CWUR Global 2000

2026 edition. Published by Center for World University Rankings.

Cited by: 3 institutions none for this edition
Listed here: 165 institutions
Published at: https://cwur.org/2026.php

An index earns its place here when an institution quotes it. Whether the wider world has heard of the publisher is beside the point: a table somebody has advertised a placement in is a table that counts.

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Penn State ranks at No. 58 worldwide, and No. 36 among U.S. schools.

Pennsylvania State University , source , retrieved 2026-09-06
Ranked 19th out of more than 21,000 international institutions, PSL University confirms its place in the world's Top 20

PSL University , source , retrieved 2026-09-06
has once again been ranked No. 7 among U.S. public universities in the latest Center for World University Rankings (CWUR)

University of California, San Diego , source , retrieved 2026-09-06

Recorded placements 165

Institutions the Index records in this table. A placement here is a placement anywhere: the Index reports each institution's best, whatever its scope.

Rank	Institution	Claim
1	Harvard University	1st in the world
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2nd in the world
3	Stanford University	3rd in the world
4	University of Cambridge	4th in the world
5	University of Oxford	5th in the world
6	Princeton University	6th in the world
7	University of Pennsylvania	7th in the world
8	Columbia University	8th in the world
9	Yale University	9th in the world
10	University of Chicago	10th in the world
11	California Institute of Technology	11th in the world
12	University of California, Berkeley	12th in the world
13	University of Tokyo	13th in the world
14	Cornell University	14th in the world
15	Northwestern University	15th in the world
16	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	16th in the world
17	University of California, Los Angeles	17th in the world
18	Johns Hopkins University	18th in the world
19	University College London	19th in the world
20	PSL University	20th in the world
21	Duke University	21st in the world
22	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	22nd in the world
23	University of Toronto	23rd in the world
24	New York University	24th in the world
25	University of Washington	25th in the world
26	Kyoto University	26th in the world
27	Imperial College London	27th in the world
28	McGill University	28th in the world
29	University of Wisconsin-Madison	29th in the world
30	Seoul National University	30th in the world
31	ETH Zurich	31st in the world
32	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	32nd in the world
33	Université Paris-Saclay	33rd in the world
34	University of California, San Diego	34th in the world
35	University of Texas at Austin	35th in the world
36	Tsinghua University	36th in the world
37	University of Copenhagen	37th in the world
38	Université Paris Cité	38th in the world
39	University of California, San Francisco	39th in the world
40	Peking University	40th in the world
41	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	41st in the world
42	Karolinska Institute	42nd in the world
43	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	43rd in the world
44	King's College London	44th in the world
45	Sorbonne University	45th in the world
46	Washington University in St. Louis	46th in the world
47	Dartmouth College	47th in the world
48	University of Minnesota	48th in the world
49	University of British Columbia	49th in the world
50	University of Edinburgh	50th in the world
51	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	51st in the world
52	University of New South Wales	52nd in the world
53	University of Manchester	53rd in the world
54	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	54th in the world
55	University of Southern California	55th in the world
56	Vanderbilt University	56th in the world
58	Ohio State University	58th in the world
61	Pennsylvania State University	61st in the world
62	Zhejiang University	62nd in the world
63	University of Zurich	63rd in the world
64	University of Melbourne	64th in the world
66	Fudan University	66th in the world
67	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	67th in the world
68	Purdue University	68th in the world
70	Heidelberg University	70th in the world
71	Georgia Institute of Technology	71st in the world
72	Brown University	72nd in the world
76	Rockefeller University	76th in the world
77	Technical University of Munich	77th in the world
78	University of Colorado Boulder	78th in the world
79	National University of Singapore	79th in the world
80	Utrecht University	80th in the world
82	University of Alberta	82nd in the world
83	University of Amsterdam	83rd in the world
85	University of Science and Technology of China	85th in the world
86	University of Pittsburgh	86th in the world
93	Australian National University	93rd in the world
94	Carnegie Mellon University	94th in the world
95	University of Birmingham	95th in the world
98	KU Leuven	98th in the world
99	University of Maryland, College Park	99th in the world
100	University of Sydney	100th in the world
101	Boston University	101st in the world
102	University of Bristol	102nd in the world
103	University of Queensland	103rd in the world
109	EPFL	109th in the world
110	University of Leeds	110th in the world
112	Osaka University	112th in the world
113	Monash University	113th in the world
119	University of Sao Paulo	119th in the world
126	University of Montreal	126th in the world
132	Nanyang Technological University	132nd in the world
134	University of Glasgow	134th in the world
135	Lund University	135th in the world
139	University of Southampton	139th in the world
142	Yonsei University	142nd in the world
149	University of Nottingham	149th in the world
150	Institute of Science Tokyo	150th in the world
152	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	152nd in the world
155	University of Hong Kong	155th in the world
156	Case Western Reserve University	156th in the world
158	Korea University	158th in the world
160	University of Western Australia	160th in the world
162	Tel Aviv University	162nd in the world
163	Queen Mary University of London	163rd in the world
167	Tohoku University	167th in the world
169	University of Sheffield	169th in the world
173	Chinese University of Hong Kong	173rd in the world
179	University of Montpellier	179th in the world
185	University of Warwick	185th in the world
192	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	192nd in the world
195	Rice University	195th in the world
204	City University of Hong Kong	204th in the world
206	University of Vienna	206th in the world
215	University of Adelaide	215th in the world
228	RWTH Aachen University	228th in the world
236	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	236th in the world
239	University of Wurzburg	239th in the world
254	KAIST	254th in the world
256	Trinity College Dublin	256th in the world
268	Delft University of Technology	268th in the world
277	University of Auckland	277th in the world
287	National Autonomous University of Mexico	287th in the world
308	University of Technology Sydney	308th in the world
327	Curtin University	327th in the world
339	Politecnico di Milano	339th in the world
344	Macquarie University	344th in the world
353	Queensland University of Technology	353rd in the world
354	Deakin University	354th in the world
362	Durham University	362nd in the world
366	London School of Economics and Political Science	366th in the world
377	Griffith University	377th in the world
391	University of Wollongong	391st in the world
406	University of St Andrews	406th in the world
407	University of Newcastle	407th in the world
415	University of Otago	415th in the world
417	RMIT University	417th in the world
421	Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile	421st in the world
423	University of Buenos Aires	423rd in the world
463	La Trobe University	463rd in the world
488	Western Sydney University	488th in the world
497	Swinburne University of Technology	497th in the world
550	Flinders University	550th in the world
572	James Cook University	572nd in the world
576	Universitat Politecnica de Valencia	576th in the world
579	University of Hawaii at Manoa	579th in the world
609	University of Konstanz	609th in the world
646	Brunel University of London	646th in the world
666	Hacettepe University	666th in the world
801	Murdoch University	801st in the world
880	Edith Cowan University	880th in the world
900	Australian Catholic University	900th in the world
968	University of Southern Queensland	968th in the world
1117	Charles Darwin University	1117th in the world
1139	University of Canberra	1139th in the world
1159	Charles Sturt University	1159th in the world
1163	Victoria University	1163rd in the world
1260	University of the Sunshine Coast	1260th in the world
1432	Southern Cross University	1432nd in the world
1566	CQUniversity	1566th in the world
1598	Federation University Australia	1598th in the world
1702	University of Notre Dame Australia	1702nd in the world
1719	An-Najah National University	1719th in the world
1741	Universitas Gadjah Mada	1741st in the world
1940	Bond University	1940th in the world