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TOP-100 best universities in sustainable development 2022 QS Rankings

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TOP-100 best universities in sustainable development 2022 QS Rankings

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Development Studies

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Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Development Studies

#	University	Ranking
1	University of Sussex	95.3
2	SOAS University of London	93.5
3	University of Oxford	88.3
4	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	88.2
5	The University of Manchester	85.7
6	University of Cambridge	85.3
7	Harvard University	85.1
8	Wageningen University & Research	83.4
9	National University of Singapore (NUS)	81.7
10	UCL	80.3
11	University of Cape Town	79.9
12	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	78.8
13	Columbia University	78.5
14	Australian National University (ANU)	78.3
15	Cornell University	78.2
16	Stanford University	77.8
17	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	77.5
18	University of Leeds	75.3
19	Princeton University	75
20	University of Massachusetts Amherst	74.7
21	King's College London	74.6
22	The University of Sheffield	74.2
=23	Erasmus University Rotterdam	74.1
=23	University of East Anglia (UEA)	74.1
25	University of Witwatersrand	74
26	Jawaharlal Nehru University	73.9
27	Universidad de los Andes - Colombia	73.2
28	Leiden University	73
29	The University of Tokyo	72.7
30	The University of Edinburgh	72.4
=31	The University of Queensland	72.3
=31	University of Bath	72.3
33	Universidad de Chile	72.2
34	University of British Columbia	72.1
35	Johns Hopkins University	72
36	Utrecht University	71.7
37	Peking University	71.5
38	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)	71.1
39	University of Toronto	71
40	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	70.9
41	The University of Melbourne	70.6
42	Yale University	70.5
43	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	70.4
44	Tsinghua University	69.9
45	The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies - Geneva	69.4
=46	McGill University	69.2
=46	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)	69.2
48	American University	68.5
=49	Kyoto University	68.3
=49	Newcastle University	68.3
51-100	Aarhus University	n/a
51-100	Boston University	n/a
51-100	Brown University	n/a
51-100	Chulalongkorn University	n/a
51-100	Complutense University of Madrid	n/a
51-100	Copenhagen Business School	n/a
51-100	Duke University	n/a
51-100	Durham University	n/a
51-100	Gadjah Mada University	n/a
51-100	George Washington University	n/a
51-100	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	n/a
51-100	Lund University	n/a
51-100	Makerere University	n/a
51-100	Massey University	n/a
51-100	Monash University	n/a
51-100	New York University (NYU)	n/a
51-100	Pennsylvania State University	n/a
51-100	Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP)	n/a
51-100	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	n/a
51-100	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	n/a
51-100	Sciences Po	n/a
51-100	Seoul National University	n/a
51-100	Stockholm University	n/a
51-100	The University of Hong Kong	n/a
51-100	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	n/a
51-100	The University of Sydney	n/a
51-100	The University of Warwick	n/a
51-100	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	n/a
51-100	Tufts University	n/a
51-100	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	n/a
51-100	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	n/a
51-100	Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)	n/a
51-100	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	n/a
51-100	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	n/a
51-100	Universidade de São Paulo	n/a
51-100	University of Amsterdam	n/a
51-100	University of Antwerp	n/a
51-100	University of Birmingham	n/a
51-100	University of Bristol	n/a
51-100	University of California, Davis	n/a
51-100	University of Chicago	n/a
51-100	University of Copenhagen	n/a
51-100	University of Ghana	n/a
51-100	University of Groningen	n/a
51-100	University of Göttingen	n/a
51-100	University of Johannesburg	n/a
51-100	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	n/a
51-100	University of Oslo	n/a
51-100	University of Pretoria	n/a
51-100	University of Reading	n/a

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