THE World University Rankings 2026

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🇦🇱 Albania

🇩🇿 Algeria

🇦🇩 Andorra

🇦🇴 Angola

🇦🇷 Argentina

🇦🇲 Armenia

🇦🇺 Australia

🇦🇹 Austria

🇦🇿 Azerbaijan

🇧🇭 Bahrain

🇧🇩 Bangladesh

🇧🇾 Belarus

🇧🇪 Belgium

🇧🇴 Bolivia

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina

🇧🇼 Botswana

🇧🇷 Brazil

🇧🇳 Brunei

🇧🇬 Bulgaria

🇰🇭 Cambodia

🇨🇦 Canada

🇨🇱 Chile

🇨🇳 China

🇨🇴 Colombia

🇰🇲 Comoros

🇨🇷 Costa Rica

🇭🇷 Croatia

🇨🇺 Cuba

🇨🇾 Cyprus

🇨🇿 Czech Republic

🇩🇰 Denmark

🇩🇴 Dominican Republic

🇪🇨 Ecuador

🇪🇬 Egypt

🇪🇪 Estonia

🇫🇯 Fiji

🇫🇮 Finland

🇫🇷 France

🇬🇪 Georgia

🇩🇪 Germany

🇬🇭 Ghana

🇬🇷 Greece

🇭🇹 Haiti

🇭🇳 Honduras

🇭🇰 Hong Kong

🇭🇺 Hungary

🇮🇸 Iceland

🇮🇳 India

🇮🇩 Indonesia

🇮🇷 Iran

🇮🇶 Iraq

🇮🇪 Ireland

🇮🇱 Israel

🇮🇹 Italy

🇨🇮 Ivory Coast

🇯🇲 Jamaica

🇯🇵 Japan

🇯🇴 Jordan

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan

🇰🇪 Kenya

🇽🇰 Kosovo

🇰🇼 Kuwait

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan

🇱🇻 Latvia

🇱🇧 Lebanon

🇱🇾 Libya

🇱🇹 Lithuania

🇱🇺 Luxembourg

🇲🇴 Macau

🇲🇰 Macedonia

🇲🇼 Malawi

🇲🇾 Malaysia

🇲🇹 Malta

🇲🇺 Mauritius

🇲🇽 Mexico

🇲🇳 Mongolia

🇲🇪 Montenegro

🇲🇦 Morocco

🇲🇿 Mozambique

🇳🇦 Namibia

🇳🇵 Nepal

🇳🇱 Netherlands

🇳🇿 New Zealand

🇳🇪 Niger

🇳🇬 Nigeria

🇳🇴 Norway

🇴🇲 Oman

🇵🇰 Pakistan

🇵🇸 Palestine

🇵🇦 Panama

🇵🇾 Paraguay

🇵🇪 Peru

🇵🇭 Philippines

🇵🇱 Poland

🇵🇹 Portugal

🇶🇦 Qatar

🇷🇴 Romania

🇷🇺 Russia

🇷🇼 Rwanda

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

🇸🇳 Senegal

🇷🇸 Serbia

🇸🇬 Singapore

🇸🇰 Slovakia

🇸🇮 Slovenia

🇸🇴 Somalia

🇿🇦 South Africa

🇰🇷 South Korea

🇪🇸 Spain

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

🇸🇩 Sudan

🇸🇿 Swaziland

🇸🇪 Sweden

🇨🇭 Switzerland

🇸🇾 Syria

🇹🇼 Taiwan

🇹🇯 Tajikistan

🇹🇿 Tanzania

🇹🇭 Thailand

🇹🇳 Tunisia

🇹🇷 Turkey

🇹🇲 Turkmenistan

🇺🇬 Uganda

🇺🇦 Ukraine

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

🇺🇸 United States

🇺🇾 Uruguay

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

🇻🇪 Venezuela

🇻🇳 Vietnam

🇾🇪 Yemen

🇿🇲 Zambia

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

Total 3,104 universities

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	University	Country
1	University of Oxford	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	98.2	97.2	100.0	97.7	99.9	96.4
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	🇺🇸 United States	97.7	99.2	95.3	99.6	100.0	91.9
3	University of Cambridge	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	97.2	96.2	99.9	97.1	87.6	96.3
3	Princeton University	🇺🇸 United States	97.2	98.2	97.3	99.0	98.0	85.4
5 =	Stanford University (SU)	🇺🇸 United States	97.1	97.5	97.4	99.5	100.0	83.9
5 =	Harvard University	🇺🇸 United States	97.1	95.9	100.0	98.9	86.7	88.3
7	California Institute of Technology (CIT)	🇺🇸 United States	96.3	96.4	97.4	96.8	100.0	87.9
8	Imperial College London	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	94.7	90.6	94.9	98.0	91.9	98.2
9	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	🇺🇸 United States	94.4	87.3	99.0	98.9	99.5	83.9
10	Yale University	🇺🇸 United States	94.1	94.6	94.5	97.2	87.6	81.4
11	ETH Zurich	🇨🇭 Switzerland	93.1	88.5	97.2	94.5	83.7	95.1
12	Tsinghua University (THU)	🇨🇳 China	93.0	95.9	98.5	93.9	100.0	53.4
13	Peking University (PKU)	🇨🇳 China	92.3	95.4	97.9	89.0	100.0	67.3
14	University of Pennsylvania	🇺🇸 United States	90.8	88.1	90.3	96.1	97.9	78.4
15	University of Chicago (UC)	🇺🇸 United States	90.6	89.6	90.1	96.8	76.4	79.7
16	Johns Hopkins University (JHU)	🇺🇸 United States	90.1	84.6	89.9	96.3	100.0	81.9
17	National University of Singapore (NUS)	🇸🇬 Singapore	89.7	78.6	93.1	95.1	99.9	92.8
18 =	Cornell University (CU)	🇺🇸 United States	89.5	85.9	90.6	95.9	70.3	83.5
18 =	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	🇺🇸 United States	89.5	86.0	91.4	95.6	93.5	69.2
20	Columbia University (CU)	🇺🇸 United States	89.4	87.8	87.8	95.9	74.8	83.7
21	University of Toronto	🇨🇦 Canada	88.5	78.2	92.9	92.3	95.8	92.3
22	University College London (UCL)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	87.5	77.8	85.9	97.6	74.7	97.5
23	University of Michigan (UM)	🇺🇸 United States	86.9	85.7	87.3	93.8	81.4	65.8
24	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)	🇺🇸 United States	85.0	72.7	83.0	99.0	85.5	84.3
25	University of Washington (UW)	🇺🇸 United States	83.7	77.0	80.0	97.6	81.6	70.1
26	The University of Tokyo (UT)	🇯🇵 Japan	83.5	94.7	94.2	68.2	100.0	50.8
27	Technical University of Munich (TUM)	🇩🇪 Germany	83.4	71.9	84.8	91.3	100.0	83.4
28	Duke University	🇺🇸 United States	82.9	78.7	74.2	95.4	100.0	74.2
29	University of Edinburgh	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	82.5	75.7	74.7	94.8	71.0	96.2
30	Northwestern University (NU)	🇺🇸 United States	81.9	73.2	76.0	96.9	96.0	71.0
31 =	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	🇸🇬 Singapore	81.6	65.8	78.1	95.2	100.0	93.6
31 =	New York University (NYU)	🇺🇸 United States	81.6	74.6	78.5	94.3	74.8	74.1
33	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	🇭🇰 Hong Kong	80.5	68.3	70.8	95.6	96.5	96.6
34	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)	🇩🇪 Germany	79.7	68.4	75.4	92.4	100.0	78.7
35	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	🇨🇭 Switzerland	79.6	73.5	70.8	87.5	99.9	95.4
36	Fudan University	🇨🇳 China	79.3	79.5	77.1	84.8	99.8	53.8
37	The University of Melbourne	🇦🇺 Australia	79.0	67.7	75.5	87.8	99.3	91.6
38	King's College London (KCL)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	78.7	64.2	72.1	95.5	72.3	96.9
39	Zhejiang University (ZJU)	🇨🇳 China	78.3	75.0	78.4	84.3	100.0	55.5
40	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)	🇨🇳 China	77.6	75.4	79.1	80.2	100.0	57.7
41 =	McGill University	🇨🇦 Canada	77.1	71.0	70.8	86.2	77.5	89.2
41 =	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)	🇺🇸 United States	77.1	67.9	80.7	85.3	84.4	62.3
41 =	Georgia Institute of Technology (GT)	🇺🇸 United States	77.1	60.8	75.8	90.4	99.1	81.5
41 =	Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	🇭🇰 Hong Kong	77.1	63.2	63.8	97.9	90.9	92.1
45	University of British Columbia (UBC)	🇨🇦 Canada	77.0	64.1	73.9	88.6	77.4	93.5
46	KU Leuven (KUL)	🇧🇪 Belgium	76.8	61.3	73.8	91.3	100.0	79.2
47	University of California San Diego (UCSD)	🇺🇸 United States	76.6	66.4	63.7	97.1	100.0	71.3
48	Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris	🇫🇷 France	76.5	74.2	71.8	79.8	99.7	77.9
49	Universität Heidelberg	🇩🇪 Germany	76.3	68.3	61.4	95.3	93.7	80.2
50	University of Texas at Austin	🇺🇸 United States	75.8	67.8	76.0	90.1	82.3	46.2