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ITT – Ranking of the top 20 best universities with less than 5,000 students in the world, including schools that have appeared in the world university rankings in 2021.
This year, the average number of students at an institution participating in this ranking of the top 20 best universities is 3,197, more than 500 more than last year. Compared to the average student in the world global university rankings, this number is only close to 1/8.
Here is a list of the top 20 best universities in the world:
| No. | School | Country | Number of students | Students per head |
| 1 | California Institute of Technology – Caltech | America | 2.238 | 6,3 |
| 2 | École Polytechnique | France | 2.850 | 5,6 |
| 3 | Pohang University of Science and Technology – POSTECH | Korea | 3.034 | 9,7 |
| 4 | Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies – Pisa | Italy | 661 | 10 |
| 5 | Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology – UNIST | Korea | 3.983 | 14,3 |
| 6 | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa | Italy | 557 | 6,7 |
| 7 | Télécom Paris | France | 897 | 5,4 |
| 8 | University of Luxembourg | Luxembourg | 4.858 | 19 |
| 9 | Southern University of Science and Technology – SUSTech | China | 3.656 | 9 |
| 9 | Alfaisal University | Saudi Arabia | 2.640 | 10,2 |
| 11 | École des Ponts ParisTech | France | 2.059 | 11,5 |
| 11 | École Normale Supérieure de Lyon | France | 2.362 | 9 |
| 13 | Jacobs University | Germany | 1.353 | 18,8 |
| 14 | Università della Svizzera Italiana | Sweden | 2.713 | 10,3 |
| 15 | Brighton and Sussex Medical School | UK | 900 | 9,3 |
| 16 | Klagenfurt University | Austria | 3.361 | 10,1 |
| 17 | Cyprus University of Technology – CUT | Cyprus | 3.176 | 17,4 |
| 18 | Indian Institute of Science | India | 4.038 | 9,3 |
| 19 | Reykjavik University | Iceland | 2.501 | 23,4 |
| 20 | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | Sweden | 3.720 | 4,4 |
