Higher education: the world's best universities -

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019 published its results naming the top universities around the world. In their scoring, factors such as teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook, were taken into consideration. Click through the gallery and to see how universities from around the world ranked, and which one came out on top.

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60. University of Sydney, Australia - Overall score: 68.5

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59. University of California, Davis, USA - Overall score: 68.5

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58. Delft University of Technology, Netherlands - Overall score: 69.2

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57. University of Manchester, UK - Overall score: 69.9

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56. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA - Overall score: 70

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55. Chinese University of Hong Kong - Overall score: 70.7

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54. Washington University in St Louis, USA - Overall score: 70.9

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53. Brown University, USA - Overall score: 71.4

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52. University of California, Santa Barbara, USA - Overall score: 71.5

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51. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - Overall score: 72.2

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50. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Overall score: 72.3

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49. Australian National University - Overall score: 72.4

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48. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium - Overall score: 72.6

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47. Heidelberg University, Germany - Overall score: 73.2

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46. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Overall score: 73.5

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45. Technical University of Munich, Germany - Overall score: 73.7

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44. McGill University, Canada - Overall score: 73.7

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43. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA - Overall score: 73.9

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42. The University of Tokyo, Japan - Overall score: 74.1

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41. PSL Research University, France -

Overall score: 74.4

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40. Karolinska Institute, Sweden - Overall score: 74.9

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39. University of Texas at Austin, USA - Overall score: 75.4

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38. King’s College London, UK - Overall score: 75.8

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37. University of British Columbia, Canada - Overall score: 76

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36. University of Hong Kong - Overall score: 76.3

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35. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland - Overall score: 76.9 

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34. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Overall score: 77.5

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33. University of Melbourne, Australia - Overall score: 78.3

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32. LMU Munich, Germany - Overall score: 78.3

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31. Peking University, China - Overall score: 79.2

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30. University of California, San Diego, USA - Overall score: 79.7

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29. University of Edinburgh, UK - Overall score: 79.8

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28. University of Washington, USA - Overall score: 80.4

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27. New York University, USA - Overall score: 81

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26. London School of Economics and Political Science, UK - Overall score: 81.3

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25. Northwestern University, USA - Overall score: 81.7

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24. Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Overall score: 82

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23. National University of Singapore - Overall score: 82.4

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22. Tsinghua University, China - Overall score: 82.8

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21. University of Toronto, Canada - Overall score: 84

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20. University of Michigan, USA - Overall score: 84.1

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19. Cornell University, USA - Overall score: 85.1

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18. Duke University, USA - Overall score: 85.4

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17. University of California, Los Angeles, USA - Overall score: 86.4

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16. Columbia University, USA - Overall score: 87.2

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15. University of California, Berkeley, USA - Overall score: 87.7

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14. University College London, UK - Overall score: 87.8

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13. University of Pennsylvania, USA - Overall score: 89

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12. John Hopkins University, USA - Overall score: 89

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11. ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Overall score: 89.3

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10. University of Chicago, USA - Overall score: 90.2

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9. Imperial College London, UK - Overall score: 90.3

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8. Yale University, USA - Overall score: 91.3

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7. Princeton University, USA - Overall score: 92.3

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6. Harvard University, USA - Overall score: 93.6

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5. California Institute of Technology, USA - Overall score: 94.1

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4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - Overall score: 94.2

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3. Stanford University, USA - Overall score: 94.7

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2. University of Cambridge, UK - Overall score: 94.8

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1. University of Oxford, UK -

Overall score: 96 

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