Times Higher Education (THE) Announces World Reputation Rankings 2020

November 3, 2020

Times Higher Education (THE) has announced its eagerly anticipated World Reputation Rankings 2020 list!

To determine the world’s best universities by reputation, THE conducts an invitation-only opinion survey of senior, published academics, asking them to list up to 15 universities that, in their opinion, lead the way in research and teaching in their field.

Each ranking is accompanied by:

Number of full-time equivalency (FTE) students
Number of students per staff
Percentage of international students
Female-to-male ratio

In an effort to make the 2020 list the “most comprehensive assessment of global university prestige to date,” THE doubled the list this year to include the top 200 universities.

ApplyBoard Partner Schools

At ApplyBoard, we consider ourselves incredibly fortunate to work with our partner schools on our shared mission to educate the world. We want to take a moment to congratulate those who were included in THE’s World Reputation Rankings 2020 list:

Canada

McGill University
University of Waterloo

United States

Johns Hopkins University
University of Arizona
Arizona State University – Tempe
University of California, Irvine

Top 50 Universities

The list below includes the top 50 universities on the THE World University Rankings 2020. Read the complete list of top 200 schools.

*Denotes a tie

Rank	University	Country/Region	# of FTE Students	# of Students Per Staff	International Students	Female:Male Ratio
1	Harvard University	United States	20,823	9.2	24%	49:51
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	11,247	8.6	34%	39:61
3	Stanford University	United States	16,135	7.3	23%	43:57
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	18,978	10.9	37%	47:53
5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	20,664	11.2	41%	46:54
6	University of California, Berkeley	United States	41,081	13.7	17%	50:50
7	Princeton University	United States	7,983	8.1	25%	45:55
8	Yale University	United States	12,402	5.4	20%	50:50
9	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	41,066	9.4	17%	54:46
10	The University of Tokyo	Japan	25,913	10.6	12%	N/A
11	California Institute of Technology	United States	2,240	6.4	30%	34:66
12	The University of Chicago	United States	13,833	5.7	28%	46:54
13	Tsinghua University	China	38,783	12.0	11%	34:66
14	Columbia University	United States	26,586	5.8	37%	N/A
15	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	42,982	8.3	17%	49:51
16	Peking University	China	39,575	11.5	15%	46:54
17	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	18,956	12.5	39%	32:68
18	UCL	United Kingdom	32,665	10.6	52%	57:43
19	Johns Hopkins University	United States	16,171	4.5	26%	52:48
20*	University of Pennsylvania	United States	20,578	6.5	21%	52:48
20*	University of Toronto	Canada	73,370	20.1	21%	59:41
22	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	16,760	11.7	56%	38:62
23	Kyoto University	Japan	22,566	9.0	9%	24:76
24	National University of Singapore	Singapore	30,869	17.9	28%	51:49
25	Cornell University	United States	22,319	9.8	25%	49:51
26	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	10,570	12.1	71%	53:47
27	New York University	United States	44,466	8.9	33%	57:43
28	Duke University	United States	15,309	4.3	19%	49:51
29	University of Washington	United States	45,692	11.1	16%	53:47
30	University of Texas at Austin	United States	49,165	17.2	10%	52:48
31	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	29,433	12.8	41%	60:40
32	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	44,916	17.9	24%	47:53
33	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	39,154	10.0	13%	N/A
34*	University of California, San Diego	United States	33,579	13.0	23%	46:54
34*	Northwestern University	United States	17,951	12.8	20%	49:51
36	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	13,430	13.6	48%	41:59
37	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	29,235	7.3	29%	48:52
38	University of British Columbia	Canada	52,108	18.1	32%	55:45
39	University of Melbourne	Australia	47,385	26.3	46%	56:44
40*	McGill University	Canada	31,294	13.0	29%	58:42
40*	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	27,254	11.1	11%	40:60
42*	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	10,492	11.4	59%	28:72
42*	LMU Munich	Germany	34,519	34.7	17%	61:39
44	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	21,372	18.3	27%	33:67
45	Seoul National University	South Korea	26,182	12.4	12%	N/A
46	Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris	France	21,298	11.5	26%	46:54
47	King’s College London	United Kingdom	26,057	12.5	44%	62:38
48*	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	37,038	14.4	40%	53:47
48*	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	35,419	9.4	8%	57:43
50*	University of California, San Francisco	United States	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
50*	Sorbonne University	France	43,076	13.5	19%	58:42