Popularity and Importance for best education are increasing now a days and students wish to do their higher education in foreign countries for better experience and knowledge. There are several independent agencies and also government agencies in the world to do the performance evaluation and ranking of universities all over the world. Times Higher Education Survey, Academic Ranking of World Universities, Commonwealth Universities Year Book, etc., do conduct surveys on different Universities and publish their rankings.
Some of the important universities in different foreign countries are
| Institute | Website |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | www.mit.edu/ |
| Stanford University | www.stanford.edu/ |
| Harvard University | www.harvard.edu/ |
| California Institute of Technology | www.caltech.edu/ |
| University of Chicago | www.uchicago.edu/ |
| University of Pennsylvania | www.upenn.edu/ |
| Yale University | www.yale.edu/ |
| Institute | Website |
| University of Cambridge | www.cam.ac.uk/ |
| University College London | www.ucl.ac.uk/ |
| King's College London | www.kcl.ac.uk/ |
| London School of Economics and Political Science | www.lse.ac.uk |
| University of Bristol | www.bristol.ac.uk |
| Imperial College London | www.imperial.ac.uk |
| University of Oxford | www.ox.ac.uk |
| Institute | Website |
| University of Alberta | www.ualberta.ca |
| The University of British Columbia | www.ubc.ca |
| University of Montreal | www.umontreal.ca |
| University of Waterloo | www.uwaterloo.ca |
| McMaster University | www.mcmaster.ca |
| University of Calgary | www.ucalgary.ca |
| Institute | Website |
| Australian National University | www.anu.edu.au |
| University of Melbourne | www.unimelb.edu.au |
| Monash University | www.monash.edu |
| University of Queensland | www.uq.edu.au |
| University of Sydney | www.sydney.edu.au |
| University of Adelaide | www.adelaide.edu.au |
| Institute | Website |
| LMU Munich | www.lmu.de/en/ |
| Technical University of Munich | www.tum.de/en/ |
| Heidelberg University | www.uni-heidelberg.de/en |
| Freie University Berlin | www.fu-berlin.de/ |
| Technical University of Berlin | www.tu.berlin/en/ |