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QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026
101 universities
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| Rank | Change | University | Country | Score | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | IRN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UCL | United Kingdom | 96.8 | 100.0 | 85.4 | 91.6 | 99.9 | — | |
| 2 | Harvard University | United States of America | 91.2 | 87.1 | 100.0 | 89.6 | 98.5 | — | |
| 3 | 3 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 90.3 | 85.6 | 97.5 | 92.1 | 96.5 | — |
| 3 | 1 | Stanford University | United States of America | 90.3 | 84.0 | 93.9 | 94.5 | 100.0 | — |
| 5 | 2 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR, China | 89.3 | 85.1 | 83.7 | 92.3 | 99.7 | — |
| 6 | 1 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 88.6 | 84.9 | 96.2 | 88.1 | 94.6 | — |
| 7 | 5 | The Education University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR, China | 87.1 | 87.8 | 60.0 | 90.3 | 95.9 | — |
| 8 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | Singapore | 86.1 | 84.4 | 89.3 | 83.7 | 90.9 | — | |
| 9 | 8 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 85.5 | 80.9 | 79.8 | 90.4 | 94.9 | — |
| 10 | University of Toronto | Canada | 84.4 | 76.3 | 87.3 | 87.8 | 100.0 | — | |
| 11 | 2 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States of America | 84.1 | 77.7 | 85.0 | 90.3 | 93.4 | — |
| 12 | 5 | Beijing Normal University | China (Mainland) | 83.3 | 81.0 | 74.3 | 83.2 | 93.6 | — |
| 13 | 5 | Michigan State University | United States of America | 82.8 | 79.8 | 61.6 | 86.6 | 97.3 | — |
| 14 | 3 | Columbia University | United States of America | 82.6 | 78.9 | 78.7 | 83.5 | 93.0 | — |
| 15 | 1 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 82.2 | 75.1 | 80.8 | 87.2 | 95.7 | — |
| 16 | 6 | King's College London | United Kingdom | 81.6 | 76.3 | 82.5 | 86.6 | 89.2 | — |
| 17 | 4 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America | 81.2 | 75.9 | 75.9 | 86.0 | 92.5 | — |
| 18 | 12 | Monash University | Australia | 80.9 | 71.4 | 76.1 | 88.5 | 99.5 | — |
| 19 | 4 | Peking University | China (Mainland) | 80.6 | 72.3 | 88.4 | 90.6 | 87.4 | — |
| 20 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States of America | 80.3 | 79.7 | 55.4 | 82.7 | 91.7 | — | |
| 21 | 6 | Vanderbilt University | United States of America | 80.1 | 78.1 | 53.3 | 85.7 | 92.7 | — |
| 22 | 3 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States of America | 80.0 | 72.0 | 70.2 | 87.2 | 97.7 | — |
| 22 | 2 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 80.0 | 71.6 | 85.0 | 84.5 | 94.1 | — |
| 24 | 4 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong SAR, China | 79.8 | 70.6 | 75.3 | 90.1 | 94.9 | — |
| 25 | 1 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 79.4 | 69.4 | 79.6 | 88.2 | 95.3 | — |
| 26 | 4 | Johns Hopkins University | United States of America | 78.2 | 72.3 | 74.6 | 83.8 | 89.0 | — |
| 27 | 3 | National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) | Taiwan | 78.1 | 72.7 | 62.8 | 85.3 | 91.9 | — |
| 28 | McGill University | Canada | 77.9 | 66.5 | 79.3 | 90.8 | 93.0 | — | |
| 29 | 5 | The University of Auckland | New Zealand | 77.7 | 70.9 | 77.0 | 82.3 | 90.3 | — |
| 30 | 7 | University of Helsinki | Finland | 77.0 | 73.5 | 55.7 | 83.1 | 90.1 | — |
| 31 | 17 | Tsinghua University | China (Mainland) | 76.9 | 64.3 | 88.5 | 90.6 | 88.8 | — |
| 32 | 19 | Utrecht University | Netherlands | 76.8 | 65.9 | 61.6 | 91.5 | 97.0 | — |
| 33 | 17 | Deakin University | Australia | 76.6 | 63.9 | 66.9 | 92.1 | 97.8 | — |
| 34 | 6 | Seoul National University | Republic of Korea | 76.5 | 72.2 | 74.6 | 80.4 | 84.5 | — |
| 35 | 10 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 76.4 | 68.0 | 75.1 | 87.3 | 87.1 | — |
| 36 | 5 | Pennsylvania State University | United States of America | 75.9 | 69.0 | 66.4 | 81.2 | 92.5 | — |
| 37 | 1 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | Chile | 75.7 | 71.8 | 85.3 | 76.0 | 80.2 | — |
| 38 | 20 | Arizona State University | United States of America | 75.6 | 66.2 | 70.4 | 83.5 | 93.7 | — |
| 39 | 2 | University of Texas at Austin | United States of America | 75.4 | 66.2 | 63.6 | 86.4 | 93.4 | — |
| 40 | 18 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | Mexico | 75.1 | 77.5 | 84.2 | 66.4 | 73.1 | — |
| 41 | The University of Queensland | Australia | 75.0 | 64.3 | 74.4 | 84.9 | 92.1 | — | |
| 41 | 45 | Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University (Abai University) | Kazakhstan | 75.0 | 82.8 | 76.4 | 64.4 | 65.3 | — |
| 43 | 27 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | 74.9 | 67.8 | 67.1 | 84.6 | 86.6 | — |
| 44 | 18 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia | 74.6 | 62.3 | 77.1 | 87.0 | 91.9 | — |
| 44 | 2 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 74.6 | 60.0 | 73.2 | 98.8 | 87.4 | — |
| 46 | 14 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | United States of America | 74.5 | 68.9 | 59.7 | 80.6 | 89.9 | — |
| 46 | 6 | East China Normal University | China (Mainland) | 74.5 | 63.8 | 65.4 | 88.5 | 91.9 | — |
| 46 | 10 | KU Leuven | Belgium | 74.5 | 67.1 | 64.8 | 83.1 | 89.0 | — |
| 46 | 55 | University of Jordan | Jordan | 74.5 | 71.3 | 73.2 | 82.5 | 75.0 | — |
| 50 | 11 | University of Pennsylvania | United States of America | 74.4 | 63.0 | 76.2 | 85.7 | 90.9 | — |
| 51 | 5 | Princeton University | United States of America | 74.3 | 62.6 | 84.3 | 91.5 | 81.2 | — |
| 51 | 14 | Tecnológico de Monterrey | Mexico | 74.3 | 71.5 | 83.5 | 70.4 | 80.5 | — |
| 51 | 7 | University of Washington | United States of America | 74.3 | 63.3 | 60.9 | 87.8 | 95.1 | — |
| 51 | 14 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom | 74.3 | 65.6 | 64.9 | 86.9 | 88.3 | — |
| 55 | 1 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 74.2 | 60.8 | 72.4 | 89.4 | 93.6 | — |
| 56 | 2 | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | 74.1 | 64.5 | 69.0 | 86.5 | 88.3 | — |
| 56 | 10 | New York University (NYU) | United States of America | 74.1 | 60.7 | 78.5 | 86.9 | 92.5 | — |
| 58 | 19 | The Ohio State University | United States of America | 74.0 | 67.2 | 58.3 | 80.9 | 91.7 | — |
| 59 | 16 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 73.9 | 71.9 | 83.1 | 74.1 | 74.1 | — |
| 60 | 4 | University of Oslo | Norway | 73.2 | 64.4 | 49.9 | 87.5 | 92.5 | — |
| 61 | 28 | Korea University | Republic of Korea | 73.1 | 66.4 | 69.9 | 86.0 | 78.3 | — |
| 62 | 16 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | 72.9 | 63.3 | 73.6 | 87.5 | 82.1 | — |
| 63 | — | Adelaide University | Australia | 72.7 | 56.4 | 72.7 | 91.9 | 94.1 | — |
| 63 | 6 | Universitat de Barcelona | Spain | 72.7 | 67.0 | 72.3 | 75.7 | 84.2 | — |
| 65 | 7 | Cornell University | United States of America | 72.4 | 59.6 | 75.3 | 89.2 | 86.1 | — |
| 66 | 9 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | Ireland | 72.3 | 61.6 | 75.7 | 84.9 | 84.5 | — |
| 66 | 13 | Durham University | United Kingdom | 72.3 | 58.4 | 74.4 | 89.5 | 89.0 | — |
| 68 | Boston College | United States of America | 72.2 | 65.1 | 50.2 | 86.2 | 87.1 | — | |
| 69 | 14 | Purdue University | United States of America | 72.0 | 65.1 | 55.9 | 79.8 | 89.7 | — |
| 69 | 35 | Zhejiang University | China (Mainland) | 72.0 | 60.4 | 71.6 | 86.4 | 86.6 | — |
| 71 | 33 | Universiti Malaya (UM) | Malaysia | 71.9 | 63.3 | 68.6 | 82.0 | 84.8 | — |
| 71 | 30 | Maastricht University | Netherlands | 71.9 | 53.6 | 63.8 | 97.5 | 95.9 | — |
| 73 | 5 | University of Alberta | Canada | 71.7 | 61.9 | 70.9 | 81.1 | 87.4 | — |
| 74 | 27 | University of Turku | Finland | 71.6 | 65.8 | 47.0 | 84.9 | 85.3 | — |
| 75 | 6 | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil | 71.5 | 70.1 | 74.0 | 63.5 | 81.8 | — |
| 76 | 13 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom | 71.4 | 63.7 | 68.9 | 83.0 | 80.5 | — |
| 77 | 9 | Boston University | United States of America | 71.3 | 61.6 | 73.4 | 81.5 | 84.5 | — |
| 78 | 18 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States of America | 71.2 | 59.3 | 61.1 | 84.5 | 92.7 | — |
| 79 | 16 | Ewha Womans University | Republic of Korea | 71.1 | 65.3 | 60.8 | 81.2 | 80.5 | — |
| 79 | 14 | Complutense University of Madrid | Spain | 71.1 | 64.8 | 72.3 | 74.2 | 83.1 | — |
| 81 | 9 | University of York | United Kingdom | 71.0 | 56.6 | 62.4 | 93.3 | 89.0 | — |
| 81 | 16 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 71.0 | 65.0 | 77.3 | 77.9 | 75.9 | — |
| 81 | 14 | Brown University | United States of America | 71.0 | 59.2 | 67.8 | 89.2 | 83.7 | — |
| 84 | 17 | University of Limerick | Ireland | 70.9 | 61.1 | 60.4 | 84.7 | 86.6 | — |
| 84 | 17 | Lancaster University | United Kingdom | 70.9 | 58.2 | 62.9 | 89.6 | 88.1 | — |
| 86 | 8 | Kazan (Volga region) Federal University | Russian Federation | 70.6 | 63.8 | 73.5 | 76.4 | 80.2 | — |
| 86 | 3 | University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) | United States of America | 70.6 | 61.8 | 56.3 | 82.8 | 87.6 | — |
| 88 | 13 | Technical University of Munich | Germany | 70.5 | 57.8 | 63.7 | 88.7 | 87.4 | — |
| 88 | 12 | Gazi Üniversitesi | Türkiye | 70.5 | 70.6 | 60.1 | 71.0 | 75.0 | — |
| 88 | 13 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 70.5 | 55.9 | 65.5 | 90.0 | 90.1 | — |
| 91 | 6 | University of Virginia | United States of America | 70.3 | 56.5 | 65.5 | 87.1 | 90.5 | — |
| 91 | 24 | The University of Georgia | United States of America | 70.3 | 61.4 | 49.0 | 82.8 | 90.7 | — |
| 93 | 8 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Spain | 70.2 | 61.7 | 67.1 | 78.9 | 84.5 | — |
| 93 | 38 | Yonsei University | Republic of Korea | 70.2 | 62.9 | 70.0 | 81.2 | 77.6 | — |
| 93 | 8 | University of Groningen | Netherlands | 70.2 | 56.4 | 57.5 | 90.1 | 90.9 | — |
| 96 | 5 | The Open University | United Kingdom | 70.1 | 61.4 | 43.7 | 87.3 | 87.9 | — |
| 96 | 5 | University College Dublin | Ireland | 70.1 | 53.3 | 66.9 | 97.9 | 86.1 | — |
| 98 | 24 | Kyoto University | Japan | 70.0 | 63.3 | 72.4 | 76.6 | 79.1 | — |
| 98 | 3 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | Spain | 70.0 | 60.4 | 70.0 | 80.7 | 83.4 | — |
| 98 | 18 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States of America | 70.0 | 58.2 | 49.9 | 86.4 | 93.0 | — |
| 2026 | 1 | INSTITUTION | COUNTRY/TERRITORY | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1
UCL
United Kingdom
96.8·Acad: 100.0·Empl: 85.4
2
Harvard University
United States of America
91.2·Acad: 87.1·Empl: 100.0
33
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
90.3·Acad: 85.6·Empl: 97.5
31
Stanford University
United States of America
90.3·Acad: 84.0·Empl: 93.9
52
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR, China
89.3·Acad: 85.1·Empl: 83.7
61
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
88.6·Acad: 84.9·Empl: 96.2
75
The Education University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR, China
87.1·Acad: 87.8·Empl: 60.0
8
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)
Singapore
86.1·Acad: 84.4·Empl: 89.3
98
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
85.5·Acad: 80.9·Empl: 79.8
10
University of Toronto
Canada
84.4·Acad: 76.3·Empl: 87.3
112
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States of America
84.1·Acad: 77.7·Empl: 85.0
125
Beijing Normal University
China (Mainland)
83.3·Acad: 81.0·Empl: 74.3
135
Michigan State University
United States of America
82.8·Acad: 79.8·Empl: 61.6
143
Columbia University
United States of America
82.6·Acad: 78.9·Empl: 78.7
151
The University of Melbourne
Australia
82.2·Acad: 75.1·Empl: 80.8
166
King's College London
United Kingdom
81.6·Acad: 76.3·Empl: 82.5
174
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States of America
81.2·Acad: 75.9·Empl: 75.9
1812
Monash University
Australia
80.9·Acad: 71.4·Empl: 76.1
194
Peking University
China (Mainland)
80.6·Acad: 72.3·Empl: 88.4
20
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States of America
80.3·Acad: 79.7·Empl: 55.4
216
Vanderbilt University
United States of America
80.1·Acad: 78.1·Empl: 53.3
223
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
United States of America
80.0·Acad: 72.0·Empl: 70.2
222
University of British Columbia
Canada
80.0·Acad: 71.6·Empl: 85.0
244
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Hong Kong SAR, China
79.8·Acad: 70.6·Empl: 75.3
251
The University of Sydney
Australia
79.4·Acad: 69.4·Empl: 79.6
264
Johns Hopkins University
United States of America
78.2·Acad: 72.3·Empl: 74.6
273
National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)
Taiwan
78.1·Acad: 72.7·Empl: 62.8
28
McGill University
Canada
77.9·Acad: 66.5·Empl: 79.3
295
The University of Auckland
New Zealand
77.7·Acad: 70.9·Empl: 77.0
307
University of Helsinki
Finland
77.0·Acad: 73.5·Empl: 55.7
3117
Tsinghua University
China (Mainland)
76.9·Acad: 64.3·Empl: 88.5
3219
Utrecht University
Netherlands
76.8·Acad: 65.9·Empl: 61.6
3317
Deakin University
Australia
76.6·Acad: 63.9·Empl: 66.9
346
Seoul National University
Republic of Korea
76.5·Acad: 72.2·Empl: 74.6
3510
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom
76.4·Acad: 68.0·Empl: 75.1
365
Pennsylvania State University
United States of America
75.9·Acad: 69.0·Empl: 66.4
371
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)
Chile
75.7·Acad: 71.8·Empl: 85.3
3820
Arizona State University
United States of America
75.6·Acad: 66.2·Empl: 70.4
392
University of Texas at Austin
United States of America
75.4·Acad: 66.2·Empl: 63.6
4018
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Mexico
75.1·Acad: 77.5·Empl: 84.2
41
The University of Queensland
Australia
75.0·Acad: 64.3·Empl: 74.4
4145
Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University (Abai University)
Kazakhstan
75.0·Acad: 82.8·Empl: 76.4
4327
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
74.9·Acad: 67.8·Empl: 67.1
4418
The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
Australia
74.6·Acad: 62.3·Empl: 77.1
442
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
74.6·Acad: 60.0·Empl: 73.2
4614
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
United States of America
74.5·Acad: 68.9·Empl: 59.7
466
East China Normal University
China (Mainland)
74.5·Acad: 63.8·Empl: 65.4
4610
KU Leuven
Belgium
74.5·Acad: 67.1·Empl: 64.8
4655
University of Jordan
Jordan
74.5·Acad: 71.3·Empl: 73.2
5011
University of Pennsylvania
United States of America
74.4·Acad: 63.0·Empl: 76.2
515
Princeton University
United States of America
74.3·Acad: 62.6·Empl: 84.3
5114
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Mexico
74.3·Acad: 71.5·Empl: 83.5
517
University of Washington
United States of America
74.3·Acad: 63.3·Empl: 60.9
5114
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
74.3·Acad: 65.6·Empl: 64.9
551
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
74.2·Acad: 60.8·Empl: 72.4
562
University of Nottingham
United Kingdom
74.1·Acad: 64.5·Empl: 69.0
5610
New York University (NYU)
United States of America
74.1·Acad: 60.7·Empl: 78.5
5819
The Ohio State University
United States of America
74.0·Acad: 67.2·Empl: 58.3
5916
The University of Tokyo
Japan
73.9·Acad: 71.9·Empl: 83.1
604
University of Oslo
Norway
73.2·Acad: 64.4·Empl: 49.9
6128
Korea University
Republic of Korea
73.1·Acad: 66.4·Empl: 69.9
6216
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
72.9·Acad: 63.3·Empl: 73.6
63—
Adelaide University
Australia
72.7·Acad: 56.4·Empl: 72.7
636
Universitat de Barcelona
Spain
72.7·Acad: 67.0·Empl: 72.3
657
Cornell University
United States of America
72.4·Acad: 59.6·Empl: 75.3
669
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Ireland
72.3·Acad: 61.6·Empl: 75.7
6613
Durham University
United Kingdom
72.3·Acad: 58.4·Empl: 74.4
68
Boston College
United States of America
72.2·Acad: 65.1·Empl: 50.2
6914
Purdue University
United States of America
72.0·Acad: 65.1·Empl: 55.9
6935
Zhejiang University
China (Mainland)
72.0·Acad: 60.4·Empl: 71.6
7133
Universiti Malaya (UM)
Malaysia
71.9·Acad: 63.3·Empl: 68.6
7130
Maastricht University
Netherlands
71.9·Acad: 53.6·Empl: 63.8
735
University of Alberta
Canada
71.7·Acad: 61.9·Empl: 70.9
7427
University of Turku
Finland
71.6·Acad: 65.8·Empl: 47.0
756
Universidade de São Paulo
Brazil
71.5·Acad: 70.1·Empl: 74.0
7613
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
71.4·Acad: 63.7·Empl: 68.9
779
Boston University
United States of America
71.3·Acad: 61.6·Empl: 73.4
7818
Indiana University Bloomington
United States of America
71.2·Acad: 59.3·Empl: 61.1
7916
Ewha Womans University
Republic of Korea
71.1·Acad: 65.3·Empl: 60.8
7914
Complutense University of Madrid
Spain
71.1·Acad: 64.8·Empl: 72.3
819
University of York
United Kingdom
71.0·Acad: 56.6·Empl: 62.4
8116
National Taiwan University (NTU)
Taiwan
71.0·Acad: 65.0·Empl: 77.3
8114
Brown University
United States of America
71.0·Acad: 59.2·Empl: 67.8
8417
University of Limerick
Ireland
70.9·Acad: 61.1·Empl: 60.4
8417
Lancaster University
United Kingdom
70.9·Acad: 58.2·Empl: 62.9
868
Kazan (Volga region) Federal University
Russian Federation
70.6·Acad: 63.8·Empl: 73.5
863
University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
United States of America
70.6·Acad: 61.8·Empl: 56.3
8813
Technical University of Munich
Germany
70.5·Acad: 57.8·Empl: 63.7
8812
Gazi Üniversitesi
Türkiye
70.5·Acad: 70.6·Empl: 60.1
8813
Leiden University
Netherlands
70.5·Acad: 55.9·Empl: 65.5
916
University of Virginia
United States of America
70.3·Acad: 56.5·Empl: 65.5
9124
The University of Georgia
United States of America
70.3·Acad: 61.4·Empl: 49.0
938
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Spain
70.2·Acad: 61.7·Empl: 67.1
9338
Yonsei University
Republic of Korea
70.2·Acad: 62.9·Empl: 70.0
938
University of Groningen
Netherlands
70.2·Acad: 56.4·Empl: 57.5
965
The Open University
United Kingdom
70.1·Acad: 61.4·Empl: 43.7
965
University College Dublin
Ireland
70.1·Acad: 53.3·Empl: 66.9
9824
Kyoto University
Japan
70.0·Acad: 63.3·Empl: 72.4
983
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Spain
70.0·Acad: 60.4·Empl: 70.0
9818
University of Maryland, College Park
United States of America
70.0·Acad: 58.2·Empl: 49.9
20261
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COUNTRY/TERRITORY
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