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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

#	University	Ranking
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	99.3
2	Lancaster University	91.6
3	University of Cambridge	88.7
4	University of Oxford	88.5
5	University of Massachusetts Amherst	87.6
6	National University of Singapore (NUS)	87
7	Harvard University	86.5
8	Stanford University	86.3
9	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	85
10	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	83.8
11	The University of Edinburgh	82.4
12	University of British Columbia	82.3
=13	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)	81.6
=13	UCL	81.6
15	University of Pennsylvania	80.6
16	Peking University	80.2
17	The Ohio State University	79.8
18	Seoul National University	79.5
19	University of Birmingham	79.1
20	Georgetown University	78.4
21	University of Toronto	78.3
=22	Leiden University	78.2
=22	The University of Tokyo	78.2
24	New York University (NYU)	77.9
25	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	77.8
26	The University of Melbourne	77.7
=27	Australian National University (ANU)	77.6
=27	The University of Hong Kong	77.6
29	Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia)	77.3
30	University of Chicago	77.2
31	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	76.7
=32	McGill University	76.5
=32	University of Texas at Austin	76.5
34	The University of Manchester	76.1
35	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	76
36	City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK)	75.9
37	KU Leuven	75.7
38	University of Maryland, College Park	75.6
39	The University of Sydney	75.4
40	The University of Arizona	75.1
41	Radboud University	74.9
=42	Lomonosov Moscow State University	74.6
=42	Michigan State University	74.6
44	University of Amsterdam	74.5
45	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	74.4
46	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	74.3
=47	Pennsylvania State University	73.5
=47	University of Helsinki	73.5
=49	The University of Auckland	73.4
=49	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	73.4
51	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	73.2
=52	Queen Mary University of London	73.1
=52	University of Zurich	73.1
54	Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)	72.9
55	University of Washington	72.4
=56	Korea University	72.2
=56	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	72.2
=58	Fudan University	71.9
=58	Yonsei University	71.9
60	HUFS - Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies	71.6
=61	University of Canterbury \| Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha	71.5
=61	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	71.5
63	Northern Arizona University	71.3
64	Tsinghua University	71.2
65	University of Vienna	71
=66	Beijing Foreign Studies University	70.7
=66	Utrecht University	70.7
68	Yale University	70.6
69	University of Connecticut	70.4
=70	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	70
=70	University of Geneva	70
72	Ghent University	69.9
73	Victoria University of Wellington	69.7
74	Indiana University Bloomington	69.6
75	Université Paris Cité	69.4
76	University of Alberta	69.2
=77	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	68.9
=77	Universität Leipzig	68.9
=79	The University of Queensland	68.7
=79	Zhejiang University	68.7
=81	Stockholm University	68.6
=81	University of Oregon	68.6
83	Kyoto University	68.5
84	The University of Osaka	68.4
85	Hanyang University	68.2
86	Universidade de São Paulo	68.1
=87	SOAS University of London	67.9
=87	Universität Potsdam	67.9
=89	Sorbonne University	67.7
=89	University of Groningen	67.7
91	University of Cologne	67.6
=92	RUDN University	67.5
=92	Waseda University	67.5
94	Moscow State Linguistic University	67.4
=95	Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales	67.3
=95	University of Nottingham	67.3
97	Arizona State University	67.2
98	University of Macau	67.1
99	National Taiwan University (NTU)	67
100	Monash University	66.9

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