Check out the TOP of the best universities in the world according to the QS rankings, which invite promising students who want to get a higher education and a bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree.
The profession of a psychologist is gaining more and more popularity every year - qualified specialists are required in large international companies, schools, universities, specialized institutions and state institutions - hospitals, dispensaries. Psychological education opens up great prospects on the world stage - employees can work on exchange in companies in America, Canada, Europe. Top universities from our list offer modern relevant programs, during which the following disciplines are studied:
- General Psychology
- Personality psychology
- Psychology of consciousness
- History of Psychology
- Experimental psychology
- Differential psychology
- Basics of psychodiagnostics
- Methodological problems of psychology
- Psychological workshop.
Students additionally study physiology, nervous system, anatomy, logic, anthropology, philosophy. Lectures are conducted in small groups of up to 15-17 people, so that teachers can pay due attention to everyone. The mentoring system is widespread - curators are assigned to students who track academic performance and attendance. A lot of material is given for independent study: students read additional literature, professional books, write dissertations and research.
In their free time, students travel to nearby countries, go to sports competitions and visit clubs of interest - quantum physics, robotics, chess, cooking.
Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Psychology
| Rank | University | Overall Score |
| 1 | Harvard University | 97,8 |
| 2 | University of Oxford | 94,2 |
| 3 | Cambridge University | 92,8 |
| 4 | Stanford University | 92,4 |
| 5 | UCL | 91,3 |
| 6 | Yale University | 89,1 |
| 7 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 87,6 |
| 8 | University of Amsterdam | 87,5 |
| 9 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 87,3 |
| 10 | Columbia University | 87,0 |
| 11 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 86,6 |
| 12 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 85,7 |
| 13 | University of Toronto | 85,1 |
| 14 | New York University (NYU) | 84,2 |
| 15 | KU Leuven | 83,8 |
| 16 | King's College London | 83,7 |
| 17 | University of Pennsylvania | 83,6 |
| 18 | National University of Singapore | 82,9 |
| 19 | University of British Columbia | 82,7 |
| 20 | Princeton University | 82,4 |
| 21 | University of Melbourne | 82,2 |
| 22 | University of Chicago | 82,1 |
| 23 | LSE London School of Economics and Political Science | 82,0 |
| 24 | University of Edinburgh | 81,3 |
| 25 | Utrecht University | 81,2 |
| 26 | McGill University | 80,4 |
| 27 | Northwestern University | 80,0 |
| 28 | Nanyang Technological University | 79,9 |
| 29 | University of Groningen | 79,7 |
| 30 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | 79,3 |
| =31 | Sydney University | 79,0 |
| =31 | University of Texas at Austin | 79,0 |
| 33 | The University of Queensland | 78,9 |
| 34 | University of Hong Kong | 78,4 |
| 35 | Peking University | 78,3 |
| 36 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 77,5 |
| =37 | University of Manchester | 77,2 |
| =37 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | 77,2 |
| =37 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 77,2 |
| 40 | Pennsylvania State University | 76,8 |
| 41 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 76,6 |
| =42 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 76,3 |
| =42 | University of Zurich | 76,3 |
| 44 | Duke University | 76,0 |
| 45 | The University of Auckland | 75,9 |
| 46 | Johns Hopkins University | 75,8 |
| =47 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 75,7 |
| =47 | University of Maryland, College Park | 75,7 |
| 49 | University of Washington | 75,5 |
| =50 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | 75,2 |
| =50 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 75,2 |
| =52 | Boston University | 74,5 |
| =52 | Monash University | 74,5 |
| =54 | Carnegie Mellon University | 74,3 |
| =54 | Michigan State University | 74,3 |
| 56 | Leiden University | 74,2 |
| 57 | Sapienza University of Rome | 74,1 |
| =58 | Humboldt University of Berlin | 74,0 |
| =58 | Maastricht University | 74,0 |
| =58 | University of Birmingham | 74,0 |
| 61 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna | 73,9 |
| =62 | Tilburg University | 73,8 |
| =62 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | 73,8 |
| =62 | University of Nottingham | 73,8 |
| 65 | Universitat de Barcelona | 73,7 |
| 66 | Ghent University | 73,4 |
| 67 | University of Southern California | 73,3 |
| 68 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | 73,2 |
| 69 | The University of Warwick | 73,1 |
| 70 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | 73,0 |
| 71 | University of Bristol | 72,9 |
| =72 | Radboud University | 72,8 |
| =72 | University of Helsinki | 72,8 |
| 74 | Durham University | 72,7 |
| 75 | Università di Padova | 72,6 |
| 76 | Karolinska Institutet | 72,4 |
| =77 | The University of Tokyo | 72,3 |
| =77 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | 72,3 |
| =77 | University of Vienna | 72,3 |
| =80 | Arizona State University | 72,1 |
| =80 | Cornell University | 72,1 |
| =82 | Aarhus University | 71,9 |
| =82 | Cardiff University | 71,9 |
| =82 | Tsinghua University | 71,9 |
| =85 | The Australian National University | 71,8 |
| =85 | The Ohio State University | 71,8 |
| =85 | Yonsei University | 71,8 |
| =88 | Freie Universitaet Berlin | 71,7 |
| =88 | HSE University | 71,7 |
| =90 | Universidade Federal de São Paulo | 71,5 |
| =90 | Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) | 71,5 |
| 92 | University of California, Irvine | 71,4 |
| 93 | University of Glasgow | 71,3 |
| 94 | The University of Western Australia | 71,2 |
| 95 | Beijing Normal University | 71,1 |
| =96 | University of Bath | 70,8 |
| =96 | University of Virginia | 70,8 |
| =98 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 70,7 |
| =98 | University of Kent | 70,7 |
| =100 | Stockholm University | 70,6 |
