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TOP-100 Best Universities in Development Studies in the world 2025 QS Rankings

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TOP-100 Best Universities in Development Studies in the world 2025 QS Rankings

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2025 QS: Development Studies

We offer you to get acquainted with the list of the best universities in the world for development research according QS Rankings.

Development research is one of the most promising and rapidly developing areas in universities in the world. The study of development is necessary to establish forecasts of a particular trend in society, the relevance of knowledge in various spheres of life, the introduction of innovative technologies and the correction of teaching world methods.

At the moment, an increasing number of leading universities are increasing the budget for financing this area and inviting students to study.

Graduates of universities from our rating can work as administrators and managers of large companies, analysts, teachers in best universities and indispensable employees of international organizations like the UN.

Studying is conducted only taking into account modern trends in current academic programs. Teachers are graduates of the best universities in the world (Harvard, Massachusetts, California, Oxford, Cambridge, London, Yale and other universities). They are always ready to help and support in matters of an academic and organizational nature. Students write dissertations and scientific papers, publish articles of international level, do homework and read professional literature. Knowledge control is carried out with the help of sessions, laboratory work and tests.

In their free time, children can travel to nearby countries. A huge plus of studying on development research is the possibility of internships in America, Japan, great Britain, Australia and Canada.

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2025 QS: Development Studies

Rank	University	Overall Score
1	University of Sussex	96,8
2	University of Oxford	93,0
=3	SOAS University of London	92,7
=3	The London School of Economics and Political	92,7
5	Cambridge University	91,5
6	Harvard University	91,0
7	Wageningen University & Research	88,1
8	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	87,5
9	National University of Singapore (NUS)	87,4
=10	The Australian National University	87,2
=10	The University of Manchester	87,2
12	Stanford University	87,0
13	Princeton University	84,1
14	UCL	83,7
=15	Columbia University	83,2
=15	University of Cape Town	83,2
17	The University of Melbourne	83,0
18	Cornell University	82,6
19	University of East Anglia (UEA)	82,3
=20	Jawaharlal Nehru University	81,3
=20	Johns Hopkins University	81,3
=20	University of Chicago	81,3
23	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	80,9
24	Erasmus University Rotterdam	80,6
25	University of British Columbia	80,4
=26	Leiden University	79,7
=26	The University of Tokyo	79,7
28	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	79,4
29	University of Leeds	79,2
=30	King`s College London	78,7
=30	Massey University	78,7
32	McGill University	78,3
33	Boston University	78,0
=34	The University of Sydney	77,9
=34	University of Amsterdam	77,9
36	University of Toronto	77,7
37	National Autonomous University of Mexico	77,3
38	Yonsei University	77,1
39	Ghent University	76,9
40	Universidad de Los Andes	76,8
41	University of Wisconsin - Madison	76,5
42	The University of Hong Kong	76,2
43	Delhi university	76,1
=44	Makerere University	75,9
=44	University of Witwatersrand	75,9
=46	Pennsylvania State University	75,6
=46	The University of Queensland	75,6
48	University of Edinburgh	75,5
=49	Newcastle University	75,1
=49	Bienvenue à l'université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	75,1
=49	University of California, Davis	75,1
51-100	Western Sydney University
51-100	American University
51-100	American University of Beirut (AUB)
51-100	Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
51-100	Brown University
51-100	Cairo University
51-100	Chulalongkorn University
51-100	Deakin University
51-100	Duke University
51-100	Fudan University
51-100	George Washington University
51-100	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
51-100	Imperial College London
51-100	Kyoto University
51-100	Lund University
51-100	Michigan State University
51-100	Monash University
51-100	Nagoya University
51-100	New York University (NYU)
51-100	Politecnico di Milano
51-100	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
51-100	Seoul National University
51-100	Stellenbosh University
51-100	The Ohio State University
51-100	The University of Auckland
51-100	The University of Sheffield
51-100	The University of Warwick
51-100	The University of Western Australia
51-100	Tsinghua University
51-100	Universidad Nacional de Colombia
51-100	Universidade de São Paulo
51-100	Universitas Indonesia
51-100	Universitat de Barcelona
51-100	University of Antwerp
51-100	University of Bath
51-100	University of Birmingham
51-100	University of Copenhagen
51-100	University of Ghana
51-100	University of Gothenburg
51-100	University of Göttingen
51-100	University of Groningen
51-100	University of KwaZulu-Natal
51-100	University of Massachusetts Amherst
51-100	University of Minnesota Twin Cities
51-100	University of Pretoria
51-100	University of South Africa
51-100	Utrecht University
51-100	Victoria University of Wellington
51-100	Gadjah Mada University

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