World's top 50 universities
A number of global rankings are published annually. Some are focusing on academic achievements, reputation in science and the number of graduates awarded with Nobel Prize or other notable awards.Undoubtedly, these indicators are very important, but for future students, it could be only an indirect confirmation of the quality of the learning process.

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World rankings of the 50 best universities 2017
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1 - University of Oxford
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2 - California Institute of Technology
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3 - Stanford University
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4 - University of Cambridge
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5 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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6 - Harvard University
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7 - Princeton University
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8 - Imperial College London
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9 - ETH Zurich
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10 - University of California, Berkeley
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11 - University of Chicago
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12 - Yale University
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13 - University of Pennsylvania
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14 - University of California, Los Angeles
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15 - University College London
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16 - Columbia University
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17 - Johns Hopkins University
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18 - Duke University
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19 - Cornell University
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20 - Northwestern University
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21 - University of Michigan
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22 - University of Toronto
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23 - Carnegie Mellon University
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24 - National University of Singapore
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25 - University of Washington
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26 - London School of Economics and Political Science
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27 - University of Edinburgh
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28 - Karolinska Institutet
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29 - Peking University
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30 - LMU Munich
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31 - EPFL
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32 - New York University
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33 - University of Melbourne
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34 - Georgia Institute of Technology
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35 - Tsinghua University
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36 - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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37 - University of British Columbia
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38 - King’s College London
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39 - University of Tokyo
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40 - KU Leuven
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41 - University of California, San Diego
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42 - McGill University
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43 - University of Hong Kong
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44 - Heidelberg University
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45 - University of Wisconsin–Madison
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46 - Technical University of Munich
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47 - Australian National University
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48 - University of California, Santa Barbara
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49 - HKUST
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50 - University of Texas at Austin