Top 20 Colleges Worldwide

Purpose: This page's goal is to help people research the ranking details of the top 20 colleges compared to each other. The page will have tables, figures, and comments to illustrate how the rankings for specifc categories regarding education and employment differ between the different schools.

Data Sub-Genre Focus: Comparing Top 20 Ranked Colleges Quality and Detailed Rankings

Top 3 Schools Worldwide

Walkthrough

Click on a World Ranking number in the table to get a small summary on that school.
Looking at Harvard, it is ranked 1st in the world, 1st in the USA, and 7th in quality of education worldwide.
Comparatively, MIT is ranked 2nd in the world, 2nd in the USA, and 9th in quality of education worldwide.

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world_rank World Rank	institution Institution	country Country	national_rank National Rank	quality_of_education Education Quality	alumni_employment Alumni Employment	quality_of_faculty Faculty Quality	publications Publications
1	Harvard University	USA	1	7	9	1	1
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	2	9	17	3	12
3	Stanford University	USA	3	17	11	5	4
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	1	10	24	4	16
5	California Institute of Technology	USA	4	2	29	7	37
6	Princeton University	USA	5	8	14	2	53
7	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	2	13	28	9	15
8	Yale University	USA	6	14	31	12	14
9	Columbia University	USA	7	23	21	10	13
10	University of California, Berkeley	USA	8	16	52	6	6
11	University of Chicago	USA	9	15	26	8	34
12	Cornell University	USA	10	21	42	14	22
13	University of Pennsylvania	USA	11	31	16	24	9
14	University of Tokyo	Japan	1	32	19	31	8
15	Johns Hopkins University	USA	12	34	77	20	11
16	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich	Switzerland	1	26	66	11	40
17	Kyoto University	Japan	2	42	38	19	25
18	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel	1	4	101	22	101
19	University of California, Los Angeles	USA	13	62	59	23	3
20	University of California, San Diego	USA	14	61	101	15	10