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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
| 1 | University of Sussex |
| 2 | SOAS University of London |
| 3 | University of Oxford |
| 4 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| 5 | The University of Manchester |
| 6 | University of Cambridge |
| 7 | Harvard University |
| 8 | Wageningen University & Research |
| 9 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 10 | UCL |
| 11 | University of Cape Town |
| 12 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 13 | Columbia University |
| 14 | Australian National University (ANU) |
| 15 | Cornell University |
| 16 | Stanford University |
| 17 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) |
| 18 | University of Leeds |
| 19 | Princeton University |
| 20 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 21 | King's College London |
| 22 | The University of Sheffield |
| 23 | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 24 | University of East Anglia (UEA) |
| 25 | University of Witwatersrand |
| 26 | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| 27 | Universidad de los Andes |
| 28 | Leiden University |
| 29 | The University of Tokyo |
| 30 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 31 | The University of Queensland |
| 32 | University of Bath |
| 33 | Universidad de Chile |
| 34 | University of British Columbia |
| 35 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 36 | Utrecht University |
| 37 | Peking University |
| 38 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) |
| 39 | University of Toronto |
| 40 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| 41 | The University of Melbourne |
| 42 | Yale University |
| 43 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 44 | Tsinghua University |
| 45 | The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies - Geneva |
| 46 | McGill University |
| 47 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) |
| 48 | American University |
| 49 | Kyoto University |
| 50 | Newcastle University |
