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TOP-100 best universities in the world 2026 Rankings

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TOP-100 best universities in the world 2026 Rankings

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS rankings

Check out the ranking of the best universities in the world, which presents the world's leading universities for schoolchildren and students interested in education abroad.

The ranking will tell about the best universities in the world this year: which universities have made the greatest contribution to the development of science, have the best academic training programs and offer excellent conditions for realizing the potential. Universities included in the top hundred closely cooperate with international companies and organizations and provide places for internships. All this makes them the leading universities in the world.

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS rankings

#	University	Ranking
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	100
2	Imperial College London	99.4
3	Stanford University	98.9
4	University of Oxford	97.9
5	Harvard University	97.7
6	University of Cambridge	97.2
7	ETH Zurich	96.7
8	National University of Singapore (NUS)	95.9
9	UCL	95.8
10	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	94.3
11	The University of Hong Kong	94.2
12	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)	93.7
13	University of Chicago	93
14	Peking University	92.6
15	University of Pennsylvania	92.5
16	Cornell University	91.6
=17	Tsinghua University	91.2
=17	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	91.2
19	The University of Melbourne	90.8
20	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	90.7
21	Yale University	90.4
=22	EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne	90.2
=22	Technical University of Munich	90.2
24	Johns Hopkins University	89.7
=25	Princeton University	89.4
=25	The University of Sydney	89.4
27	McGill University	88.9
28	Université PSL	88.6
29	University of Toronto	88.5
30	Fudan University	88.4
31	King's College London	88.3
=32	Australian National University (ANU)	87.4
=32	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	87.4
34	The University of Edinburgh	87.2
35	The University of Manchester	86.4
=36	Monash University	85.8
=36	The University of Tokyo	85.8
=38	Columbia University	85.6
=38	Seoul National University	85.6
40	University of British Columbia	85.5
41	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	85.4
=42	Northwestern University	85.1
=42	The University of Queensland	85.1
44	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	84.8
45	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	84.7
46	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	84.4
=47	Delft University of Technology	84.3
=47	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	84.3
49	Zhejiang University	84
50	Yonsei University	82.9
51	University of Bristol	82.5
52	Carnegie Mellon University	82.3
53	University of Amsterdam	81.5
54	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	81.2
55	New York University (NYU)	81.1
56	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	80.5
57	Kyoto University	80.2
=58	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	80.1
=58	Universiti Malaya (UM)	80.1
60	KU Leuven	79.7
61	Korea University	79.6
62	Duke University	79
=63	City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK)	78.9
=63	National Taiwan University (NTU)	78.9
65	The University of Auckland	77.5
66	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	76.9
67	KFUPM	76.5
68	University of Texas at Austin	76.4
69	Brown University	76.2
=70	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	75.9
=70	Université Paris-Saclay	75.9
=72	Lund University	75.7
=72	Sorbonne University	75.7
74	The University of Warwick	75.2
75	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	73.9
76	University of Birmingham	73.8
77	The University of Western Australia	73.7
78	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	73.6
79	University of Glasgow	73.4
80	Universität Heidelberg	73
81	University of Washington	72.7
=82	Adelaide University	72.6
=82	Pennsylvania State University	72.6
84	Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)	72.3
85	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)	72.1
86	University of Leeds	72
87	University of Southampton	71.2
=88	Boston University	71.1
=88	Freie Universitaet Berlin	71.1
=88	Purdue University	71.1
91	The University of Osaka	71
92	The University of Sheffield	70.9
93	Uppsala University	70.3
=94	Durham University	70.1
=94	University of Alberta	70.1
96	University of Technology Sydney	69.9
97	University of Nottingham	69.4
=98	KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	69.1
=98	Politecnico di Milano	69.1
100	University of Zurich	68.5

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