World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Geography

2026 edition, Geography. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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Rank Institution Claim
1 National University of Singapore 1st in the world for Geography
2 Peking University 2nd in the world for Geography
3 University College London 3rd in the world for Geography
4 Wuhan University 4th in the world for Geography
5 Chinese University of Hong Kong 5th in the world for Geography
6 University of Hong Kong 6th in the world for Geography
7 University of Oxford 7th in the world for Geography
8 University of Cambridge 8th in the world for Geography
9 Durham University 9th in the world for Geography
10 University of Manchester 10th in the world for Geography
11 University of Glasgow 11th in the world for Geography
12 Newcastle University 12th in the world for Geography
13 University of Melbourne 13th in the world for Geography
14 University of British Columbia 14th in the world for Geography
15 University of Bristol 15th in the world for Geography
16 Sun Yat-sen University 16th in the world for Geography
17 China University of Geosciences 17th in the world for Geography
18 King's College London 18th in the world for Geography
19 University of Toronto 19th in the world for Geography
20 University of Exeter 20th in the world for Geography
21 London School of Economics and Political Science 21st in the world for Geography
22 Cornell University 22nd in the world for Geography
23 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 23rd in the world for Geography
24 University of Wisconsin-Madison 24th in the world for Geography
25 University of California, Santa Barbara 25th in the world for Geography
26 Australian National University 26th in the world for Geography
27 University of Nottingham 27th in the world for Geography
28 University of Colorado Boulder 28th in the world for Geography
29 University of Sheffield 29th in the world for Geography
30 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 30th in the world for Geography
31 University of Edinburgh 31st in the world for Geography
=32 Arizona State University 32nd in the world for Geography
=32 Lund University 32nd in the world for Geography
34 Ohio State University 34th in the world for Geography
35 University of Tokyo 35th in the world for Geography
36 University of Cape Town 36th in the world for Geography
37 Cardiff University 37th in the world for Geography
38 Queen Mary University of London 38th in the world for Geography
39 University of California, Los Angeles 39th in the world for Geography
40 University of Waterloo 40th in the world for Geography
41 University of Florida 41st in the world for Geography
42 University of Minnesota 42nd in the world for Geography
43 University of Washington 43rd in the world for Geography
44 University of Texas at Austin 44th in the world for Geography
=45 University of Sydney 45th in the world for Geography
=45 Pennsylvania State University 45th in the world for Geography
47 Macquarie University 47th in the world for Geography
48 Royal Holloway University of London 48th in the world for Geography
49 Utrecht University 49th in the world for Geography
50 Beijing Normal University 50th in the world for Geography
=51 Tongji University 51st in the world for Geography
=51 University of Pennsylvania 51st in the world for Geography
=51 Wageningen University & Research 51st in the world for Geography
=51 Zhejiang University 51st in the world for Geography
=51 Aarhus University 51st in the world for Geography
=51 University of St Andrews 51st in the world for Geography
=51 Texas A&M University 51st in the world for Geography
=51 Michigan State University 51st in the world for Geography
=51 University of Hawaii at Manoa 51st in the world for Geography
=51 University of Zurich 51st in the world for Geography
=51 KU Leuven 51st in the world for Geography
=51 Ghent University 51st in the world for Geography
=51 University of Southampton 51st in the world for Geography
=51 University of Auckland 51st in the world for Geography
=51 University of Leeds 51st in the world for Geography
=51 Western University 51st in the world for Geography
=51 University of Georgia 51st in the world for Geography
=51 East China Normal University 51st in the world for Geography
=51 Loughborough University 51st in the world for Geography
=51 Uppsala University 51st in the world for Geography
=51 Lancaster University 51st in the world for Geography
=51 University of Utah 51st in the world for Geography
=76 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 76th in the world for Geography
=76 University of Amsterdam 76th in the world for Geography
=76 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 76th in the world for Geography
=76 University of California, Berkeley 76th in the world for Geography
=76 University of New South Wales 76th in the world for Geography
=76 University of Newcastle 76th in the world for Geography
=76 University of Queensland 76th in the world for Geography
=76 Yale University 76th in the world for Geography
=76 Curtin University 76th in the world for Geography
=76 University of Arizona 76th in the world for Geography
=76 Technical University of Munich 76th in the world for Geography
=76 University of Birmingham 76th in the world for Geography
=76 Florida State University 76th in the world for Geography
=76 University of Oslo 76th in the world for Geography
=76 University of California, Irvine 76th in the world for Geography
=76 Université Grenoble Alpes 76th in the world for Geography
=76 National Taiwan University 76th in the world for Geography
=76 University of Gothenburg 76th in the world for Geography
=101 China Agricultural University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Deakin University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 ETH Zurich 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Harvard University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 McGill University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Nanyang Technological University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 101st in the world for Geography
=101 RMIT University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Tsinghua University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 University of California, San Diego 101st in the world for Geography
=101 University of Sao Paulo 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Monash University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 101st in the world for Geography
=101 University of Vienna 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Delft University of Technology 101st in the world for Geography
=101 La Trobe University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Nanjing University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 University of Bern 101st in the world for Geography
=101 University of Copenhagen 101st in the world for Geography
=101 University of Groningen 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Fudan University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 South China University of Technology 101st in the world for Geography
=101 University of Wollongong 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Colorado State University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 University of Maryland, College Park 101st in the world for Geography
=101 University of Southern California 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Shenzhen University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Mississippi State University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 101st in the world for Geography
=101 University College Dublin 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Guangzhou University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 University of Helsinki 101st in the world for Geography
=101 University of Bonn 101st in the world for Geography
=101 University of Victoria 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Hong Kong Baptist University 101st in the world for Geography
=101 Dartmouth College 101st in the world for Geography
=151 Central South University 151st in the world for Geography
=151 City University of Hong Kong 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Griffith University 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Hohai University 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Southeast University 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Western Sydney University 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Columbia University 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Imperial College London 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Oregon State University 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Georgia Institute of Technology 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Politecnico di Milano 151st in the world for Geography
=151 China University of Geosciences (Beijing) 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Renmin University of China 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Heidelberg University 151st in the world for Geography
=151 University of Connecticut 151st in the world for Geography
=151 University of Turin 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Boston University 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Université Paris Cité 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Politecnico di Torino 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Radboud University Nijmegen 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Stockholm University 151st in the world for Geography
=151 York University 151st in the world for Geography
=151 McMaster University 151st in the world for Geography
=151 University of Freiburg 151st in the world for Geography
=151 Fuzhou University 151st in the world for Geography
=151 George Mason University 151st in the world for Geography