According to the Shanghai ranking only four German Universities made it to the Top 100 Universities in the world, namely: Technical University Munich (50),University of Heidelberg (55) University of Munich(62), University of Freiburg (100). The ranking didn’t place even a single African University in the top 100.
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- Harvard University
- Stanford University
- University of California, Berkeley
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- University of Cambridge
- California Institute of Technology
- Princeton University
- Columbia University
- University of Chicago
- University of Oxford
- Yale University
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Cornell University
- University of California, San Diego
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Washington
- The Johns Hopkins University
- University of California, San Francisco
- University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- The University of Tokyo
- University College London
- University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
- The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Kyoto University
- New York University
- University of Toronto
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Northwestern University
- Duke University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- Rockefeller University
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- The University of Texas at Austin
- Pierre and Marie Curie University – Paris 6
- University of Maryland, College Park
- University of Paris Sud (Paris 11)
- University of British Columbia
- The University of Manchester
- University of Copenhagen
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Karolinska Institute
- University of California, Irvine
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
- University of California, Davis
- University of Southern California
- Vanderbilt University
- Technical University Munich
- The University of Edinburgh
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Utrecht University
- Pennsylvania State University – University Park
- University of Heidelberg
- University of Melbourne
- Purdue University – West Lafayette
- McGill University
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- University of Zurich
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick
- University of Munich
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Bristol
- The Ohio State University – Columbus
- The Australian National University
- Brown University
- King’s College London
- University of Geneva
- University of Oslo
- Ecole Normale Superieure – Paris
- University of Florida
- Uppsala University
- Leiden University
- Boston University
- University of Helsinki
- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
- University of Arizona
- Arizona State University – Tempe
- Moscow State University
- Aarhus University
- Stockholm University
- University of Basel
- University of Nottingham
- Ghent University
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Osaka University
- The University of Queensland
- University of Utah
- University of Rochester
- The University of Western Australia
- McMaster University
- Michigan State University
- Rice University
- University of Groningen
- Weizmann Institute of Science
- University of Strasbourg
- University of Sydney
- Case Western Reserve University
- University of Freiburg