Рейтинг навчальних закладів 2016 року

• академічна репутація,
• репутація серед роботодавців,
• співвідношення студент / викладач,
• індекс цитування на 1 викладача,
• % іноземних викладачів,
• % іноземних студентів.

Розглядаються тільки університети, які пропонують бакалаврат і постдипломні програми, як мінімум, в двох широких предметних областях (наприклад, мистецтво та технології).

Лідерами рейтингу QS World University Rankings протягом багатьох років стабільно є вищі навчальні заклади США та Великобританії.

Позиція в рейтингу		Назва університету	Країна
1		Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2		Stanford University
3		Harvard University
4		University of Cambridge
5		California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
6		University of Oxford
7		UCL (University College London)
8		ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
9		Imperial College London
10		University of Chicago
11		Princeton University
12		National University of Singapore (NUS)
13		Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)
14		Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
15		Yale University
16		Cornell University
17		Johns Hopkins University
18		University of Pennsylvania
19		The University of Edinburgh
20		Columbia University
21		King’s College London
22		The Australian National University
23		University of Michigan
24		Tsinghua University
25		Duke University
26		Northwestern University
27		The University of Hong Kong
28		University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
29		The University of Manchester
30		McGill University
31		University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
32		University of Toronto
33		Ecole normale supérieure, Paris
34		The University of Tokyo
35		Seoul National University
36		The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
37		Kyoto University
38		London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
39		Peking University
40		University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
41		University of Bristol
42		The University of Melbourne
43		Fudan University
44		The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
45		University of British Columbia
46		The University of Sydney
47		New York University (NYU)
48		KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
49		The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia)
50		Brown University
51		The University of Queensland
52		The University of Warwick
53		University of Wisconsin-Madison
54		Ecole Polytechnique
55		City University of Hong Kong
56		Tokyo Institute of Technology
57		University of Amsterdam
58		Carnegie Mellon University
59		University of Washington
60		Technical University of Munich
61		Shanghai Jiao Tong University
62		Delft University of Technology
63		Osaka University
64		University of Glasgow
65		Monash University
66		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
67		University of Texas at Austin
68		Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
69		National Taiwan University (NTU)
70		University of Copenhagen
71		Georgia Institute of Technology
72		Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg
73		Lund University
74		Durham University
75		Tohoku University
76		The University of Nottingham
77		University of St Andrews
78		University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
79		KU Leuven
80		University of Zurich
81		The University of Auckland
82		University of Birmingham
83		Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)
84		The University of Sheffield
85		Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
86		University of California, Davis
87		University of Southampton
88		The Ohio State University
89		Boston University
90		Rice University
91		University of Helsinki
92		Purdue University
93		University of Leeds
94		University of Alberta
95		State University
96		University of Geneva
97		KTH Royal Institute of Technology
98		Uppsala University
99		Korea University
100		Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin