Ranking World
The ranking of the 1474 best universities in World in 2026
Ranking based on the average of the three main international rankings: Shanghai (ARWU), QS World University Rankings and Times Higher Education.
1,474ranked universities
RankUniversityCountry
- 1Harvard University
United States - 2Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States
- 3Stanford UniversityUnited States
- 4University of Cambridge
United Kingdom - 5University of OxfordUnited Kingdom
- 6California Institute of TechnologyUnited States
- 7University of ChicagoUnited States
- 8Princeton UniversityUnited States
- 9Yale UniversityUnited States
- 10University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
- 11ETH Zurich
Switzerland - 12University of PennsylvaniaUnited States
- 13Columbia UniversityUnited States
- 14Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom
- 15Tsinghua University
China - 16Peking UniversityChina
- 17University College LondonUnited Kingdom
- 18Cornell UniversityUnited States
- 19University of California, Los AngelesUnited States
- 20Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
- 21University of California, San FranciscoUnited States
- 22University of MichiganUnited States
- 23Duke UniversityUnited States
- 24University of Toronto
Canada - 25National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore - 26University of Melbourne
Australia - 27University of Edinburgh
Scotland - 28The University of Tokyo
Japan - 29University of California, San DiegoUnited States
- 30Rockefeller UniversityUnited States
- 31New York UniversityUnited States
- 32Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina
- 33EPFLSwitzerland
- 34Technical University of Munich
Germany - 35Zhejiang UniversityChina
- 36Fudan UniversityChina
- 37Washington University in St. LouisUnited States
- 38Kyoto UniversityJapan
- 39Paris - PSL University
France - 40The University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom
- 41Nanyang Technological University (NTU)Singapore
- 42University of British ColumbiaCanada
- 43KU Leuven
Belgium - 44University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States
- 45The University of Texas at AustinUnited States
- 46Karolinska Institute
Sweden - 47Australian National UniversityAustralia
- 48University of SydneyAustralia
- 49McGill UniversityCanada
- 50Northwestern UniversityUnited States