QS telah merilis World University Rankings 2022. Di antara 100 Besar Universitas Amerika Serikat mendominasi daftar tersebut. 3 universitas dalam daftar berasal dari Amerika Serikat. Sementara universitas dari Asia juga membuat kehadiran yang signifikan. Universitas Nasional Singapura (NUS), Singapura di No. 11 memimpin kawasan Asia Selatan dalam Tabel Peringkat Universitas Dunia QS 2022.
Menurut situs web resmi universitas penerbit dinilai berdasarkan 6 parameter berikut:
- Reputasi Akademik
- Reputasi Majikan
- Rasio Fakultas/Mahasiswa
- Kutipan per fakultas
- Rasio Fakultas Internasional
- Rasio Pelajar Internasional
50 universitas terbaik berdasarkan QS World 2022:
| World Ranking | University | Country |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United states |
| 2 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 3 | Stanford University | United States |
| 3 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 5 | Harvard University | United states |
| 6 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United states |
| 7 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 8 | ETH Zurich | Swiss |
| 8 | UCL | United Kingdom |
| 10 | University of Chicago | United states |
| 11 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| 12 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore |
| 13 | University of Pennsylvania | United states |
| 14 | EPFL | Swiss |
| 14 | Yale University | United states |
| 16 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 17 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 18 | Peking University | China |
| 19 | Columbia University | United states |
| 20 | Princeton University | United states |
| 21 | Cornell University | United states |
| 22 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong kong |
| 23 | The University of Tokyo | Jepang |
| 23 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United states |
| 25 | Johns Hopkins University | United states |
| 26 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 27 | McGill University | canada |
| 27 | The Australian National University | australia |
| 27 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 30 | Northwestern University | United states |
| 31 | Fudan University | China |
| 32 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United states |
| 33 | Kyoto University | Jepang |
| 34 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong kong |
| 35 | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
| 36 | Seoul National University | Korea Selatan |
| 37 | The University of Melbourne | australia |
| 38 | The University of Sydney | australia |
| 39 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | China |
| 40 | University of California, Los Angeles | United states |
| 41 | KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | Korea Selatan |
| 42 | New York University (NYU) | United states |
| 43 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | australia |
| 44 | Université PSL | Prancis |
| 45 | Zhejiang University | China |
| 46 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 47 | The University of Queensland | australia |
| 48 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United states |
| 49 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris | Prancis |
| 49 | The London School of Economics and nd Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom |
Di Asia, Singapura memimpin dengan dua universitas yaitu National University of Singapore (NUS) dan Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU), yang menduduki peringkat 11 dan 12.
Lalu, bagaimana dengan universitas-universitas Indonesia?
UniversitaIndonesia (UI) yang menjadi pemimpin, karena berhasil menduduki peringkat 601-800.
Universitas lainnya yang berhasil masuk dalam daftar ranking ini ada Institut Teknologi Bandung, Institut Pertanian Bogor, Universitas Brawijaya dan Universitas Gadjah Mada.
Universitas Terbaik Indonesia
| QS World Ranking 2022 | University |
| 56 | Universitas Indonesia |
| 59 | Gadjah Mada University |
| 67 | Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) |
| 110 | Airlangga University |
| 112 | Bogor Agricultural University |
| 160 | Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS Surabaya) |
| 192 | Universitas Padjadjaran |
| 209 | Diponegoro University |
| 220 | Bina Nusantara University (BINUS) |
| 239 | Universitas Brawijaya |