2026 edition · 163 institutions

The standing of the world's universities

A consolidated reference drawn from the major international ranking systems. Each institution is listed at its strongest verified world placement, with 39 Australian universities recorded in full.

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Universities ranked by their strongest world placement
World rank	Institution	Location
1	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena, United States
1	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
1	Deakin University	Melbourne, Australia
1	Edith Cowan University	Perth, Australia
1	ETH Zurich	Zurich, Switzerland
1	Griffith University	Brisbane, Australia
1	Harvard University	Cambridge, United States
1	Karolinska Institute	Stockholm, Sweden
1	King's College London	London, United Kingdom
1	Korea University	Seoul, South Korea
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, United States
1	McGill University	Montreal, Canada
1	National University of Singapore	Singapore, Singapore
1	New York University	New York, United States
1	Princeton University	Princeton, United States
1	RMIT University	Melbourne, Australia
1	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Shanghai, China
1	Slop University	Australia
1	Stanford University	Stanford, United States
1	Swinburne University of Technology	Melbourne, Australia
1	Tohoku University	Sendai, Japan
1	Tsinghua University	Beijing, China
1	University College London	London, United Kingdom
1	University of Alberta	Edmonton, Canada
1	University of Amsterdam	Amsterdam, Netherlands
1	University of California, San Diego	San Diego, United States
1	University of Cambridge	Cambridge, United Kingdom
1	University of Chicago	Chicago, United States
1	University of Edinburgh	Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1	University of Manchester	Manchester, United Kingdom
1	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor, United States
1	University of Oxford	Oxford, United Kingdom
1	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, United States
1	University of Sao Paulo	Sao Paulo, Brazil
1	University of Science and Technology of China	Hefei, China
1	University of Sheffield	Sheffield, United Kingdom
1	University of Technology Sydney	Sydney, Australia
1	University of Texas at Austin	Austin, United States
1	University of Washington	Seattle, United States
1	Western Sydney University	Sydney, Australia
1	Yonsei University	Seoul, South Korea
1	Zhejiang University	Hangzhou, China
2	Columbia University	New York, United States
2	Flinders University	Adelaide, Australia
2	Imperial College London	London, United Kingdom
2	James Cook University	Townsville, Australia
2	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, United States
2	London School of Economics and Political Science	London, United Kingdom
2	Monash University	Melbourne, Australia
2	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore, Singapore
2	Northwestern University	Evanston, United States
2	Peking University	Beijing, China
2	Sorbonne University	Paris, France
2	University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley, United States
2	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Urbana, United States
2	University of New South Wales	Sydney, Australia
2	University of Newcastle	Newcastle, Australia
2	University of Queensland	Brisbane, Australia
2	University of Southern Queensland	Toowoomba, Australia
2	University of St Andrews	St Andrews, United Kingdom
2	University of Sydney	Sydney, Australia
2	University of Toronto	Toronto, Canada
2	Yale University	New Haven, United States
3	Australian National University	Canberra, Australia
3	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, United States
3	Cornell University	Ithaca, United States
3	CQUniversity	Rockhampton, Australia
3	Delft University of Technology	Delft, Netherlands
3	La Trobe University	Melbourne, Australia
3	University of British Columbia	Vancouver, Canada
3	University of California, San Francisco	San Francisco, United States
3	University of Copenhagen	Copenhagen, Denmark
3	University of Tokyo	Tokyo, Japan
4	An-Najah National University	Nablus, Palestine
4	Curtin University	Perth, Australia
4	Durham University	Durham, United Kingdom
4	Fudan University	Shanghai, China
4	KAIST	Daejeon, South Korea
4	Kyoto University	Kyoto, Japan
4	Pennsylvania State University	University Park, United States
4	University of Adelaide	Adelaide, Australia
4	University of Canberra	Canberra, Australia
4	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, United States
5	Duke University	Durham, United States
5	Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta, United States
5	University of California, Los Angeles	Los Angeles, United States
5	University of Melbourne	Melbourne, Australia
5	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, United States
6	Australian Catholic University	Melbourne, Australia
6	Brown University	Providence, United States
6	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
6	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
6	Osaka University	Osaka, Japan
6	Politecnico di Milano	Milan, Italy
6	Purdue University	West Lafayette, United States
6	Universitas Gadjah Mada	Yogyakarta, Indonesia
6	University of Glasgow	Glasgow, United Kingdom
6	University of Minnesota	Minneapolis, United States
6	University of Wollongong	Wollongong, Australia
6	Victoria University	Melbourne, Australia
7	Ohio State University	Columbus, United States
7	Seoul National University	Seoul, South Korea
7	University of Hawaii at Manoa	Honolulu, United States
7	University of Montpellier	Montpellier, France
7	University of the Sunshine Coast	Sippy Downs, Australia
7	University of Warwick	Coventry, United Kingdom
7	University of Zurich	Zurich, Switzerland
8	Charles Darwin University	Darwin, Australia
8	Heidelberg University	Heidelberg, Germany
8	KU Leuven	Leuven, Belgium
8	University of Maryland, College Park	College Park, United States
8	University of Nottingham	Nottingham, United Kingdom
8	University of Southern California	Los Angeles, United States
8	Vanderbilt University	Nashville, United States
9	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	Palaiseau, France
9	Institute of Science Tokyo	Tokyo, Japan
9	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
9	PSL University	Paris, France
9	University of Birmingham	Birmingham, United Kingdom
9	University of Southampton	Southampton, United Kingdom
9	University of Western Australia	Perth, Australia
9	Utrecht University	Utrecht, Netherlands
10	Trinity College Dublin	Dublin, Ireland
11	EPFL	Lausanne, Switzerland
11	Hacettepe University	Ankara, Turkey
11	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	Munich, Germany
11	Queensland University of Technology	Brisbane, Australia
11	University of Auckland	Auckland, New Zealand
11	University of Leeds	Leeds, United Kingdom
11	University of Montreal	Montreal, Canada
11	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison, United States
12	Case Western Reserve University	Cleveland, United States
12	Charles Sturt University	Bathurst, Australia
12	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Jerusalem, Israel
12	Queen Mary University of London	London, United Kingdom
12	Rice University	Houston, United States
13	Brunel University of London	Uxbridge, United Kingdom
13	Macquarie University	Sydney, Australia
13	University of Vienna	Vienna, Austria
15	University of Bristol	Bristol, United Kingdom
15	University of Konstanz	Konstanz, Germany
16	Boston University	Boston, United States
16	Technical University of Munich	Munich, Germany
17	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico City, Mexico
19	Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya	Barcelona, Spain
20	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Stockholm, Sweden
21	Federation University Australia	Ballarat, Australia
21	Torrens University Australia	Adelaide, Australia
21	University of Otago	Dunedin, New Zealand
22	University of Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires, Argentina
24	Tel Aviv University	Tel Aviv, Israel
25	RWTH Aachen University	Aachen, Germany
26	Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile	Santiago, Chile
28	Lund University	Lund, Sweden
34	Universiti Malaya	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
36	Universitat Politecnica de Valencia	Valencia, Spain
39	Murdoch University	Perth, Australia
42	University of Wurzburg	Wurzburg, Germany
51	University of New England	Armidale, Australia
71	Southern Cross University	Lismore, Australia
75	Bond University	Gold Coast, Australia
201	University of Notre Dame Australia	Fremantle, Australia