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RankPro 2017/2018 TOP World leading universities

According to the methodology, the rating of an institution of higher consists of three components, which would allow obtaining a full picture of the level of the institution: - Academic possibilities of a university - academic ranking; - Communicability and information availability on a University homepage – ranking by BC-Index; - National and international reputation of the university – public ranking. Experts: members of the International Council of Scientists ICS. The interrelation of these three rating components in the overall result is determined as a result of a survey conducted among members of the International Council of Scientists ICS - professors of universities of different types from more than 40 countries. As a result of the survey between the members of the International Council of Scientists, conducted under the GWC program to compile RankPro 2017/2018, the following values of the contribution of each component in the overall ranking of a university have been obtained: - Academic ranking – 50% - Ranking by BC-Index – 25% - Public ranking – 25% The top leading universities of the world were defined as a general result of adding the contribution of each component of the rating under the GWC program. World Top universities are represented in the following groups: World Best, World Leader, and World Class according to the indicators of the three sections of the rating.

World RankPro University Country rank normalized to 100 1 California Institute of Technology Caltech USA 100.000 2 ETH Zürich-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland 99.831 3 Yale University USA 95.862 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 94.878 5 University of Oxford 91.093 6 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 89.808 7 EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland 88.049 8 USA 87.907 9 University of Chicago USA 87.326 10 Imperial College London United Kingdom 86.366 11 Harvard University USA 85.855 12 University College London United Kingdom 84.716 13 Columbia University USA 83.516 14 Princeton University USA 80.728 15 University of Pennsylvania USA 75.709 16 London School of and Political Science United Kingdom 72.799 17 Ecole Polytechnique 69.988 18 Northwestern University USA 69.165 19 USA 68.486 20 University of California, San Francisco USA 67.551 21 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 66.994 22 Johns Hopkins University USA 66.470 23 Washington University in St. Louis USA 66.189 24 King's College London United Kingdom 66.013 25 USA 65.127 26 University of Melbourne Australia 65.084 27 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 64.758 28 University of Southern California USA 64.366 29 École des Ponts ParisTech France 63.571 30 Technical University Munich 63.401 31 University of Zurich Switzerland 62.856 32 Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris-Saclay) France 62.761 33 University of Tokyo Japan 61.888 34 École Normale Supérieure (ENS) France 61.608 35 Carnegie Mellon University USA 61.062 36 University of Bern Switzerland 60.406 37 Tokyo Medical and Dental University Japan 60.266 38 Karolinska Institutet 59.733 39 New York University USA 59.371 40 Weizmann Institute of Science Israel 59.078 41 University of Geneva Switzerland 59.071 42 Peking University China 58.725 43 Cornell University USA 58.318 44 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 58.310 45 Case Western Reserve University USA 58.308 46 Germany 58.052 47