Top Universities, filterable & comparable

MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts · United States

QS #1 THE #2

Acceptance

4.5%

Tuition

$61,990/yr

Stanford

Stanford University

Stanford, California · United States

QS #6 THE #2

Acceptance

3.7%

Tuition

$65,127/yr

Harvard

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts · United States

QS #4 THE #3

Acceptance

3.4%

Tuition

$59,320/yr

Caltech

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California · United States

QS #10 THE #7

Acceptance

3.1%

Tuition

$63,402/yr

Princeton

Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey · United States

QS #22 THE #6

Acceptance

4.5%

Tuition

$62,400/yr

Columbia

Columbia University

New York City, New York · United States

QS #34 THE #18

Acceptance

3.9%

Tuition

$68,400/yr

Yale

Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut · United States

QS #23 THE #8

Acceptance

4.6%

Tuition

$67,250/yr

UChicago

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois · United States

QS #21 THE #13

Acceptance

4.8%

Tuition

$66,039/yr

UPenn

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States

QS #11 THE #16

Acceptance

5.8%

Tuition

$63,452/yr

Cornell

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York · United States

QS #16 THE #22

Acceptance

7.5%

Tuition

$68,380/yr

UC Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California · United States

QS #12 THE #9

Acceptance

11.4%

Tuition

$48,465/yr

UCLA

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California · United States

QS #42 THE #18

Acceptance

8.6%

Tuition

$47,083/yr

CMU

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · United States

QS #58 THE #24

Acceptance

11.3%

Tuition

$65,920/yr

Oxford

University of Oxford

Oxford, England · United Kingdom

QS #3 THE #1

Acceptance

17.5% overall (varies by course; Computer Science ≈ 8%)

Tuition

$45,000/yr

Cambridge

University of Cambridge

Cambridge, England · United Kingdom

QS #5 THE #5

Acceptance

21% overall (lower for medicine/CS)

Tuition

$38,000/yr

Imperial

Imperial College London

London, England · United Kingdom

QS #2 THE #9

Acceptance

14.3%

Tuition

$47,000/yr

UCL

University College London

London, England · United Kingdom

QS #9 THE #22

Acceptance

63% (offer rate; yield much lower)

Tuition

$36,000/yr

LSE

London School of Economics and Political Science

London, England · United Kingdom

QS #50 THE #26

Acceptance

8.9% for Economics undergrad

Tuition

$34,000/yr

Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, Scotland · United Kingdom

QS #27 THE #30

Acceptance

40% (offer rate)

Tuition

$33,000/yr

KCL

King's College London

London, England · United Kingdom

QS #40 THE #36

Acceptance

13% (Medicine), 25% (general)

Tuition

$35,000/yr

UofT

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario · Canada

QS #25 THE #21

Acceptance

43%

Tuition

$47,000/yr

UBC

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia · Canada

QS #38 THE #41

Acceptance

52.4%

Tuition

$36,000/yr

McGill

McGill University

Montréal, Quebec · Canada

QS #29 THE #47

Acceptance

46.3%

Tuition

$35,000/yr

Melbourne

University of Melbourne

Melbourne, Victoria · Australia

QS #13 THE #39

Acceptance

70%+

Tuition

$30,000/yr

ANU

Australian National University

Canberra, ACT · Australia

QS #30 THE #73

Acceptance

35%

Tuition

$30,000/yr

Sydney

University of Sydney

Sydney, NSW · Australia

QS #18 THE #61

Acceptance

~30% (course-dependent)

Tuition

$31,000/yr

NUS

National University of Singapore

Singapore · Singapore

QS #8 THE #17

Acceptance

~5-10% for internationals

Tuition

$28,000/yr

NTU

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore · Singapore

QS #15 THE #30

Acceptance

~5-10% for internationals

Tuition

$27,000/yr

UTokyo

The University of Tokyo

Tokyo · Japan

QS #32 THE #28

Acceptance

34% (extremely selective entrance exam)

Tuition

$4,000/yr

Tsinghua

Tsinghua University

Beijing · China

QS #20 THE #12

Acceptance

~0.1% domestic (Gaokao); ~10% international

Tuition

$5,500/yr

TU Delft

Delft University of Technology

Delft · Netherlands

QS #56 THE #48

Acceptance

~30%

Tuition

$20,800/yr

UvA

University of Amsterdam

Amsterdam · Netherlands

QS #60 THE #80

Acceptance

~50%

Tuition

$14,500/yr

Trinity

Trinity College Dublin

Dublin · Ireland

QS #87 THE #134

Acceptance

~33%

Tuition

$28,000/yr

UCD

University College Dublin

Dublin · Ireland

QS #126 THE #198

Acceptance

~40%

Tuition

$24,500/yr

Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario · Canada

QS #115 THE #158

Acceptance

~53% overall; CS/SE ~10–15%

Tuition

$35,000/yr

McMaster

McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario · Canada

QS #189 THE #116

Acceptance

~58%

Tuition

$32,000/yr

UNSW

University of New South Wales

Sydney · Australia

QS #19 THE #64

Acceptance

~60–70%

Tuition

$31,000/yr

Monash

Monash University

Melbourne · Australia

QS #37 THE #58

Acceptance

~70%

Tuition

$27,500/yr