Top 300 universities in the world: Rankings & Acceptance rate

Rank 🏆	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