The 23 best universities outside the developed world

Among the various different university rankings released every year, one thing usually predominates: the sheer number of schools from the US and Europe that populate the top of the rankings.

In most rankings, the vast majority of top universities are from the US, the UK, France, Germany, and Italy, thanks to the huge endowments universities in these countries have.

But look beyond these countries and there is a large number of top-quality institutions in the world's emerging economies, offering great teaching and research.

Using the Times Higher Education's (THE) Emerging Economies university ranking, we took a look at the best institutions outside the developed world. THE ranks universities on several metrics, including the standard of teaching, research, the number of citations in research papers, and the international outlook of the universities. It then gives an overall rating out of 100.

A large number of universities on the list are in China, but several from Russia and South Africa also feature.

Check out the list below: