Times Higher Education (THE) has announced the results of the World University Rankings 2021.
The list includes more than 1,500 universities spanning 93 countries and regions. It’s “the only global university league table to judge research-intensive universities across each one of their core missions”:
- Teaching (the learning environment)
- Research (volume, income, and reputation)
- International outlook (staff, students, and research)
- Citations (research influence)
- Industry income (knowledge transfer)
Times Higher Education employs 13 performance indicators to ensure “comprehensive and balanced comparisons,” and the data is independently audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
ApplyBoard Partner Universities
ApplyBoard wishes to extend our congratulations to our partner universities across Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States included in the World University Rankings 2021—an astounding 87 made the cut! We consider ourselves incredibly fortunate to work with each of our partner schools on our shared mission to educate the world.
Canada
- McGill University
- University of Waterloo
- Western University
- Queen’s University
- University of Manitoba
- University of Victoria
- University of Saskatchewan
- York University
- University of Guelph
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Lakehead University
- Ryerson University
- University of Windsor
- University of New Brunswick UNB
- University of Regina
- University of Lethbridge
United Kingdom
- University of Liverpool
- University of Reading
- Swansea University
- Royal Holloway, University of London
- Loughborough University
- Middlesex University
- University of Strathclyde
- University of the West of England
- Coventry University
- De Montfort University
- University of Greenwich
- Nottingham Trent University
- University of Hertfordshire
- Kingston University
- Leeds Beckett University
- University of South Wales
United States
- Johns Hopkins University
- University of California, Irvine
- University of Arizona
- University of Alabama – Birmingham
- Northeastern University
- Arizona State University
- Texas A&M University
- University of Massachusetts
- University of South Florida
- University of Utah
- University of California, Riverside
- George Mason University
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- University of Colorado – Denver
- University of Delaware
- Washington State University
- University of Kansas
- American University
- Clark University
- Colorado State University
- Florida International University
- Oregon State University
- University of South Carolina
- University of Tulsa
- Hofstra University
- Louisiana State University
- University of Montana
- Auburn University
- University of Central Florida
- University of Idaho
- Montana State University
- Western Washington University
- Baylor University
- Kent State University
- James Madison University
- Western Michigan University
Top 50 Universities for 2021
*The = symbol denotes a tie.
| Ranking | University | Country |
| 1 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 2 | Stanford University | United States |
| 3 | Harvard University | United States |
| 4 | California Institute of Technology | United States |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 6 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 7 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
| 8 | Yale University | United States |
| 9 | Princeton University | United States |
| 10 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 11 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 12 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 13 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 14 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
| 15 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
| 16 | UCL | United Kingdom |
| 17 | Columbia University | United States |
| 18 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 19 | Cornell University | United States |
| =20 | Duke University | United States |
| =20 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 22 | University of Michigan – Ann Arbor | United States |
| 23 | Peking University | China |
| 24 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 25 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 26 | New York University | United States |
| 27 | London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom |
| 28 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 29 | University of Washington | United States |
| 30 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 31 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 32 | LMU Munich | Germany |
| 33 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
| 34 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 35 | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
| =36 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| =36 | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 38 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 39 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 40 | McGill University | Canada |
| 41 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 42 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 43 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 44 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 45 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 46 | Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris | France |
| 47 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | Singapore |
| 48 | University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign | United States |
| 49 | University of Wisconsin – Madison | United States |
| 50 | Washington University in St Louis | United States |
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