Ranked 2nd in the world
Full ranking profile 94 placements
Every placement the Index records for Imperial. The headline figure is the strongest of these.
| Ranking table | Publisher | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| QS 2026 Headline | Quacquarelli Symonds | =2 |
| QS 2025 | Quacquarelli Symonds | =2 |
| QS 2027 | Quacquarelli Symonds | =2 |
| RUR 2026 research | RUR Rankings Agency | =2 |
| ARWU GRAS 2025 Automation & Control | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =3 |
| QS by Subject 2026 Chemical Engineering | Quacquarelli Symonds | =4 |
| ARWU GRAS 2025 Energy Science & Engineering | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =5 |
| NTU 2025 Immunology | National Taiwan University | =5 |
| CUG 2027 | Complete University Guide | =5 |
| Guardian 2026 | Guardian News & Media | =6 |
| QS by Subject 2026 Medicine | Quacquarelli Symonds | =7 |
| QS by Subject 2026 Biological Sciences | Quacquarelli Symonds | =7 |
| QS by Subject 2026 Civil & Structural Engineering | Quacquarelli Symonds | =7 |
| MosIUR 2025 | Association of Rating Makers (MosIUR) | =7 |
| THE 2026 | Times Higher Education | =8 |
| QS by Subject 2026 Mineral & Mining Engineering | Quacquarelli Symonds | =8 |
| Time 2026 | Time / Statista | =8 |
| QS by Subject 2026 Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering | Quacquarelli Symonds | =9 |
| ARTU 2025 | UNSW Sydney | =9 |
| Leiden 2025 biomedical and health sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =9 |
| NTU 2025 Microbiology | National Taiwan University | =9 |
| ARWU GRAS 2025 Mechanical Engineering | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =10 |
| RUR 2026 international diversity | RUR Rankings Agency | =10 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Medical and Health Sciences | METU (URAP Lab) | =10 |
| NTU 2025 | National Taiwan University | =11 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =12 |
| NTU 2025 Clinical Medicine | National Taiwan University | =13 |
| NTU 2025 Clinical Medicine | National Taiwan University | =13 |
| US News 2026-2027 | U.S. News & World Report | =14 |
| Leiden 2025 scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =14 |
| RUR 2026 | RUR Rankings Agency | =14 |
| THE-Rep 2025 reputation | Times Higher Education | =14 |
| NTU 2025 Biology & Biochemistry | National Taiwan University | =14 |
| NTU 2025 Biomedical Engineering | National Taiwan University | =14 |
| URAP 2025-2026 | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =15 |
| NTU 2025 Energy Science & Engineering | National Taiwan University | =21 |
| Nature 2025 physical sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =24 |
| NTU 2025 Life Sciences | National Taiwan University | =25 |
| NTU 2025 Neuroscience & Behavior | National Taiwan University | =25 |
| ARWU 2025 | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =26 |
| Leiden 2025 social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =27 |
| CWUR 2025 | Center for World University Rankings | =28 |
| SCImago 2026 | SCImago Research Group | =28 |
| NTU 2025 Environment/Ecology | National Taiwan University | =28 |
| NTU 2025 Mechanical Engineering | National Taiwan University | =28 |
| SCImago 2025 Medicine | SCImago Research Group | =28 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Information & Computing Sciences | METU (URAP Lab) | =28 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Mathematical Sciences | METU (URAP Lab) | =28 |
| ARWU GRAS 2024 Ecology | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =28 |
| SCImago 2025 Mathematics | SCImago Research Group | =29 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Biological Sciences | METU (URAP Lab) | =29 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Physical Sciences | METU (URAP Lab) | =30 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Engineering | METU (URAP Lab) | =31 |
| NTU 2025 Natural Sciences | National Taiwan University | =33 |
| Webomet 2025.2 (July 2025) | Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC | =33 |
| NTU 2025 Electrical Engineering | National Taiwan University | =33 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Chemical Sciences | METU (URAP Lab) | =33 |
| NTU 2025 Molecular Biology & Genetics | National Taiwan University | =34 |
| SCImago 2025 Computer Science | SCImago Research Group | =36 |
| SCImago 2026 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | SCImago Research Group | =38 |
| NTU 2025 Physics | National Taiwan University | =39 |
| NTU 2025 Social Sciences, General | National Taiwan University | =39 |
| SCImago 2025 Engineering | SCImago Research Group | =39 |
| NTU 2025 Chemical Engineering | National Taiwan University | =40 |
| NTU 2025 Agriculture | National Taiwan University | =42 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Earth Sciences | METU (URAP Lab) | =44 |
| NTU 2025 Social Sciences | National Taiwan University | =45 |
| NTU 2025 Geosciences | National Taiwan University | =45 |
| SCImago 2026 Physics and Astronomy | SCImago Research Group | =45 |
| SCImago 2026 Chemistry | SCImago Research Group | =46 |
| Leiden 2025 mathematics and computer science (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =48 |
| NTU 2025 Engineering | National Taiwan University | =48 |
| NTU 2025 Mathematics | National Taiwan University | =49 |
| SCImago 2025 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | SCImago Research Group | =51 |
| Nature 2025 health sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =53 |
| Leiden 2025 | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =56 |
| Nature 2025 | Nature / Springer Nature | =56 |
| RUR 2026 teaching | RUR Rankings Agency | =58 |
| Nature 2025 biological sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =66 |
| Leiden 2025 life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =67 |
| Nature 2025 Earth & environmental sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =70 |
| RUR 2026 financial sustainability | RUR Rankings Agency | =83 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Human Movement & Sports Sciences | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =86 |
| SCImago 2026 Environmental Science | SCImago Research Group | =88 |
| Leiden 2025 physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =96 |
| SCImago 2025 Economics, Econometrics and Finance | SCImago Research Group | =122 |
| SCImago 2026 Arts and Humanities | SCImago Research Group | =129 |
| SCImago 2025 Earth and Planetary Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =131 |
| SCImago 2026 Business, Management and Accounting | SCImago Research Group | =158 |
| SCImago 2025 Psychology | SCImago Research Group | =158 |
| SCImago 2025 Social Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =164 |
| SCImago 2025 Agricultural and Biological Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =178 |
| SCImago 2026 Veterinary | SCImago Research Group | =188 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Studies in Human Society | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =407 |
Banded results are recorded at the lower bound of the band. For how the headline figure is selected, see the methodology.