| Golden Age Rank 2020 |
University |
Country/region |
Foundation year |
| 1 |
University of California, San Diego |
United States |
1960 |
| 2 |
Australian National University |
Australia |
1946 |
| 3 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
1963 |
| 4 |
Seoul National University |
South Korea |
1946 |
| 5 |
UNSW Sydney |
Australia |
1949 |
| 6 |
Monash University |
Australia |
1958 |
| 7 |
University of Warwick |
United Kingdom |
1965 |
| 8 |
University of Science and Technology of China |
China |
1958 |
| 9 |
University of California, Irvine |
United States |
1965 |
| 10 |
Free University of Berlin |
Germany |
1948 |
| 11 |
University of Southampton |
United Kingdom |
1952 |
| 12 |
University of York |
United Kingdom |
1963 |
| 13 |
Lancaster University |
United Kingdom |
1964 |
| 14 |
Ulm University |
Germany |
1967 |
| =15 |
University of Exeter |
United Kingdom |
1955 |
| =15 |
University of Sussex |
United Kingdom |
1961 |
| 17 |
University of Mannheim |
Germany |
1946 |
| 18 |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
United States |
1965 |
| =19 |
Eindhoven University of Technology |
Netherlands |
1956 |
| =19 |
University of Gothenburg |
Sweden |
1954 |
| 21 |
Tel Aviv University |
Israel |
1956 |
| 22 |
University of East Anglia |
United Kingdom |
1963 |
| 23 |
Newcastle University |
United Kingdom |
1963 |
| 24 |
Macquarie University |
Australia |
1964 |
| 25 |
University of Calgary |
Canada |
1966 |
| 26 |
University of Bergen |
Norway |
1946 |
| 27 |
University of South Florida (Tampa) |
United States |
1956 |
| 28 |
King Abdulaziz University |
Saudi Arabia |
1967 |
| 29 |
University of Konstanz |
Germany |
1966 |
| 30 |
University of Dundee |
United Kingdom |
1967 |
| 31 |
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
Russian Federation |
1946 |
| 32 |
University of Waterloo |
Canada |
1957 |
| 33 |
Brandeis University |
United States |
1948 |
| 34 |
University of Twente |
Netherlands |
1961 |
| 35 |
University of California, Riverside |
United States |
1954 |
| 36 |
University of Illinois at Chicago |
United States |
1965 |
| 37 |
University of Surrey |
United Kingdom |
1966 |
| =38 |
Flinders University |
Australia |
1966 |
| =38 |
University of Navarra |
Spain |
1952 |
| =40 |
University of Essex |
United Kingdom |
1964 |
| =40 |
Simon Fraser University |
Canada |
1965 |
| =42 |
University of Bath |
United Kingdom |
1966 |
| =42 |
Ruhr University Bochum |
Germany |
1965 |
| 44 |
University of Southern Denmark |
Denmark |
1966 |
| 45 |
La Trobe University |
Australia |
1967 |
| 46 |
University of Oulu |
Finland |
1958 |
| 47 |
Heriot-Watt University |
United Kingdom |
1966 |
| 48 |
Stony Brook University |
United States |
1957 |
| 49 |
University of Trento |
Italy |
1962 |
| 50 |
University of Newcastle |
Australia |
1965 |
| 51 |
Nova Southeastern University |
United States |
1964 |
| 52 |
Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
China |
1952 |
| 53 |
Kyung Hee University |
South Korea |
1949 |
| 54 |
University of Malaya |
Malaysia |
1949 |
| 55 |
Umeå University |
Sweden |
1965 |
| 56 |
University of Stirling |
United Kingdom |
1967 |
| 57 |
University of Kent |
United Kingdom |
1965 |
| 58 |
Taipei Medical University |
Taiwan |
1960 |
| 59 |
Loughborough University |
United Kingdom |
1966 |
| 60 |
Brunel University London |
United Kingdom |
1966 |
| 61 |
Catholic University of Portugal |
Portugal |
1967 |
| 62 |
York University |
Canada |
1959 |
| 63 |
University of Missouri-St Louis |
United States |
1963 |
| 64 |
City, University of London |
United Kingdom |
1966 |
| 65 |
University of Strathclyde |
United Kingdom |
1964 |
| 66 |
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi |
India |
1961 |
| =67 |
Quaid-i-azam University |
Pakistan |
1965 |
| =67 |
University of Victoria |
Canada |
1963 |
| 69 |
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |
India |
1951 |
| 70 |
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
India |
1958 |
| 71 |
Teikyo University |
Japan |
1966 |
| =72 |
South China University of Technology |
China |
1952 |
| =72 |
Yokohama City University |
Japan |
1949 |
| 74 |
University of Campinas |
Brazil |
1966 |
| 75 |
Keele University |
United Kingdom |
1949 |
| 76 |
Bar-Ilan University |
Israel |
1955 |
| 77 |
King Saud University |
Saudi Arabia |
1957 |
| =78 |
University of L’Aquila |
Italy |
1952 |
| =78 |
Aston University |
United Kingdom |
1966 |
| 80 |
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia |
Peru |
1961 |
| 81 |
University of Ibadan |
Nigeria |
1948 |
| 82 |
East China Normal University |
China |
1951 |
| =83 |
University of Guelph |
Canada |
1964 |
| =83 |
Hacettepe University |
Turkey |
1967 |
| =83 |
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences |
Iran |
1949 |
| =86 |
Amirkabir University of Technology |
Iran |
1958 |
| =86 |
National Chiao Tung University |
Taiwan |
1958 |
| =86 |
University of Waikato |
New Zealand |
1964 |
| 89 |
Sharif University of Technology |
Iran |
1966 |
| 90 |
Binghamton University, State University of New York |
United States |
1946 |
| =91 |
University of Alabama in Huntsville |
United States |
1950 |
| =91 |
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals |
Saudi Arabia |
1963 |
| =91 |
The University of the West Indies |
Jamaica |
1948 |
| 94 |
China Medical University, Taiwan |
Taiwan |
1958 |
| 95 |
Novosibirsk State University |
Russian Federation |
1959 |
| 96 |
Beihang University |
China |
1952 |
| 97 |
Massey University |
New Zealand |
1964 |
| 98 |
University of the Western Cape |
South Africa |
1959 |
| 99 |
University of Central Florida |
United States |
1963 |
| 100 |
Johannes Kepler University of Linz |
Austria |
1966 |