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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
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | 97.2 |
| 2 | University of Cambridge | 93.4 |
| =3 | Stanford University | 92.9 |
| =3 | University of Oxford | 92.9 |
| 5 | UCL | 89.5 |
| 6 | Yale University | 88.8 |
| 7 | Columbia University | 87.5 |
| 8 | University of Toronto | 87.4 |
| 9 | University of Amsterdam | 87 |
| 10 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 86.7 |
| 11 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 86.3 |
| 12 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 86 |
| 13 | New York University (NYU) | 85.6 |
| 14 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 84.7 |
| =15 | King's College London | 83.8 |
| =15 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 83.8 |
| =15 | University of Pennsylvania | 83.8 |
| 18 | Princeton University | 83.4 |
| 19 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | 82.3 |
| 20 | The University of Melbourne | 82.1 |
| 21 | University of British Columbia | 81.8 |
| 22 | McGill University | 81.3 |
| 23 | The University of Edinburgh | 80.9 |
| 24 | KU Leuven | 80.7 |
| 25 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | 79.7 |
| 26 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | 79.5 |
| 27 | The University of Queensland | 79.1 |
| =28 | The University of Auckland | 78.9 |
| =28 | University of Chicago | 78.9 |
| =28 | Utrecht University | 78.9 |
| 31 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 78.4 |
| 32 | Northwestern University | 78 |
| 33 | Cornell University | 77.7 |
| 34 | Duke University | 77.6 |
| 35 | The University of Hong Kong | 77.3 |
| 36 | University of Groningen | 76.9 |
| 37 | The University of Sydney | 76.8 |
| 38 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 76.7 |
| 39 | University of Texas at Austin | 76.6 |
| 40 | University of Zurich | 76.3 |
| =41 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 75.9 |
| =41 | Peking University | 75.9 |
| =43 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | 75.4 |
| =43 | University of Minnesota (System) | 75.4 |
| 45 | Monash University | 75.3 |
| 46 | Pennsylvania State University | 75.1 |
| 47 | University of Maryland, College Park | 75 |
| 48 | Università di Padova | 74.6 |
| =49 | Boston University | 74.1 |
| =49 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 74.1 |
| =49 | Michigan State University | 74.1 |
| =49 | The University of Manchester | 74.1 |
| 53 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 73.7 |
| 54 | Beijing Normal University | 73.6 |
| =55 | University of Bristol | 73.5 |
| =55 | University of Washington | 73.5 |
| =57 | Sapienza University of Rome | 73.3 |
| =57 | University of Bath | 73.3 |
| 59 | Arizona State University | 73.2 |
| 60 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 73 |
| 61 | Johns Hopkins University | 72.8 |
| =62 | Maastricht University | 72.7 |
| =62 | University of Southern California | 72.7 |
| 64 | Universidade de São Paulo | 72.5 |
| 65 | Leiden University | 72.4 |
| =66 | Ghent University | 72.3 |
| =66 | Tilburg University | 72.3 |
| =68 | Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) | 72.2 |
| =68 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | 72.2 |
| 70 | Durham University | 72.1 |
| 71 | The Ohio State University | 71.9 |
| =72 | The University of Warwick | 71.7 |
| =72 | Universitat de Barcelona | 71.7 |
| =74 | Australian National University (ANU) | 71.6 |
| =74 | Freie Universitaet Berlin | 71.6 |
| =74 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 71.6 |
| =77 | Carnegie Mellon University | 71.5 |
| =77 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 71.5 |
| =79 | Cardiff University | 71.2 |
| =79 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | 71.2 |
| 81 | Radboud University | 71.1 |
| =82 | Tsinghua University | 71 |
| =82 | University of Birmingham | 71 |
| =82 | University of Exeter | 71 |
| =82 | University of Vienna | 71 |
| =86 | Brown University | 70.6 |
| =86 | Karolinska Institutet | 70.6 |
| 88 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | 70.5 |
| 89 | The University of Sheffield | 70.4 |
| 90 | Western University | 70.3 |
| =91 | University of Glasgow | 70.2 |
| =91 | University of Sussex | 70.2 |
| =91 | Universität Heidelberg | 70.2 |
| =94 | University of Nottingham | 70 |
| =94 | University of Virginia | 70 |
| =96 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | 69.5 |
| =96 | University of Florida | 69.5 |
| 98 | University of York | 69.4 |
| =99 | University of California, Davis | 69.3 |
| =99 | York University | 69.3 |
