Top 20 universities in the world*

The top 20 universities in the QS, Times Higher Education and Shanghai World
University Rankings all accept Cambridge International A Levels.
Search our recognition database to find out more about the universities below and
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Cambridge
QS THE Shanghai
University name International
Ranking Ranking Ranking
A Level Recognition
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT)
1 5 3 
University of Cambridge 2 3 4 
Stanford University 3 4 2 
University of Oxford 4 1 7 
Harvard University 5 2 1 
California Institute
of Technology (Caltech)
=6 6 9 
Not in
Imperial College London =6 10
rankings 
Not in
University College London 8
rankings
17 
ETH Zurich 9 =11 20 
University of Chicago 10 13 10 
National University Not in
of Singapore (NUS)
11 19
rankings 
Not in
Peking University 12 17
rankings 
University of Pennsylvania 13 14 14 
Not in
Tsinghua University 14 16
rankings 
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 Top 20 universities in the world* continued

Cambridge
QS THE Shanghai
University name International
Ranking Ranking Ranking
A Level Recognition
Not in Not in
The University of Edinburgh 15
rankings rankings 
EPFL – École Polytechnique Not in Not in
fédérale de Lausanne
=16
rankings rankings 
Princeton University =16 7 6 
Yale University 18 9 11 
Nanyang Technological University, Not in Not in
Singapore (NTU Singapore)
19
rankings rankings 
Cornell University 20 20 12 
University of California, Not in
Berkeley rankings
8 5 
Not in
Columbia University
rankings
=11 8 
Not in
Johns Hopkins University
rankings
15 16 
Not in Not in
University of Toronto
rankings
18
rankings 
University of California, Not in Not in
Los Angeles rankings rankings
13 
Not in Not in
Paris-Saclay University 15
rankings rankings

Not in Not in
University of Washington
rankings rankings
18 
University of California, Not in Not in
San Diego rankings rankings
19 
*According to QS, Times Higher Education and Shanghai world university rankings.

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