Top 50 Universities and Colleges

The University Review Top 50 Universities 2016 list is calculated on information from US news, the Times, the Guardian, the Independent and the ARWU. Further information on individual universities and colleges is available from the tables.

UR World Ranking 2012	University Name	Country	ARWU World Ranking 2012	THE U.S. news World Ranking 2012
1	Harvard University	U.S.A.	1	2
2	Stanford University	U.S.A.	3	2
3	Caltech	U.S.A.	6	1
4	University of Cambridge	U.K.	5	6
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	U.S.A.	4	7
6	Princeton University	U.S.A.	7	5
6	UCBerkeley	U.S.A.	2	10
8	University of Oxford	U.K.	10	4
9	University of Chicago	U.S.A.	9	9
10	Columbia University	U.S.A.	8	12
11	Yale University	U.S.A.	11	11
12	University of California Los Angeles	U.S.A.	13	13
13	University of Pennsylvania	U.S.A.	15	16
14	Johns Hopkins University	U.S.A.	18	14
14	Cornell University	U.S.A.	12	20
16	Imperial College London	U.K.	26	8
17	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	23	15
17	University College London	U.K.	21	17
19	University of Michigan	U.S.A.	22	18
20	University of Washington	U.S.A.	16	25
21	University of Wisconsin Madison	U.S.A.	17	27
22	University of Toronto	Canada	27	19
23	University of California San Diego	U.S.A.	14	33
24	University of Tokyo	Japan	20	30
25	Northwestern University	U.S.A.	29	26
26	University of Illinois Urbana Champaign	U.S.A.	25	31
27	Duke University	U.S.A.	35	22
28	University of British Columbia	Canada	36	22
29	University of Texas at Austin	U.S.A.	38	29
29	University of California Santa Barbara	U.S.A.	32	35
31	University of Minnesota	U.S.A.	28	42
32	Washington University in St. Louis	U.S.A.	30	41
33	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	42	32
34	New York University	U.S.A.	31	44
35	Kyoto University	Japan	24	52
36	Carnegie Mellon University	U.S.A.	58	21
37	UC Davis	U.S.A.	46	38
37	University of North Carolina	U.S.A.	41	43
39	McGill University	Canada	61	28
40	University of Edinburgh	U.K.	54	36
41	University of Manchester	U.K.	44	48
42	Penn State University	U.S.A.	43	51
43	Australian National University	Australia	59	38
43	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich	Germany	52	45
45	University of Melbourne	Australia	62	37
46	University of Southern California	U.S.A.	46	55
47	University of Colorado	U.S.A.	32	77
48	University of Zurich	Switzerland	51	61
49	Brown University	U.S.A.	65	49
50	University of Pittsburgh	U.S.A.	56	59

University and college ranking lists associated with this site date back to 2006 with the release of the PBA American University Rankings. This is the first time that the top 25 to 500 universities have been made available on the PBA spin-off university review website.

References

US News; THE; ARWU; Wikipedia; Individual University Websites; Guardian; Independent.