بر اساس منتشر شده از سوی QS World University Ranking لیست 100 دانشگاه برتر دنیا در سال 2015/2016 به شرح زیر می باشد:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – United States
2. Harvard University – United States
3. University of Cambridge – United Kingdom
4. Stanford University – United States
5. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – United States
6. University of Oxford – United Kingdom
7. UCL (University College London) – United Kingdom
8. Imperial College London – United Kingdom
9. ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – Switzerland
10. University of Chicago – United States
11. Princeton University – United States
12. National University of Singapore (NUS) – Singapore
13. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) – Singapore
14. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – Switzerland
15. Yale University – United States
16. Johns Hopkins University – United States
17. Cornell University – United States
18. University of Pennsylvania – United States
19. King’s College London – United Kingdom
20. The Australian National University – Australia
21. The University of Edinburgh – United Kingdom
22. Columbia University – United States
23. Ecole normale supérieure, Paris – France
24. McGill University – Canada
25. Tsinghua University – China
26. University of California, Berkeley (UCB) – United States
27. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – United States
28. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – Hong Kong
29. Duke University – United States
30. The University of Hong Kong – Hong Kong
31. University of Michigan – United States
32. Northwestern University – United States
33. The University of Manchester – United Kingdom
34. University of Toronto – Canada
35. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) – United Kingdom
36. Seoul National University – South Korea
37. University of Bristol – United Kingdom
38. Kyoto University – Japan
39. The University of Tokyo – Japan
40. Ecole Polytechnique – France
41. Peking University – China
42. The University of Melbourne – Australia
43. KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology – South Korea
44. University of California, San Diego (UCSD) – United States
45. The University of Sydney – Australia
46. The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) – Australia
47. The University of Queensland – Australia
48. The University of Warwick – United Kingdom
49. Brown University – United States
50. University of British Columbia – Canada
51. The Chinese University of Hong Kong – Hong Kong
52. Fudan University – China
53. New York University (NYU) – United States
54. University of Wisconsin-Madison – United States
55. University of Amsterdam – Netherlands
56. Tokyo Institute of Technology – Japan
57. City University of Hong Kong – Hong Kong
58. Osaka University – Japan
59. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – United States
60. Technische Universität München – Germany
61. Durham University – United Kingdom
62. Carnegie Mellon University – United States
63. University of Glasgow – United Kingdom
64. Delft University of Technology – Netherlands
65. University of Washington – United States
66. Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg – Germany
67. Monash University – Australia
68. University of St Andrews – United Kingdom
69. University of Copenhagen – Denmark
70. The University of Nottingham – United Kingdom
71. Lund University – Sweden
72. National Taiwan University (NTU) – Taiwan
73. Shanghai Jiao Tong University – China
74. Tohoku University – Japan
75. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München – Germany
76. University of Birmingham – United Kingdom
77. University of Texas at Austin – United States
78. Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin – Ireland
79. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – United States
80. The University of Sheffield – United Kingdom
81. University of Southampton – United Kingdom
82. The University of Auckland – New Zealand
83. KU Leuven – Belgium
84. Georgia Institute of Technology – United States
85. University of Zurich – Switzerland
86. University of California, Davis – United States
87. University of Leeds – United Kingdom
88. Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) – South Korea
89. University of Geneva – Switzerland
90. Purdue University – United States
91. Boston University – United States
92. KTH Royal Institute of Technology – Sweden
93. KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – Germany
94. Utrecht University – Netherlands
95. Leiden University – Netherlands
96. University of Alberta – Canada
97. University of Helsinki – Finland
98. The University of Western Australia – Australia
99. The Ohio State University – United States
100. University of Groningen – Netherlands