Forty-Five universities/ colleges from Germany have made it to the QS World University Rankings 2019 — the prestigious annual index of global universities.
QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). Previously known as Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings, the publisher had collaborated with Times Higher Education (THE) magazine to publish its international league tables from 2004 to 2009 before both started to announce their own versions.
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QS then chose to continue using the pre-existing methodology while Times Higher Education adopted a new methodology to create their rankings.
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The top three universities this year are Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University and Harvard University respectively. The trio occupies the top three spots just as they had in 2018, followed by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the fourth spot.
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45 German Universities/ Colleges in QS World University Rankings 2019
| S. No. | RANK | UNIVERSITY |
| 1 | 61 | Technical University of Munich |
| 2 | 62 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| 3 | 64 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
| 4 | 116 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 5 | 121 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 6 | 130 | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| 7 | 144 | RWTH Aachen University |
| 8 | 147 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) |
| 9 | 168 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
| 10 | 186 | Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg |
| 11 | 191 | Technische Universität Dresden |
| 12 | 197 | University of Göttingen |
| 13 | 223 | Universität Hamburg |
| 14 | 253 | Technische Universität Darmstadt |
| 15 | 255 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |
| 16 | 260 | Universität Stuttgart |
| 17 | 279 | Universität Frankfurt am Main |
| 18 | 299 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 19 | 306 | University of Cologne |
| 20 | 326 | Universität Jena Universität Jena |
| 21 | 329 | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
| 22 | 332 | University Ulm |
| 23 | 338 | Universität Mannheim |
| 24 | 372 | Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| 25 | 397 | Universität Konstanz |
| 26 | 407 | Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz |
| 27 | 453 | Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel |
| 28 | 461 | Universität des Saarlandes |
| 29 | 495 | University of Hohenheim |
| 30 | 500 | Technische Universität Braunschweig |
| 31 | 511-520 | Universität Bremen |
| 32 | 521-530 | Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg |
| 33 | 551-560 | Justus-Liebig-University Giessen |
| 34 | 551-560 | Leibniz Universität Hannover |
| 35 | 561-570 | Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg |
| 36 | 571-580 | Universität Regensburg |
| 37 | 581-590 | Universität Leipzig |
| 38 | 601-650 | Philipps-Universität Marburg |
| 39 | 601-650 | University of Bayreuth |
| 40 | 601-650 | Universität Duisburg-Essen |
| 41 | 601-650 | Universität Potsdam |
| 42 | 701-750 | TU Dortmund University |
| 43 | 701-750 | Bielefeld University |
| 44 | 701-750 | University Duesseldorf |
| 45 | 701-750 | Universität Rostock |
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The only change in the top five sees University of Oxford (5th) overtaking the University of Cambridge, which has now been relegated to the sixth spot.
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