El ranking incluye las mejores universidades con las facultades filosóficas más sólidas. Los estudiantes de estas universidades tienen la oportunidad de aprender de los mejores profesores, académicos y expertos reconocidos, aprenden a pensar críticamente, a hacer preguntas sobre el mundo y a encontrar respuestas, estudian lógica, ética, teoría del conocimiento.

La formación en las mejores universidades filosóficas abre una variedad de puertas para los graduados: en periodismo, política, derecho y pedagogía. Los estudiantes tienen la oportunidad de estudiar materias relacionadas, lenguas clásicas y modernas, programación. Los planes de estudio suelen incluir historia de la filosofía, filosofía antigua, epistemología, metafísica, filosofía política, filosofía de la ciencia y filosofía experimental.

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2027 QS: Philosophy
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York University (NYU) | 97.5 |
| 2 | Rutgers University–New Brunswick | 92.5 |
| 3 | University of Oxford | 90.9 |
| 4 | Australian National University (ANU) | 90.6 |
| 5 | University of Pittsburgh | 90.3 |
| 6 | University of Wollongong | 88.6 |
| 7 | University of Cambridge | 87.2 |
| 8 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | 87 |
| 9 | Harvard University | 85.2 |
| 10 | University of Toronto | 83.9 |
| 11 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 82.4 |
| 12 | University of St Andrews | 82.1 |
| 13 | Princeton University | 81.9 |
| =14 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 81.8 |
| =14 | King's College London | 81.8 |
| 16 | The University of Sydney | 81.3 |
| 17 | Stanford University | 81.1 |
| =18 | Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) | 80.4 |
| =18 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 80.4 |
| 20 | University of Notre Dame | 80.2 |
| =21 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 79.7 |
| =21 | Yale University | 79.7 |
| 23 | Ruhr-Universität Bochum | 79.2 |
| 24 | The University of Edinburgh | 78.1 |
| 25 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 77.5 |
| 26 | University of Chicago | 77 |
| 27 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 76.7 |
| 28 | University of Southern California | 76.2 |
| 29 | KU Leuven | 75.8 |
| 30 | Monash University | 74.9 |
| 31 | Universität Heidelberg | 74 |
| 32 | University of Amsterdam | 73.3 |
| 33 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | 72.8 |
| 34 | Freie Universitaet Berlin | 72.6 |
| 35 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | 72.4 |
| 36 | University of Navarra | 72.3 |
| 37 | Wuhan University | 72.1 |
| 38 | The University of Warwick | 72 |
| =39 | Durham University | 71.9 |
| =39 | Kyoto University | 71.9 |
| 41 | University of Bristol | 71.8 |
| 42 | University of Turin | 71.6 |
| 43 | University of California, Irvine | 71.5 |
| 44 | University of Southampton | 71.4 |
| 45 | Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main | 71.3 |
| =46 | University of Leeds | 71 |
| =46 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 71 |
| 48 | Université PSL | 70.9 |
| 49 | University of Vienna | 70.5 |
| 50 | University of Copenhagen | 70.1 |
| 51-100 | Adelaide University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg | n/a |
| 51-100 | Australian Catholic University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Boston College | n/a |
| 51-100 | Boston University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Brown University | n/a |
| 51-100 | CUNY Graduate School and University Center | n/a |
| 51-100 | Central European University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Columbia University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Complutense University of Madrid | n/a |
| 51-100 | Cornell University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | n/a |
| 51-100 | Fudan University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Indiana University Bloomington | n/a |
| 51-100 | Johns Hopkins University | n/a |
| 51-100 | McGill University | n/a |
| 51-100 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | n/a |
| 51-100 | Pennsylvania State University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | n/a |
| 51-100 | Rutgers University–Newark | n/a |
| 51-100 | Sorbonne University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Sun Yat-sen University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Texas A&M University | n/a |
| 51-100 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | n/a |
| 51-100 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Melbourne | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Queensland | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Sheffield | n/a |
| 51-100 | Tilburg University | n/a |
| 51-100 | UCL | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universidad de los Andes - Chile | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universitat de Barcelona | n/a |
| 51-100 | University College Dublin | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Cologne | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Geneva | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Glasgow | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Groningen | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Milan | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Oslo | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Otago | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Pennsylvania | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of York | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Zurich | n/a |
| 51-100 | Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) | n/a |
| 51-100 | Utrecht University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | n/a |
| 51-100 | Washington University in St. Louis | n/a |
| 51-100 | Western University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Zhejiang University | n/a |