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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
| 1 | New York University (NYU) |
| 2 | Rutgers University–New Brunswick |
| 3 | University of Oxford |
| 4 | Australian National University (ANU) |
| 5 | University of Pittsburgh |
| 6 | University of Wollongong |
| 7 | University of Cambridge |
| 8 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| 9 | Harvard University |
| 10 | University of Toronto |
| 11 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| 12 | University of St Andrews |
| 13 | Princeton University |
| 14 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 15 | King's College London |
| 16 | The University of Sydney |
| 17 | Stanford University |
| 18 | Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) |
| 19 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 20 | University of Notre Dame |
| 21 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 22 | Yale University |
| 23 | Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| 24 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 25 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 26 | University of Chicago |
| 27 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 28 | University of Southern California |
| 29 | KU Leuven |
| 30 | Monash University |
| 31 | Universität Heidelberg |
| 32 | University of Amsterdam |
| 33 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) |
| 34 | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| 35 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| 36 | University of Navarra |
| 37 | Wuhan University |
| 38 | The University of Warwick |
| 39 | Durham University |
| 40 | Kyoto University |
| 41 | University of Bristol |
| 42 | University of Turin |
| 43 | University of California, Irvine |
| 44 | University of Southampton |
| 45 | Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main |
| 46 | University of Leeds |
| 47 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 48 | Université PSL |
| 49 | University of Vienna |
| 50 | University of Copenhagen |
