101 universities
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| Rank | Change | University | Country | Score | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | IRN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America | 99.3 | 100.0 | 94.7 | 99.4 | 96.3 | — | |
| 2 | 1 | Lancaster University | United Kingdom | 91.6 | 94.7 | 75.9 | 85.8 | 78.7 | — |
| 3 | 1 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 88.7 | 87.8 | 96.9 | 85.9 | 89.8 | — |
| 4 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 88.5 | 87.6 | 97.3 | 84.4 | 88.9 | — | |
| 5 | 10 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | United States of America | 87.6 | 90.7 | 67.0 | 87.0 | 80.0 | — |
| 6 | 2 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 87.0 | 87.0 | 88.0 | 87.8 | 83.6 | — |
| 7 | 1 | Harvard University | United States of America | 86.5 | 84.6 | 100.0 | 87.7 | 88.5 | — |
| 8 | 3 | Stanford University | United States of America | 86.3 | 83.8 | 93.6 | 100.0 | 97.8 | — |
| 9 | 5 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States of America | 85.0 | 83.6 | 88.1 | 94.4 | 91.4 | — |
| 10 | 3 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America | 83.8 | 83.7 | 79.2 | 88.6 | 89.4 | — |
| 11 | 4 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 82.4 | 82.5 | 76.4 | 86.7 | 89.4 | — |
| 12 | 4 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 82.3 | 83.0 | 78.9 | 81.2 | 78.0 | — |
| 13 | 6 | UCL | United Kingdom | 81.6 | 81.4 | 75.2 | 86.9 | 92.5 | — |
| 13 | 14 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | Singapore | 81.6 | 80.4 | 85.2 | 88.6 | 87.1 | — |
| 15 | 5 | University of Pennsylvania | United States of America | 80.6 | 80.4 | 76.8 | 86.3 | 85.7 | — |
| 16 | 14 | Peking University | China (Mainland) | 80.2 | 77.1 | 93.2 | 92.3 | 91.0 | — |
| 17 | 4 | The Ohio State University | United States of America | 79.8 | 82.8 | 52.5 | 84.2 | 82.5 | — |
| 18 | 1 | Seoul National University | Republic of Korea | 79.5 | 79.7 | 81.8 | 79.9 | 70.6 | — |
| 19 | 18 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | 79.1 | 81.0 | 65.4 | 80.1 | 75.0 | — |
| 20 | 33 | Georgetown University | United States of America | 78.4 | 80.4 | 61.3 | 84.7 | 75.0 | — |
| 21 | 2 | University of Toronto | Canada | 78.3 | 76.7 | 83.2 | 84.2 | 88.9 | — |
| 22 | 28 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 78.2 | 80.0 | 64.8 | 76.5 | 78.0 | — |
| 22 | 1 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 78.2 | 77.8 | 81.1 | 81.2 | 75.0 | — |
| 24 | 24 | New York University (NYU) | United States of America | 77.9 | 75.9 | 81.4 | 90.9 | 89.8 | — |
| 25 | 15 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong SAR, China | 77.8 | 77.0 | 74.0 | 88.6 | 87.1 | — |
| 26 | 4 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 77.7 | 76.8 | 79.2 | 87.3 | 80.0 | — |
| 27 | 30 | Australian National University (ANU) | Australia | 77.6 | 76.7 | 86.1 | 78.3 | 74.2 | — |
| 27 | 18 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR, China | 77.6 | 76.3 | 79.7 | 86.2 | 85.2 | — |
| 29 | 7 | Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) | Australia | 77.3 | 78.5 | 66.6 | 80.2 | 75.8 | — |
| 30 | 3 | University of Chicago | United States of America | 77.2 | 77.2 | 72.8 | 84.2 | 78.0 | — |
| 31 | 61 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States of America | 76.7 | 81.2 | 32.6 | 86.4 | 83.6 | — |
| 32 | 6 | McGill University | Canada | 76.5 | 74.6 | 83.2 | 88.2 | 81.3 | — |
| 32 | University of Texas at Austin | United States of America | 76.5 | 77.6 | 60.3 | 82.3 | 84.7 | — | |
| 34 | 5 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 76.1 | 75.9 | 76.2 | 80.0 | 75.0 | — |
| 35 | 33 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States of America | 76.0 | 75.0 | 75.6 | 86.8 | 81.9 | — |
| 36 | 2 | City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) | Hong Kong SAR, China | 75.9 | 77.1 | 66.4 | 80.9 | 71.5 | — |
| 37 | 16 | KU Leuven | Belgium | 75.7 | 75.9 | 70.3 | 76.7 | 81.9 | — |
| 38 | 6 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States of America | 75.6 | 78.6 | 40.6 | 86.6 | 86.2 | — |
| 39 | 1 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 75.4 | 74.0 | 81.2 | 81.1 | 80.0 | — |
| 40 | 4 | The University of Arizona | United States of America | 75.1 | 77.2 | 51.1 | 82.4 | 81.9 | — |
| 41 | 35 | Radboud University | Netherlands | 74.9 | 78.0 | 41.8 | 81.2 | 85.2 | — |
| 42 | 5 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russian Federation | 74.6 | 74.3 | 91.3 | 56.1 | 63.8 | — |
| 42 | 1 | Michigan State University | United States of America | 74.6 | 73.8 | 67.7 | 86.9 | 88.1 | — |
| 44 | 8 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 74.5 | 72.5 | 76.4 | 87.9 | 88.9 | — |
| 45 | 6 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong SAR, China | 74.4 | 73.8 | 69.9 | 82.3 | 84.1 | — |
| 46 | 28 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany | 74.3 | 75.0 | 72.3 | 72.4 | 69.6 | — |
| 47 | 29 | Pennsylvania State University | United States of America | 73.5 | 73.5 | 63.5 | 83.0 | 83.6 | — |
| 47 | 17 | University of Helsinki | Finland | 73.5 | 74.8 | 60.3 | 76.6 | 76.6 | — |
| 49 | 9 | The University of Auckland | New Zealand | 73.4 | 73.6 | 66.1 | 82.6 | 75.8 | — |
| 49 | 32 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Spain | 73.4 | 73.5 | 73.2 | 71.7 | 74.2 | — |
| 51 | 8 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States of America | 73.2 | 72.8 | 65.9 | 87.0 | 80.7 | — |
| 52 | 3 | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 73.1 | 74.7 | 53.3 | 81.0 | 80.0 | — |
| 52 | 49 | Queen Mary University of London | United Kingdom | 73.1 | 73.7 | 61.8 | 83.9 | 75.8 | — |
| 54 | 11 | Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) | Spain | 72.9 | 73.4 | 65.4 | 77.4 | 75.8 | — |
| 55 | 6 | University of Washington | United States of America | 72.4 | 72.3 | 50.1 | 99.9 | 90.6 | — |
| 56 | 31 | Korea University | Republic of Korea | 72.2 | 71.6 | 75.0 | 80.8 | 68.5 | — |
| 56 | 4 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | United States of America | 72.2 | 72.0 | 58.9 | 88.2 | 86.2 | — |
| 58 | 46 | Fudan University | China (Mainland) | 71.9 | 67.8 | 90.5 | 90.6 | 80.7 | — |
| 58 | 28 | Yonsei University | Republic of Korea | 71.9 | 70.4 | 76.9 | 84.3 | 73.3 | — |
| 60 | 16 | HUFS - Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies | Republic of Korea | 71.6 | 71.4 | 78.4 | 73.8 | 59.4 | — |
| 61 | 24 | University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | New Zealand | 71.5 | 73.1 | 58.1 | 79.6 | 65.1 | — |
| 61 | 21 | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | United States of America | 71.5 | 79.4 | 0.0 | 83.8 | 75.8 | — |
| 63 | 26 | Northern Arizona University | United States of America | 71.3 | 71.0 | 60.7 | 87.9 | 80.0 | — |
| 64 | 31 | Tsinghua University | China (Mainland) | 71.2 | 65.6 | 91.5 | 95.4 | 95.0 | — |
| 65 | University of Vienna | Austria | 71.0 | 72.0 | 58.5 | 74.9 | 75.8 | — | |
| 66 | 35 | Utrecht University | Netherlands | 70.7 | 70.9 | 65.7 | 75.7 | 72.5 | — |
| 66 | 48 | Beijing Foreign Studies University | China (Mainland) | 70.7 | 71.5 | 61.7 | 76.1 | 69.6 | — |
| 68 | 6 | Yale University | United States of America | 70.6 | 67.0 | 86.6 | 87.2 | 79.4 | — |
| 69 | 11 | University of Connecticut | United States of America | 70.4 | 72.8 | 43.5 | 80.5 | 75.0 | — |
| 70 | 18 | University of Geneva | Switzerland | 70.0 | 70.1 | 70.7 | 71.6 | 65.1 | — |
| 70 | 81 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | Germany | 70.0 | 69.9 | 58.1 | 82.6 | 81.9 | — |
| 72 | 15 | Ghent University | Belgium | 69.9 | 70.2 | 58.8 | 79.0 | 78.0 | — |
| 73 | 8 | Victoria University of Wellington | New Zealand | 69.7 | 70.1 | 59.4 | 82.2 | 71.5 | — |
| 74 | 27 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States of America | 69.6 | 72.4 | 40.1 | 81.8 | 71.5 | — |
| 75 | 26 | Université Paris Cité | France | 69.4 | 70.9 | 53.5 | 72.8 | 73.3 | — |
| 76 | 17 | University of Alberta | Canada | 69.2 | 67.7 | 70.8 | 80.5 | 78.7 | — |
| 77 | 17 | Universität Leipzig | Germany | 68.9 | 71.9 | 42.8 | 74.0 | 68.5 | — |
| 77 | 42 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China (Mainland) | 68.9 | 65.4 | 78.0 | 88.0 | 86.7 | — |
| 79 | 51 | Zhejiang University | China (Mainland) | 68.7 | 65.8 | 73.6 | 88.5 | 86.2 | — |
| 79 | 16 | The University of Queensland | Australia | 68.7 | 66.7 | 75.7 | 79.8 | 75.0 | — |
| 81 | 3 | Stockholm University | Sweden | 68.6 | 68.6 | 62.2 | 75.5 | 75.0 | — |
| 81 | University of Oregon | United States of America | 68.6 | 70.0 | 46.4 | 83.2 | 76.6 | — | |
| 83 | 4 | Kyoto University | Japan | 68.5 | 67.2 | 70.6 | 83.7 | 70.6 | — |
| 84 | 15 | The University of Osaka | Japan | 68.4 | 69.1 | 69.0 | 72.0 | 51.8 | — |
| 85 | 14 | Hanyang University | Republic of Korea | 68.2 | 68.4 | 65.9 | 75.8 | 62.4 | — |
| 86 | 15 | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil | 68.1 | 68.1 | 73.2 | 64.1 | 62.4 | — |
| 87 | 64 | Universität Potsdam | Germany | 67.9 | 71.6 | 32.5 | 78.2 | 69.6 | — |
| 87 | 14 | SOAS University of London | United Kingdom | 67.9 | 70.9 | 53.2 | 66.7 | 49.5 | — |
| 89 | 12 | University of Groningen | Netherlands | 67.7 | 66.9 | 64.1 | 80.3 | 75.0 | — |
| 89 | 6 | Sorbonne University | France | 67.7 | 66.3 | 73.7 | 74.7 | 71.5 | — |
| 91 | 60 | University of Cologne | Germany | 67.6 | 68.6 | 57.4 | 71.2 | 68.5 | — |
| 92 | 37 | RUDN University | Russian Federation | 67.5 | 63.9 | 98.7 | 64.7 | 65.1 | — |
| 92 | 23 | Waseda University | Japan | 67.5 | 65.5 | 74.3 | 84.0 | 68.5 | — |
| 94 | 7 | Moscow State Linguistic University | Russian Federation | 67.4 | 69.6 | 73.1 | 52.7 | 36.2 | — |
| 95 | — | Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales | France | 67.3 | 69.0 | 57.4 | 71.4 | 55.9 | — |
| 95 | 6 | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | 67.3 | 65.7 | 69.5 | 83.0 | 72.5 | — |
| 97 | 4 | Arizona State University | United States of America | 67.2 | 66.9 | 55.2 | 83.4 | 79.4 | — |
| 98 | 3 | University of Macau | Macao SAR, China | 67.1 | 67.0 | 51.7 | 86.2 | 80.7 | — |
| 99 | 28 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 67.0 | 64.5 | 74.1 | 86.1 | 73.3 | — |
| 100 | 1 | Monash University | Australia | 66.9 | 64.8 | 71.2 | 82.7 | 76.6 | — |
| 2026 | 1 | INSTITUTION | COUNTRY/TERRITORY | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States of America
99.3·Acad: 100.0·Empl: 94.7
21
Lancaster University
United Kingdom
91.6·Acad: 94.7·Empl: 75.9
31
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
88.7·Acad: 87.8·Empl: 96.9
4
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
88.5·Acad: 87.6·Empl: 97.3
510
University of Massachusetts Amherst
United States of America
87.6·Acad: 90.7·Empl: 67.0
62
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
87.0·Acad: 87.0·Empl: 88.0
71
Harvard University
United States of America
86.5·Acad: 84.6·Empl: 100.0
83
Stanford University
United States of America
86.3·Acad: 83.8·Empl: 93.6
95
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States of America
85.0·Acad: 83.6·Empl: 88.1
103
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States of America
83.8·Acad: 83.7·Empl: 79.2
114
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
82.4·Acad: 82.5·Empl: 76.4
124
University of British Columbia
Canada
82.3·Acad: 83.0·Empl: 78.9
136
UCL
United Kingdom
81.6·Acad: 81.4·Empl: 75.2
1314
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)
Singapore
81.6·Acad: 80.4·Empl: 85.2
155
University of Pennsylvania
United States of America
80.6·Acad: 80.4·Empl: 76.8
1614
Peking University
China (Mainland)
80.2·Acad: 77.1·Empl: 93.2
174
The Ohio State University
United States of America
79.8·Acad: 82.8·Empl: 52.5
181
Seoul National University
Republic of Korea
79.5·Acad: 79.7·Empl: 81.8
1918
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
79.1·Acad: 81.0·Empl: 65.4
2033
Georgetown University
United States of America
78.4·Acad: 80.4·Empl: 61.3
212
University of Toronto
Canada
78.3·Acad: 76.7·Empl: 83.2
2228
Leiden University
Netherlands
78.2·Acad: 80.0·Empl: 64.8
221
The University of Tokyo
Japan
78.2·Acad: 77.8·Empl: 81.1
2424
New York University (NYU)
United States of America
77.9·Acad: 75.9·Empl: 81.4
2515
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Hong Kong SAR, China
77.8·Acad: 77.0·Empl: 74.0
264
The University of Melbourne
Australia
77.7·Acad: 76.8·Empl: 79.2
2730
Australian National University (ANU)
Australia
77.6·Acad: 76.7·Empl: 86.1
2718
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR, China
77.6·Acad: 76.3·Empl: 79.7
297
Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia)
Australia
77.3·Acad: 78.5·Empl: 66.6
303
University of Chicago
United States of America
77.2·Acad: 77.2·Empl: 72.8
3161
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
United States of America
76.7·Acad: 81.2·Empl: 32.6
326
McGill University
Canada
76.5·Acad: 74.6·Empl: 83.2
32
University of Texas at Austin
United States of America
76.5·Acad: 77.6·Empl: 60.3
345
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom
76.1·Acad: 75.9·Empl: 76.2
3533
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
United States of America
76.0·Acad: 75.0·Empl: 75.6
362
City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK)
Hong Kong SAR, China
75.9·Acad: 77.1·Empl: 66.4
3716
KU Leuven
Belgium
75.7·Acad: 75.9·Empl: 70.3
386
University of Maryland, College Park
United States of America
75.6·Acad: 78.6·Empl: 40.6
391
The University of Sydney
Australia
75.4·Acad: 74.0·Empl: 81.2
404
The University of Arizona
United States of America
75.1·Acad: 77.2·Empl: 51.1
4135
Radboud University
Netherlands
74.9·Acad: 78.0·Empl: 41.8
425
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
74.6·Acad: 74.3·Empl: 91.3
421
Michigan State University
United States of America
74.6·Acad: 73.8·Empl: 67.7
448
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
74.5·Acad: 72.5·Empl: 76.4
456
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong SAR, China
74.4·Acad: 73.8·Empl: 69.9
4628
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Germany
74.3·Acad: 75.0·Empl: 72.3
4729
Pennsylvania State University
United States of America
73.5·Acad: 73.5·Empl: 63.5
4717
University of Helsinki
Finland
73.5·Acad: 74.8·Empl: 60.3
499
The University of Auckland
New Zealand
73.4·Acad: 73.6·Empl: 66.1
4932
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Spain
73.4·Acad: 73.5·Empl: 73.2
518
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
United States of America
73.2·Acad: 72.8·Empl: 65.9
523
University of Zurich
Switzerland
73.1·Acad: 74.7·Empl: 53.3
5249
Queen Mary University of London
United Kingdom
73.1·Acad: 73.7·Empl: 61.8
5411
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
Spain
72.9·Acad: 73.4·Empl: 65.4
556
University of Washington
United States of America
72.4·Acad: 72.3·Empl: 50.1
5631
Korea University
Republic of Korea
72.2·Acad: 71.6·Empl: 75.0
564
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
United States of America
72.2·Acad: 72.0·Empl: 58.9
5846
Fudan University
China (Mainland)
71.9·Acad: 67.8·Empl: 90.5
5828
Yonsei University
Republic of Korea
71.9·Acad: 70.4·Empl: 76.9
6016
HUFS - Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies
Republic of Korea
71.6·Acad: 71.4·Empl: 78.4
6124
University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
New Zealand
71.5·Acad: 73.1·Empl: 58.1
6121
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
United States of America
71.5·Acad: 79.4·Empl: 0.0
6326
Northern Arizona University
United States of America
71.3·Acad: 71.0·Empl: 60.7
6431
Tsinghua University
China (Mainland)
71.2·Acad: 65.6·Empl: 91.5
65
University of Vienna
Austria
71.0·Acad: 72.0·Empl: 58.5
6635
Utrecht University
Netherlands
70.7·Acad: 70.9·Empl: 65.7
6648
Beijing Foreign Studies University
China (Mainland)
70.7·Acad: 71.5·Empl: 61.7
686
Yale University
United States of America
70.6·Acad: 67.0·Empl: 86.6
6911
University of Connecticut
United States of America
70.4·Acad: 72.8·Empl: 43.5
7018
University of Geneva
Switzerland
70.0·Acad: 70.1·Empl: 70.7
7081
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Germany
70.0·Acad: 69.9·Empl: 58.1
7215
Ghent University
Belgium
69.9·Acad: 70.2·Empl: 58.8
738
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
69.7·Acad: 70.1·Empl: 59.4
7427
Indiana University Bloomington
United States of America
69.6·Acad: 72.4·Empl: 40.1
7526
Université Paris Cité
France
69.4·Acad: 70.9·Empl: 53.5
7617
University of Alberta
Canada
69.2·Acad: 67.7·Empl: 70.8
7717
Universität Leipzig
Germany
68.9·Acad: 71.9·Empl: 42.8
7742
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China (Mainland)
68.9·Acad: 65.4·Empl: 78.0
7951
Zhejiang University
China (Mainland)
68.7·Acad: 65.8·Empl: 73.6
7916
The University of Queensland
Australia
68.7·Acad: 66.7·Empl: 75.7
813
Stockholm University
Sweden
68.6·Acad: 68.6·Empl: 62.2
81
University of Oregon
United States of America
68.6·Acad: 70.0·Empl: 46.4
834
Kyoto University
Japan
68.5·Acad: 67.2·Empl: 70.6
8415
The University of Osaka
Japan
68.4·Acad: 69.1·Empl: 69.0
8514
Hanyang University
Republic of Korea
68.2·Acad: 68.4·Empl: 65.9
8615
Universidade de São Paulo
Brazil
68.1·Acad: 68.1·Empl: 73.2
8764
Universität Potsdam
Germany
67.9·Acad: 71.6·Empl: 32.5
8714
SOAS University of London
United Kingdom
67.9·Acad: 70.9·Empl: 53.2
8912
University of Groningen
Netherlands
67.7·Acad: 66.9·Empl: 64.1
896
Sorbonne University
France
67.7·Acad: 66.3·Empl: 73.7
9160
University of Cologne
Germany
67.6·Acad: 68.6·Empl: 57.4
9237
RUDN University
Russian Federation
67.5·Acad: 63.9·Empl: 98.7
9223
Waseda University
Japan
67.5·Acad: 65.5·Empl: 74.3
947
Moscow State Linguistic University
Russian Federation
67.4·Acad: 69.6·Empl: 73.1
95—
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
France
67.3·Acad: 69.0·Empl: 57.4
956
University of Nottingham
United Kingdom
67.3·Acad: 65.7·Empl: 69.5
974
Arizona State University
United States of America
67.2·Acad: 66.9·Empl: 55.2
983
University of Macau
Macao SAR, China
67.1·Acad: 67.0·Empl: 51.7
9928
National Taiwan University (NTU)
Taiwan
67.0·Acad: 64.5·Empl: 74.1
1001
Monash University
Australia
66.9·Acad: 64.8·Empl: 71.2
20261
INSTITUTION
COUNTRY/TERRITORY
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