The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) remains the best university in the world for a seventh consecutive year, according to the latest ranking from education research firm Quacquarelli Symonds.
Every year QS ranks universities around the world using a methodology that evaluates academic reputation, employer reputation, student-to-faculty ratio, as well as international reputation.
Using a points system, QS then rates the universities out of 100. They use these numbers to determine the best universities in the world.
MIT scored a 100 in every category, and as a result gained a perfect overall score, beating the likes of Harvard and Oxford University.
The latest rankings were published last week and can be found on the QS website.
39 universities gained a rating of more than 80 out of 100, spanning four continents, and almost a dozen different countries. The USA dominates the top of the list, while the UK and China are also prominent.
See who made the cut:
39. University of Melbourne, Australia — 80.1 (overall score out of 100)
38. London School of Economics, UK — 80.2
37. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — 80.5
36. Seoul National University, South Korea — 80.6
35. Kyoto University, Japan — 81.2
34. Northwestern University, USA — 81.5
33. McGill University, Canada — 81.7
32. University of California, Los Angeles, USA — 81.9
31. King's College London, UK — 82.5
30. Peking University, China — 82.6
29. University of Manchester, UK — 82.9
28. University of Toronto, Canada — 83.0
27. University of California, Berkeley, USA — 83.2
26. Duke University, USA — 83.9
25. University of Hong Kong — 84.3
24. Australian National University, Australia — 84.4
23. University of Tokyo, Japan — 85.3
22. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland — 85.8
21. Johns Hopkins University, USA — 85.9
20. University of Michigan, USA —86.4
19. University of Pennsylvania, USA — 86.5
18. University of Edinburgh, UK — 86.9
17. Tsinghua University, China — 87.2
16. Columbia University, USA — 88.5
15. Yale University, USA — 89.6
14. Cornell University, USA — 90.5
13. Princeton University, USA — 90.9
12. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore — 91.3
11. National University of Singapore, Singapore — 92.0
10. University College London, UK — 92.9
9. University of Chicago, USA — 93.2
8. Imperial College London, UK — 93.3
7. ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland — 95.3
6. University of Cambridge, UK — 95.6
5. University of Oxford, UK — 96.8
4. California Institute of Technology, USA — 97.2
3. Harvard University, USA — 98.5
2. Stanford University, USA — 98.6
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA — 100