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Full ranking profile 57 placements
Every placement the Index records for California Institute of Technology. The headline figure is the strongest of these.
| Ranking table | Publisher | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| RUR 2026 Headline teaching | RUR Rankings Agency | =1 |
| NTU 2025 Space Science | National Taiwan University | =1 |
| RUR 2026 | RUR Rankings Agency | =2 |
| Leiden 2025 biomedical and health sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =2 |
| Leiden 2025 scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =3 |
| RUR 2026 research | RUR Rankings Agency | =4 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Earth Sciences | METU (URAP Lab) | =4 |
| QS by Subject 2026 Geophysics | Quacquarelli Symonds | =5 |
| ARWU GRAS 2025 Physics | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =5 |
| ARWU GRAS 2025 Earth Sciences | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =6 |
| ARTU 2025 | UNSW Sydney | =6 |
| NTU 2025 Geosciences | National Taiwan University | =6 |
| THE 2026 | Times Higher Education | =7 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Physical Sciences | METU (URAP Lab) | =7 |
| SCImago 2025 Earth and Planetary Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =8 |
| RUR 2026 financial sustainability | RUR Rankings Agency | =9 |
| Nature 2025 physical sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =9 |
| QS 2026 | Quacquarelli Symonds | =10 |
| USN-Nat 2026 | U.S. News & World Report | =11 |
| THE-Rep 2025 reputation | Times Higher Education | =13 |
| Time 2026 | Time / Statista | =13 |
| NTU 2025 Natural Sciences | National Taiwan University | =15 |
| Leiden 2025 life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =15 |
| Leiden 2025 physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =17 |
| Nature 2025 Earth & environmental sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =17 |
| Leiden 2025 social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =17 |
| WSJ 2026 | Wall Street Journal | =23 |
| Forbes 2025-2026 | Forbes | =24 |
| NTU 2025 Physics | National Taiwan University | =26 |
| SCImago 2026 Physics and Astronomy | SCImago Research Group | =28 |
| NTU 2025 Electrical Engineering | National Taiwan University | =35 |
| NTU 2025 Environmental Science & Engineering | National Taiwan University | =38 |
| Leiden 2025 mathematics and computer science (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =40 |
| MosIUR 2025 | Association of Rating Makers (MosIUR) | =43 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Mathematical Sciences | METU (URAP Lab) | =48 |
| Nature 2025 | Nature / Springer Nature | =63 |
| Webomet 2025.2 (July 2025) | Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC | =72 |
| Nature 2025 biological sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =74 |
| SCImago 2026 Chemistry | SCImago Research Group | =93 |
| RUR 2026 international diversity | RUR Rankings Agency | =101 |
| SCImago 2025 Mathematics | SCImago Research Group | =106 |
| SCImago 2026 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | SCImago Research Group | =117 |
| NTU 2025 | National Taiwan University | =121 |
| NTU 2025 Engineering | National Taiwan University | =122 |
| SCImago 2025 Agricultural and Biological Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =128 |
| SCImago 2025 Engineering | SCImago Research Group | =138 |
| SCImago 2026 Arts and Humanities | SCImago Research Group | =147 |
| SCImago 2026 | SCImago Research Group | =175 |
| URAP 2025-2026 | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =180 |
| SCImago 2025 Computer Science | SCImago Research Group | =211 |
| NTU 2025 Agriculture | National Taiwan University | =220 |
| Nature 2025 health sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =221 |
| NTU 2025 Life Sciences | National Taiwan University | =254 |
| SCImago 2026 Environmental Science | SCImago Research Group | =296 |
| Leiden 2025 | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =325 |
| SCImago 2025 Medicine | SCImago Research Group | =348 |
| NTU 2025 Clinical Medicine | National Taiwan University | =551 |
Banded results are recorded at the lower bound of the band. For how the headline figure is selected, see the methodology.