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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
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Oxford | 99.5 |
| 2 | University of Cambridge | 98.9 |
| 3 | Harvard University | 98.1 |
| 4 | Yale University | 91 |
| 5 | Stanford University | 90.7 |
| 6 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 89.6 |
| 7 | Columbia University | 89.1 |
| 8 | Princeton University | 88.3 |
| 9 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 88 |
| 10 | Peking University | 87.5 |
| 11 | The University of Tokyo | 86.9 |
| 12 | The University of Edinburgh | 86.1 |
| 13 | UCL | 85.4 |
| 14 | Seoul National University | 85.3 |
| =15 | New York University (NYU) | 84.9 |
| =15 | University of Chicago | 84.9 |
| 17 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | 84.7 |
| 18 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 84.5 |
| 19 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 84.4 |
| 20 | University of Toronto | 83.9 |
| 21 | King's College London | 83.3 |
| 22 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | 82.8 |
| 23 | The University of Hong Kong | 82.3 |
| 24 | Cornell University | 81.9 |
| 25 | Kyoto University | 81.8 |
| 26 | Yonsei University | 81.5 |
| 27 | Sorbonne University | 81.4 |
| 28 | The University of Manchester | 81.3 |
| =29 | Korea University | 81.2 |
| =29 | University of British Columbia | 81.2 |
| =31 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | 81.1 |
| =31 | University of Pennsylvania | 81.1 |
| 33 | The University of Melbourne | 81 |
| 34 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | 80 |
| 35 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 79.7 |
| =36 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | 79.6 |
| =36 | Waseda University | 79.6 |
| =38 | Freie Universitaet Berlin | 79.5 |
| =38 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 79.5 |
| =40 | Durham University | 79.3 |
| =40 | McGill University | 79.3 |
| =42 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 79.1 |
| =42 | Sapienza University of Rome | 79.1 |
| =42 | Tsinghua University | 79.1 |
| =42 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | 79.1 |
| =46 | HUFS - Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies | 78.8 |
| =46 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | 78.8 |
| 48 | Fudan University | 78.7 |
| =49 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | 78.6 |
| =49 | University of Texas at Austin | 78.6 |
| =51 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | 78.5 |
| =51 | University of Leeds | 78.5 |
| 53 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | 78.3 |
| =54 | Complutense University of Madrid | 78.2 |
| =54 | Universidade de São Paulo | 78.2 |
| 56 | Australian National University (ANU) | 78.1 |
| 57 | The University of Sydney | 78 |
| 58 | Duke University | 76.9 |
| 59 | University of Bristol | 76.6 |
| 60 | Brown University | 76.4 |
| 61 | KU Leuven | 76.3 |
| 62 | The University of Warwick | 76.2 |
| 63 | University of St Andrews | 76 |
| 64 | The University of Osaka | 75.8 |
| =65 | SOAS University of London | 75.4 |
| =65 | University of Vienna | 75.4 |
| 67 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | 75.3 |
| 68 | Monash University | 75.1 |
| 69 | Ca' Foscari University of Venice | 75 |
| 70 | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana | 74.9 |
| 71 | Lancaster University | 74.8 |
| 72 | University of Amsterdam | 74.7 |
| 73 | University of Birmingham | 74.4 |
| 74 | Beijing Normal University | 74.2 |
| 75 | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) | 74.1 |
| 76 | Leiden University | 74 |
| =77 | Universidad de los Andes - Colombia | 73.6 |
| =77 | Universität Heidelberg | 73.6 |
| 79 | City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) | 73.5 |
| =80 | Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) | 73.4 |
| =80 | Universidad Nacional de Colombia | 73.4 |
| =80 | University of Zurich | 73.4 |
| =83 | Georgetown University | 73.2 |
| =83 | Keio University | 73.2 |
| 85 | University of Geneva | 73.1 |
| =86 | Sogang University | 73 |
| =86 | University of Salamanca | 73 |
| 88 | Hanyang University | 72.8 |
| 89 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | 72.7 |
| =90 | Queen Mary University of London | 72.6 |
| =90 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 72.6 |
| =92 | Kyung Hee University | 72.4 |
| =92 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 72.4 |
| =92 | University of Warsaw | 72.4 |
| =92 | Université PSL | 72.4 |
| =96 | Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP) | 72.2 |
| =96 | Universitat de Barcelona | 72.2 |
| 98 | University of Glasgow | 72.1 |
| 99 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 72 |
| =100 | Nanjing University | 71.8 |
