Un regard sur le top 200 des meilleures universités dans le monde fait ressortir la forte présence des établissements britanniques et américains. Pour les arabes, une seule représentante pointe à la 101è ème place. Indétrônable, une université historique britannique n'est pas prête de céder sa place de leader. Pour la septième année consécutive, l'Université britannique d'Oxford trône au top du cassement mondial, devant l'américaine Harvard, deuxième. Au total, 1 799 universités de 104 pays ou régions sont représentées dans le classement et 27 d'entre elles ont au moins une université dans le top 200. D'autres au nombre de 526, qui ont fourni des données mais ne répondaient pas aux critères d'éligibilité pour recevoir un classement sont répertoriées avec le statut de « rapporteur ». Lire aussi | Classement de Shanghai. Les universités américaines caracolent en tête Les Etats-Unis et le Royaume-Uni représentés en force, tant en termes de classement général que de positions les plus élevées. Le Japon et la Chine sont parmi les pays les mieux représentés dans le classement. Pour les françaises, cinq universités figurent dans ce top 200. Il s'agit de Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris (47è), Sorbonne University (90è), Université Paris-Saclay (93è), Institut Polytechnique de Paris (95è) et Paris Cité (114è). Les résultats sont calculés à l'aide de 13 indicateurs de performance sous-jacents à cinq mesures : la recherche, l'enseignement, l'influence de la recherche, les revenus de l'industrie et les perspectives internationales. Lire aussi | Région MENA. 7 universités marocaines dans le classement 2021 des meilleures institutions La seule université qui représente le monde arabe est la saoudienne King Abdulaziz University, qui pointe à la 190 position. Les marocaines demeurent aux abonnés absents. Oxford, la meilleure au monde L'une des universités les plus prestigieuses du Royaume-Uni, Oxford s'est imposée pour la septième année consécutive. C'est la plus ancienne université du Royaume-Uni et l'une des plus connues au monde. Elle compte plus de 20 000 étudiants, avec un nombre à peu près égal d'étudiants de premier cycle et de troisième cycle. L'admission est extrêmement compétitive; en moyenne, l'université reçoit cinq candidatures pour chaque place. L'université emploie du personnel d'un peu moins de 100 pays et les citoyens étrangers représentent environ 40% du corps étudiant et universitaire. Top 200 universities in the world 2023 World University Rank 2023 World University Rank 2022 University Country/region 1 1 University of Oxford United Kingdom 2 =2 Harvard University United States =3 =5 University of Cambridge United Kingdom =3 4 Stanford University United States 5 =5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 6 =2 California Institute of Technology United States 7 7 Princeton University United States 8 8 University of California, Berkeley United States 9 9 Yale University United States 10 12 Imperial College London United Kingdom =11 11 Columbia University United States =11 15 ETH Zurich Switzerland 13 10 The University of Chicago United States 14 =13 University of Pennsylvania United States 15 =13 Johns Hopkins University United States 16 =16 Tsinghua University China 17 =16 Peking University China 18 =18 University of Toronto Canada 19 21 National University of Singapore Singapore 20 22 Cornell University United States 21 20 University of California, Los Angeles United States 22 =18 UCL United Kingdom 23 =24 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States 24 26 New York University United States 25 23 Duke University United States =26 =24 Northwestern University United States =26 29 University of Washington United States 28 28 Carnegie Mellon University United States 29 =30 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 30 38 Technical University of Munich Germany 31 =30 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 32 34 University of California, San Diego United States 33 32 LMU Munich Germany 34 33 University of Melbourne Australia 35 =35 King's College London United Kingdom 36 46 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Singapore 37 27 London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom 38 45 Georgia Institute of Technology United States 39 =35 The University of TokyoJapan 40 37 University of British Columbia Canada 41 =40 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland 42 =42 KU Leuven Belgium 43 =42 Heidelberg University Germany 44 57 Monash University Australia 45 49 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 46 44 McGill University Canada 47 =40 Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris France 48 48 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States 49 39 Karolinska Institute Sweden 50 47 University of Texas at Austin United States 51 60 Fudan University China 52 84 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 53 =54 The University of Queensland Australia =54 50 University of Manchester United Kingdom =54 =58 University of Sydney Australia 56 =54 Seoul National University South Korea 57 51 Washington University in St Louis United States 58 66 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 59 53 Wageningen University & Research Netherlands 60 65 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 61 64 Brown University United States 62 =54 Australian National University Australia 63 67 University of California, Davis United States 64 68 University of California, Santa Barbara United States 65 63 University of Southern California United States 66 69 Utrecht University Netherlands 67 =75 Zhejiang University China 68 61 Kyoto University Japan 69 52 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States 70 =75 Delft University of Technology Netherlands =71 62 Boston University United States =71 70 UNSW Sydney Australia 73 73 Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Germany 74 =88 University of Science and Technology of China China 75 =80 University of Groningen Netherlands 76 92 University of Bristol United Kingdom 77 71 Leiden University Netherlands 78 =151 Yonsei University (Seoul campus) South Korea 79 91 Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong 80 72 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands 81 =58 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States =82 82 Emory University United States =82 =86 University of Glasgow United Kingdom =82 =75 University of Zurich Switzerland 85 =80 McMaster University Canada =86 74 Humboldt University of Berlin Germany =86 =78 University of Tübingen Germany 88 111 University of Adelaide Australia 89 112 University of Bonn Germany 90 =88 Sorbonne University France =91 83 Free University of Berlin Germany =91 =99 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) South Korea 93 =117 Université Paris-Saclay France 94 =101 University of Bern Switzerland =95 98 University of California, Irvine United States =95 91 Institut Polytechnique de Paris France =95 =105 Nanjing University China 98 =113 Vanderbilt University United States =99 =151 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong =99 =108 RWTH Aachen University Germany =101 103 University of Basel Switzerland =101 =190 King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia =101 =86 University of Minnesota United States =104 =93 University of Maryland, College Park United States =104 =78 University of Warwick United Kingdom 106 =93 Michigan State University United States 107 =96 Ghent University Belgium =108 =105 University of Birmingham United Kingdom =108 124 University of Southampton United Kingdom 110 =101 University of Helsinki Finland 111 =88 University of Montreal Canada 112 85 Ohio State University (Main campus) United States 113 =108 University of Freiburg Germany =114 =96 University of Copenhagen Denmark =114 155 Université Paris Cité France =114 110 University of Sheffield United Kingdom 117 104 Aarhus University Denmark 118 125 University of Alberta Canada =119 =119 University of Göttingen Germany =119 116 Lund University Sweden 121 115 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands 122 =122 Lancaster University United Kingdom 123 =99 Dartmouth College United States =124 =117 Queen Mary University of London United Kingdom =124 =137 University of Vienna Austria 126 =119 University of Oslo Norway 127 =105 Purdue University West Lafayette United States =128 =132 University of Hamburg Germany =128 =127 University of Leeds United Kingdom 130 141 University of Nottingham United Kingdom =131 =143 University of Antwerp Belgium =131 =132 The University of Western Australia Australia 133 =143 University of Technology Sydney Australia 134 126 Case Western Reserve University United States 135 =176 University of Lausanne Switzerland 136 130 Georgetown University United States =137 =143 University of Exeter United Kingdom =137 =162 University of Ottawa Canada =139 =137 University of Auckland New Zealand =139 =146 Newcastle University United Kingdom =139 139 Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands =139 165 University of Würzburg Germany =139 169 University of York United Kingdom 144 140 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus United States 145 =127 Maastricht University Netherlands 146 =172 University of Cologne Germany 147 136 Rice University United States =148 =158 University of Colorado Boulder United States =148 =146 Ulm University Germany =148 131 Uppsala University Sweden =151 154 University of Florida United States =151 =119 Penn State (Main campus) United States =151 =172 Tufts University United States 154 142 University of Rochester United States 155 201–250 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden =156 =132 Arizona State University (Tempe) United States =156 139 Technical University of Berlin Germany =156 =172 TU Dresden Germany =156 =127 University of Virginia (Main campus) United States 160 =183 University of Cape Town South Africa =161 =172 University of Bologna Italy =161 =146 Trinity College Dublin Ireland =163 =185 University of Leicester United Kingdom =163 =158 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian Federation =163 =185 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) South Korea =166 =162 Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) China =166 =185 Technical University of Denmark Denmark =168 196 Medical University of Graz Austria =168 168 Northeastern University United States =170 167 Indiana University United States =170 =158 Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium =170 =122 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) South Korea 173 157 Wuhan University China 174 =178 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) South Korea 175 192 Macquarie University Australia =176 181 Huazhong University of Science and Technology China =176 =178 University of Liverpool United Kingdom =176 =176 Stockholm University Sweden 179 =146 University of Mannheim Germany 180 150 University of Arizona United States 181 =193 Texas A&M University United States 182 =193 University of Barcelona Spain =183 =170 Autonomous University of Barcelona Spain =183 =197 Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Italy 185 201–250 University of Münster Germany 186 156 Pompeu Fabra University Spain =187 189 Cardiff University United Kingdom =187 =113 National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan =189 201–250 Friedrich Schiller University Jena Germany =189 180 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany 191 201–250 University of Massachusetts United States =192 =158 University of Aberdeen United Kingdom =192 201–250 University of California, Santa Cruz United States =194 201–250 Medical University of Vienna Austria =194 201–250 University of Miami United States =196 =197 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Germany =196 401–500 Sichuan University China =198 =162 Durham University United Kingdom =198 201–250 Queen's University Belfast United Kingdom =198 201–250 University of Reading United Kingdom