The 2022 Shanghai Ranking: these are the best universities in the world

Every year, the Shanghai ranking calculates which are the best universities in the world. Anglo-Saxon institutions tend to dominate the list. Do you want to see which ones they are?

1. Harvard University (US)

2. Stanford University (US)

3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (US)

4. University of Cambridge (UK)

5. University of California, Berkeley (US)

6. Princeton University (US)

7. University of Oxford (UK)

8. Columbia University (US)

9. California Institute of Technology (US)

10. University of Chicago (US)

11. Yale University (US)

12. Cornell University (US)

13. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (US)

14. Johns Hopkins University (US)

15. University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) (US)

16. University of Paris-Saclay (France)

Only at number 16 does the first non-Anglo-Saxon university appear.

17. University of Washington (US)

18. University College London (UK)

19. University of California, San Francisco (US)

20. ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

21. University of California, San Diego (US)

22. University of Toronto (Canada)

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23. Imperial College London (UK)

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24. The University of Tokyo (Japan)

25. New York University (NYU) (US)

26. Tsinghua University (China)

27. Washington University in St. Louis (US)

28. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (UMich) (US)

29. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)

30. Northwestern University (US)

31. Duke University (US)

32. University of Melbourne (Australia)

33. University of Wisconsin-Madison (US)

34. Beijing University (China)

35. University of Edinburgh (UK)

36. Zhejiang University (China)

37. The University of Texas at Austin (USA)

38. The University of Manchester (UK)

39. University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

40. PSL University (Paris, France)

41. Karolinska Institutet (Sweden)

42. Kyoto University (Japan)

43. Sorbonne University (France)

The famous Sorbonne of Paris only makes it to 43rd place in this ranking.

44. Rockefeller University (US)

45. University of British Columbia (Canada)

46. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (US)

47. University of Queensland (Australia)

48. King's College London (UK)

49. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US)

50. University of Maryland, College Park (US)

The United States is most amply represented in the top 50 with 27 universities. Then comes the United Kingdom with 6 universities, of which the well-known Cambridge and Oxford score unsurprisingly high. A bit lower in the national ranking, Australia and Canada both are represented by 2 universities in the top 50.