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TOP-100 best universities in linguistics 2026 QS Rankings

TOP-100 best universities in linguistics 2026 QS Rankings

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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