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Full list of the Top 100 universities in the Word

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 have been released. The rankings have 1,400 universities across 92 countries in the World.

In Africa, Egypt tops with 20 universities followed by South Africa which has 10. Closer home, it is only Nairobi university which made it to the list; among the Kenyan universities.

Here are the number of universities per African Country in the list:

Egypt: 20
South Africa: 10
Algeria: 8
Tunisia: 6
Nigeria: 4
Morocco: 4
Kenya: 1
Ghana: 1
Uganda: 1
Tanzania: 1

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are among the most comprehensive and prestigious in the higher education sector. They are based on five pillars: teaching, research, citations, international outlook and industry income.

The University of Oxford in the UK has retained its position at the top of the log for the fourth year in a row.

American and UK universities continue to cement themselves among the global elite, with universities from both countries dominating the top 10.

Here is the list of the top 100 universities as published by The Times Higher Education:

Rank	Name
1	University of Oxford United Kingdom
2	California Institute of Technology United States
3	University of Cambridge United Kingdom
4	Stanford University United States Explore
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
6	Princeton University United States
7	Harvard University United States
8	Yale University United States
9	University of Chicago United States Explore
10	Imperial College London United Kingdom
11	University of Pennsylvania United States
12	Johns Hopkins University United States
=13	University of California, Berkeley United States
=13	ETH Zurich Switzerland
15	UCL United Kingdom
16	Columbia University United States
17	University of California, Los Angeles United States
18	University of Toronto Canada
19	Cornell University United States
20	Duke University United States
21	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States
22	Northwestern University United States
23	Tsinghua University China Explore
24	Peking University China
25	National University of Singapore Singapore Explore
26	University of Washington United States
=27	Carnegie Mellon University United States
=27	London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom
29	New York University United States
30	University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
31	University of California, San Diego United States
=32	LMU Munich Germany Explore
=32	University of Melbourne Australia Explore
34	University of British Columbia Canada Explore
35	University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Explore
=36	King’s College London United Kingdom Explore
=36	The University of Tokyo Japan
=38	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
=38	Georgia Institute of Technology United States
=38	University of Texas at Austin United States
41	Karolinska Institute Sweden
42	McGill University Canada
43	Technical University of Munich Germany
44	Heidelberg University Germany
=45	KU Leuven Belgium Explore
=45	Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris France
47	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong Explore
=48	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States
=48	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Singapore Explore
50	Australian National University Australia
51	University of Wisconsin-Madison United States
52	Washington University in St Louis United States Explore
53	Brown University United States
54	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States
=55	University of California, Davis United States
=55	University of Manchester United Kingdom
=57	University of California, Santa Barbara United States
=57	Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Explore
59	Wageningen University & Research Netherlands
60	University of Sydney Australia Explore
61	Boston University United States
=62	University of Amsterdam Netherlands Explore
=62	University of Southern California United States
64	Seoul National University South Korea
65	Kyoto University Japan
66	University of Queensland Australia Explore
=67	Delft University of Technology Netherlands
=67	Leiden University Netherlands Explore
69	Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands Explore
70	Ohio State University (Main campus) United States
71	UNSW Sydney Australia Explore
72	McMaster University Canada Explore
73	University of Groningen Netherlands Explore
74	Humboldt University of Berlin Germany
=75	Monash University Australia Explore
=75	Utrecht University Netherlands
77	University of Warwick United Kingdom
78	Penn State (Main campus) United States
79	University of Minnesota United States
=80	Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Germany
=80	Emory University United States
=80	University of Science and Technology of China China
=80	Sorbonne University France
84	Michigan State University United States
85	University of Montreal Canada Explore
86	University of Freiburg Germany
87	University of Bristol United Kingdom
88	Purdue University West Lafayette United States
89	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) South Korea Explore
90	University of Zurich Switzerland
=91	University of Maryland, College Park United States
=91	University of Tübingen Germany
93	École Polytechnique France Explore
=94	University of Basel Switzerland
=94	Dartmouth College United States
=96	University of California, Irvine United States
=96	University of Helsinki Finland Explore
=96	Lund University Sweden
=99	University of Glasgow United Kingdom
=99	RWTH Aachen University Germany

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