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🇦🇫 Afghanistan

🇦🇽 Åland Islands

🇦🇱 Albania

🇩🇿 Algeria

🇦🇸 American Samoa

🇦🇩 Andorra

🇦🇴 Angola

🇦🇮 Anguilla

🇦🇶 Antarctica

🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda

🇦🇷 Argentina

🇦🇲 Armenia

🇦🇼 Aruba

🇦🇺 Australia

🇦🇹 Austria

🇦🇿 Azerbaijan

🇧🇸 Bahamas

🇧🇭 Bahrain

🇧🇩 Bangladesh

🇧🇧 Barbados

🇧🇾 Belarus

🇧🇪 Belgium

🇧🇿 Belize

🇧🇯 Benin

🇧🇲 Bermuda

🇧🇹 Bhutan

🇧🇴 Bolivia

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina

🇧🇼 Botswana

🇧🇻 Bouvet Island

🇧🇷 Brazil

🇮🇴 British Indian Ocean Territory

🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands

🇧🇳 Brunei

🇧🇬 Bulgaria

🇧🇫 Burkina Faso

🇧🇮 Burundi

🇰🇭 Cambodia

🇨🇲 Cameroon

🇨🇦 Canada

🇨🇻 Cape Verde

🇧🇶 Caribbean Netherlands

🇰🇾 Cayman Islands

🇨🇫 Central African Republic

🇹🇩 Chad

🇨🇱 Chile

🇨🇳 China

🇨🇽 Christmas Island

🇨🇨 Cocos (Keeling) Islands

🇨🇴 Colombia

🇰🇲 Comoros

🇨🇰 Cook Islands

🇨🇷 Costa Rica

🇭🇷 Croatia

🇨🇺 Cuba

🇨🇼 Curaçao

🇨🇾 Cyprus

🇨🇿 Czech Republic

🇩🇰 Denmark

🇩🇯 Djibouti

🇩🇲 Dominica

🇩🇴 Dominican Republic

🇨🇩 DR Congo

🇪🇨 Ecuador

🇪🇬 Egypt

🇸🇻 El Salvador

🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea

🇪🇷 Eritrea

🇪🇪 Estonia

🇪🇹 Ethiopia

🇫🇰 Falkland Islands

🇫🇴 Faroe Islands

🇫🇯 Fiji

🇫🇮 Finland

🇫🇷 France

🇬🇫 French Guiana

🇵🇫 French Polynesia

🇹🇫 French Southern and Antarctic Lands

🇬🇦 Gabon

🇬🇲 Gambia

🇬🇪 Georgia

🇩🇪 Germany

🇬🇭 Ghana

🇬🇮 Gibraltar

🇬🇷 Greece

🇬🇱 Greenland

🇬🇩 Grenada

🇬🇵 Guadeloupe

🇬🇺 Guam

🇬🇹 Guatemala

🇬🇬 Guernsey

🇬🇳 Guinea

🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau

🇬🇾 Guyana

🇭🇹 Haiti

🇭🇲 Heard Island and McDonald Islands

🇭🇳 Honduras

🇭🇰 Hong Kong

🇭🇺 Hungary

🇮🇸 Iceland

🇮🇳 India

🇮🇩 Indonesia

🇮🇷 Iran

🇮🇶 Iraq

🇮🇪 Ireland

🇮🇲 Isle of Man

🇮🇱 Israel

🇮🇹 Italy

🇨🇮 Ivory Coast

🇯🇲 Jamaica

🇯🇵 Japan

🇯🇪 Jersey

🇯🇴 Jordan

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan

🇰🇪 Kenya

🇰🇮 Kiribati

🇽🇰 Kosovo

🇰🇼 Kuwait

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan

🇱🇦 Laos

🇱🇻 Latvia

🇱🇧 Lebanon

🇱🇸 Lesotho

🇱🇷 Liberia

🇱🇾 Libya

🇱🇮 Liechtenstein

🇱🇹 Lithuania

🇱🇺 Luxembourg

🇲🇴 Macau

🇲🇰 Macedonia

🇲🇬 Madagascar

🇲🇼 Malawi

🇲🇾 Malaysia

🇲🇻 Maldives

🇲🇱 Mali

🇲🇹 Malta

🇲🇭 Marshall Islands

🇲🇶 Martinique

🇲🇷 Mauritania

🇲🇺 Mauritius

🇾🇹 Mayotte

🇲🇽 Mexico

🇫🇲 Micronesia

🇲🇩 Moldova

🇲🇨 Monaco

🇲🇳 Mongolia

🇲🇪 Montenegro

🇲🇸 Montserrat

🇲🇦 Morocco

🇲🇿 Mozambique

🇲🇲 Myanmar

🇳🇦 Namibia

🇳🇷 Nauru

🇳🇵 Nepal

🇳🇱 Netherlands

🇳🇨 New Caledonia

🇳🇿 New Zealand

🇳🇮 Nicaragua

🇳🇪 Niger

🇳🇬 Nigeria

🇳🇺 Niue

🇳🇫 Norfolk Island

🇰🇵 North Korea

🇲🇵 Northern Mariana Islands

🇳🇴 Norway

🇴🇲 Oman

🇵🇰 Pakistan

🇵🇼 Palau

🇵🇸 Palestine

🇵🇦 Panama

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea

🇵🇾 Paraguay

🇵🇪 Peru

🇵🇭 Philippines

🇵🇳 Pitcairn Islands

🇵🇱 Poland

🇵🇹 Portugal

🇵🇷 Puerto Rico

🇶🇦 Qatar

🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo

🇷🇪 Réunion

🇷🇴 Romania

🇷🇺 Russia

🇷🇼 Rwanda

🇧🇱 Saint Barthélemy

🇸🇭 Saint Helena

🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis

🇱🇨 Saint Lucia

🇲🇫 Saint Martin

🇵🇲 Saint Pierre and Miquelon

🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

🇼🇸 Samoa

🇸🇲 San Marino

🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

🇸🇳 Senegal

🇷🇸 Serbia

🇸🇨 Seychelles

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

🇸🇬 Singapore

🇸🇽 Sint Maarten

🇸🇰 Slovakia

🇸🇮 Slovenia

🇸🇧 Solomon Islands

🇸🇴 Somalia

🇿🇦 South Africa

🇬🇸 South Georgia

🇰🇷 South Korea

🇸🇸 South Sudan

🇪🇸 Spain

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

🇸🇩 Sudan

🇸🇷 Suriname

🇸🇯 Svalbard and Jan Mayen

🇸🇿 Swaziland

🇸🇪 Sweden

🇨🇭 Switzerland

🇸🇾 Syria

🇹🇼 Taiwan

🇹🇯 Tajikistan

🇹🇿 Tanzania

🇹🇭 Thailand

🇹🇱 Timor-Leste

🇹🇬 Togo

🇹🇰 Tokelau

🇹🇴 Tonga

🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago

🇹🇳 Tunisia

🇹🇷 Turkey

🇹🇲 Turkmenistan

🇹🇨 Turks and Caicos Islands

🇹🇻 Tuvalu

🇺🇬 Uganda

🇺🇦 Ukraine

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

🇺🇸 United States

🇺🇲 United States Minor Outlying Islands

🇻🇮 United States Virgin Islands

🇺🇾 Uruguay

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

🇻🇺 Vanuatu

🇻🇦 Vatican City

🇻🇪 Venezuela

🇻🇳 Vietnam

🇼🇫 Wallis and Futuna

🇪🇭 Western Sahara

🇾🇪 Yemen

🇿🇲 Zambia

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

Total 2,393 universities

	University	Country
1	Harvard University	🇺🇸 United States	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	🇺🇸 United States	97.2
3	Stanford University (SU)	🇺🇸 United States	94.5
4	University of Oxford	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	88.3
5	University of Cambridge	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	86.8
6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	🇺🇸 United States	86.4
7	University College London (UCL)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	86.2
8	University of Washington (UW)	🇺🇸 United States	86.1
9	Yale University	🇺🇸 United States	86.0
10	Columbia University (CU)	🇺🇸 United States	85.8
11 =	Imperial College London	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	85.2
11 =	Tsinghua University (THU)	🇨🇳 China	85.2
13	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	🇺🇸 United States	84.9
14	Johns Hopkins University (JHU)	🇺🇸 United States	84.4
15	University of Pennsylvania	🇺🇸 United States	84.0
16 =	Princeton University	🇺🇸 United States	83.6
16 =	Cornell University (CU)	🇺🇸 United States	83.6
16 =	University of Toronto	🇨🇦 Canada	83.6
20	Duke-NUS Medical School	🇸🇬 Singapore	83.4
21 =	University of California San Diego (UCSD)	🇺🇸 United States	83.2
21 =	University of Michigan (UM)	🇺🇸 United States	83.2
23	California Institute of Technology (CIT)	🇺🇸 United States	82.9
24	Northwestern University (NU)	🇺🇸 United States	81.5
25	Peking University (PKU)	🇨🇳 China	81.1
27	Duke University	🇺🇸 United States	80.7
28	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	🇸🇬 Singapore	80.6
29	The University of Sydney (USYD)	🇦🇺 Australia	79.9
30	The University of Melbourne	🇦🇺 Australia	79.8
31	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL)	🇺🇸 United States	79.6
32	New York University (NYU)	🇺🇸 United States	79.2
33	University of Amsterdam (UvA)	🇳🇱 Netherlands	79.1
35	ETH Zurich	🇨🇭 Switzerland	78.9
36	King's College London (KCL)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	78.7
37	Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	🇭🇰 Hong Kong	78.5
38	Monash University	🇦🇺 Australia	78.4
39	University of Edinburgh	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	78.2
40	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS)	🇺🇸 United States	77.5
41 =	University of Copenhagen (UCPH)	🇩🇰 Denmark	77.1
41 =	University of British Columbia (UBC)	🇨🇦 Canada	77.1
43	The University of Queensland (UQ)	🇦🇺 Australia	76.7
44	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	🇭🇰 Hong Kong	76.6
46	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)	🇨🇳 China	76.3
47 =	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU)	🇩🇪 Germany	76.2
47 =	Université Paris Cité	🇫🇷 France	76.2
49	Utrecht University	🇳🇱 Netherlands	76.1
50	KU Leuven (KUL)	🇧🇪 Belgium	76.0
51	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)	🇺🇸 United States	75.8
52 =	University of Pittsburgh	🇺🇸 United States	75.5
52 =	Karolinska Institutet (KI)	🇸🇪 Sweden	75.5
54 =	City University of Hong Kong	🇭🇰 Hong Kong	75.2

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