As of 2025, specific rankings for universities can vary depending on the organization and methodology used. While I can't provide the exact list for 2025 since it hasn't been published yet, I can share a general idea of which universities are often found in the top tier based on recent years’ data.
Frequently Ranked Universities in the Top 100
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA
2. Stanford University - USA
3. Harvard University - USA
4. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - USA
5. University of Oxford - UK
6. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Switzerland
7. University of Cambridge - UK
8. University of Chicago - USA
9. Imperial College London - UK
10. University College London (UCL) - UK
11. Yale University - USA
12. Princeton University - USA
13. University of California, Berkeley - USA
14. National University of Singapore (NUS) - Singapore
15. Tsinghua University - China
16. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor - USA
17. University of Toronto - Canada
18. Johns Hopkins University - USA
19. University of Edinburgh - UK
20. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - USA
21. Peking University - China
22. University of Washington - USA
23. University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - USA
24. University of Melbourne - Australia
25. Northwestern University - USA
26. University of Manchester - UK
27. University of Sydney - Australia
28. University of California, Davis - USA
29. University of Pennsylvania - USA
30. University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Australia
31. Duke University - USA
32. University of Queensland - Australia
33. University of California, Irvine - USA
34. Sorbonne University - France
35. University of Bristol - UK
36. University of Warwick - UK
37. University of Amsterdam - Netherlands
38. University of Copenhagen - Denmark
39. University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong
40. University of Texas at Austin - USA
41. Kyoto University - Japan
42. University of Glasgow - UK
43. Pennsylvania State University - USA
44. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - USA
45. University of Wisconsin-Madison - USA
46. McGill University - Canada
47. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - USA
48. University of Southern California (USC) - USA
49. University of California, Santa Barbara - USA
50. University of Alberta - Canada
51. University of Tokyo - Japan
52. University of California, Santa Cruz - USA
53. University of Amsterdam - Netherlands
54. University of Pittsburgh - USA
55. University of California, Riverside - USA
56. University of Adelaide - Australia
57. University of Glasgow - UK
58. University of Science and Technology of China - China
59. University of Leeds - UK
60. University of Sheffield - UK
61. University of Alberta - Canada
62. University of Maryland, College Park - USA
63. University of Zurich - Switzerland
64. University of Cape Town - South Africa
65. University of Copenhagen - Denmark
66. University of Exeter - UK
67. University of Colorado Boulder - USA
68. University of Oregon - USA
69. University of Illinois - USA
70. University of Freiburg - Germany
71. University of Sussex - UK
72. University of Southampton - UK
73. University of Utah - USA
74. University of Florida - USA
75. University of Virginia - USA
76. University of Groningen - Netherlands
77. University of Bristol - UK
78. University of Tartu - Estonia
79. University of Tokyo - Japan
80. University of Queensland - Australia
81. University of Waterloo - Canada
82. University of Southern Denmark - Denmark
83. University of Alberta - Canada
84. University of Queensland - Australia
85. University of Amsterdam - Netherlands
86. University of Edinburgh - UK
87. University of Manitoba - Canada
88. University of Leeds - UK
89. University of Helsinki - Finland
90. University of Barcelona - Spain
91. University of Oslo - Norway
92. University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong
93. University of Cape Town - South Africa
94. University of Melbourne - Australia
95. University of Santiago de Compostela - Spain
96. University of Lisbon - Portugal
97. University of Reykjavik - Iceland
98. University of Antwerp - Belgium
99. University of Vienna - Austria
100. University of Stuttgart - Germany