Name Country/Region, No. of FTE Students, No. of students per staff ; University of Oxford United Kingdom, 21,750, 10.9 ; Stanford University United States, 14,517, 6.4 ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States, 11,085, 8.0 ; Harvard University United States, 20,050, 9.0 ; University of Cambridge United Kingdom, 20,565, 11.5 ; Princeton University United States, 7,753, 7.3 ; California Institute of Technology United States, 2,240, 6.1 ; Imperial College London United Kingdom, 20,275, 11.8 ; University of California, Berkeley United States, 39,991, 17.9 ; Yale University United States, 11,924, 5.2 ; ETH Zurich Switzerland, 22,619, 15.4 ; Tsinghua University China, 38,518, 11.2 ; The University of Chicago United States, 15,792, 6.2 ; Peking University China, 33,064, 10.9 ; Johns Hopkins University United States, 15,772, 4.1 ; University of Pennsylvania United States, 21,312, 6.2 ; Columbia University United States, 25,914, 5.2 ; University of California, Los Angeles United States, 42,634, 9.6 ; National University of Singapore Singapore Explore, 33,334, 20.0 ; Cornell University United States, 23,620, 10.0 ; University of Toronto Canada, 79,282, 25.8 ; UCL United Kingdom, 41,110, 11.3 ; University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States, 45,783, 8.1 ; Carnegie Mellon University United States, 13,562, 11.9 ; University of Washington United States, 49,486, 10.1
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Rank, Name Country/Region, No. of FTE Students, No. of students per staff ; 1, University of Oxford United Kingdom, 20,965, 10.6 ; 2, Harvard University United States, 21,887, 9.6 ; =3, University of Cambridge United Kingdom, 20,185, 11.3 ; =3, Stanford University United States, 16,164, 7.1 ; 5, Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States, 11,415, 8.2 ; 6, California Institute of Technology United States, 2,237, 6.2 ; 7, Princeton University United States, 8,279, 8.0 ; 8, University of California, Berkeley United States, 40,921, 18.4 ; 9, Yale University United States, 13,482, 5.9 ; 10, Imperial College London United Kingdom, 18,545, 11.2 ; =11, Columbia University United States, 21,781, 4.5 ; =11, ETH Zurich Switzerland, 21,665, 14.8 ; 13, The University of Chicago United States, 15,366, 6.0 ; 14, University of Pennsylvania United States, 21,453, 6.3 ; 15, Johns Hopkins University United States, 17,584, 4.7 ; 16, Tsinghua University China, 38,324, 11.6 ; 17, Peking University China, 31,994, 10.3 ; 18, University of Toronto Canada, 77,468, 25.8 ; 19, National University of Singapore Singapore Explore, 32,337, 19.8 ; 20, Cornell University United States, 24,027, 10.3 ; 21, University of California, Los Angeles United States, 42,434, 9.7 ; 22, UCL United Kingdom, 36,790, 10.3 ; 23, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States, 45,912, 8.2 ; 24, New York University United States, 36,337, 9.8 ; 25, Duke University United States, 16,091, 4.2
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