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Top 300 universities in the world: Rankings & Acceptance rate
Rank
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University name
Acceptance rate
Acc. rate
Country & City
1
Harvard University
5%
Cambridge
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7%
Cambridge
3
Stanford University
5%
Stanford
4
University of California - Berkeley
17%
Berkeley
5
Cornell University
13%
Ithaca
6
University of Washington - Seattle Campus
46%
Seattle
7
University of Sao Paulo
5%
Sao Paulo
8
University of Cambridge
15%
Cambridge
9
Columbia University in the City of New York
7%
New York
10
University College London
London
11
University of Oxford
25%
Oxford
12
University of California - Los Angeles
16%
Los Angeles
13
Yale University
7%
New Haven
14
Princeton University
6%
Princeton
15
Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus
50%
University Park
16
University of Murcia
65%
Murcia
17
University of California - Irvine
37%
Irvine
18
Purdue University - Main Campus
57%
West Lafayette
19
Duke University
10%
Durham
20
Carnegie Mellon University
22%
Pittsburgh
21
University of Helsinki
5%
Helsinki
22
Texas A & M University - College Station
71%
College Station
23
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
27%
Ann Arbor
24
University of Minnesota
45%
Minneapolis
25
University of Wisconsin - Madison
54%
Madison
26
Indiana University - Bloomington
76%
Bloomington
27
New York University
28%
New York
28
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
24%
Chapel Hill
29
University of Pennsylvania
9%
Philadelphia
30
Michigan State University
72%
East Lansing
31
University of Maryland - College Park
45%
College Park
32
Johns Hopkins University
13%
Baltimore
33
University of Florida
42%
Gainesville
34
Northwestern University
9%
Evanston
35
The University of Texas at Austin
36%
Austin
36
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
65%
New Brunswick
37
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
38
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Mexico City
39
University of California-San Diego
34%
San Diego
40
University of Southern California
16%
Los Angeles
41
University of Toronto
Toronto
42
University of Chicago
9%
Chicago
43
University of California - Davis
43%
Davis
44
University of Arizona
84%
Tucson
45
The University of British Columbia
45%
Vancouver
46
Arizona State University - Tempe
84%
Tempe
47
University of Virginia - Main Campus
27%
Charlottesville
48
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Zurich
49
Uppsala University
75%
Uppsala
50
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
62%
Champaign
51
Technical University of Munich
Munchen
52
Ohio State University - Main Campus
48%
Columbus
53
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
51%
Raleigh
54
Australian National University
Canberra
55
Simon Fraser University
85%
Burnaby
56
Boston University
25%
Boston
57
University of Colorado Boulder
80%
Boulder
58
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
70%
Blacksburg
59
Tsinghua University
Beijing
60
McGill University
Montreal
61
The University of Queensland
St Lucia
62
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
58%
Amherst
63
Heidelberg University - Germany
Heidelberg
64
University of Missouri - Columbia
78%
Columbia
65
Iowa State University
89%
Ames
66
Washington University in St Louis
16%
St. Louis
67
Michigan Career and Technical Institute
Plainwell
68
The University of Melbourne
75%
Melbourne
69
University of Munich
Munchen
70
The University of Manchester
Manchester
71
University of Oslo
Oslo
72
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
64%
Lincoln
73
University of Alberta
Edmonton
74
The University of New South Wales
Sydney
75
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam
76
Utrecht University
Utrecht
77
Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Lausanne
78
University of California - Santa Cruz
51%
Santa Cruz
79
Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
23%
Atlanta
80
Peking University
Beijing
81
University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
60%
Pittsburgh
82
University of Utah
66%
Salt Lake City
83
University of Georgia
54%
Athens
84
University of California - Santa Barbara
33%
Santa Barbara
85
California Institute of Technology
8%
Pasadena
86
University of Hawaii - System Office
Honolulu
87
University of Kentucky
96%
Lexington
88
National University of Singapore
Singapore
89
University of California - San Francisco
San Francisco
90
University of Iowa
86%
Iowa City
91
Free University of Berlin
Berlin
92
University of Waterloo
Waterloo
93
Vanderbilt University
11%
Nashville
94
University of Vienna
Vienna
95
Emory University
22%
Atlanta
96
Florida State University
49%
Tallahassee
97
Colorado State University - Fort Collins
83%
Fort Collins
98
National Taiwan University
Taipei City
99
University of Notre Dame
19%
Notre Dame
100
University of South Florida - Main Campus
45%
Tampa
101
Kyoto University
5%
Kyoto
102
Technical University of Denmark
Kongens Lyngby
103
University of Leeds
Leeds
104
George Mason University
81%
Fairfax
105
Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences
Rochester
106
Dartmouth College
10%
Hanover
107
Imperial College London
London
108
Rice University
16%
Houston
109
University of Illinois at Chicago
77%
Chicago
110
University of Bonn
Bonn
111
Georgetown University
16%
Washington
112
The University of Tokyo
5%
Tokyo
113
The London School of Economics and Political Science
London
114
Monash University
Clayton
115
Washington State University
73%
Pullman
116
Oregon State University
79%
Corvallis
117
Delft University of Technology
65%
Delft
118
University of Oregon
83%
Eugene
119
Lund University
Lund
120
Complutense University of Madrid
Madrid
121
CUNY System Office
New York
122
The University of Warwick
Coventry
123
University of Zurich
Zurich
124
University of Rochester
34%
Rochester
125
Brown University
8%
Providence
126
University of Delaware
63%
Newark
127
University at Buffalo
57%
Buffalo
128
George Washington University
41%
Washington
129
Tufts University
15%
Medford
130
Brigham Young University - Provo
52%
Provo
131
Seoul National University
15%
Seoul
132
University of Connecticut
48%
Storrs
133
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
77%
Knoxville
134
Catholic University of Leuven
Leuven
135
University of Hamburg
Hamburg
136
The University of Nottingham
Nottingham
137
The University of York
York
138
RWTH Aachen University
Aachen
139
Ghent University
Ghent
140
University of Groningen
Groningen
141
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
142
King's College London
London
143
University of Bologna
55%
Bologna
144
Technical University of Berlin
Berlin
145
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen
146
University of Calgary
15%
Calgary
147
University of New Mexico - Main Campus
67%
Albuquerque
148
University of Tubingen
Tubingen
149
University of Montreal
45%
Montreal
150
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
151
University of Kansas
93%
Lawrence
152
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven
153
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
45%
Stockholm
154
The University of Western Australia
Crawley
155
State University of Campinas
5%
Campinas
156
University of California - Riverside
57%
Riverside
157
University of Miami
36%
Coral Gables
158
University of Auckland
Auckland
159
Humboldt University of Berlin
Berlin
160
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv
161
Autonomous University of Madrid
Madrid
162
University of Stuttgart
Stuttgart
163
McMaster University
Hamilton
164
Zhejiang University
Hangzhou
165
Osaka University
5%
Suita
166
The University of Adelaide
Adelaide
167
Free University Amsterdam
Amsterdam
168
Dresden University of Technology
Dresden
169
The University of Sydney
Sydney
170
Charles University
Prague
171
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
172
Queen's University
45%
Kingston
173
University of Munster
15%
Munster
174
The University of Sheffield
Sheffield
175
Linkoping University
45%
Linkoping
176
Sao Paulo State University
25%
Sao Paulo
177
University of Bristol
Bristol
178
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai
179
Boston College
32%
Boston
180
University of Geneva
Geneva
181
Polytechnic University of Valencia
85%
Valencia
182
University of Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau
183
University of Central Florida
50%
Orlando
184
University of Bergen
Bergen
185
University of Barcelona
75%
Barcelona
186
University of Twente
Enschede
187
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
25%
Karlsruhe
188
Western University
London
189
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
190
University of South Carolina - Columbia
72%
Columbia
191
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
192
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
74%
Baton Rouge
193
University of Leipzig
Leipzig
194
Georgia State University
70%
Atlanta
195
University of Houston
61%
Houston
196
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane
197
University of North Texas
72%
Denton
198
Chalmers University of Technology
85%
Goteborg
199
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trondheim
200
Technical University of Catalonia
Barcelona
201
Laval University
Quebec City
202
University of Cincinnati - Main Campus
76%
Cincinnati
203
University of Oklahoma - Norman Campus
74%
Norman
204
York University
Toronto
205
University of Bern
Bern
206
University of Granada
Granada
207
Darmstadt University of Technology
Darmstadt
208
Tohoku University
5%
Sendai
209
University of Victoria
Victoria
210
University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
77%
Durham
211
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
43%
Troy
212
Wageningen University
Wageningen
213
University of Cologne
Koln
214
Technical University of Madrid
Madrid
215
Aarhus University
Aarhus
216
University of Gottingen
Gottingen
217
Kiel University
Kiel
218
Masaryk University
35%
Brno
219
Fudan University
Shanghai
220
Umea University
Umea
221
The University of Gothenburg
Goteborg
222
University of Alabama at Birmingham
92%
Birmingham
223
Santa Clara University
54%
Santa Clara
224
Clemson University
47%
Clemson
225
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome
226
Leibniz University of Hanover
Hannover
227
Temple University
57%
Philadelphia
228
University of Padua
Padua
229
Keio University
5%
Tokyo
230
Moscow State University
Moscow
231
Charite - Medical University of Berlin
Berlin
232
Cleveland Clinic Health System - School of Diagnostic Imaging
Euclid
233
University of Porto
Porto
234
Polytechnic University of Milan
Milan
235
University of Seville
Sevilla
236
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
25%
Jerusalem
237
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Mainz
238
Stockholm University
Stockholm
239
Queen Mary University of London
London
240
University of Surrey
Guildford
241
Nanjing University
Nanjing
242
San Diego State University
35%
San Diego
243
University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei
244
Utah State University
89%
Logan
245
University of Valencia
55%
Valencia
246
University of Wurzburg
Wurzburg
247
West Virginia University
72%
Morgantown
248
University of Bremen
Bremen
249
Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin
Dublin
250
Kyushu University
5%
Fukuoka
251
Case Western Reserve University
33%
Cleveland
252
Drexel University
79%
Philadelphia
253
University of Pisa
25%
Pisa
254
Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
74%
Stillwater
255
University of Ottawa
Ottawa
256
Dalhousie University
65%
Halifax
257
University of Malaga
Malaga
258
Auburn University
84%
Auburn
259
University of West Alabama
28%
Livingston
260
Virginia Commonwealth University
84%
Richmond
261
Nagoya University
5%
Nagoya
262
KAIST
Daejeon
263
Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
80%
Indianapolis
264
American University
29%
Washington
265
University of Bielefeld
Bielefeld
266
Czech Technical University in Prague
65%
Prague
267
University of Milan
Milan
268
Florida International University
54%
Miami
269
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
75%
Jena
270
University of Alicante
65%
San Vicente del Raspeig
271
Wayne State University
67%
Detroit
272
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre
273
University of Chile
Santiago
274
Rochester Institute of Technology
57%
Rochester
275
Tokyo Institute of Technology
5%
Tokyo
276
University of Trier
Trier
277
Curtin University
45%
Perth
278
Macquarie University
Sydney
279
University of Saragossa
Zaragoza
280
University of Otago
Dunedin
281
The University of Alabama
53%
Tuscaloosa
282
University of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
283
Aalto University
15%
Espoo
284
Hokkaido University
5%
Sapporo
285
University of Duisburg - Essen
Essen
286
Federal University of Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte
287
University of Vermont
67%
Burlington
288
Wuhan University
Wuhan
289
Shandong University
Jinan
290
Queen's University Belfast
35%
Belfast
291
Federico II University of Naples
Naples
292
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
293
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa
294
University of Florence
Florence
295
University of Saskatchewan
85%
Saskatoon
296
RMIT University
Melbourne
297
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg
298
Cardiff University
Cardiff
299
University of Coimbra
45%
Coimbra
300
University of Exeter
Exeter
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