World's Best Universities 26-50

The U.S. News World's Best Universities rankings, based on the QS World University Rankings, evaluated schools in countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, China, and more, and identified these to be the world's top universities

Rank	School	Overall Score	Academic Reputation Score	Employer Reputation Score	Faculty-Student Ratio Score	International Faculty Score	International Students Score	Citations per Faculty Score
#26	King's College London (University of London) United Kingdom	87.1	92.6	83.8	89.1	93.8	90.6	68.9
#27	Northwestern University United States	85.4	90.7	88.6	82.3	11.9	55.9	97.9
#28	University of Bristol United Kingdom	85.4	91	96	74.8	85.8	75.6	77.3
#29	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland	85.1	79.1	75.8	95.1	100	100	79.9
#30	The University of Tokyo Japan	85	100	97.6	89.3	11.1	25.8	73.1
#31	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States	84.6	100	96	62.3	1.6	34.4	99.5
#32	University of Manchester United Kingdom	84.2	98.5	100	63.2	85.2	91.4	62.2
#33	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Hong Kong	83.5	92.5	79.7	83.9	100	98.9	54.7
#34	École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS Paris) France	83.3	90.8	66.9	92.4	26.2	66.2	81.6
#35	Kyoto University Japan	83.3	99.8	81.1	92.6	15.5	21.9	70
#36	University of Melbourne Australia	83.2	99.8	100	46.8	68.9	92.3	74.9
#37	Seoul National University (SNU) South Korea	82.2	98.8	83.4	90.7	47.8	61	49.6
#38	University of Wisconsin-Madison United States	81.4	97.1	68.6	85.2	52.4	32.9	68
#39	University of Sydney Australia	81.3	99.3	93.5	50.4	99.7	91.3	58.9
#40	Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Hong Kong	80.1	93.5	72.4	79.8	95.7	83.1	48.7
#41	Ecole Polytechnique France	79.6	73.3	95.9	100	72.4	92.6	57.9
#42	Brown University United States	79.5	81.5	68.8	76.7	32	54.7	97.8
#43	New York University (NYU) United States	78.9	97.7	85.3	92.7	23.2	55.7	40.2
#44	Peking University China	78.8	99.7	96.6	82.6	55.7	35	36.8
#45	University of British Columbia (UBC) Canada	78.6	99.1	77.8	25.9	61.4	73.2	92.1
#46	University of Queensland (UQ) Australia	78.2	95.3	83.3	45.3	95.5	90.5	63.1
#47	Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore	77.7	90.4	84.5	85.3	100	97.9	26.7
#48	Tsinghua University China	77.5	98.8	97.6	86	50.6	26.3	32
#49	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) United States	77.4	86	81	55.4	17.7	97.1	86.5
#50	Osaka University Japan	76.8	91.4	69.6	91.7	15.4	20.3	62.1