We present a ranking of mathematical universities in the world with top universities and the strongest faculties.

Students of mathematical faculties conduct research work in university laboratories, write scientific papers in a relevant field. The program includes courses in theoretical and applied mathematics.
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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 |