University league tables 2021

What are the best universities in the world in 2021? Here are the top 25 listed by The Times.

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. The 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. UCLvUnited Kingdom

17. Columbia University United States

18. University of Toronto. Canada

19. Cornell University United States

20. Duke University United States

21. 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

What are the best universities in the UK in 2021? Here are the top 25 listed by The Guardian.

1. Oxford

2. St Andrews

3. Cambridge

4. Durham

5. London School of Economics

6. Bath

7. Loughborough

8. Warwick

9. Imperial College

10. Lancaster

11. Bristol

12. Glasgow

13. Edinburgh

14. UCL

15. Strathclyde

16. York

17. Exeter

18. Leeds

19. Dundee

20. Aberdeen

21. UWE Bristol

22. Birmingham

23. Southampton

24. Swansea

25. Manchester