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Top 100 Universities in 2023
| 2023 Rank | 2022 Rank | Institution | Country/Region |
| 1 | 1 | Harvard University | United States |
| 2 | 2 | Stanford University | United States |
| 3 | 3 | Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT) | United States |
| 4 | 4 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 5 | 5 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
| 6 | 6 | Princeton University | United States |
| 7 | 7 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 8 | 8 | Columbia University | United States |
| 9 | 9 | California Institute of Technology | United States |
| 10 | 10 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 11 | 11 | Yale University | United States |
| 12 | 12 | Cornell University | United States |
| 13 | 13 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
| 14 | 15 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 15 | 16 | Paris-Saclay University | France |
| 16 | 14 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 17 | 18 | University College London | United Kingdom |
| 18 | 17 | University of Washington | United States |
| 19 | 21 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
| 20 | 20 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
| 21 | 19 | Univ California – San Francisco | United States |
| 22 | 26 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 23 | 23 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 24 | 22 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 25 | 27 | Washington University in St. Louis | United States |
| 26 | 28 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States |
| 27 | 24 | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 28 | 25 | New York University | United States |
| 29 | 34 | Peking University | China |
| 30 | 30 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 31 | 29 | Univ North Carolina – Chapel Hill | United States |
| 32 | 39 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| 33 | 36 | Zhejiang University | China |
| 34 | 31 | Duke University | United States |
| 35 | 32 | The University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 35 | 33 | University of Wisconsin – Madison | United States |
| 37 | 41 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| 38 | 35 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 39 | 41 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 39 | 44 | Rockefeller University | United States |
| 41 | 40 | PSL University | France |
| 41 | 38 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 43 | 37 | The University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 44 | 44 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 44 | 44 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | United States |
| 46 | 54 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
| 46 | 43 | Sorbonne University | France |
| 48 | 52 | Univ Texas Southwestern Med Center | United States |
| 49 | 62 | University of Geneva | Switzerland |
| 50 | 50 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
| 51 | 47 | The University of Queensland | Australia |
| 52 | 49 | Univ Illinois – Urbana Champaign | United States |
| 52 | 54 | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| 54 | 101-150 | Swiss Fed Inst Tech – Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 55 | 70 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 56 | 67 | Fudan University | China |
| 57 | 51 | University of Colorado at Boulder | United States |
| 58 | 53 | University of Southern California | United States |
| 59 | 48 | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
| 59 | 56 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 59 | 57 | University of Munich | Germany |
| 59 | 59 | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
| 63 | 57 | Univ California – Santa Barbara | United States |
| 64 | 62 | Univ Sci & Tech China | China |
| 65 | 61 | University of California, Irvine | United States |
| 66 | 64 | Vanderbilt University | United States |
| 67 | 76 | University of Bonn | Germany |
| 68 | 83 | Weizmann Institute of Science | Israel |
| 69 | 78 | Université Paris Cité | France |
| 70 | 73 | McGill University | Canada |
| 71 | 71 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 72 | 64 | The University of New South Wales | Australia |
| 73 | 79 | Sun Yat-sen University | China |
| 73 | 67 | University of Oslo | Norway |
| 73 | 60 | University of Sydney | Australia |
| 76 | 66 | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| 77 | 75 | Monash University | Australia |
| 78 | 69 | Aarhus University | Denmark |
| 79 | 83 | Technion Israel Inst Tech | Israel |
| 80 | 71 | Univ Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center | United States |
| 81 | 83 | University of Basel | Switzerland |
| 82 | 89 | Uppsala University | Sweden |
| 83 | 82 | University of Pittsburgh | United States |
| 84 | 74 | Ghent University | Belgium |
| 84 | 79 | The Australian National University | Australia |
| 86 | 95 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 86 | 77 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel |
| 88 | 87 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| 88 | 96 | The University of Hong Kong | China-Hong Kong |
| 88 | 81 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| 91 | 96 | Huazhong Univ Sci & Tech | China |
| 91 | 92 | University of Alberta | Canada |
| 93 | 88 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| 94 | 98 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 95 | 101-150 | Central South University | China |
| 96 | 101-150 | Nanjing University | China |
| 96 | 83 | Purdue University – West Lafayette | United States |
| 98 | 99 | Brown University | United States |
| 98 | 90 | McMaster University | Canada |
| 98 | 90 | Stockholm University | Sweden |
Number of Top Universities by Country
| Country/Region | Top 100 | Top 500 | Top 1000 |
| United States | 38 | 120 | 187 |
| China | 11 | 98 | 214 |
| China-Mainland | 10 | 86 | 191 |
| China-Hong Kong | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| China-Taiwan | 0 | 5 | 14 |
| China-Macau | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 38 | 64 |
| Australia | 7 | 24 | 34 |
| Canada | 5 | 18 | 25 |
| Germany | 4 | 31 | 45 |
| France | 4 | 18 | 27 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 7 | 9 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 12 | 13 |
| Sweden | 3 | 10 | 13 |
| Israel | 3 | 5 | 7 |
| Japan | 2 | 12 | 32 |
| Belgium | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| Denmark | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| Singapore | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Finland | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| Norway | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Italy | 0 | 16 | 40 |
| South Korea | 0 | 11 | 30 |
| Spain | 0 | 9 | 38 |
| Saudi Arabia | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| Austria | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| Brazil | 0 | 5 | 18 |
| South Africa | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| New Zealand | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| Portugal | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| Ireland | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Russia | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| Poland | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| Czech Republic | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| India | 0 | 1 | 15 |
| Iran | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| Turkey | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Egypt | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Greece | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Malaysia | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Chile | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Mexico | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Serbia | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Argentina | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Croatia | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Pakistan | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Thailand | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Hungary | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| United Arab Emirates | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Colombia | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Estonia | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ethiopia | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ghana | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Iceland | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jordan | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Lebanon | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Lithuania | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qatar | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tunisia | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Source: Shanghai Ranking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023 Press Release
