The ranking includes the best universities with the strongest philosophical faculties. Students of these universities have a chance to learn from the best teachers, academicians and recognized experts, they learn to think critically, ask questions about the world and find answers to them, study logic, ethics, theory of knowledge.
Education in the best philosophical universities opens a variety of doors for graduates: in journalism, politics, law and pedagogy. Students have the opportunity to study related subjects, classical and modern languages, programming. Curricula often include the history of philosophy, ancient philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, political philosophy, philosophy of science, and experimental philosophy.
Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Philosophy
| Rank | University | Overall Score |
| 1 | New York University | 98,4 |
| 2 | LSE London School of Economics and Political Science | 94,3 |
| 3 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick | 92,9 |
| 4 | University of Oxford | 90,9 |
| 5 | University of Pittsburgh | 90,3 |
| 6 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 88,9 |
| 7 | Cambridge University | 88,5 |
| 8 | Harvard University | 86,9 |
| 9 | Australian National University | 86,8 |
| 10 | University of Toronto | 86,1 |
| 11 | Humboldt Institut Berlin | 86 |
| 12 | University of St Andrews | 85,6 |
| 13 | King`s College London | 84 |
| 14 | University of Notre Dame | 83,9 |
| 15 | Princeton University | 82,5 |
| 16 | Stanford University | 81,8 |
| 17 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 81,6 |
| 18 | Yale University | 81,5 |
| 19 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 80,4 |
| 20 | University of Edinburgh | 79,1 |
| 21 | The University of Sydney | 79 |
| 22 | University College London | 78,8 |
| 23 | KU Leuven | 78,5 |
| 23 | Monash University | 78,5 |
| 25 | Université Paris 1 (UP1) Pantheon-Sorbonne | 78,4 |
| 26 | University of Amsterdam | 78,3 |
| 27 | University of Chicago | 78,2 |
| 28 | University of Bristol | 77,1 |
| 29 | Durham University | 76,9 |
| 30 | Boston College | 76,3 |
| 30 | Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL | 76,3 |
| 32 | Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main | 76 |
| 33 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 75,9 |
| 34 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 75,3 |
| 35 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | 74,9 |
| 35 | Macquarie University | 74,9 |
| 37 | Central European University | 74,6 |
| 38 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | 74,2 |
| 39 | Freie Universität Berlin | 73,8 |
| 40 | Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) | 73,7 |
| 41 | Sorbonne University | 72,8 |
| 42 | University of Turin | 72,2 |
| 43 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | 72 |
| 44 | University of Leeds | 71,9 |
| 45 | The University of Warwick | 71,8 |
| 46 | University of Milan | 71,7 |
| 47 | University of Copenhagen | 71,6 |
| 48 | University of Geneva | 71,2 |
| 49 | University of Vienna | 71,1 |
| 50 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 71 |
| 51-100 | Birkbeck, University of London | |
| 51-100 | Boston University | |
| 51-100 | Brown University | |
| 51-100 | City University of Hong Kong | |
| 51-100 | Columbia Universit | |
| 51-100 | Cornell University | |
| 51-100 | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) | |
| 51-100 | Fordham University | |
| 51-100 | Georgetown University | |
| 51-100 | HSE University | |
| 51-100 | Johns Hopkins University | |
| 51-100 | Kyoto University | |
| 51-100 | McGill University | |
| 51-100 | Peking University | |
| 51-100 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | |
| 51-100 | Ruhr-University Bochum | |
| 51-100 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | |
| 51-100 | Sapienza University of Rome | |
| 51-100 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | |
| 51-100 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
| 51-100 | The University of Adelaide | |
| 51-100 | The University of Exeter | |
| 51-100 | University of Melbourne | |
| 51-100 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | |
| 51-100 | The University of Queensland | |
| 51-100 | University of Sheffield | |
| 51-100 | University of Tokyo | |
| 51-100 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | |
| 51-100 | Universidad Panamericana (UP) | |
| 51-100 | Universidade de São Paulo | |
| 51-100 | Universitat de Barcelona | |
| 51-100 | Universität Hamburg | |
| 51-100 | University College Dublin | |
| 51-100 | University of California, Irvine | |
| 51-100 | University of Glasgow | |
| 51-100 | University of Groningen | |
| 51-100 | University of Helsinki | |
| 51-100 | University of Kent | |
| 51-100 | University of Navarra | |
| 51-100 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| 51-100 | University of Nottingham | |
| 51-100 | University of Oslo | |
| 51-100 | University of Otago | |
| 51-100 | University of Southern California | |
| 51-100 | University of Texas at Austin | |
| 51-100 | University of Zurich | |
| 51-100 | Ural Federal University - UrFU | |
| 51-100 | Utrecht University | |
| 51-100 | Western University | |
| 51-100 | Wuhan University | |
