Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 by Times Higher Education: 16 universities ranked, led by University of Oxford. The entries on record...

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Oxford first for the ninth consecutive year; MIT rose to second and Stanford fell to sixth, with Harvard third and Princeton fourth. The table ranked 2,092 institutions from 115 countries; Brazil, Saudi Arabia and the UAE had universities in the top 200 for the first time.

The list on record

This page shows the 16 entries on record of 2092 published. Ranks 1 to 16 from a Cambridge International factsheet, consistent with Time Out's US coverage; full list on timeshighereducation.com. See the original list.

Rank	Name	Location	Since 2024
1	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	No change
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	Up 1
3	Harvard University	United States	Up 1
4	Princeton University	United States	Up 2
5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	No change
6	Stanford University	United States	Down 4
7	California Institute of Technology	United States	No change
8	University of California, Berkeley	United States	Up 1
9	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	Down 1
10	Yale University	United States	No change
11	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	No change
12	Tsinghua University	China	No change
13	Peking University	China
=14	University of Pennsylvania	United States
=14	University of Chicago	United States
16	Johns Hopkins University	United States

This list is reproduced as Times Higher Education published it. Names are shown as printed. The ranking belongs to its publisher.

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