling out the top five, UK universities still register a strong performance in the rankings with UK institutions taking four of the top six places. Claire Shaw and Richard Adams write today:

The QS rankings included a record number of UK institutions in the top 20, with Edinburgh and King's College London entering for the first time at 17th and 19th respectively.
Coventry was among 15 UK institutions named as a leading university in the QS rankings, which represent the top 4% of international higher education institutions and take into account subject range, research output and academic reputation of more than 3,000 universities around the globe.

As usual US universities continue to dominate the the rankings - taking more than half of the top 20 places. The UK has 30 institutions in the list, the same number as last year. QS suggest that universities in continental Europe are experiencing a resurgence as Switzerland boosts its representation in the top 20 and the Netherlands record two more universities than last year in the top 100.

QS rank institutions based on an overall score calculated using ratings for six criteria; academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per faculty, faculty-to-student ratio, international proportion of faculty and international proportion of students. All scores are out of 100.

MIT was not ranked first in any of the six categories, but had four scores in the top 20. Harvard was ranked first for academic reputation followed by Cambridge.

Oxford placed first for employer reputation above Cambridge in second place and Harvard in third. The full data can be found in the downloadable spreadsheet including scores for each of the six categories. The table below shows the top 100 of the QS rankings and includes the 2012 rank also.

QS' top 100 universities in the world, 2013

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Rank	University (links to profile on QS)	Country	2012 rank	Year-on-year change	Overall Score
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	1	0	100
2	Harvard University	United States	3	1	99.2
3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	2	-1	99
4	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	4	0	98.9
5	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	6	1	98.8
6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	5	-1	98.7
7	Stanford University	United States	15	8	96.8
8	Yale University	United States	7	-1	96.5
9	University of Chicago	United States	8	-1	96.2
10=	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	10	0	96.1
10=	Princeton University	United States	9	-1	96.1
12	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	13	1	94.3
13	University of Pennsylvania	United States	12	-1	93.8
14	Columbia University	United States	11	-3	93.6
15	Cornell University	United States	14	-1	92.5
16	Johns Hopkins University	United States	16	0	92.1
17=	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	21	4	91.3
17=	University of Toronto	Canada	19	2	91.3
19=	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	29	10	90.9
19=	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	26	7	90.9
21	McGill University	Canada	18	-3	90.6
22	University of Michigan	United States	17	-5	90.5
23	Duke University	United States	20	-3	90.1
24	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	25	1	89.4
25	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	22	-3	89
26	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	23	-3	88.6
27	Australian National University	Australia	24	-3	88.5
28	Ecole normale supérieure, Paris	France	34	6	87.8
29	Northwestern University	United States	27	-2	87.3
30	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	28	-2	86.6
31	The University of Melbourne	Australia	36	5	86
32	The University of Tokyo	Japan	30	-2	85.7
33	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	32	-1	85.2
34	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	33	-1	84.4
35=	Kyoto University	Japan	35	0	84.1
35=	Seoul National University	Korea, South	37	2	84.1
37	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	38	1	83
38	The University of Sydney	Australia	39	1	82.9
39	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	40	1	82.3
40	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	31	-9	81.9
41=	Ecole Polytechnique	France	41	0	81.1
41=	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	47	6	81.1
43	The University of Queensland	Australia	46	3	80.9
44	New York University (NYU)	United States	43	-1	80.8
45	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	51	6	80.5
46	Peking University	China	44	-2	80
47	Brown University	United States	42	-5	79.8
48	Tsinghua University	China	48	0	79.7
49	University of British Columbia	Canada	45	-4	79.4
50	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	55	5	79.3
51	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	54	3	78.9
52	The University of New South Wales	Australia	52	0	78.8
53	Technische Universität München	Germany	53	0	78.5
54	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	57	3	77
55	Osaka University	Japan	50	-5	76.9
56	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	56	0	76.7
57	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	49	-8	76.6
58	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	62	4	76.4
59	University of Washington	United States	59	0	76.2
60	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	Korea, South	63	3	75.8
61	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	67	6	75.1
62	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	77	15	74.9
63	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	70	7	74.8
64	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	58	-6	74.5
65	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	60	-5	74.4
66	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	65	-1	74.2
67	Lund University	Sweden	71	4	74
68	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	69	1	73.9
69=	Monash University	Australia	61	8	73.7
69=	University of Helsinki	Finland	78	9	73.7
71=	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	66	-5	73.3
71=	University of Geneva	Switzerland	74	3	73.3
71=	University of Texas at Austin	United States	68	-3	73.3
74	Leiden University	Netherlands	75	1	73.2
75=	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	72	-3	73.1
75=	Tohoku University	Japan	75	0	73.1
77	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	82	5	73
78	University of Zurich	Switzerland	90	12	72.9
79=	Boston University	United States	64	-15	72.5
79=	Uppsala University	Sweden	81	2	72.5
81	Utrecht University	Netherlands	85	4	72.3
82	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	80	-2	72
83	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	93	10	71.6
84	The University of Western Australia	Australia	79	-5	71.4
85	University of California, Davis	United States	100	15	71.3
86=	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	73	-13	71
86=	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	84	-2	71
88	Fudan University	China	90	2	70.8
89	University of Oslo	Norway	111	22	70.6
90	Durham University	United Kingdom	92	2	70.4
91	Aarhus University	Denmark	89	-2	70.3
92=	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	99	7	70.2
92=	Université de Montréal	Canada	114	22	70.2
94	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	83	-11	69.8
95	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	103	8	69.4
96	University of Alberta	Canada	108	12	69.3
97=	University of Groningen	Netherlands	109	12	69.2
97=	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	94	-3	69.2
99=	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	88	-11	68.4
99=	Nagoya University	Japan	86	-13	68.4
99=	Purdue University	United States	95	-4	68.4