Top 50 foreign universities for officers to choose from, for government-funded DFFT scheme

THE department of personnel and training (DoPT), while announcing a list of courses and universities for its short term and long term programmes offered under the DFFT scholarship scheme for 2019-20, has also included a long list of over 100 universities which are ranked higher according to two international rakings viz. World University ranking and QS World University ranking. Here below are 50 of those leading foreign universities, as placed by the DoPT in an Annexure to its November 9 notification that announced the 2019-20 DFFT scheme:

1. University of Oxford, United Kingdom (World University ranking: 1; QS World University ranking: 5)

2. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (World University ranking: 2; QS World University ranking: 6)

3. Stanford University, United States (World University ranking: 3; QS World University ranking: 2)

4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (World University ranking: 4; QS World University ranking: 1)

5. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States (World University ranking: 5; QS World University ranking: 4)

6. Harvard University, United States (World University ranking: 6; QS World University ranking: 3)

7. Princeton University, United States (World University ranking: 7; QS World University ranking: 13) 

8. Yale University, United Kingdom (World University ranking: 8; QS World University ranking: 15)

9. Imperial College London, United Kingdom (World University ranking: 9; QS World University ranking: 8)

10. University of Chicago, United States (World University ranking: 10; QS World University ranking: 9)

11. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland (World University ranking: 11; QS World University ranking: 7)

12. Johns Hopkins University, United States (World University ranking: 12; QS World University ranking: 21)

13. University of Pennsylvania, United States (World University ranking: 12; QS World University ranking: 19)

14. UCL (University College London), United Kingdom (World University ranking: 14; QS World University ranking: 10) 

15. University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States (World University ranking: 15; QS World University ranking: 27)

16. Columbia University, United States (World University ranking: 16; QS World University ranking: 16) 

17. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States (World University ranking: 17; QS World University ranking: 32)

18. Duke University, United States (World University ranking: 18; QS World University ranking: 26)

19. Cornell University, United States (World University ranking: 19; QS World University ranking: 14)

20. University of Michigan, United States (World University ranking: 20; QS World University ranking: 20)

21. University of Toronto, Canada (World University ranking: 21; QS World University ranking: 28)

22. Tsinghua University, China (World University ranking: 22; QS World University ranking: 17)

23. National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (World University ranking: 23; QS World University ranking: 11)

24. Carnegie Mellon University, United States (World University ranking: 24; QS World University ranking: 46)

25. Northwestern University, United States (World University ranking: 25; QS World University ranking: 34)

26. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom (World University ranking: 26; QS World University ranking: 38)

27. New York University (NYU), United States (World University ranking: 27; QS World University ranking: 43)

28. University of Washington United States (World University ranking: 28; QS World University ranking: 66) 

29. University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (World University ranking: 29; QS World University ranking: 18)

30. University of California, San Diego (UCSD), United States (World University ranking: 30; QS World University ranking: 41)

31. Peking University, China (World University ranking: 31; QS World University ranking: 30)

32. LMU Munich, Germany (World University ranking: 32; QS World University ranking: NA) 

33. University of Melbourne, Australia (World University ranking: 33; QS World University ranking: 39)

34. Georgia Institute of Technology, United States (World University ranking: 34; QS World University ranking: 69)

35. EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland (World University ranking: 35; QS World University ranking: 22)

36. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (World University ranking: 36; QS World University ranking: 25)

37. University of British Columbia, Canada (World University ranking: 37; QS World University ranking: 47)

38. King’s College London, United Kingdom (World University ranking: 38; QS World University ranking: 31)

39. University of Texas at Austin, United States (World University ranking: 39; QS World University ranking: 63)

40. Karolinska Institute, Sweden (World University ranking: 40; QS World University ranking: NA)

41. Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris, France (World University ranking: 41; QS World University ranking: NA)

42. University of Tokyo, Japan (World University ranking: 42; QS World University ranking: 23)

43. University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States (World University ranking: 43; QS World University ranking: 53)

44. McGill University, Canada (World University ranking: 44; QS World University ranking: 33)

45. Technical University of Munich, German (World University ranking: 45; QS World University ranking: 61)

46. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong (World University ranking: 46; QS World University ranking: 37)

47. Heidelberg University, Germany (World University ranking: 47; QS World University ranking: NA)

48. KU Leuven Belgium (World University ranking: 48; QS World University ranking: 81)

49. Australian National University, Australia (World University ranking: 49; QS World University ranking: 24) 

50. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States (World University ranking: 50; QS World University ranking: 71)