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TOP-100 best psychology universities in the world 2025 QS Rankings

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TOP-100 best psychology universities in the world 2025 QS Rankings

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2025 QS: Psychology

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 2025 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

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