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Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Chemistry
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 94.9 |
| =2 | Harvard University | 94.1 |
| =2 | University of Cambridge | 94.1 |
| 4 | Stanford University | 93 |
| 5 | University of Oxford | 91.9 |
| 6 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 90.9 |
| 7 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 90.4 |
| 8 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | 89.7 |
| 9 | ETH Zurich | 89 |
| 10 | Imperial College London | 87.1 |
| 11 | Peking University | 87 |
| 12 | EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne | 86.6 |
| 13 | Tsinghua University | 86.5 |
| 14 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | 85.2 |
| 15 | The University of Tokyo | 84.8 |
| 16 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 84.6 |
| 17 | University of Toronto | 83.6 |
| 18 | Northwestern University | 83.5 |
| 19 | Yale University | 81.9 |
| 20 | Seoul National University | 81.8 |
| =21 | Princeton University | 81.6 |
| =21 | Zhejiang University | 81.6 |
| 23 | The University of Manchester | 81.5 |
| 24 | UCL | 81.4 |
| =25 | Cornell University | 81.2 |
| =25 | Technical University of Munich | 81.2 |
| 27 | Institute of Science Tokyo | 80.9 |
| 28 | Kyoto University | 80.6 |
| 29 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 80.4 |
| 30 | Fudan University | 80.2 |
| 31 | Nanjing University | 79.3 |
| 32 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | 79 |
| 33 | University of Pennsylvania | 78.5 |
| 34 | Université de Strasbourg | 78.4 |
| =35 | University of British Columbia | 77.9 |
| =35 | University of Chicago | 77.9 |
| =35 | University of Science and Technology of China | 77.9 |
| =38 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | 77.8 |
| =38 | University of Texas at Austin | 77.8 |
| 40 | The University of Melbourne | 77.6 |
| =41 | KU Leuven | 77.4 |
| =41 | The University of Queensland | 77.4 |
| =41 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 77.4 |
| 44 | Columbia University | 77.3 |
| 45 | The University of Hong Kong | 77 |
| 46 | Sorbonne University | 76.6 |
| =47 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 76.5 |
| =47 | McGill University | 76.5 |
| =47 | Monash University | 76.5 |
| =50 | Delft University of Technology | 76.4 |
| =50 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 76.4 |
| 52 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 76.3 |
| =53 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) | 76 |
| =53 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 76 |
| =55 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 75.7 |
| =55 | The University of Sydney | 75.7 |
| 57 | The University of Osaka | 75.5 |
| =58 | King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) | 75.4 |
| =58 | Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) | 75.4 |
| =58 | The University of Edinburgh | 75.4 |
| 61 | Korea University | 75.3 |
| =62 | Purdue University | 75.2 |
| =62 | University of Bristol | 75.2 |
| =62 | Yonsei University | 75.2 |
| 65 | Johns Hopkins University | 75 |
| =66 | RWTH Aachen University | 74.9 |
| =66 | Texas A&M University | 74.9 |
| =66 | Tianjin University | 74.9 |
| 69 | RUDN University | 74.8 |
| 70 | Technical University of Denmark | 74.6 |
| 71 | Nankai University | 74.1 |
| =72 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 73.9 |
| =72 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | 73.9 |
| =74 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 73.5 |
| =74 | Université Paris-Saclay | 73.5 |
| =76 | Pennsylvania State University | 73.4 |
| =76 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) | 73.4 |
| =78 | Adelaide University | 73.2 |
| =78 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) | 73.2 |
| =78 | Universitat de Barcelona | 73.2 |
| =81 | Australian National University (ANU) | 73.1 |
| =81 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | 73.1 |
| =81 | University of Glasgow | 73.1 |
| =81 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 73.1 |
| =81 | Uppsala University | 73.1 |
| 86 | Xiamen University | 73 |
| 87 | Hokkaido University | 72.8 |
| =88 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | 72.6 |
| =88 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | 72.6 |
| =88 | Universidade de São Paulo | 72.6 |
| =91 | City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) | 72.5 |
| =91 | University of Groningen | 72.5 |
| =91 | University of Nottingham | 72.5 |
| =91 | Wuhan University | 72.5 |
| =95 | University of Alberta | 72.4 |
| =95 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | 72.4 |
| =95 | University of Liverpool | 72.4 |
| =98 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | 72.3 |
| =98 | University of Copenhagen | 72.3 |
| =100 | Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore | 72 |
