World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Education

2026 edition, Education. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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Rank Institution Claim
1 Stanford University 1st in the world for Education
2 University of Hong Kong 2nd in the world for Education
3 Education University of Hong Kong 3rd in the world for Education
4 University College London 4th in the world for Education
5 University of Texas at Austin 5th in the world for Education
6 Monash University 6th in the world for Education
7 Ohio State University 7th in the world for Education
8 Chinese University of Hong Kong 8th in the world for Education
9 University of Florida 9th in the world for Education
10 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 10th in the world for Education
11 Michigan State University 11th in the world for Education
12 Harvard University 12th in the world for Education
13 University of Virginia 13th in the world for Education
14 Vanderbilt University 14th in the world for Education
15 University of Toronto 15th in the world for Education
16 University of Wisconsin-Madison 16th in the world for Education
17 University of Washington 17th in the world for Education
18 Arizona State University 18th in the world for Education
19 Nanyang Technological University 19th in the world for Education
20 Beijing Normal University 20th in the world for Education
21 University of Queensland 21st in the world for Education
22 Pennsylvania State University 22nd in the world for Education
23 Columbia University 23rd in the world for Education
24 University of Pennsylvania 24th in the world for Education
25 University of Minnesota 25th in the world for Education
26 University of Oxford 26th in the world for Education
27 University of Connecticut 27th in the world for Education
28 University of Melbourne 28th in the world for Education
29 University of California, Irvine 29th in the world for Education
30 Texas A&M University 30th in the world for Education
31 Florida State University 31st in the world for Education
32 University of Sydney 32nd in the world for Education
33 Indiana University Bloomington 33rd in the world for Education
34 University of California, Los Angeles 34th in the world for Education
35 National Taiwan Normal University 35th in the world for Education
36 Maastricht University 36th in the world for Education
37 New York University 37th in the world for Education
38 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 38th in the world for Education
39 University of Georgia 39th in the world for Education
40 Purdue University 40th in the world for Education
=41 University of New South Wales 41st in the world for Education
=41 University of Pittsburgh 41st in the world for Education
43 Utrecht University 43rd in the world for Education
44 University of Maryland, College Park 44th in the world for Education
45 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 45th in the world for Education
46 University of Cambridge 46th in the world for Education
47 Johns Hopkins University 47th in the world for Education
48 University of Utah 48th in the world for Education
49 North Carolina State University 49th in the world for Education
50 University of Oslo 50th in the world for Education
=51 Deakin University 51st in the world for Education
=51 Griffith University 51st in the world for Education
=51 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 51st in the world for Education
=51 King's College London 51st in the world for Education
=51 McGill University 51st in the world for Education
=51 University of California, San Diego 51st in the world for Education
=51 Northwestern University 51st in the world for Education
=51 University of Groningen 51st in the world for Education
=51 University of Arizona 51st in the world for Education
=51 Australian Catholic University 51st in the world for Education
=51 KU Leuven 51st in the world for Education
=51 University of Southern California 51st in the world for Education
=51 Ghent University 51st in the world for Education
=51 University of Birmingham 51st in the world for Education
=51 Boston University 51st in the world for Education
=51 Adelaide University 51st in the world for Education
=51 University of Illinois Chicago 51st in the world for Education
=76 Peking University 76th in the world for Education
=76 University of Amsterdam 76th in the world for Education
=76 University of Chicago 76th in the world for Education
=76 University of Colorado Boulder 76th in the world for Education
=76 Zhejiang University 76th in the world for Education
=76 University of California, Berkeley 76th in the world for Education
=76 La Trobe University 76th in the world for Education
=76 University of British Columbia 76th in the world for Education
=76 Curtin University 76th in the world for Education
=76 University of Glasgow 76th in the world for Education
=76 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 76th in the world for Education
=76 Queensland University of Technology 76th in the world for Education
=76 University of Auckland 76th in the world for Education
=76 University of Bath 76th in the world for Education
=76 University of Missouri 76th in the world for Education
=76 George Mason University 76th in the world for Education
=101 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 101st in the world for Education
=101 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Edinburgh 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Manchester 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Technology Sydney 101st in the world for Education
=101 Western Sydney University 101st in the world for Education
=101 Washington University in St. Louis 101st in the world for Education
=101 Yale University 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of California, San Francisco 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Exeter 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of California, Davis 101st in the world for Education
=101 Brown University 101st in the world for Education
=101 Victoria University 101st in the world for Education
=101 Seoul National University 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Warwick 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Nottingham 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Bristol 101st in the world for Education
=101 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 101st in the world for Education
=101 Western University 101st in the world for Education
=101 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Iowa 101st in the world for Education
=101 Radboud University Nijmegen 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Gothenburg 101st in the world for Education
=101 Lancaster University 101st in the world for Education
=151 ETH Zurich 151st in the world for Education
=151 RMIT University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Swinburne University of Technology 151st in the world for Education
=151 Tsinghua University 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of Sheffield 151st in the world for Education
=151 Wageningen University & Research 151st in the world for Education
=151 Aarhus University 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of Vienna 151st in the world for Education
=151 Cornell University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Durham University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Erasmus University Rotterdam 151st in the world for Education
=151 Fudan University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Oregon State University 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of Wollongong 151st in the world for Education
=151 Washington State University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Heidelberg University 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of California, Santa Barbara 151st in the world for Education
=151 Emory University 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of Leeds 151st in the world for Education
=151 Newcastle University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Macquarie University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Iowa State University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Stockholm University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Tufts University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Baylor College of Medicine 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of Notre Dame 151st in the world for Education
=151 Indiana University Indianapolis 151st in the world for Education
=201 City University of Hong Kong 201st in the world for Education
=201 Edith Cowan University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Korea University 201st in the world for Education
=201 National University of Singapore 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Alberta 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Newcastle 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Southern Queensland 201st in the world for Education
=201 Duke University 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Copenhagen 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Hawaii at Manoa 201st in the world for Education
=201 Technical University of Munich 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Zurich 201st in the world for Education
=201 Colorado State University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Southampton 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Western Australia 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Miami 201st in the world for Education
=201 Virginia Tech 201st in the world for Education
=201 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 201st in the world for Education
=201 Federation University Australia 201st in the world for Education
=201 Loughborough University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 201st in the world for Education
=201 Tel Aviv University 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Helsinki 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Turku 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Canterbury 201st in the world for Education
=201 Wake Forest University 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Maryland, Baltimore 201st in the world for Education
=201 The University of Texas at San Antonio 201st in the world for Education
=201 McMaster University 201st in the world for Education
=201 University at Albany, State University of New York 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Rochester 201st in the world for Education
=301 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Sao Paulo 301st in the world for Education
=301 Yonsei University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Imperial College London 301st in the world for Education
=301 London School of Economics and Political Science 301st in the world for Education
=301 Australian National University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Nanjing University 301st in the world for Education
=301 King Saud University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Kyoto University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Sun Yat-sen University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Lisbon 301st in the world for Education
=301 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Reading 301st in the world for Education
=301 Trinity College Dublin 301st in the world for Education
=301 Charles Sturt University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Lund University 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Otago 301st in the world for Education
=301 Eindhoven University of Technology 301st in the world for Education
=301 Guangzhou University 301st in the world for Education
=301 York University 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Victoria 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of East Anglia 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Freiburg 301st in the world for Education
=301 Dartmouth College 301st in the world for Education
=301 Universität Hamburg 301st in the world for Education
=301 Southern Cross University 301st in the world for Education
=401 Central South University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Karolinska Institute 401st in the world for Education
=401 Sichuan University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Flinders University 401st in the world for Education
=401 James Cook University 401st in the world for Education
=401 University of St Andrews 401st in the world for Education
=401 Carnegie Mellon University 401st in the world for Education
=401 University of Bern 401st in the world for Education
=401 Xi'an Jiaotong University 401st in the world for Education
=401 University of Canberra 401st in the world for Education
=401 University of Montreal 401st in the world for Education
=401 Hacettepe University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Oregon Health & Science University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Queen Mary University of London 401st in the world for Education
=401 Shandong University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Université Paris Cité 401st in the world for Education
=401 University of Geneva 401st in the world for Education
=401 Southwest University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Shenzhen University 401st in the world for Education
=401 University of Leicester 401st in the world for Education
=401 University of Göttingen 401st in the world for Education
=401 Jinan University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Hong Kong Baptist University 401st in the world for Education