9月12日凌晨，泰晤士高等教育（THE） 发布2020年度世界大学排名，今年中国大陆上榜的高校数量大幅增加，从72个增加到81个 。
今年是该排名推出的第16 个年头，本次排名涵盖了来自92个国家/地区的1300多所大学，是迄今为止涵盖大学数量最多的一次。
亚洲排名前两位的大学均来自中国大陆。清华大学在世界大学排名中从去年的第22名下降到今年的第23名，但仍然稳居亚洲高校榜首 ；而北京大学在世界大学排名上升了七个位次，超越了新加坡国立大学 ,位居第24名 。
中国大陆共有七所大学进入世界大学排名前200强，与去年数量相同。除清北外，其他成功进入世界大学排名200强的中国大陆高校包括中国科学技术大学、浙江大学、复旦大学、南京大学和上海交通大学 。
总体而言，今年中国大陆顶尖高校在引文影响力和研究收入方面得分较高，这或许反映出了中国政府对高等教育的持续投入。与世界大学前200强中的竞争对手相比，这些大学在科研和教学指标方面继续表现良好，但在国际化程度方面仍然落后，与去年的排名相比，这方面的进步甚微。
同时，中国大陆今年有10所大学首次进入世界大学排名。其中表现最好的是北京师范大学, 排名位于301—350区间。北京师范大学是中国政府双一流大学计划的受益者之一，中国计划在2050年年底之前将一批精英高校和学院发展成世界一流的大学和学科。
| 排名 | 学校名称 | 总分 | 教学 | 研究 | 引用 | 产业收入 | 国际视野 |
| 1 | University of Oxford | 95.4 | 90.5 | 99.6 | 98.4 | 65.5 | 96.4 |
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| 2 | California Institute of Technology | 94.5 | 92.1 | 97.2 | 97.9 | 88 | 82.5 |
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| 3 | University of Cambridge | 94.4 | 91.4 | 98.7 | 95.8 | 59.3 | 95 |
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| 4 | Stanford University | 94.3 | 92.8 | 96.4 | 99.9 | 66.2 | 79.5 |
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| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 93.6 | 90.5 | 92.4 | 99.5 | 86.9 | 89 |
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| 6 | Princeton University | 93.2 | 90.3 | 96.3 | 98.8 | 58.6 | 81.1 |
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| 7 | Harvard University | 93 | 89.2 | 98.6 | 99.1 | 47.3 | 76.3 |
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| 8 | Yale University | 91.7 | 92 | 94.8 | 97.3 | 52.4 | 68.7 |
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| 9 | University of Chicago | 90.2 | 89.1 | 91.4 | 96.7 | 52.7 | 76 |
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| 10 | Imperial College London | 89.8 | 84.5 | 87.6 | 97 | 69.9 | 97.1 |
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| 11 | University of Pennsylvania | 89.6 | 87.5 | 90.4 | 98.2 | 74 | 65 |
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| 12 | Johns Hopkins University | 89.2 | 81.7 | 91.4 | 98.3 | 91.3 | 73.2 |
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| 13 | University of California, Berkeley | 88.3 | 83 | 90.6 | 99.2 | 46.1 | 70.4 |
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| 13 | ETH Zurich | 88.3 | 81.8 | 92.8 | 90.3 | 56.8 | 98.2 |
| Switzerland |
| 15 | UCL | 87.1 | 77.8 | 88.7 | 96.1 | 42.7 | 96.2 |
| United Kingdom |
| 16 | Columbia University | 87 | 85.6 | 82.6 | 98.2 | 44.8 | 79.3 |
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| 17 | University of California, Los Angeles | 86.8 | 83.1 | 88.6 | 97.3 | 51.3 | 64.1 |
| United States |
| 18 | University of Toronto | 85.5 | 76.6 | 89.5 | 93.6 | 50.5 | 84.7 |
| Canada |
| 19 | Cornell University | 85.1 | 79.7 | 86 | 96.6 | 37.1 | 73.4 |
| United States |
| 20 | Duke University | 84 | 82.4 | 76.8 | 97 | 99.9 | 61.5 |
| United States |
| 21 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 83.8 | 79.4 | 86.1 | 94.9 | 47.7 | 59.2 |
| United States |
| 22 | Northwestern University | 83.5 | 74.2 | 83.8 | 97.8 | 78.4 | 64.1 |
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| 23 | Tsinghua University | 82.6 | 86.6 | 94 | 74.6 | 100 | 47.4 |
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| 24 | Peking University | 82.3 | 89.1 | 90 | 73.2 | 86.6 | 59.6 |
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| 25 | National University of Singapore | 81.9 | 76.8 | 90.4 | 76.9 | 58.8 | 95.5 |
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| 26 | University of Washington | 81.6 | 72.2 | 82.2 | 98.6 | 47.5 | 60.4 |
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| 27 | Carnegie Mellon University | 81.3 | 65.9 | 82.7 | 98.2 | 50.5 | 80.6 |
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| 27 | London School of Economics and Political Science | 81.3 | 69 | 83 | 92.8 | 35.1 | 93.2 |
| United Kingdom |
| 29 | New York University | 81.1 | 76.8 | 77.5 | 96.5 | 38.7 | 65.4 |
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| 30 | University of Edinburgh | 79.4 | 67.3 | 74.1 | 96.4 | 38.9 | 93.8 |
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| 31 | University of California, San Diego | 78.8 | 62.6 | 78.9 | 97.7 | 90.3 | 63.7 |
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| 32 | LMU Munich | 77.8 | 68.4 | 77 | 88.8 | 100 | 67.2 |
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| 32 | University of Melbourne | 77.8 | 65.9 | 74.1 | 89.8 | 76.3 | 93.1 |
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| 34 | University of British Columbia | 76.3 | 61.5 | 73.2 | 92.5 | 43.8 | 94.4 |
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| 35 | University of Hong Kong | 75.9 | 69.5 | 77.2 | 76.6 | 59.7 | 98.6 |
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| 36 | King’s College London | 75.7 | 61.3 | 68.5 | 94.8 | 45.6 | 95.6 |
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| 36 | The University of Tokyo | 75.7 | 85.9 | 89.6 | 60.7 | 77.4 | 38.2 |
| Japan |
| 38 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | 75.4 | 66.6 | 66.3 | 88.3 | 66.4 | 98.6 |
| Switzerland |
| 38 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 75.4 | 60.2 | 76.4 | 90.4 | 61.6 | 77.1 |
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| 38 | University of Texas at Austin | 75.4 | 68.2 | 76.2 | 93.2 | 46.6 | 39.1 |
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| 41 | Karolinska Institute | 74.7 | 55.4 | 71.4 | 96.1 | 71.2 | 81.2 |
| Sweden |
| 42 | McGill University | 74.3 | 65 | 71.9 | 84.7 | 42.8 | 90.4 |
| Canada |
| 43 | Technical University of Munich | 74.1 | 64.6 | 70.4 | 85.5 | 100 | 72.9 |
| Germany |
| 44 | Heidelberg University | 73.5 | 67.1 | 60.3 | 96.2 | 54.6 | 67.5 |
| Germany |
| 45 | KU Leuven | 73.2 | 58.7 | 73.9 | 85.3 | 99.3 | 71.8 |
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| 45 | Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris | 73.2 | 71.6 | 71.4 | 77 | 52.2 | 78.7 |
| France |
| 47 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 73.1 | 57.4 | 66.1 | 89.8 | 71.9 | 97.7 |
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| 48 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 72.9 | 63.2 | 78 | 84.4 | 47.9 | 54.3 |
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| 48 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | 72.9 | 57.6 | 70.4 | 84.9 | 76.5 | 95.1 |
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| 50 | Australian National University | 72.1 | 54.4 | 69.7 | 88.4 | 46.4 | 95.5 |
| Australia |
| 排名 | 学校名称 | 总分 | 教学 | 研究 | 引用 | 产业收入 | 国际视野 |
| 51 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 72 | 68.8 | 70.3 | 85.3 | 46.3 | 47.4 |
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| 52 | Washington University in St Louis | 71.5 | 64.2 | 57.5 | 98.8 | 40.7 | 57.1 |
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| 53 | Brown University | 70 | 64 | 56.1 | 94.9 | 36.5 | 61.4 |
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| 54 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 69.9 | 59.7 | 63.2 | 96.9 | 43.9 | 38 |
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| 55 | University of California, Davis | 69.7 | 62.4 | 66.9 | 83.2 | 51.4 | 62.4 |
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| 55 | University of Manchester | 69.7 | 56.9 | 63.8 | 85.2 | 44.7 | 91 |
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| 57 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 69.6 | 47.9 | 63.6 | 96.4 | 84.5 | 68.1 |
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| 57 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 69.6 | 55.8 | 62.8 | 84.5 | 55.2 | 97.8 |
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| 59 | Wageningen University & Research | 69.4 | 49.3 | 57.1 | 96.1 | 100 | 81.9 |
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| 60 | University of Sydney | 69.3 | 51 | 61.5 | 90.7 | 67.7 | 89.2 |
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| 61 | Boston University | 68.5 | 57.3 | 55.6 | 95.7 | 41.4 | 64.4 |
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| 62 | University of Amsterdam | 68.1 | 48 | 63.4 | 91.2 | 45.3 | 82 |
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| 62 | University of Southern California | 68.1 | 54.7 | 59.3 | 93.1 | 39.7 | 66.2 |
| United States |
| 64 | Seoul National University | 68 | 72.3 | 71.6 | 66.5 | 86.6 | 35.8 |
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| 65 | Kyoto University | 67.7 | 73.7 | 78.1 | 59.9 | 66.2 | 33.7 |
| Japan |
| 66 | University of Queensland | 67.4 | 49.3 | 58.7 | 86.8 | 80.9 | 92.5 |
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| 67 | Delft University of Technology | 66.7 | 55.3 | 72.3 | 63.2 | 99.4 | 92.8 |
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| 67 | Leiden University | 66.7 | 48.3 | 65 | 83.1 | 72.7 | 79.4 |
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| 69 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 66.3 | 39.4 | 57.3 | 97.1 | 63.6 | 87.3 |
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| 70 | Ohio State University (Main campus) | 66.1 | 57.5 | 56.1 | 87.3 | 53.3 | 59.5 |
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| 71 | UNSW Sydney | 65.9 | 50.2 | 58.2 | 82.9 | 57.9 | 93.7 |
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| 72 | McMaster University | 65.4 | 44.5 | 50.1 | 94.8 | 94 | 82.7 |
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| 73 | University of Groningen | 65.1 | 42.3 | 55.6 | 91.6 | 79.8 | 82.5 |
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| 74 | Humboldt University of Berlin | 65 | 61.8 | 66.8 | 67.9 | 40.2 | 67.8 |
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| 75 | Monash University | 64.7 | 47.3 | 56.6 | 83.8 | 67.2 | 89.9 |
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| 75 | Utrecht University | 64.7 | 44.1 | 61.2 | 88.4 | 65.3 | 65.5 |
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| 77 | University of Warwick | 64.6 | 46.9 | 52.7 | 88.8 | 42.8 | 93.8 |
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| 78 | Penn State (Main campus) | 64.2 | 55.2 | 67.1 | 75.7 | 52.1 | 47.4 |
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| 79 | University of Minnesota | 64.1 | 55.2 | 59.3 | 82.7 | 78.2 | 40.2 |
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| 80 | Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin | 64 | 47.6 | 47.3 | 94.9 | 92.7 | 63.5 |
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| 80 | Emory University | 64 | 56 | 40.4 | 98.8 | 45.4 | 57.9 |
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| 80 | University of Science and Technology of China | 64 | 64.6 | 59.5 | 74.7 | 79.6 | 31.3 |
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| 80 | Sorbonne University | 64 | 62.3 | 50.6 | 79.9 | 38.4 | 69.2 |
| France |
| 84 | Michigan State University | 63.9 | 56.6 | 57.4 | 80 | 37.8 | 63.3 |
| United States |
| 85 | University of Montreal | 63.4 | 48.2 | 49.7 | 86.4 | 70 | 84.1 |
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| 86 | University of Freiburg | 63.3 | 49.1 | 51.6 | 83.1 | 100 | 75.7 |
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| 87 | University of Bristol | 63.2 | 41.8 | 48.4 | 95.5 | 40.9 | 86.6 |
| United Kingdom |
| 88 | Purdue University West Lafayette | 63.1 | 57.5 | 66.4 | 63 | 64.3 | 72 |
| United States |
| 89 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | 63 | 57.6 | 61.2 | 70.3 | 97.3 | 51.1 |
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| 90 | University of Zurich | 62.8 | 47 | 46.7 | 88.2 | 53 | 92.2 |
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| 91 | University of Maryland, College Park | 62.7 | 46.9 | 59.1 | 89.6 | 39.2 | 41.2 |
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| 91 | University of Tübingen | 62.7 | 51.2 | 56.2 | 80.1 | 67 | 64 |
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| 93 | École Polytechnique | 62.5 | 59.6 | 49.1 | 70.2 | 69.6 | 95.2 |
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| 94 | University of Basel | 62.4 | 43 | 41.2 | 91.4 | 99.4 | 96.1 |
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| 94 | Dartmouth College | 62.4 | 58.4 | 39.9 | 96.4 | 41 | 39.6 |
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| 96 | University of California, Irvine | 62.3 | 43.3 | 46.5 | 94.9 | 58.9 | 71.9 |
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| 96 | University of Helsinki | 62.3 | 43.4 | 59.3 | 88.1 | 38.1 | 55.1 |
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| 96 | Lund University | 62.3 | 40.7 | 54.3 | 86.3 | 81 | 77.7 |
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| 99 | University of Glasgow | 62.2 | 41.1 | 47.9 | 91.8 | 40 | 92.3 |
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| 99 | RWTH Aachen University | 62.2 | 55.6 | 61.5 | 67.3 | 98.1 | 59 |
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