103 universities
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| Rank | Change | University | Country | Score | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | IRN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 99.5 | 100.0 | 98.2 | — | — | — |
| 2 | 1 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 98.9 | 99.3 | 97.9 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Harvard University | United States of America | 98.1 | 97.3 | 100.0 | — | — | — | |
| 4 | 2 | Yale University | United States of America | 91.0 | 90.9 | 91.2 | — | — | — |
| 5 | 1 | Stanford University | United States of America | 90.7 | 89.0 | 94.7 | — | — | — |
| 6 | 1 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States of America | 89.6 | 91.7 | 84.7 | — | — | — |
| 7 | 4 | Columbia University | United States of America | 89.1 | 90.8 | 85.1 | — | — | — |
| 8 | 4 | Princeton University | United States of America | 88.3 | 90.8 | 82.3 | — | — | — |
| 9 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America | 88.0 | 89.9 | 83.7 | — | — | — | |
| 10 | 3 | Peking University | China (Mainland) | 87.5 | 88.5 | 85.1 | — | — | — |
| 11 | 3 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 86.9 | 88.6 | 83.0 | — | — | — |
| 12 | 1 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 86.1 | 87.2 | 83.5 | — | — | — |
| 13 | 3 | UCL | United Kingdom | 85.4 | 87.0 | 81.5 | — | — | — |
| 14 | 5 | Seoul National University | Republic of Korea | 85.3 | 87.3 | 80.6 | — | — | — |
| 15 | University of Chicago | United States of America | 84.9 | 87.6 | 78.6 | — | — | — | |
| 15 | 5 | New York University (NYU) | United States of America | 84.9 | 85.6 | 83.2 | — | — | — |
| 17 | 4 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | Mexico | 84.7 | 87.0 | 79.3 | — | — | — |
| 18 | 8 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America | 84.5 | 81.2 | 92.1 | — | — | — |
| 19 | 5 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 84.4 | 83.2 | 87.1 | — | — | — |
| 20 | 2 | University of Toronto | Canada | 83.9 | 85.4 | 80.4 | — | — | — |
| 21 | 5 | King's College London | United Kingdom | 83.3 | 83.8 | 82.1 | — | — | — |
| 22 | 10 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | Argentina | 82.8 | 84.0 | 80.1 | — | — | — |
| 23 | 6 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR, China | 82.3 | 83.3 | 79.8 | — | — | — |
| 24 | 4 | Cornell University | United States of America | 81.9 | 82.6 | 80.2 | — | — | — |
| 25 | 2 | Kyoto University | Japan | 81.8 | 84.3 | 76.1 | — | — | — |
| 26 | 7 | Yonsei University | Republic of Korea | 81.5 | 83.7 | 76.2 | — | — | — |
| 27 | 3 | Sorbonne University | France | 81.4 | 85.0 | 72.9 | — | — | — |
| 28 | 7 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 81.3 | 82.4 | 78.6 | — | — | — |
| 29 | 6 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 81.2 | 82.3 | 78.7 | — | — | — |
| 29 | 7 | Korea University | Republic of Korea | 81.2 | 83.7 | 75.4 | — | — | — |
| 31 | 7 | University of Pennsylvania | United States of America | 81.1 | 80.3 | 83.0 | — | — | — |
| 31 | 9 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russian Federation | 81.1 | 80.0 | 83.5 | — | — | — |
| 33 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 81.0 | 81.8 | 79.0 | — | — | — | |
| 34 | 5 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 80.0 | 82.0 | 75.3 | — | — | — |
| 35 | 8 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States of America | 79.7 | 82.5 | 73.2 | — | — | — |
| 36 | 4 | Waseda University | Japan | 79.6 | 81.3 | 75.6 | — | — | — |
| 36 | 7 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Italy | 79.6 | 84.8 | 67.3 | — | — | — |
| 38 | 1 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany | 79.5 | 84.8 | 67.0 | — | — | — |
| 38 | 5 | Freie Universitaet Berlin | Germany | 79.5 | 85.7 | 65.1 | — | — | — |
| 40 | 3 | McGill University | Canada | 79.3 | 80.0 | 77.5 | — | — | — |
| 40 | 26 | Durham University | United Kingdom | 79.3 | 79.9 | 77.8 | — | — | — |
| 42 | 10 | Sapienza University of Rome | Italy | 79.1 | 84.3 | 67.0 | — | — | — |
| 42 | 6 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany | 79.1 | 82.3 | 71.6 | — | — | — |
| 42 | 8 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | France | 79.1 | 79.4 | 78.5 | — | — | — |
| 42 | 12 | Tsinghua University | China (Mainland) | 79.1 | 77.5 | 82.9 | — | — | — |
| 46 | 4 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | Chile | 78.8 | 79.7 | 76.7 | — | — | — |
| 46 | 49 | HUFS - Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies | Republic of Korea | 78.8 | 82.2 | 70.8 | — | — | — |
| 48 | 26 | Fudan University | China (Mainland) | 78.7 | 80.7 | 73.9 | — | — | — |
| 49 | 6 | University of Texas at Austin | United States of America | 78.6 | 82.3 | 69.8 | — | — | — |
| 49 | 25 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong SAR, China | 78.6 | 81.4 | 71.9 | — | — | — |
| 51 | 11 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom | 78.5 | 80.5 | 73.8 | — | — | — |
| 51 | 9 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | Singapore | 78.5 | 77.1 | 81.6 | — | — | — |
| 53 | 5 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | Ireland | 78.3 | 79.1 | 76.4 | — | — | — |
| 54 | 11 | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil | 78.2 | 81.1 | 71.5 | — | — | — |
| 54 | 6 | Complutense University of Madrid | Spain | 78.2 | 81.8 | 69.8 | — | — | — |
| 56 | 13 | Australian National University (ANU) | Australia | 78.1 | 79.6 | 74.6 | — | — | — |
| 57 | 19 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 78.0 | 78.6 | 76.7 | — | — | — |
| 58 | 11 | Duke University | United States of America | 76.9 | 80.5 | 68.4 | — | — | — |
| 59 | 20 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 76.6 | 77.5 | 74.5 | — | — | — |
| 60 | 1 | Brown University | United States of America | 76.4 | 78.7 | 71.0 | — | — | — |
| 61 | 5 | KU Leuven | Belgium | 76.3 | 80.7 | 66.0 | — | — | — |
| 62 | 6 | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 76.2 | 76.7 | 74.9 | — | — | — |
| 63 | 16 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom | 76.0 | 78.4 | 70.5 | — | — | — |
| 64 | 12 | The University of Osaka | Japan | 75.8 | 78.1 | 70.3 | — | — | — |
| 65 | 3 | University of Vienna | Austria | 75.4 | 83.1 | 57.3 | — | — | — |
| 65 | 26 | SOAS University of London | United Kingdom | 75.4 | 81.9 | 60.2 | — | — | — |
| 67 | 5 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Spain | 75.3 | 80.0 | 64.4 | — | — | — |
| 68 | 8 | Monash University | Australia | 75.1 | 75.3 | 74.7 | — | — | — |
| 69 | 8 | Ca' Foscari University of Venice | Italy | 75.0 | 80.7 | 61.6 | — | — | — |
| 70 | 28 | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana | Colombia | 74.9 | 74.0 | 77.0 | — | — | — |
| 71 | 5 | Lancaster University | United Kingdom | 74.8 | 77.9 | 67.5 | — | — | — |
| 72 | 18 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 74.7 | 76.5 | 70.6 | — | — | — |
| 73 | 23 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | 74.4 | 77.2 | 67.9 | — | — | — |
| 74 | 10 | Beijing Normal University | China (Mainland) | 74.2 | 77.0 | 67.7 | — | — | — |
| 75 | 15 | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) | Brazil | 74.1 | 77.4 | 66.4 | — | — | — |
| 76 | 5 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 74.0 | 77.1 | 66.7 | — | — | — |
| 77 | 8 | Universität Heidelberg | Germany | 73.6 | 77.6 | 64.4 | — | — | — |
| 77 | 8 | Universidad de los Andes | Colombia | 73.6 | 71.5 | 78.6 | — | — | — |
| 79 | 22 | City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) | Hong Kong SAR, China | 73.5 | 76.5 | 66.5 | — | — | — |
| 80 | 16 | Universidad Nacional de Colombia | Colombia | 73.4 | 72.1 | 76.4 | — | — | — |
| 80 | 21 | Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) | Australia | 73.4 | 75.2 | 69.1 | — | — | — |
| 80 | 2 | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 73.4 | 77.4 | 64.1 | — | — | — |
| 83 | 18 | Georgetown University | United States of America | 73.2 | 73.4 | 72.8 | — | — | — |
| 83 | 9 | Keio University | Japan | 73.2 | 73.3 | 73.0 | — | — | — |
| 85 | 16 | University of Geneva | Switzerland | 73.1 | 76.7 | 64.6 | — | — | — |
| 86 | 15 | Sogang University | Republic of Korea | 73.0 | 75.1 | 68.0 | — | — | — |
| 86 | 1 | University of Salamanca | Spain | 73.0 | 78.5 | 60.0 | — | — | — |
| 88 | 3 | Hanyang University | Republic of Korea | 72.8 | 74.0 | 70.1 | — | — | — |
| 89 | 12 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | Republic of Korea | 72.7 | 73.9 | 69.9 | — | — | — |
| 90 | 11 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States of America | 72.6 | 78.9 | 58.0 | — | — | — |
| 90 | 11 | Queen Mary University of London | United Kingdom | 72.6 | 76.9 | 62.6 | — | — | — |
| 92 | 9 | University of Warsaw | Poland | 72.4 | 74.9 | 66.7 | — | — | — |
| 92 | 9 | Kyung Hee University | Republic of Korea | 72.4 | 75.7 | 64.7 | — | — | — |
| 92 | 39 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China (Mainland) | 72.4 | 72.3 | 72.6 | — | — | — |
| 92 | 9 | Université PSL | France | 72.4 | 72.6 | 72.0 | — | — | — |
| 96 | 2 | Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP) | Peru | 72.2 | 75.9 | 63.7 | — | — | — |
| 96 | 12 | Universitat de Barcelona | Spain | 72.2 | 74.0 | 67.9 | — | — | — |
| 98 | 2 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom | 72.1 | 74.6 | 66.4 | — | — | — |
| 99 | 16 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | United States of America | 72.0 | 77.5 | 59.0 | — | — | — |
| 100 | 44 | Nanjing University | China (Mainland) | 71.8 | 74.6 | 65.3 | — | — | — |
| 100 | 28 | Zhejiang University | China (Mainland) | 71.8 | 72.2 | 70.8 | — | — | — |
| 100 | 15 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | Spain | 71.8 | 74.1 | 66.3 | — | — | — |
| 2026 | 1 | INSTITUTION | COUNTRY/TERRITORY | — | — | — | — | — | — |
11
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
99.5·Acad: 100.0·Empl: 98.2
21
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
98.9·Acad: 99.3·Empl: 97.9
3
Harvard University
United States of America
98.1·Acad: 97.3·Empl: 100.0
42
Yale University
United States of America
91.0·Acad: 90.9·Empl: 91.2
51
Stanford University
United States of America
90.7·Acad: 89.0·Empl: 94.7
61
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States of America
89.6·Acad: 91.7·Empl: 84.7
74
Columbia University
United States of America
89.1·Acad: 90.8·Empl: 85.1
84
Princeton University
United States of America
88.3·Acad: 90.8·Empl: 82.3
9
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States of America
88.0·Acad: 89.9·Empl: 83.7
103
Peking University
China (Mainland)
87.5·Acad: 88.5·Empl: 85.1
113
The University of Tokyo
Japan
86.9·Acad: 88.6·Empl: 83.0
121
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
86.1·Acad: 87.2·Empl: 83.5
133
UCL
United Kingdom
85.4·Acad: 87.0·Empl: 81.5
145
Seoul National University
Republic of Korea
85.3·Acad: 87.3·Empl: 80.6
15
University of Chicago
United States of America
84.9·Acad: 87.6·Empl: 78.6
155
New York University (NYU)
United States of America
84.9·Acad: 85.6·Empl: 83.2
174
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Mexico
84.7·Acad: 87.0·Empl: 79.3
188
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States of America
84.5·Acad: 81.2·Empl: 92.1
195
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
84.4·Acad: 83.2·Empl: 87.1
202
University of Toronto
Canada
83.9·Acad: 85.4·Empl: 80.4
215
King's College London
United Kingdom
83.3·Acad: 83.8·Empl: 82.1
2210
Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Argentina
82.8·Acad: 84.0·Empl: 80.1
236
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR, China
82.3·Acad: 83.3·Empl: 79.8
244
Cornell University
United States of America
81.9·Acad: 82.6·Empl: 80.2
252
Kyoto University
Japan
81.8·Acad: 84.3·Empl: 76.1
267
Yonsei University
Republic of Korea
81.5·Acad: 83.7·Empl: 76.2
273
Sorbonne University
France
81.4·Acad: 85.0·Empl: 72.9
287
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom
81.3·Acad: 82.4·Empl: 78.6
296
University of British Columbia
Canada
81.2·Acad: 82.3·Empl: 78.7
297
Korea University
Republic of Korea
81.2·Acad: 83.7·Empl: 75.4
317
University of Pennsylvania
United States of America
81.1·Acad: 80.3·Empl: 83.0
319
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
81.1·Acad: 80.0·Empl: 83.5
33
The University of Melbourne
Australia
81.0·Acad: 81.8·Empl: 79.0
345
National Taiwan University (NTU)
Taiwan
80.0·Acad: 82.0·Empl: 75.3
358
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
United States of America
79.7·Acad: 82.5·Empl: 73.2
364
Waseda University
Japan
79.6·Acad: 81.3·Empl: 75.6
367
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Italy
79.6·Acad: 84.8·Empl: 67.3
381
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Germany
79.5·Acad: 84.8·Empl: 67.0
385
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Germany
79.5·Acad: 85.7·Empl: 65.1
403
McGill University
Canada
79.3·Acad: 80.0·Empl: 77.5
4026
Durham University
United Kingdom
79.3·Acad: 79.9·Empl: 77.8
4210
Sapienza University of Rome
Italy
79.1·Acad: 84.3·Empl: 67.0
426
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Germany
79.1·Acad: 82.3·Empl: 71.6
428
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
France
79.1·Acad: 79.4·Empl: 78.5
4212
Tsinghua University
China (Mainland)
79.1·Acad: 77.5·Empl: 82.9
464
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)
Chile
78.8·Acad: 79.7·Empl: 76.7
4649
HUFS - Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies
Republic of Korea
78.8·Acad: 82.2·Empl: 70.8
4826
Fudan University
China (Mainland)
78.7·Acad: 80.7·Empl: 73.9
496
University of Texas at Austin
United States of America
78.6·Acad: 82.3·Empl: 69.8
4925
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Hong Kong SAR, China
78.6·Acad: 81.4·Empl: 71.9
5111
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
78.5·Acad: 80.5·Empl: 73.8
519
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)
Singapore
78.5·Acad: 77.1·Empl: 81.6
535
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Ireland
78.3·Acad: 79.1·Empl: 76.4
5411
Universidade de São Paulo
Brazil
78.2·Acad: 81.1·Empl: 71.5
546
Complutense University of Madrid
Spain
78.2·Acad: 81.8·Empl: 69.8
5613
Australian National University (ANU)
Australia
78.1·Acad: 79.6·Empl: 74.6
5719
The University of Sydney
Australia
78.0·Acad: 78.6·Empl: 76.7
5811
Duke University
United States of America
76.9·Acad: 80.5·Empl: 68.4
5920
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
76.6·Acad: 77.5·Empl: 74.5
601
Brown University
United States of America
76.4·Acad: 78.7·Empl: 71.0
615
KU Leuven
Belgium
76.3·Acad: 80.7·Empl: 66.0
626
The University of Warwick
United Kingdom
76.2·Acad: 76.7·Empl: 74.9
6316
University of St Andrews
United Kingdom
76.0·Acad: 78.4·Empl: 70.5
6412
The University of Osaka
Japan
75.8·Acad: 78.1·Empl: 70.3
653
University of Vienna
Austria
75.4·Acad: 83.1·Empl: 57.3
6526
SOAS University of London
United Kingdom
75.4·Acad: 81.9·Empl: 60.2
675
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Spain
75.3·Acad: 80.0·Empl: 64.4
688
Monash University
Australia
75.1·Acad: 75.3·Empl: 74.7
698
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Italy
75.0·Acad: 80.7·Empl: 61.6
7028
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Colombia
74.9·Acad: 74.0·Empl: 77.0
715
Lancaster University
United Kingdom
74.8·Acad: 77.9·Empl: 67.5
7218
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
74.7·Acad: 76.5·Empl: 70.6
7323
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
74.4·Acad: 77.2·Empl: 67.9
7410
Beijing Normal University
China (Mainland)
74.2·Acad: 77.0·Empl: 67.7
7515
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
Brazil
74.1·Acad: 77.4·Empl: 66.4
765
Leiden University
Netherlands
74.0·Acad: 77.1·Empl: 66.7
778
Universität Heidelberg
Germany
73.6·Acad: 77.6·Empl: 64.4
778
Universidad de los Andes
Colombia
73.6·Acad: 71.5·Empl: 78.6
7922
City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK)
Hong Kong SAR, China
73.5·Acad: 76.5·Empl: 66.5
8016
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Colombia
73.4·Acad: 72.1·Empl: 76.4
8021
Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia)
Australia
73.4·Acad: 75.2·Empl: 69.1
802
University of Zurich
Switzerland
73.4·Acad: 77.4·Empl: 64.1
8318
Georgetown University
United States of America
73.2·Acad: 73.4·Empl: 72.8
839
Keio University
Japan
73.2·Acad: 73.3·Empl: 73.0
8516
University of Geneva
Switzerland
73.1·Acad: 76.7·Empl: 64.6
8615
Sogang University
Republic of Korea
73.0·Acad: 75.1·Empl: 68.0
861
University of Salamanca
Spain
73.0·Acad: 78.5·Empl: 60.0
883
Hanyang University
Republic of Korea
72.8·Acad: 74.0·Empl: 70.1
8912
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
Republic of Korea
72.7·Acad: 73.9·Empl: 69.9
9011
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States of America
72.6·Acad: 78.9·Empl: 58.0
9011
Queen Mary University of London
United Kingdom
72.6·Acad: 76.9·Empl: 62.6
929
University of Warsaw
Poland
72.4·Acad: 74.9·Empl: 66.7
929
Kyung Hee University
Republic of Korea
72.4·Acad: 75.7·Empl: 64.7
9239
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China (Mainland)
72.4·Acad: 72.3·Empl: 72.6
929
Université PSL
France
72.4·Acad: 72.6·Empl: 72.0
962
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP)
Peru
72.2·Acad: 75.9·Empl: 63.7
9612
Universitat de Barcelona
Spain
72.2·Acad: 74.0·Empl: 67.9
982
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
72.1·Acad: 74.6·Empl: 66.4
9916
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
United States of America
72.0·Acad: 77.5·Empl: 59.0
10044
Nanjing University
China (Mainland)
71.8·Acad: 74.6·Empl: 65.3
10028
Zhejiang University
China (Mainland)
71.8·Acad: 72.2·Empl: 70.8
10015
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Spain
71.8·Acad: 74.1·Empl: 66.3
20261
INSTITUTION
COUNTRY/TERRITORY
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