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We present a list of the best universities in the world in the field of political science. The ranking includes only prestigious higher education institutions in Europe, Australia and Asia with the best academic programs in the field of political science. If you decide to study abroad, then our rating will help you navigate the variety of higher education institutions abroad and make your top foreign educational institutions, to which you decide to apply!
Foreign bachelor's and master's programs in the direction of Political Science are undergoing changes as a result of international crises. For these reasons, the best universities in the world in Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia are working on updating the curriculum and trying to reflect world trends in them.
Top universities abroad in the field of political science perfectly cope with this task and create relevant and popular courses of all levels: bachelor's, master's and doctoral studies. Graduates of the best political science universities in the world are implemented professionally at the micro and macro levels, participating in the conduct of domestic and foreign policy of the state.
Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Politics
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | 93.5 |
| 2 | University of Oxford | 91.9 |
| 3 | Sciences Po | 91.4 |
| 4 | Princeton University | 89.7 |
| 5 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | 89.4 |
| 6 | Stanford University | 89.1 |
| 7 | University of Cambridge | 88.4 |
| 8 | Yale University | 86.9 |
| 9 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 85.9 |
| 10 | Georgetown University | 85.5 |
| 11 | King's College London | 84.7 |
| 12 | Columbia University | 83.9 |
| 13 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 83.5 |
| 14 | Australian National University (ANU) | 82.9 |
| 15 | Leiden University | 81.7 |
| 16 | SOAS University of London | 80.5 |
| 17 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 78.7 |
| 18 | New York University (NYU) | 78.6 |
| 19 | University of Chicago | 78.4 |
| 20 | UCL | 78 |
| 21 | George Washington University | 77.6 |
| 22 | University of Toronto | 77.4 |
| 23 | Luiss University | 77.3 |
| 24 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | 77.2 |
| =25 | University of Amsterdam | 77.1 |
| =25 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | 77.1 |
| 27 | The University of Edinburgh | 77 |
| 28 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 76.9 |
| 29 | Johns Hopkins University | 76.8 |
| 30 | ETH Zurich | 76.2 |
| 31 | European University Institute | 75.9 |
| 32 | Cornell University | 75.8 |
| 33 | University of British Columbia | 75.7 |
| 34 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 75.6 |
| 35 | McGill University | 74.9 |
| 36 | Tsinghua University | 74.7 |
| =37 | Freie Universitaet Berlin | 74.6 |
| =37 | The University of Tokyo | 74.6 |
| 39 | Seoul National University | 73.7 |
| 40 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | 73.2 |
| 41 | American University | 72.8 |
| =42 | Peking University | 72.4 |
| =42 | Yonsei University | 72.4 |
| 44 | Duke University | 72.3 |
| 45 | Central European University | 72 |
| 46 | University of Texas at Austin | 71.9 |
| 47 | University of Zurich | 71.8 |
| 48 | University of Copenhagen | 71.3 |
| 49 | The University of Warwick | 71.1 |
| 50 | University of St Andrews | 71 |
| =51 | Brown University | 70.9 |
| =51 | Hertie School | 70.9 |
| =53 | The University of Hong Kong | 70.8 |
| =53 | The University of Manchester | 70.8 |
| =55 | The University of Melbourne | 70.7 |
| =55 | The University of Sydney | 70.7 |
| 57 | Waseda University | 70.5 |
| 58 | Fudan University | 70.4 |
| =59 | KU Leuven | 70.2 |
| =59 | Universite libre de Bruxelles | 70.2 |
| =61 | Queen Mary University of London | 69.9 |
| =61 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | 69.9 |
| 63 | Universidad de los Andes - Colombia | 69.8 |
| 64 | Korea University | 69.7 |
| 65 | Universidade de São Paulo | 69.6 |
| =66 | Aarhus University | 69.3 |
| =66 | University of Pennsylvania | 69.3 |
| =68 | Bocconi University | 69 |
| =68 | University of Geneva | 69 |
| =70 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | 68.8 |
| =70 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | 68.8 |
| =72 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 68.1 |
| =72 | Universidad de Chile | 68.1 |
| =72 | University of Oslo | 68.1 |
| =75 | Essex, University of | 68 |
| =75 | Tufts University | 68 |
| 77 | Uppsala University | 67.5 |
| 78 | The University of Sheffield | 67.4 |
| =79 | Durham University | 67.2 |
| =79 | Monash University | 67.2 |
| 81 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | 67.1 |
| 82 | University of Bristol | 67 |
| 83 | Boston University | 66.8 |
| =84 | Kyoto University | 66.7 |
| =84 | University of Exeter | 66.7 |
| =84 | University of Notre Dame | 66.7 |
| 87 | University of Glasgow | 66.6 |
| 88 | University of Sussex | 66.2 |
| 89 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 66.1 |
| 90 | O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) | 65.9 |
| =91 | City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) | 65.8 |
| =91 | The University of Queensland | 65.8 |
| =91 | University of Vienna | 65.8 |
| 94 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | 65.7 |
| =95 | Jawaharlal Nehru University | 65.6 |
| =95 | The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies - Geneva | 65.6 |
| 97 | Washington University in St. Louis | 65.5 |
| 98 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 65.3 |
| 99 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | 65.1 |
| =100 | The Ohio State University | 65 |
