Top 250 Non-US Universities for American Students
The Top 250 Non-US Universities for American Students
We combined academic power, happiness, and cost into one mega score, all made for international students who might benefit from having a lot of university and local resources in English.
That really tips the scales to universities in the UK, Canada, Australia, and Ireland. We know these are Americans’ top destinations so we think we’re on to something. Here are the global top 250 non-US universities for American students.
North America
Carleton University (ranking)
Dalhousie University (ranking)
McGill University (ranking)
McMaster University (ranking)
Ontario Tech University (ranking)
Simon Fraser University (ranking)
Toronto Metropolitan University (ranking)
University of Alberta (ranking)
University of British Columbia (ranking)
University of Calgary (ranking)
University of Manitoba (ranking)
University of Ottawa (ranking)
University of Saskatchewan (ranking)
University of Toronto (ranking)
University of Victoria (ranking)
University of Waterloo (ranking)
University of Windsor (ranking)
York University (ranking)
Europe
University of Klagenfurt (ranking)
Ghent University (ranking)
KU Leuven (ranking)
University of Antwerp (ranking)
Technical University of Sofia (ranking)
Brno University of Technology (ranking)
Masaryk University (ranking)
Mendel University in Brno (ranking)
University of Ostrava (ranking)
University of Pardubice (ranking)
Aalborg University
Roskilde University (ranking)
University of Southern Denmark (ranking)
Tallinn University (ranking)
Tallinn University of Technology (ranking)
University of Tartu (ranking)
Aalto University (ranking)
University of Helsinki (ranking)
Aix-Marseille University (ranking)
Centrale Nantes (ranking)
Sciences Po (ranking)
Technical University of Munich (ranking)
University of Freiburg (ranking)
University of Tübingen (ranking)
National Kapodistrian University of Athens (ranking)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (ranking)
Corvinus University of Budapest (ranking)
Eötvös Loránd University (ranking)
Óbuda University (ranking)
Semmelweis University (ranking)
University of Debrecen (ranking)
University of Pannonia (ranking)
University of Pécs (ranking)
University of Szeged (ranking)
Iceland
University of Iceland
Dublin City University (ranking, school guide)
Maynooth University (ranking, school guide)
Technological University Dublin (ranking, school guide)
Trinity College Dublin (ranking, school guide)
University College Cork (ranking, school guide)
University College Dublin (ranking, school guide)
University of Limerick (ranking, school guide)
University of Galway (ranking, school guide)
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (ranking)
University of Bologna (ranking)
University of Padua (ranking)
University of Pisa (ranking)
University of Trento (ranking)
Riga Technical University (ranking)
University of Latvia (ranking)
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (ranking)
Vilnius University (ranking)
Vytautas Magnus University (ranking)
University of Luxembourg (ranking)
University of Malta (ranking)
Erasmus University Rotterdam (ranking)
Leiden University (ranking)
Maastricht University (ranking)
Tilburg University (ranking)
University of Amsterdam (ranking)
University of Groningen (ranking)
Utrecht University (ranking)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ranking)
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities (ranking)
Warsaw University of Technology (ranking)
Catholic University of Portugal (ranking)
Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies (ranking)
University of Lisbon (ranking)
University of Minho (ranking)
University of Porto (ranking)
University of Oradea (ranking)
Edinburgh Napier University (ranking, school guide)
Glasgow Caledonian University (ranking, school guide)
Heriot-Watt University (ranking, school guide)
Robert Gordon University (ranking, school guide)
University of Aberdeen (ranking, school guide)
University of Dundee (ranking, school guide)
University of Edinburgh (school guide)
University of Glasgow (ranking, school guide)
University of St Andrews (ranking, school guide)
University of Stirling (ranking, school guide)
University of Strathclyde (ranking, school guide)
Comenius University in Bratislava (ranking)
University of Ljubljana (ranking)
Autonomous University of Barcelona (ranking)
Pompeu Fabra University (ranking)
Rovira i Virgili University (ranking)
University of Navarra (ranking)
University of Valencia (ranking)
Lund University (ranking)
Jönköping University (ranking)
Karolinska Institute (ranking)
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (ranking)
Linköping University (ranking)
Stockholm University (ranking)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (ranking)
University of Gothenburg (ranking)
Uppsala University (ranking)
University of Basel (ranking)
University of Zurich (ranking)
UK (Wales, Northern Ireland, and England)
Aberystwyth University (ranking)
Aston University (ranking)
Bangor University (ranking)
University of Bedfordshire (ranking)
Birkbeck, University of London (ranking)
Birmingham City University (ranking)
Bournemouth University (ranking)
Brunel University London (ranking)
Cambridge University (school guide)
Canterbury Christ Church University (ranking)
Cardiff Metropolitan University (ranking)
Cardiff University (ranking)
City, University of London (ranking)
De Montfort University (ranking)
Durham University (ranking, school guide)
Goldsmiths, University of London (ranking)
Imperial College London (ranking)
Keele University (ranking)
Lancaster University (ranking)
Liverpool John Moores University (ranking)
London School of Economics and Political Science (ranking)
London South Bank University (ranking)
Loughborough University (ranking)
Manchester Metropolitan University (ranking)
Middlesex University (ranking)
Newcastle University (ranking)
Northumbria University (ranking)
Nottingham Trent University (ranking)
Queen Mary University of London (ranking)
Royal Holloway University of London (ranking)
Royal Veterinary College (ranking)
Sheffield Hallam University (ranking)
SOAS University of London (ranking)
Staffordshire University (ranking)
Swansea University (ranking)
Ulster University (ranking)
University of Bath (ranking)
University of Birmingham (ranking)
University of Bradford (ranking)
University of Brighton (ranking)
University of Bristol (ranking)
University College London (school guide)
University of East Anglia (ranking)
University of East London (ranking)
University of Essex (ranking)
University of Greenwich (ranking)
University of Hertfordshire (ranking)
University of Hull (ranking)
University of Huddersfield (ranking)
University of Kent (ranking)
University of Leicester (ranking)
University of Lincoln (ranking)
University of Liverpool (ranking)
University of Nottingham (ranking)
University of Oxford (ranking, school guide)
University of Plymouth (ranking)
University of Reading (ranking)
University of Roehampton (ranking)
University of Salford (ranking)
University of Sheffield (ranking)
University of Southampton (ranking)
University of South Wales (ranking)
University of Sunderland (ranking)
University of Surrey (ranking)
University of Sussex (ranking)
University of Warwick (ranking)
University of Westminster (ranking)
University of York (ranking)
Oceania
Australian Catholic University (ranking)
Australian National University (ranking)
Bond University (ranking)
Charles Darwin University (ranking)
Charles Sturt University (ranking)
Curtin University (ranking)
Edith Cowan University (ranking)
Federation University Australia (ranking)
Flinders University (ranking)
James Cook University (ranking)
La Trobe University (ranking)
Macquarie University (ranking)
Monash University (ranking)
Murdoch University (ranking)
Queensland University of Technology (ranking)
RMIT University (ranking)
Swinburne University of Technology (ranking)
University of Adelaide (ranking)
University of Canberra (ranking)
University of Newcastle (ranking)
University of South Australia (ranking)
University of Southern Queensland (ranking)
University of the Sunshine Coast (ranking)
University of Tasmania (ranking)
University of Western Australia (ranking)
University of Wollongong (ranking)
Victoria University (ranking)
Western Sydney University (ranking)
Auckland University of Technology (ranking)
Massey University (ranking)
University of Auckland (ranking)
University of Canterbury (ranking)
University of Otago (ranking)
University of Waikato (ranking)
Victoria University of Wellington (ranking)
Asia
Manipal Academy of Higher Education (ranking)
Savitribai Phule Pune University (ranking)
Hiroshima University (ranking)
Kyoto University (ranking)
Kyushu University (ranking)
Nagoya University (ranking)
Shibaura Institute of Technology (ranking)
Tohoku University (ranking)
University of Tokyo (ranking)
University of Tsukuba (ranking)
Waseda University (ranking)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (ranking)
Pusan National University (ranking)
Sejong University (ranking)
Sogang University (ranking)
Mahidol University (ranking)
Kaohsiung Medical University (ranking)
Yuan Ze University (ranking)
Bilkent University (ranking)
Istanbul Technical University (ranking)
Istanbul University (ranking)
Ozyegin University (ranking)
Sakarya University (ranking)
Africa
How We Ranked Universities
We started with every program with English-taught courses of study on earth (over 26,000 programs).
We ranked their universities based on:
- International academic rankings
- English-taught programs, university resources, and local access in English
- Quality of life scores nationally
- Cost of a degree, including cost of living
- Percentage of international students
We eliminated:
- Universities with missing data
- Universities where the US State Department doesn’t want you to go (but they’re still available to check out)
- Universities in countries that criminalize LGBTQ people (but they’re still available to check out)
We manually added back:
- Universities that deserve to be there based on our 2,000+ student interviews so far
- Universities where we’re sourced missing data manually
- True gems with unique offerings
