Getting an admission in reputed universities is a tough job for most students. These esteemed educational institutes provide the best infrastructure and educational facilities to those who can make their cut. A good education is the key to a good career and most employers would prefer their future employees to graduate from a reputed university. Mentioned below are universities globally known for their world-class educational and infrastructural facilities. So let's have a look at some of the top universities in the world. Best Universities for Engineering To be a successful engineer it is essential that a student spends most of his/her time gaining technical and analytical knowledge. And the correct knowledge can only be provided at institutions which are built to train budding engineers and have excellent credentials. Here are some of the best engineering universities.

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT (USA)
• Stanford University - California (USA)
• Tohoku University - Tohoku (Japan)
• Pennsylvania State University - Pennsylvania, (USA)
• Purdue University - West Lafayette (USA)
• University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (USA)
• University of Texas - Austin (USA)
• University of California - Berkeley (USA)
• University of Toronto (Canada)
• University of California - Santa Barbara (USA)
• University of Cambridge (UK)
• Zhejiang University (China)
• University of Southern California (USA)
• Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh (USA)
• University of Wisconsin - Madison (USA)
• Kyoto University - Kyoto (Japan)
• Princeton University - New Jersy (USA)
• North Carolina State University - Raleigh (USA)
• Northwestern University - Illinois (USA)
• University of Washington - Seattle (USA)
• Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Lausanne (Switzerland)
• National University Singapore - Kent Ridge (Singapore)
• Hong Kong University Science & Technology (Hong Kong)
• Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Haifa (Israel)
• Osaka University - Osaka (Japan)
• City University Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
• Nanyang Tech University (Singapore)
• Polytechnic Inst - Turin (Italy)
• Tech University Denmark (Denmark)
• Tsing Hua University - Taiwan (China)
• University of Bordeaux 1 (France)
• University of British Columbia - Greater Vancouver (Canada)
• University of Leuven (Belgium)
• University of Twente - Enschede (Netherlands)
• Chinese University Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
• Pohang University Science & Technology (South Korea)
• University of Utrecht (Netherlands)
• Uppsala University (Sweden)

The study of medicine can give you a very rewarding career. Whether you chose to become a doctor, a pharmacy technician or a nurse; having a degree from one of the top ranked universities in the world can be of immense benefit. Have a look at some of the top medical universities in the world.

• University of Rochester, New York (USA)
• University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
• University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (USA)
• University of Milan (Italy)
• King's College London (UK)
• University of Chicago (USA)
• University of Florida (USA)
• Brown University (USA)
• McGill University (Canada)
• University of Munich (Germany)
• Boston University (USA)
• Leiden University (The Netherlands)
• University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston (USA)
• University of Nottingham (UK)
• Emory University (USA)
• Tufts University (USA)
• University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (USA)
• Duke University (USA)
• Vanderbilt University (USA)
• University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (USA)
• Yale University (USA)
• Mayo Clinic College of Medicine (USA)
• Karolinska Institute (Seden)
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (USA)
• Johns Hopkins University (USA)

Getting admission into these universities is never easy as they receive more than a million applications every year. Only students who have been good at academics from the start and have a high GPA score have a better chance of securing an admission in one of these following institutions.

• Engineering and IT
• Mass Institute of Technology
• UC Berkeley
• Stanford University
• Cambridge University
• Imperial College

• Arts and Humanities
• Columbia University
• Stanford University
• Yale University
• University of California
• University of Chicago

• Natural and Physical Sciences
• Stanford University
• University of Oxford
• Kyoto University
• Princeton University
• UC Berkeley

• Mathematics
• University of California
• Pierre & Marie Curie University
• Harvard University
• University of Paris
• University of California

• Physics
• University of Tokyo
• Cornell University
• University of Cambridge
• UC Berkeley
• California Institute of Technology

• Social Sciences
• London School of Eon
• UC Berkeley
• Harvard University
• Yale University
• Columbia University

• Life Sciences/Bio-Medicine
• McGill University
• John Hopkins University
• Stanford University
• Yale University
• University of Oxford

So these were some of the best universities of the world, which are classified according to the latest research. For more details, students are requested to visit the university's official website or make a personal visit at the campus.