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 2026 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 | |
