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TOP-100 best universities in ecology 2025 QS Rankings

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2025 QS: Environmental Sciences

Explore TOP 100 best universities in the world in ecology for international students according to QS World University Rankings! The study of ecology, the science of the interaction of living beings with each other and with the environment is one of the most promising areas of education.

Ecology studies both systems, including changes caused by humans, and systems with natural conditions. It is closely related to biology, chemistry, mathematics, geography, physics, epidemiology, biogeochemistry, sociology. The main goal of ecology is to develop principles for the rational use of natural resources.

Environmental specialists are becoming more and more in demand by the public sector, large manufacturing companies. By studying the relationships between different parts of ecosystems, especially the role of humans in this system, ecologists are studying how to interact with the environment, how to properly use its resources, and how this interaction works.

The Bachelor of Ecology degree is an excellent foundation for those who want to continue their education in the field of geology, crop production, forestry, mycology, environmental biology, animal biology, soil science, environmental economics, environmental impact and health studies, sustainable management. Programs in ecology include basic courses on Earth, natural sciences. In addition to the main lectures and seminars, students will conduct many practical classes, field work, engage in practical research.

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2025 QS: Environmental Sciences

Rank	University	Overall Score
1	Harvard University	94,6
2	Wageningen University & Research	94,1
3	University of Oxford	93,9
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	93,7
=5	Stanford University	93,5
=5	Berkeley University of California	93,5
7	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	92,4
8	University of Cambridge	92,3
9	National University of Singapore	91,5
10	Tsinghua University	91,4
11	Imperial College London	90,5
12	University of British Columbia	90,2
13	Delft University of Technology	88,8
14	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	87,9
15	Peking University	87,8
=16	University of California Los Angeles UCLA	87,0
=16	Yale University	87,0
=18	McGill University	86,8
=18	The University of Queensland	86,8
20	Columbia University	86,5
21	University of Toronto	86,2
22	University of Melbourne	86,1
23	University of California Davis	85,6
24	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	85,4
=25	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	85,1
=25	Stockholm University	85,1
27	Cornell University	85,0
=28	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	84,3
=28	Lund University	84,3
=28	University College London UCL	84,3
=31	University of Tokyo	84,2
=31	University of Washington	84,2
33	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	84,1
34	The University of Manchester	84,0
35	Princeton University	83,9
36	Technical University of Denmark	83,8
37	The University of Edinburgh	83,7
38	Texas A&M University	83,6
=39	Georgia Institute of Technology	83,5
=39	University of Exeter	83,5
=39	The University of Hong Kong	83,5
42	Utrecht University	83,4
43	Duke University	83,2
=44	The Australian National University	82,9
=44	Universidade Federal de São Paulo	82,9
=46	Ghent University	82,5
=46	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	82,5
=46	University of Leeds	82,5
49	University of Colorado at Boulder	82,3
50	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	82,2
=51	Pennsylvania State University	82,1
=51	Universitat de Barcelona	82,1
=51	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	82,1
54	Seoul National University	82,0
=55	Johns Hopkins University	81,8
=55	Michigan State University	81,8
=55	The University of Texas at Austin	81,8
58	The University of Sydney	81,5
=59	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	81,4
=59	University of Copenhagen	81,4
=61	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	81,2
=61	Zhejiang University	81,2
=63	Politecnico di Milano	80,9
=63	University of Wisconsin - Madison	80,9
65	KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	80,7
=66	KU Leuven	80,6
=66	Monash University	80,6
=66	Technische Universität München	80,6
69	Purdue University	80,5
70	Nanjing University	80,4
=71	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	80,3
=71	University of Helsinki	80,3
73	Arizona State University	80,1
74	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	79,8
75	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	79,5
76	Universiti Malaya (UM)	79,3
77	University of Colorado at Boulder	79,2
78	Kyoto University	79,1
79	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	79,0
=80	Aarhus University	78,8
=80	University of Reading	78,8
=82	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	78,5
=82	University of East Anglia (UEA)	78,5
=84	National Taiwan University (NTU)	78,4
=84	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)	78,4
86	Korea University	78,1
87	Tongji University	78,0
=88	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	77,9
=88	Uppsala University	77,9
=90	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)	77,7
=90	The University of Adelaide	77,7
=92	Newcastle University	77,6
=92	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	77,6
=92	University of Bristol	77,6
=92	University of Florida	77,6
=96	Lancaster University	77,5
=96	The University of Sheffield	77,5
=96	University of Alberta	77,5
=96	University of Technology Sydney	77,5
=100	Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)	77,4

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