We offer an overview of TOP-100 best geographical universities in the world for foreign students according to QS World University Rankings. Education in geography – an extremely diverse discipline that studies the physical world around us and how we interact with it – opens up broad employment prospects for graduates. Geography programs include elements of other subjects: sociology, anthropology, politics, ecology. This is an important area for understanding some of the most pressing issues facing society and the environment.
Geography is a popular course due to its broad curriculum and high employment rates of graduates. You can count on hands-on experience with regular excursions, hands-on activities, and learning a wide range of skills.
The geography program includes the following modules:
- Human geography
- Physiography
- Global environmental problems
- Environment, society
- Glaciology
- Flooding, erosion of river basins.
Explore the list of the best universities with the study of geography according to the QS World University Rankings and choose the best course for international students!
Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Geography
| Rank | University | Overall Score |
| 1 | University of Oxford | 97,6 |
| 2 | LSE London School of Economics and Political Science | 96,7 |
| 3 | Cambridge University | 96,1 |
| 4 | Harvard University | 95,0 |
| 5 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 94,3 |
| 6 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 92,2 |
| 7 | University College London | 92,0 |
| 8 | Stanford University | 91,2 |
| 9 | University of British Columbia | 90,6 |
| 10 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 90,4 |
| 11 | The Australian National University | 88,1 |
| 12 | University of Amsterdam | 87,6 |
| 13 | University of Toronto | 87,4 |
| =14 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 87,3 |
| =14 | The University of Hong Kong | 87,3 |
| 16 | Durham University | 86,8 |
| 17 | Yale University | 86,4 |
| 18 | University of Tokyo | 86,0 |
| 19 | The University of Manchester | 85,7 |
| 20 | University of Melbourne | 85,6 |
| 21 | The University of Sydney | 85,4 |
| =22 | Utrecht University | 84,9 |
| =22 | King's College London | 84,9 |
| 24 | Peking University | 84,6 |
| 25 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 84,4 |
| 26 | University of Chicago | 83,9 |
| 27 | Leiden University | 83,8 |
| 28 | Lund University | 83,5 |
| =29 | University of Leeds | 83,4 |
| =29 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | 83,4 |
| 31 | Freie Universität Berlin | 83,3 |
| 32 | Université Paris 1 (UP1) Pantheon-Sorbonne | 82,9 |
| 33 | Kyoto University | 82,7 |
| 34 | KU Leuven | 82,6 |
| =35 | New York University (NYU) | 82,5 |
| =35 | The University of Exeter | 82,5 |
| =37 | University of Copenhagen | 82,3 |
| =37 | Cornell University | 82,3 |
| 39 | Newcastle University | 81,7 |
| =40 | Stockholm University | 81,4 |
| =40 | University of Washington | 81,4 |
| 42 | McGill University | 81,3 |
| 43 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | 81,1 |
| 44 | Tsinghua University | 81,0 |
| 45 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | 80,8 |
| 46 | University of Bristol | 80,6 |
| 47 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | 80,5 |
| =48 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | 80,4 |
| =48 | SOAS University of London | 80,4 |
| 50 | Aarhus University | 80,3 |
| 51-100 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna | |
| 51-100 | Arizona State University | |
| 51-100 | Beijing Normal University | |
| 51-100 | Cardiff University | |
| 51-100 | Complutense University of Madrid | |
| 51-100 | Fudan University | |
| 51-100 | Johns Hopkins University | |
| 51-100 | Monash University | |
| 51-100 | Nanjing University | |
| 51-100 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | |
| 51-100 | Pennsylvania State University | |
| 51-100 | Renmin (People's) University of China | |
| 51-100 | Seoul National University | |
| 51-100 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | |
| 51-100 | The University of Auckland | |
| 51-100 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | |
| 51-100 | The University of Queensland | |
| 51-100 | The University of Sheffield | |
| 51-100 | Trinity College Dublin | |
| 51-100 | University of Buenos Aires | |
| 51-100 | Universidad de Chile | |
| 51-100 | Universidad de Los Andes | |
| 51-100 | Universidade Federal de São Paulo | |
| 51-100 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | |
| 51-100 | Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) | |
| 51-100 | Universite libre de Bruxelles | |
| 51-100 | Universiti Malaya (UM) | |
| 51-100 | University College Dublin | |
| 51-100 | University of Birmingham | |
| 51-100 | University of California Santa Barbara | |
| 51-100 | University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | |
| 51-100 | University of Cape Town | |
| 51-100 | University of Colorado at Boulder | |
| 51-100 | University of Glasgow | |
| 51-100 | University of Groningen | |
| 51-100 | University of Helsinki | |
| 51-100 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | |
| 51-100 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| 51-100 | Universitetet i Oslo | |
| 51-100 | University of St Andrews | |
| 51-100 | University of Sussex | |
| 51-100 | University of Texas at Austin | |
| 51-100 | University of Vienna | |
| 51-100 | Uppsala University | |
| 51-100 | Victoria University of Wellington | |
| 51-100 | Wageningen University & Research | |
| 51-100 | Waseda University | |
| 51-100 | Wuhan University | |
| 51-100 | Yonsei University | |
| 51-100 | Boston University | |
