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TOP-100 best universities in linguistics 2026 QS Rankings

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TOP-100 best universities in linguistics 2026 QS Rankings

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

We present a ranking of the best universities in the world with the study of linguistics - TOP linguistic universities with recognized programs in popular specialties.

The ranking includes higher education institutions that are chosen by students from all over the world to study theoretical and applied linguistics, literature and language theory. Their main advantages: interesting curricula, internships and career prospects. The world's top universities are also highly praised for their research papers and language labs, some offering interdisciplinary programs combining linguistics and computer science.

Students of linguistic faculties participate in scientific research together with teachers, learn several foreign languages at once, which increases competitiveness as a specialist.

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

Rank	University	Overall Score
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	99,2
2	Cambridge University	92,9
3	Lancaster University	92,7
4	University of Oxford	92,2
5	University of Edinburgh	92,0
6	University of Massachusetts Amherst	91,6
7	Harvard University	90,6
8	Stanford University	90,4
9	National University of Singapore (NUS)	89,9
10	The University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	89,4
11	University of British Columbia	88,6
=12	The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	88,0
=12	University of Toronto	88,0
14	The Ohio State University	86,2
15	The University of Hong Kong	85,8
16	University of Pennsylvania	85,5
17	UCL	85,0
18	McGill University	84,6
19	Lomonosov Moscow State University	83,3
20	University of Maryland, College Park	83,1
21	Peking University	82,9
22	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	82,5
23	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	82,3
=24	New York University (NYU)	81,7
=24	The University of Tokyo	81,7
=26	Georgetown University	81,6
=26	University of Manchester	81,6
28	University of Birmingham	81,5
29	University of Amsterdam	81,4
30	The University of Melbourne	81,2
31	Macquarie University	81,0
32	University of Chicago	80,9
=33	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	80,3
=33	University of Zurich	80,3
=35	Humboldt University of Berlin	80,2
=35	Michigan State University	80,2
=37	KU Leuven	79,8
=37	Leiden University	79,8
39	Radboud University	79,7
40	University of Texas at Austin	79,6
41	The University of Arizona	79,5
42	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	79,3
=43	RUDN University	79,1
=43	The University of Sydney	79,1
45	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	78,8
46	University of Vienna	78,2
47	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	77,8
48	Victoria University of Wellington	77,7
=49	Seoul National University	77,1
=49	The University of Auckland	77,1
=51	City University of Hong Kong	77,0
=51	University of Helsinki	77,0
=53	The Australian National University	76,9
=53	Utrecht University	76,9
=55	University of Connecticut	76,7
=55	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	76,7
57	Stockholm University	76,2
58	Pennsylvania State University	76,1
59	Yale University	76,0
60	Indiana University Bloomington	75,9
61	Beijing Foreign Studies University	75,4
62	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	75,3
63	National Taiwan University (NTU)	75,2
64	University of Washington	74,9
=65	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	74,7
=65	Universität Leipzig	74,7
67	University of Tromsø The Arctic University	74,3
68	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	74,2
69	L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU)	74,0
70	HSE University	73,7
=71	University of Canterbury \| Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha	73,6
=71	Yonsei University	73,6
73	Northern Arizona University	73,4
=74	Kyoto University	73,3
=74	Sorbonne University	73,3
=76	Fudan University	73,1
=76	Queen Mary University of London	73,1
78	Complutense University of Madrid	73,0
79	University of California, Santa Cruz	72,9
80	Moscow State Linguistic University	72,8
=81	University of Geneva	72,7
=81	University of York	72,7
83	The University of Queensland	72,6
=84	Columbia University	72,4
=84	Tsinghua University	72,4
86	National Tsing Hua University	72,0
87	Waseda University	71,8
=88	Universidade de São Paulo	71,5
=88	Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3	71,5
=90	Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna	71,3
=90	University of Leeds	71,3
92	Korea University	71,1
=93	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	71,0
=93	Monash University	71,0
=93	SOAS University of London	71,0
=93	Universität Hamburg	71,0
=97	Arizona State University	70,7
=97	Northwestern University	70,7
=97	University of Oslo	70,7
=100	Saint Petersburg State University	70,6

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