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High Potential Individual visa: global universities list 2020

Updated 1 November 2024

The list published in 2020 will be used to assess qualifications awarded between 1 November 2020 and 31 October 2021.

Alphabetical Rankings Lists 2020 (establishments from Top 50 rankings which appeared on 2 or more lists) Country
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) USA
Columbia University USA
Cornell University USA
Duke University USA
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland
Harvard University USA
Johns Hopkins University USA
Karolinska Institute Sweden
Kyoto University Japan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA
McGill University Canada
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore
National University of Singapore Singapore
New York University (NYU) USA
Northwestern University USA
Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University France
Peking University China
Princeton University USA
Stanford University USA
Technical University of Munich (Technische Universität München) Germany
Tsinghua University China
University of British Columbia Canada
University of California, Berkeley USA
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) USA
University of California, San Diego USA
University of Chicago USA
University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA
University of Melbourne Australia
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor USA
University of Pennsylvania USA
University of Texas at Austin USA
University of Tokyo Japan
University of Toronto Canada
University of Washington USA
University of Wisconsin-Madison USA
Washington University in St Louis USA
Yale University USA