The QS ranking of the best universities in the world will help you decide on the university in which you will receive an up-to-date and valuable education in your chosen specialty. In this ranking, we present the best QS universities in financial areas and accounting.
Specialists in the field of finance and accounting will always be popular and in demand. These are professions that only continue to develop, do not lose relevance, acquire new specializations and penetrate into all new industries. No matter what new disciplines appear, no matter what technologies develop, no matter what companies arise , they will all deal with finance, and therefore with accounting.

What disciplines await students in the courses "Finance" and "Accounting" - examples:
- accounting and audit
- banking
- International Auditing Standards
- financial trading
- investment analysis
- analysis of financial statements
- financial and tax consulting
- taxes and taxation
- brokerage insurance, etc.

The best universities in the world provide relevant, modern education, constantly modernizing programs, the best speakers and guest lecturers - many of them real practitioners with extensive experience. There are both working practices and internships where students will be able to hone their skills and try their knowledge in a real dynamic business environment.
Top 100 best universities in the world: Accounting and Finance
Rank | University | Overall Score |
1 | Harvard University | 98,2 |
2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 94,4 |
3 | Stanford University | 94,0 |
4 | University of Oxford | 92,0 |
5 | University of Chicago | 90,8 |
6 | The London School of Economics | 89,5 |
7 | University of Cambridge | 89,2 |
8 | University of Pennsylvania | 88,1 |
9 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 87,8 |
10 | New York University (NYU) | 87,0 |
11 | Columbia University | 86,1 |
12 | Yale University | 85,7 |
13 | London Business School | 85,5 |
14 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 84,9 |
15 | University of Toronto | 84,8 |
16 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 84,7 |
17 | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Bocconi University) | 84,1 |
18 | HEC Paris School of Management | 82,6 |
19 | Peking University | 82,1 |
=20 | Imperial College London | 81,9 |
=20 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | 81,9 |
=22 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | 81,8 |
=22 | The University of Manchester | 81,8 |
24 | The University of Melbourne | 81,1 |
25 | Tsinghua University | 81,0 |
=26 | Princeton University | 80,5 |
=26 | University of British Columbia | 80,5 |
28 | The University of Sydney | 80,1 |
29 | Northwestern University | 79,6 |
30 | Cornell University | 79,5 |
31 | The University of Hong Kong | 79,3 |
32 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 79,1 |
33 | University of Texas at Austin | 79,0 |
34 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 78,9 |
35 | Monash University | 78,1 |
36 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | 77,8 |
37 | The University of Warwick | 77,6 |
38 | Duke University | 77,4 |
39 | The University of Tokyo | 77,3 |
40 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | 76,7 |
41 | INSEAD | 76,6 |
=42 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 76,4 |
=42 | Seoul National University | 76,4 |
=42 | The Australian National University | 76,4 |
45 | UCL | 75,6 |
46 | The University of Edinburgh | 75,3 |
47 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 75,0 |
48 | McGill University | 74,6 |
49 | University of Amsterdam | 74,5 |
50 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | 74,4 |
=51 | Fudan University | 74,3 |
=51 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 74,3 |
=53 | University of Navarra | 73,9 |
=53 | University of Southern California | 73,9 |
55 | Copenhagen Business School | 73,7 |
56 | The University of Auckland | 73,4 |
=57 | Korea University | 73,3 |
=57 | Université PSL | 73,3 |
59 | Singapore Management University | 73,1 |
60 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | 73,0 |
=61 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 72,9 |
=61 | The University of Queensland | 72,9 |
=61 | Tilburg University | 72,9 |
64 | KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science | 72,3 |
65 | Yonsei University | 72,2 |
66 | Universiti Malaya (UM) | 72,1 |
=67 | University of Glasgow | 72,0 |
=67 | University of Washington | 72,0 |
69 | Universidade de São Paulo | 71,8 |
70 | City University of Hong Kong | 71,7 |
=71 | Tecnológico de Monterrey | 71,5 |
=71 | University of Birmingham | 71,5 |
73 | The Ohio State University | 71,2 |
74 | ESSEC Business School | 71,1 |
=75 | Boston University | 71,0 |
=75 | King's College London | 71,0 |
=75 | Lancaster University | 71,0 |
=75 | Pennsylvania State University | 71,0 |
79 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | 70,9 |
80 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | 70,8 |
=81 | Stockholm School of Economics | 70,7 |
=81 | Universität Mannheim | 70,7 |
=81 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 70,7 |
=84 | City, University of London | 70,5 |
=84 | Durham University | 70,5 |
86 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) | 70,4 |
87 | University of Zurich | 70,1 |
=88 | Carnegie Mellon University | 70,0 |
=88 | University of St.Gallen (HSG) | 70,0 |
=90 | IE University | 69,9 |
=90 | University of Technology Sydney | 69,9 |
92 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 69,3 |
=93 | KU Leuven | 69,1 |
=93 | Luiss Guido Carli University | 69,1 |
=95 | Universidad de Chile | 69,0 |
=95 | University of Southampton | 69,0 |
=97 | King Abdulaziz University (KAU) | 68,8 |
=97 | Zhejiang University | 68,8 |
99 | Universitat Ramon Llull | 68,7 |
=100 | RMIT University | 68,5 |