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
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Oxford | 96.8 |
| 2 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | 95.8 |
| 3 | University of Cambridge | 95.3 |
| 4 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 93.1 |
| 5 | UCL | 92.5 |
| 6 | Durham University | 90.5 |
| 7 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 90.4 |
| 8 | University of Amsterdam | 88.3 |
| 9 | The University of Manchester | 87.9 |
| 10 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 87.7 |
| 11 | The University of Hong Kong | 87.1 |
| 12 | University of British Columbia | 86.2 |
| 13 | University of Toronto | 86.1 |
| 14 | King's College London | 85.6 |
| 15 | University of Bristol | 84.9 |
| 16 | The University of Melbourne | 84.8 |
| 17 | Utrecht University | 84.6 |
| 18 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 84.5 |
| 19 | The University of Edinburgh | 84.3 |
| 20 | The University of Tokyo | 84.2 |
| 21 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | 84 |
| 22 | Newcastle University | 83.4 |
| 23 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | 83.3 |
| 24 | The University of Sydney | 83.2 |
| 25 | Lund University | 82.7 |
| =26 | Australian National University (ANU) | 82.6 |
| =26 | University of Leeds | 82.6 |
| 28 | Peking University | 82.4 |
| 29 | Freie Universitaet Berlin | 82.3 |
| 30 | Leiden University | 82.2 |
| 31 | The University of Sheffield | 81.3 |
| =32 | KU Leuven | 81.1 |
| =32 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 81.1 |
| 34 | Beijing Normal University | 81 |
| 35 | University of Vienna | 80.9 |
| 36 | McGill University | 80.7 |
| 37 | University of Groningen | 80.5 |
| 38 | University of Exeter | 80.4 |
| 39 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | 80.3 |
| 40 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | 80.2 |
| =41 | Pennsylvania State University | 80 |
| =41 | Sciences Po | 80 |
| 43 | Universite libre de Bruxelles | 79.9 |
| 44 | Tsinghua University | 79.5 |
| 45 | Stockholm University | 79.4 |
| 46 | The Ohio State University | 78.9 |
| 47 | University of Washington | 78.8 |
| 48 | New York University (NYU) | 78.6 |
| =49 | University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | 78.1 |
| =49 | University of Copenhagen | 78.1 |
| 51-100 | Arizona State University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Cardiff University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Complutense University of Madrid | n/a |
| 51-100 | Cornell University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Delft University of Technology | n/a |
| 51-100 | Fudan University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Johns Hopkins University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Kyoto University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Lancaster University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Loughborough University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Monash University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Nanjing University | n/a |
| 51-100 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | n/a |
| 51-100 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | n/a |
| 51-100 | Queen Mary University of London | n/a |
| 51-100 | Renmin (People's) University of China | n/a |
| 51-100 | Royal Holloway, University of London | n/a |
| 51-100 | SOAS University of London | n/a |
| 51-100 | Sapienza University of Rome | n/a |
| 51-100 | Seoul National University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | n/a |
| 51-100 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Auckland | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Queensland | n/a |
| 51-100 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universidad de Chile | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universidade de São Paulo | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | n/a |
| 51-100 | University College Dublin | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Birmingham | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Chicago | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Colorado Boulder | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Geneva | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Glasgow | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Minnesota (System) | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Nottingham | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Oslo | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of St Andrews | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Sussex | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Texas at Austin | n/a |
| 51-100 | Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) | n/a |
| 51-100 | Uppsala University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Wageningen University & Research | n/a |
| 51-100 | Wuhan University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Yonsei University | n/a |