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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) | |
| 2 | Imperial College London | |
| 3 | Stanford University | |
| 4 | University of Oxford | |
| 5 | Harvard University | |
| 6 | University of Cambridge | |
| 7 | ETH Zurich | |
| 8 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | |
| 9 | UCL | |
| 10 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | |
| 11 | The University of Hong Kong | |
| 12 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | |
| 13 | University of Chicago | |
| 14 | Peking University | |
| 15 | University of Pennsylvania | |
| 16 | Cornell University | |
| 17 | Tsinghua University | |
| 17 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | |
| 19 | The University of Melbourne | |
| 20 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | |
| 21 | Yale University | |
| 22 | EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne | |
| 22 | Technical University of Munich | |
| 24 | Johns Hopkins University | |
| 25 | Princeton University | |
| 25 | The University of Sydney | |
| 27 | McGill University | |
| 28 | Université PSL | |
| 29 | University of Toronto | |
| 30 | Fudan University | |
| 31 | King's College London | |
| 32 | Australian National University (ANU) | |
| 32 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | |
| 34 | The University of Edinburgh | |
| 35 | The University of Manchester | |
| 36 | Monash University | |
| 36 | The University of Tokyo | |
| 38 | Columbia University | |
| 38 | Seoul National University | |
| 40 | University of British Columbia | |
| 41 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris | |
| 42 | Northwestern University | |
| 42 | The University of Queensland | |
| 44 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | |
| 45 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | |
| 46 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | |
| 47 | Delft University of Technology | |
| 47 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | |
| 49 | Zhejiang University | |
| 50 | Yonsei University |
