High Potential Individual visa: global universities list 2021
Updated 4 November 2025
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The list published in 2021 will be used to assess qualifications awarded between 1 November 2021 to 31 October 2022.
| Alphabetical rankings lists 2021 | Country |
|---|---|
| Australian National University | Australia |
| Boston University | USA |
| Brown University | USA |
| California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | USA |
| Carnegie Mellon University | USA |
| Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong |
| Columbia University | USA |
| Cornell University | USA |
| Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| Duke University | USA |
| EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
| Fudan University | China |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | USA |
| Ghent University | Belgium |
| Harvard University | USA |
| Heidelberg University | Germany |
| Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong |
| Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
| Institut Polytechnique de Paris | France |
| Johns Hopkins University | USA |
| Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea |
| KU Leuven | Belgium |
| Kyoto University | Japan |
| Leiden University | Netherlands |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | USA |
| McGill University | Canada |
| McMaster University | Canada |
| Monash University | Australia |
| Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | Singapore |
| National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| New York University (NYU) | USA |
| Northwestern University | USA |
| Paris Sciences et Lettres - PSL University | France |
| Paris-Saclay University | France |
| Peking University | China |
| Princeton University | USA |
| Seoul National University | South Korea |
| Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
| Sorbonne University | France |
| Stanford University | USA |
| Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| Tsinghua University | China |
| University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| University of British Columbia | Canada |
| University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | USA |
| University of California, Davis | USA |
| University of California, Irvine | USA |
| University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | USA |
| University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | USA |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | USA |
| University of Chicago | USA |
| University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | USA |
| University of Maryland, College Park | USA |
| University of Melbourne | Australia |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | USA |
| University of Minnesota | USA |
| University of Munich (LMU Munich) | Germany |
| University of New South Wales (UNSW) | Australia |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | USA |
| University of Pennsylvania | USA |
| University of Queensland | Australia |
| University of Science and Technology of China | China |
| University of Southern California | USA |
| University of Sydney | Australia |
| University of Texas at Austin | USA |
| University of Tokyo | Japan |
| University of Toronto | Canada |
| University of Washington | USA |
| University of Western Australia | Australia |
| University of Wisconsin - Madison | USA |
| University of Zurich | Switzerland |
| Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| Washington University in St. Louis | USA |
| Yale University | USA |
| Zhejiang University | China |