Top Ten universities in the world

1. Harvard University

• Country: United States
• Region: North America
• Total enrollment: 20,324
• The largest academic university in the world is located in Harvard’s campus.
• The university has 12 schools, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, two theatres and five museums. The student to staff ratio is 8.8 and 25 per cent of its students are international students

2.  Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

• Country: United States
• Region: North America
• Total enrollment: 11,376
• The average tuition fee for MIT is $ 45,016. It hosts about 1,000 faculty members and more than 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
• According Times Higher Education, the average number of students per staff member is 8.8 and the female-male student ratio is 37:63.

3. Stanford University

• Country: United States
• Region: North America
• Total enrollment: 2,240
• The university boast of having 30 living billionaires, 17 astronauts, 18 Turing Award recipients and two Fields Medallists as its alumni.
• Currently hosting 15,658 full-time students 22 per cent of whom are international students, there are an average of 7.7 students per staff members and the female-male student ratio is 42:58.

4. California Institute of Technology

• Country: United States
• Region: North America
• Total enrollment: 40,174
• Founded in 1981 as “Throop University” and renamed in 1920, the California Institute of Technology has 22,930 alumni and is considered to be the current best university for engineering and technology in the globe.
• Currently, the university is teaching full time students, 27 per cent of whom are international students. The student-teacher ratio is 6.7 and the female-male student ratio here is 31:69.

5. University of Cambridge

• Country: United Kingdom
• Region: Europe
• Total enrollment: 18,977
• The university has six schools including Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences and Technology.
• It also houses 150 faculties and 18,605 FTE students, 35 per cent of whom are international students.

6.Princeton Universit

• Country: United States
• Region: North America
• Total enrollment: 8,181
• This university is connected to 17 winners of the National Medal of Science, 40 Nobel laureates and five recipients of the National Humanities Medal.
• It has a female-male student ratio of 45 : 55 and 23 per cent of its student polulation is composed of international students.

7.Yale University

• Country: United States
• Region: North America
• Total enrollment: 12,458
• Yale Universityis an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution.

8.University of California Berkeley

• Country: United States
• Region: North America
• Total enrollment: 40,174
• The university was founded in 1868 and is located in San Francisco.
• It houses about 27,000 undergraduate and 10,000 postgraduate students.
• There are about 12 students for each staff member and more female than male students with the gender ratio at 52:48.
• Around 16 per cent of the university’s student population is comprised of international students.

9. University of Oxford 

• Country: United Kingdom
• Region: Europe
• Total enrollment: 19,790
• Known as one of the oldest universities “in the English-speaking world”.
• The ranking notes that there are currently 19,718 students at the university, 35 per cent of whom are international students.
• The university holds a student-teacher ratio of 10.9 and a male-female student ratio of 46:54.

10. Columbia University

• Country: United States
• Region: North America
• Total enrollment: 25,084
• Columbia University established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Columbia contains the oldest college in the state of New York and is the fifth chartered institution of higher learning in the United States, making it one of nine colonial colleges founded prior to the Declaration of Independence.
• It was established as King’s College by royal charterof George II of Great Britain and renamed Columbia College in 1784 following the American Revolutionary War.
• The university has produced numerous distinguished alumni.
• In 2017 its undergraduate acceptance rate was 5.5%, which made it the third most selective college in the United States and the second most selective in the Ivy League