Los païses con mas representación de centros universitarios incluidos en el ranking son Estados Unidos, con un total de 58, seguido del Reino Unido con 29, y de Canadá, con 12.

Hay que destacar también de este informe, el crecimiento de las universidades asiáticas, puesto que con el tiempo han ido adquiriendo un cierto prestigio y algunas de ellas han pasado a formar parte del selecto grupo de las 200 más importantes. De las universidades asiáticas presentes en el ranking, 6 están en China, 4 en Hong Kong y 3 en Corea del Sur.

La Universitat de Barcelona es la única universidad española incluida en la lista, concretamente aparece listada en la posición 171, un dato que puede ser preocupante y confirma que el nivel universitario español se encuentra por debajo de la media europea y mundial.

A continuación se muestra el ranking completo de las 200 universidades mas importantes de alrededor del mundo y la distribución por païses:

1. Harvard University
2. University of Cambridge
3. Yale University
4. University College London
5. Imperial College London
6. University of Oxford
7. University of Chicago
8. Princeton University
9. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10. California Institute of Technology
11. Columbia University
12. University of Pennsylvania
13. Johns Hopkins University
14. Duke University
15. Cornell University
16. Stanford University
17. Australian National University
18. McGill University
19. University of Michigan
20. University of Edinburgh
21. ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
22. University of Tokyo
23. King’s College London
24. University of Hong Kong
25. Kyoto University
26. University of Manchester
27. Carnegie Mellon University
28. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
29. University of Toronto
30. National University of Singapore
31. Brown University
32. University of California, Los Angeles
33. Northwestern University
34. University of Bristol
35. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
36. Ecole Polytechnique
37. University of Melbourne
38. University of Sydney
39. University of California, Berkeley
40. University of British Columbia
41. University of Queensland
42. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
43. Osaka University
44. Trinity College Dublin
45. Monash University
46. Chinese University of Hong Kong
47. University of New South Wales
48. Seoul National University
49. University of Amsterdam
50. Tsinghua University
51. University of Copenhagen
52. New York University
53. Peking University
54. Boston University
55. Technical University of Munich
56. Tokyo Institute of Technology
57. Heidelberg University
58. University of Warwick
59. University of Alberta
60. Leiden University
61. University of Auckland
62. University of Wisconsin-Madison
63. Aarhus University
64. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
65. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
66. University of Birmingham
67. London School of Economics
68. Lund University
69. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
70. Utrecht University
71. University of York
72. University of Geneva
73. Nanyang Technological University
74. Washington University in St Louis
75. Uppsala University
76. University of California, San Diego
77. University of Texas at Austin
78. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
79. University of Glasgow
80. University of Washington
81. University of Adelaide
82. University of Sheffield
83. Delft University of Technology
84. University of Western Australia
85. Dartmouth College
86. Georgia Institute of Technology
87. Purdue University
88. University of St Andrews
89. University College Dublin
90. Emory University
91. University of Nottingham
92. Nagoya University
93. University of Zurich
94. Free University of Berlin
95. University of Southampton
96. National Taiwan University
97. Tohoku University
98. Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
99. University of Leeds
100. Rice University
101. University of Oslo
102. Hebrew University of Jerusalem
103. Durham University
104. Fudan University
105. University of Minnesota
106. University of California, Santa Barbara
107. Université de Montréal
108. University of Basel
109. University of California, Davis
110. Erasmus University Rotterdam
111. University of Helsinki
112. University of Southern California
113. University of Waterloo
114. University of Pittsburgh
115. Tel Aviv University
116. Maastricht University
117. Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Paris VI
118. Queen’s University
119. Case Western Reserve University
120. Eindhoven University of Technology
121. Pennsylvania State University
122. Freiburg University
123. University of Maryland, College Park
124. City University of Hong Kong
125. University of Otago
126. Université Catholique de Louvain
127. Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
128. University of Virginia
129. University of Aberdeen
130. Georgetown University
131. Ohio State University
132. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
133. University of Vienna
134. Pohang University of Science and Technology
135. Cardiff University
136. University of Ghent
137. University of Liverpool
138. Chulalongkorn University
139. University of Groningen
140. Vanderbilt University
141. University of Rochester
142. Keio University
143. McMaster University
144. University of Bath
145. University of Bergen
146. University of Cape Town
147. Humboldt University of Berlin
148. Waseda University
149. University of Calgary
150. Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
151. University of Western Ontario
152. Yonsei University
153. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
154. University of Science and Technology of China
155. Kyushu University
156. Lomonosov Moscow State University
157. Wageningen University
158. Newcastle University
159. Technical University of Denmark
160. Tufts University
161. University of California, Irvine
162. Lancaster University
163. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
164. Queen Mary, University of London
165. VU University Amsterdam
166. University of Arizona
167. University of Sussex
168. University of Lausanne
169. Nanjing University
170. Saint-Petersburg State University
171. University of Barcelona
172. Hokkaido University
173. Stony Brook University
174. University of Bologna
175. KTH, Royal Institute of Technology
176. University of Tsukuba
177. University of Antwerp
178. University of Athens
179. Texas A&M University
180. Universiti Malaya
181. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
182. Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
183. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
184. University of Karlsruhe
185. University of Gothenburg
186. University of Colorado at Boulder
187. University of Göttingen
188. University of Canterbury
189. Macquarie University
190. National Autonomous University of Mexico
191. Université Libre de Bruxelles
192. University of Reading
193. University of Bern
194. Indiana University Bloomington
195. Hong Kong Polytechnic University
196. University of Leicester
197. Simon Fraser University
198. Chalmers University of Technology
199. University of Notre Dame
200. University of Twente