ESF has over time used the Times Higher Education World Rankings as a way of gauging the extent to which our students are achieving places in the top universities in the world. This ranking system uses a variety of criteria and can be used to gauge the success rate of ESF students attending the world’s top universities over a number of years as shown below.
| World Rank | University | Country | No. of students 2010-2018 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Oxford | UK | 26 |
| 2 | University of Cambridge | UK | 49 |
| 3 | Stanford University | USA | 8 |
| 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | USA | 1 |
| 5 | California Institute of Technology | USA | 2 |
| 6 | Harvard University | USA | 5 |
| 7 | Princeton University | USA | 3 |
| 8 | Yale University | USA | 4 |
| 9 | Imperial College London | UK | 75 |
| 10 | University of Chicago | USA | 20 |
| 11 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Switzerland | 0 |
| 12= | University of Pennsylvania | USA | 31 |
| 12= | Johns Hopkins University | USA | 2 |
| 14 | University College London | UK | 204 |
| 15 | University of California, Berkeley | USA | 72 |
| 16 | Columbia University | USA | 5 |
| 17 | University of California, Los Angeles | USA | 73 |
| 18 | Duke University | USA | 12 |
| 19 | Cornell University | USA | 20 |
| 20 | University of Michigan | USA | 12 |
| 21 | University of Toronto | Canada | 260 |
| 22 | Tsinghua University | China | 2 |
| 23 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 5 |
| 24 | Carnegie Mellon University | USA | 12 |
| 25 | Northwestern University | USA | 12 |
| 26 | London School of Economics and Political Science | UK | 98 |
| 27 | New York University | USA | 103 |
| 28 | University of Washington, Seattle | USA | 19 |
| 29 | University of Edinburgh | UK | 98 |
| 30 | University of California, San Diego | USA | 28 |
| Total | 1,262 |