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TOP-100 best universities in modern languages 2026 QS Rankings

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Modern Languages

We present a list of the best universities in the field of modern languages according to the QS World University Rankings.

These universities have won international recognition in this area due to the quality of programs, developed infrastructure and experienced teaching staff.

Agencies compile rankings of higher education institutions, taking into account many quantitative and qualitative parameters. For example, they analyze the number of foreign students, the ratio of students per teacher, the citation index. All this makes the agency one of the most authoritative publications and becomes a reliable assistant to students who are puzzled by the search for a suitable university.

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Modern Languages

Rank	University	Overall Score
1	Cambridge University	99,4
2	University of Oxford	99,0
3	Harvard University	98,6
4	Stanford University	92,0
5	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	91,7
6	Yale University	91,0
7	University of Tokyo	89,3
8	University of California Los Angeles	89,2
9	Peking University	89,1
10	University of Edinburgh	88,9
11	Columbia University	88,2
12	Princeton University	88,1
13	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	87,6
14	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	86,4
15	University of Chicago	86,2
16	University of Toronto	86,1
17	UCL	86,0
18	Seoul National University	85,6
=19	National University of Singapore (NUS)	85,2
=19	Sorbonne University	85,2
21	University of Buenos Aires	84,9
22	The University of Hong Kong	84,8
23	New York University (NYU)	84,5
24	Kyoto University	84,2
25	Lomonosov Moscow State University	83,9
26	Fudan University	83,7
27	King's College London	83,3
28	Chinese University of Hong Kong	82,9
29	University of Melbourne	82,6
30	University of British Columbia	82,5
=31	McGill University	82,4
=31	Sydney University	82,4
33	Freie Universität Berlin	82,3
=34	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	82,1
=34	Yonsei University	82,1
36	University of Manchester	82,0
37	Tsinghua University	81,8
=38	Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna	81,7
=38	University of Pennsylvania	81,7
40	Korea University	81,5
41	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	81,4
=42	Australian National University	81,0
=42	Waseda University	81,0
44	Cornell University	80,9
45	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	80,8
46	Universidade Federal de São Paulo	80,7
=47	Complutense University of Madrid	80,6
=47	RUDN University	80,6
49	National Taiwan University (NTU)	80,5
50	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	80,4
=51	Duke University	79,6
=51	Universidad de Los Andes	79,6
=53	The University of Warwick	79,3
=53	Trinity College Dublin	79,3
55	University of Leeds	79,2
56	Nanyang Technological University	78,9
57	Université Paris 1 (UP1) Pantheon-Sorbonne	78,8
58	Sapienza University of Rome	78,6
=59	Durham University	78,5
=59	KU Leuven	78,5
61	University of Amsterdam	78,2
62	University of Vienna	78,1
=63	Leiden University	78,0
=63	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	78,0
65	University of St Andrews	77,4
66	The University of Auckland	77,2
=67	Brown University	76,8
=67	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	76,8
=69	Ca' Foscari University of Venice	76,7
=69	University of Texas at Austin	76,7
71	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	76,6
72	Lancaster University	76,4
=73	Satbayev University	76,2
=73	The University of Queensland	76,2
75	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	76,1
=76	Monash University	76,0
=76	Osaka University	76,0
78	University of Bristol	75,9
79	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	75,8
80	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	75,5
81	University of Malaya	75,4
=82	Keio University	75,2
=82	University of Glasgow	75,2
=84	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	75,1
=84	L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU)	75,1
=86	SOAS University of London	75,0
=86	Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU)	75,0
=86	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	75,0
=89	University of Salamanca	74,8
=89	University of Zurich	74,8
=91	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	74,6
=91	Zhejiang University	74,6
=93	Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú	74,4
=93	Saint Petersburg State University	74,4
=95	Hanyang University	74,3
=95	University of Barcelona	74,3
=97	Pennsylvania State University	74,2
=97	Université PSL	74,2
=97	University of Birmingham	74,2
=97	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	74,2

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