世界大学排名中心（Center For World University Rankings）是除了当前几大主流世界大学排名（上海交通大学世界大学学术排名ARWU、QS世界大学排名、英国《泰晤士高等教育》THE世界大学排名、USnews世界大学排名）之外，另一受关注的世界大学排名。CWUR总部设在沙特阿拉伯（就是那个盛产石油和王子的沙特阿拉伯），自称排名尤为注重对学校教学质量的评估，与QS排名和泰晤士高等教育排名不同，是世界唯一不依赖同行调查和各大学提供数据，而以依公布可见的数据为准。另外2018版排名标准有所变化，更看重research这一块，整体比例在70%。相对来说，这份数据比较适合追求实用性的同学参考。
前一百名高校，美国占去半壁江山，共有51所大学入围；加拿大高校也比较亮眼，全加第一的多伦多大学位列全球第17名，比去年上升了11名。而中国高校今年则近乎跌出全球百名榜，成绩最好的北京大学从去年的54名跌至92名，而中国最受欢迎的清华大学则从去年的65名下降到98名。
所有大学的总分组成包括：教育质量，就业情况，教师素质，研究成果，出版数量，影响力以及论文引用情况。
排名指标
1.教育质量（15%）：根据学校规模，衡量该校校友获得各类世界著名奖项、奖杯、荣誉的数目；
2.就业情况（15%）：根据学校规模，衡量该校校友在著名国际公司任CEO的比例；
3.科院质量（15%）：根据该校学者赢取国际重要奖项，奖杯，荣誉的数量衡量；
4.研究成果（15%）：发表论文的总数；
5.出版数量（15%）：计算出版在顶级学术杂志里论文的总数；
6.影响力（15%）：计算出版在较具影响力的学术杂志中论文的总数；
7.论文引用（10%）：计算被其他论文或文章高频引用的文章数量；
总体来说，这份排名榜的实用性还是很强的。
下面就来看看，世界大学排名TOP100榜单！
World Rank
Institution
Location
Score
1
Harvard University
USA
100
2
Stanford University
USA
96.7
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA
95.1
4
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
94
5
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
93.2
6
University of California, Berkeley
USA
92.5
7
Princeton University
USA
91.9
8
Columbia University
USA
91.4
9
California Institute of Technology
USA
91
10
University of Chicago
USA
90.6
11
Yale University
USA
90.3
12
University of Tokyo
Japan
90
13
University of Pennsylvania
USA
89.7
14
Cornell University
USA
89.4
15
University of California, Los Angeles
USA
89.1
16
Johns Hopkins University
USA
88.9
17
University of Toronto
Canada
88.7
18
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
USA
88.4
19
University of Washington – Seattle
USA
88.2
20
University of California, San Diego
USA
88
21
University College London
United Kingdom
87.8
22
University of California, San Francisco
USA
87.7
23
Northwestern University
USA
87.5
24
Duke University
USA
87.3
25
New York University
USA
87.2
26
Kyoto University
Japan
87
27
University of Wisconsin–Madison
USA
86.9
28
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
86.7
29
Sorbonne University
France
86.6
30
Imperial College London
United Kingdom
86.5
31
University of Texas at Austin
USA
86.3
32
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
USA
86.2
33
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
USA
86.1
34
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
86
35
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
USA
85.9
36
Washington University in St. Louis
USA
85.8
37
McGill University
Canada
85.6
38
University of British Columbia
Canada
85.5
39
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
85.4
40
Ohio State University
USA
85.3
41
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
USA
85.2
42
University of California, Davis
USA
85.1
43
Pennsylvania State University
USA
85
44
University of Manchester
United Kingdom
85
45
Weizmann Institute of Science
Israel
84.9
46
Heidelberg University
Germany
84.8
47
University of Maryland, College Park
USA
84.7
48
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Germany
84.6
49
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
84.5
50
University of Colorado Boulder
USA
84.4
51
University of Southern California
USA
84.4
52
University of Arizona
USA
84.3
53
Osaka University
Japan
84.2
54
University of Paris-Sud
France
84.1
55
University of Geneva
Switzerland
84
56
Boston University
USA
84
57
University of Melbourne
Australia
83.9
58
Brown University
USA
83.8
59
University of California, Irvine
USA
83.8
60
Seoul National University
South Korea
83.7
61
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel
83.6
62
University of Florida
USA
83.6
63
Purdue University, West Lafayette
USA
83.5
64
Vanderbilt University
USA
83.4
65
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
83.4
66
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
USA
83.3
67
Sapienza University of Rome
Italy
83.2
68
King’s College London
United Kingdom
83.2
69
University of Zurich
Switzerland
83.1
70
University of California, Santa Barbara
USA
83
71
University of Sydney
Australia
83
72
Utrecht University
Netherlands
82.9
73
University of Pittsburgh
USA
82.9
74
University of Queensland
Australia
82.8
75
University of Oslo
Norway
82.8
76
Rockefeller University
USA
82.7
77
University of S?o Paulo
Brazil
82.6
78
Texas A&M University, College Station
USA
82.6
79
University of Virginia
USA
82.5
80
Emory University
USA
82.5
81
Free University of Berlin
Germany
82.4
82
Australian National University
Australia
82.4
83
University of Utah
USA
82.3
84
Paris Diderot University
France
82.3
85
Tel Aviv University
Israel
82.2
86
Uppsala University
Sweden
82.2
87
University of Barcelona
Spain
82.1
88
Aarhus University
Denmark
82.1
89
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
USA
82
90
Leiden University
Netherlands
82
91
Carnegie Mellon University
USA
81.9
92
Peking University
China
81.9
93
University of Helsinki
Finland
81.8
94
Baylor College of Medicine
USA
81.8
95
Lund University
Sweden
81.7
96
University of Alberta
Canada
81.7
97
Grenoble Alpes University
France
81.7
98
Tsinghua University
China
81.6
99
University of Basel
Switzerland
81.6
100
University of Groningen
Netherlands
81.5