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TOP-100 best universities in legal studies 2026 QS Rankings

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Law and Legal Studies

We offer an overview of TOP-100 best universities in the world with the study of law for foreign students. Obtaining a bachelor's degree in law abroad does not give the right to work in the field of law, but this is an excellent first step towards this. Different countries have their own procedure for preparing for a career in the field of law.

In the U.S. and Canada, you must have a bachelor's degree before pursuing a master's degree in law to earn a Juris Doctor (JD) degree. It will take you about three years to get a Bachelor of Laws degree, it will take you another year to obtain a Master of Laws degree, and it will take up to three years to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree in the United States.

Master's (LLM) and Bachelor's (LLB) degrees in European law are available at many universities throughout Europe. Such a scheme of training lawyers is relevant in the EU member states. Some countries, such as the UK, offer a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in as little as three years.

Law programs teach students to think critically, research, debate, and analyze, allowing them to study a wide range of social sciences and humanities issues within a single degree.

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Law and Legal Studies

#	University	Ranking
1	Harvard University	99
2	University of Oxford	97.6
3	University of Cambridge	96.7
4	Yale University	94.4
5	Stanford University	92.8
6	National University of Singapore (NUS)	91.8
7	New York University (NYU)	90.4
8	Columbia University	89.4
9	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	88.2
10	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	87.9
11	The University of Melbourne	86.2
12	University of Chicago	84.1
=13	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	84
=13	UCL	84
15	The University of Edinburgh	83.8
16	King's College London	83.7
17	The University of Sydney	83.3
18	University of Toronto	83.2
19	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	82.2
20	The University of Hong Kong	82.1
21	Georgetown University	81.4
22	University of Pennsylvania	81.2
23	Leiden University	80.7
24	The University of Tokyo	80.5
25	Australian National University (ANU)	80.3
=26	Cornell University	80.2
=26	University of British Columbia	80.2
28	Peking University	80.1
29	Tsinghua University	79.8
30	McGill University	79.3
31	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	79.1
32	Monash University	78.9
33	Queen Mary University of London	78.8
34	Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)	78.7
35	O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)	77.6
36	University of Amsterdam	77.3
37	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	77.2
=38	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)	76.5
=38	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	76.5
40	Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna	76.4
41	City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK)	76.3
=42	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	76.1
=42	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	76.1
=44	Duke University	76
=44	Seoul National University	76
46	KU Leuven	75.9
47	University of Virginia	75.2
48	Universidad de Chile	75
=49	Durham University	74.4
=49	Universidad de los Andes - Colombia	74.4
=49	Universität Heidelberg	74.4
52	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	74.3
53	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	74.2
=54	Bocconi University	74.1
=54	University of Bristol	74.1
=56	Kyoto University	74
=56	Singapore Management University	74
=56	Universidade de São Paulo	74
59	Sciences Po	73.9
=60	Sapienza University of Rome	73.6
=60	The University of Queensland	73.6
=60	Universidad Externado de Colombia	73.6
=63	Adelaide University	73.4
=63	University of Glasgow	73.4
=65	China University of Political Science and Law	73
=65	The University of Auckland	73
=67	Complutense University of Madrid	72.8
=67	Maastricht University	72.8
69	University of Leeds	72.7
70	The University of Manchester	72.6
71	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)	72.5
72	Waseda University	72.4
73	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	72.3
74	Fudan University	72.2
=75	National Taiwan University (NTU)	72.1
=75	University of Technology Sydney	72.1
=75	Utrecht University	72.1
78	Renmin (People's) University of China	72
79	Northwestern University	71.8
80	Boston University	71.6
=81	University of Geneva	71.3
=81	Universität Hamburg	71.3
83	European University Institute	71.2
=84	The University of Warwick	71.1
=84	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	71.1
=86	George Washington University	71
=86	University of Texas at Austin	71
88	University of Nottingham	70.8
89	ETH Zurich	70.5
90	Zhejiang University	70.3
=91	Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP)	70.2
=91	Victoria University of Wellington	70.2
=93	Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia)	69.9
=93	Universidad del Rosario	69.9
95	University of Zurich	69.8
=96	Pennsylvania State University	69.7
=96	Universitas Indonesia	69.7
98	University College Dublin	69.6
99	Freie Universitaet Berlin	69.5
=100	American University	69.4

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Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Mathematics

#	University	Ranking
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	95.2
2	University of Oxford	93.7
3	University of Cambridge	92.3
4	Harvard University	91.9
5	Princeton University	91.7
=6	Stanford University	91
=6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	91
=8	Imperial College London	87.5
=8	National University of Singapore (NUS)	87.5
10	ETH Zurich	87.4
11	Sorbonne University	83.9
=12	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)	83.4
=12	Tsinghua University	83.4
=12	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	83.4
15	Peking University	83.2
16	University of Toronto	82.8
17	EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne	82.1
18	New York University (NYU)	81.9
19	Université Paris-Saclay	81.8
20	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	81.4
21	Carnegie Mellon University	81
=22	University of Chicago	80.2
=22	Université PSL	80.2
24	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	80.1
25	Columbia University	80
26	The University of Tokyo	79.5
27	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	79.4
28	The University of Warwick	78.5
=29	The University of Edinburgh	78.3
=29	University of Waterloo	78.3
31	Yale University	78.1
=32	Cornell University	77.6
=32	Fudan University	77.6
=32	University of Texas at Austin	77.6
35	The University of Sydney	77.5
36	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	77.3
37	Institute of Science Tokyo	77.2
38	Politecnico di Milano	77
39	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	76.8
40	University of British Columbia	76.6
41	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	76.4
=42	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	76.3
=42	UCL	76.3
44	The University of Melbourne	76.2
45	University of Pennsylvania	76.1
=46	Lomonosov Moscow State University	76
=46	Seoul National University	76
=46	Zhejiang University	76
49	Georgia Institute of Technology	75.9
50	Technical University of Munich	75.3
51	The University of Hong Kong	75.2
52	Australian National University (ANU)	75.1
53	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)	75
54	The University of Manchester	74.8
55	McGill University	74.7
=56	Brown University	74.6
=56	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	74.6
=58	King Abdulaziz University (KAU)	74.2
=58	Kyoto University	74.2
=60	King's College London	74
=60	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	74
=62	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	73.7
=62	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	73.7
=62	Yonsei University	73.7
65	Université Paris Cité	73.6
66	Monash University	73.2
67	Sapienza University of Rome	72.9
68	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	72.8
69	Texas A&M University	72.7
70	RUDN University	72.5
71	Queen Mary University of London	72.4
72	Johns Hopkins University	72.3
73	Delft University of Technology	72.1
=74	Universidade de São Paulo	72
=74	University of Science and Technology of China	72
76	KU Leuven	71.7
77	Duke University	71.6
78	University of Washington	71.3
79	Université de Montréal	71.2
=80	City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK)	71
=80	The University of Auckland	71
82	University of Amsterdam	70.9
83	University of Bristol	70.8
=84	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	70.7
=84	Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)	70.7
=86	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	70.6
=86	Pennsylvania State University	70.6
=88	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	70.5
=88	University of Technology Sydney	70.5
90	University of Vienna	70.4
91	Nanjing University	70.3
92	Purdue University	70
=93	KFUPM	69.9
=93	Universiti Malaya (UM)	69.9
95	Harbin Institute of Technology	69.8
=96	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)	69.7
=96	University of Wisconsin-Madison	69.7
98	University of Maryland, College Park	69.6
=99	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	69.5
=99	The University of Queensland	69.5

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