World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Physics

2026 edition, Physics. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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Rank Institution Claim
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1st in the world for Physics
2 Princeton University 2nd in the world for Physics
3 Stanford University 3rd in the world for Physics
4 University of California, Berkeley 4th in the world for Physics
5 California Institute of Technology 5th in the world for Physics
6 University of Tokyo 6th in the world for Physics
7 Université Paris-Saclay 7th in the world for Physics
8 University of Oxford 8th in the world for Physics
9 University of Cambridge 9th in the world for Physics
10 Harvard University 10th in the world for Physics
11 University of California, Santa Barbara 11th in the world for Physics
12 University of Colorado Boulder 12th in the world for Physics
13 Peking University 13th in the world for Physics
14 Johns Hopkins University 14th in the world for Physics
15 University of Science and Technology of China 15th in the world for Physics
16 University of Manchester 16th in the world for Physics
17 Columbia University 17th in the world for Physics
18 Tsinghua University 18th in the world for Physics
19 University of California, Los Angeles 19th in the world for Physics
20 University of Chicago 20th in the world for Physics
21 University of Edinburgh 21st in the world for Physics
22 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 22nd in the world for Physics
23 PSL University 23rd in the world for Physics
24 Australian National University 24th in the world for Physics
25 University of Washington 25th in the world for Physics
26 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 26th in the world for Physics
27 Sorbonne University 27th in the world for Physics
28 University of Toronto 28th in the world for Physics
29 Sapienza University of Rome 29th in the world for Physics
30 Yale University 30th in the world for Physics
31 Zhejiang University 31st in the world for Physics
32 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 32nd in the world for Physics
33 National University of Singapore 33rd in the world for Physics
34 Université Paris Cité 34th in the world for Physics
35 Fudan University 35th in the world for Physics
36 Nanjing University 36th in the world for Physics
37 Ohio State University 37th in the world for Physics
38 University of Geneva 38th in the world for Physics
39 University of Hong Kong 39th in the world for Physics
40 Nagoya University 40th in the world for Physics
41 University of Maryland, College Park 41st in the world for Physics
42 Lund University 42nd in the world for Physics
43 University of Waterloo 43rd in the world for Physics
44 Pennsylvania State University 44th in the world for Physics
45 Institut Polytechnique de Paris 45th in the world for Physics
46 Cornell University 46th in the world for Physics
47 Imperial College London 47th in the world for Physics
48 Beihang University 48th in the world for Physics
49 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 49th in the world for Physics
50 EPFL 50th in the world for Physics
=51 ETH Zurich 51st in the world for Physics
=51 University College London 51st in the world for Physics
=51 University of Pennsylvania 51st in the world for Physics
=51 University of Texas at Austin 51st in the world for Physics
=51 Wuhan University 51st in the world for Physics
=51 University of Vienna 51st in the world for Physics
=51 Duke University 51st in the world for Physics
=51 University of Copenhagen 51st in the world for Physics
=51 University of Groningen 51st in the world for Physics
=51 Durham University 51st in the world for Physics
=51 Kyoto University 51st in the world for Physics
=51 Sun Yat-sen University 51st in the world for Physics
=51 Brown University 51st in the world for Physics
=51 Southern University of Science and Technology 51st in the world for Physics
=51 Heidelberg University 51st in the world for Physics
=51 University of Wisconsin-Madison 51st in the world for Physics
=51 University of Massachusetts Amherst 51st in the world for Physics
=51 Boston University 51st in the world for Physics
=51 Shandong University 51st in the world for Physics
=51 University of California, Irvine 51st in the world for Physics
=51 Stony Brook University 51st in the world for Physics
=51 University of California, Santa Cruz 51st in the world for Physics
=51 Aix-Marseille Université 51st in the world for Physics
=76 Leiden University 76th in the world for Physics
=76 Nanyang Technological University 76th in the world for Physics
=76 Monash University 76th in the world for Physics
=76 Northwestern University 76th in the world for Physics
=76 Texas A&M University 76th in the world for Physics
=76 University of Arizona 76th in the world for Physics
=76 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 76th in the world for Physics
=76 University of Florida 76th in the world for Physics
=76 Utrecht University 76th in the world for Physics
=76 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 76th in the world for Physics
=76 University of Minnesota 76th in the world for Physics
=76 University of Naples Federico II 76th in the world for Physics
=76 Technical University of Munich 76th in the world for Physics
=76 University of Zurich 76th in the world for Physics
=76 University of Birmingham 76th in the world for Physics
=76 University of Milan 76th in the world for Physics
=76 University of Turin 76th in the world for Physics
=76 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 76th in the world for Physics
=76 Université Grenoble Alpes 76th in the world for Physics
=76 Uppsala University 76th in the world for Physics
=76 Tel Aviv University 76th in the world for Physics
=76 Stockholm University 76th in the world for Physics
=76 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 76th in the world for Physics
=101 Indiana University Bloomington 101st in the world for Physics
=101 King's College London 101st in the world for Physics
=101 McGill University 101st in the world for Physics
=101 New York University 101st in the world for Physics
=101 Sichuan University 101st in the world for Physics
=101 Tohoku University 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of Amsterdam 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of California, San Diego 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of Sao Paulo 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of Sheffield 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of New South Wales 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of Sydney 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of Bern 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of British Columbia 101st in the world for Physics
=101 Chinese University of Hong Kong 101st in the world for Physics
=101 Michigan State University 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of Pittsburgh 101st in the world for Physics
=101 Osaka University 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of Glasgow 101st in the world for Physics
=101 Hunan University 101st in the world for Physics
=101 Seoul National University 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of Warwick 101st in the world for Physics
=101 Weizmann Institute of Science 101st in the world for Physics
=101 Ghent University 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of Southampton 101st in the world for Physics
=101 Arizona State University 101st in the world for Physics
=101 Jilin University 101st in the world for Physics
=101 Zhengzhou University 101st in the world for Physics
=101 The University of Texas at Dallas 101st in the world for Physics
=101 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 101st in the world for Physics
=101 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of Liverpool 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of Bonn 101st in the world for Physics
=101 Universität Hamburg 101st in the world for Physics
=101 University of Rochester 101st in the world for Physics
=151 City University of Hong Kong 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Korea University 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Carnegie Mellon University 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Delft University of Technology 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Xi'an Jiaotong University 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Beijing Institute of Technology 151st in the world for Physics
=151 KAIST 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Technical University of Denmark 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Beijing Normal University 151st in the world for Physics
=151 University of California, Davis 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Purdue University 151st in the world for Physics
=151 University of Virginia 151st in the world for Physics
=151 University of Lisbon 151st in the world for Physics
=151 KU Leuven 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Nankai University 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Institute of Science Tokyo 151st in the world for Physics
=151 University of Western Australia 151st in the world for Physics
=151 University of Bristol 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Rice University 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya 151st in the world for Physics
=151 National Taiwan University 151st in the world for Physics
=151 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 151st in the world for Physics
=151 University College Dublin 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Radboud University Nijmegen 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Temple University 151st in the world for Physics
=151 RWTH Aachen University 151st in the world for Physics
=151 Lancaster University 151st in the world for Physics
=151 AGH University of Krakow 151st in the world for Physics
=151 University of Notre Dame 151st in the world for Physics
=151 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 151st in the world for Physics
=201 Central South University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Harbin Institute of Technology 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Southeast University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Swinburne University of Technology 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of Alberta 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Yonsei University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Northwestern Polytechnical University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Tianjin University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Washington University in St. Louis 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Kyung Hee University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 South China University of Technology 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Georgia Institute of Technology 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of Melbourne 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Xiamen University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of Nottingham 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of Southern California 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Vanderbilt University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 National Autonomous University of Mexico 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of Montreal 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Sejong University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of Leeds 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Florida State University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Queen Mary University of London 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of Oslo 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Sungkyunkwan University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Guangxi University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Adelaide University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Shenzhen University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of Houston 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Syracuse University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of Iowa 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of Helsinki 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Aalto University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Lanzhou University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Chalmers University of Technology 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Université de Toulouse 201st in the world for Physics
=201 North China Electric Power University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Tufts University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of Utah 201st in the world for Physics
=201 McMaster University 201st in the world for Physics
=201 Queen's University Belfast 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of Freiburg 201st in the world for Physics
=201 University of Florence 201st in the world for Physics
=301 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Tongji University 301st in the world for Physics
=301 University of Technology Sydney 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Aarhus University 301st in the world for Physics
=301 University of Queensland 301st in the world for Physics
=301 University of St Andrews 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Chongqing University 301st in the world for Physics
=301 University of Central Florida 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Politecnico di Milano 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 301st in the world for Physics
=301 University of Connecticut 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Westlake University 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Trinity College Dublin 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Pohang University of Science and Technology 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Virginia Tech 301st in the world for Physics
=301 East China Normal University 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Hanyang University 301st in the world for Physics
=301 University of Cincinnati 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Eindhoven University of Technology 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Iowa State University 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Liverpool John Moores University 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Maastricht University 301st in the world for Physics
=301 University of Bergen 301st in the world for Physics
=301 University of Leicester 301st in the world for Physics
=301 University of Göttingen 301st in the world for Physics
=301 University of Canterbury 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Université de Lille 301st in the world for Physics
=301 University of Illinois Chicago 301st in the world for Physics
=301 University of Victoria 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Universidad Complutense de Madrid 301st in the world for Physics
=301 University of Cape Town 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Oklahoma State University 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology 301st in the world for Physics
=301 Royal Holloway University of London 301st in the world for Physics
=401 RMIT University 401st in the world for Physics
=401 University of Science and Technology Beijing 401st in the world for Physics
=401 China University of Geosciences 401st in the world for Physics
=401 Harbin Engineering University 401st in the world for Physics
=401 University of Surrey 401st in the world for Physics
=401 Renmin University of China 401st in the world for Physics
=401 University of Montpellier 401st in the world for Physics
=401 Colorado State University 401st in the world for Physics
=401 University of Buenos Aires 401st in the world for Physics
=401 University of Strathclyde 401st in the world for Physics
=401 Macquarie University 401st in the world for Physics
=401 Shanghai University 401st in the world for Physics
=401 Politecnico di Torino 401st in the world for Physics
=401 University of Turku 401st in the world for Physics
=401 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 401st in the world for Physics
=401 Simon Fraser University 401st in the world for Physics
=401 York University 401st in the world for Physics
=401 University of Twente 401st in the world for Physics
=401 Cardiff University 401st in the world for Physics
=401 University of Zagreb 401st in the world for Physics
=401 University of Portsmouth 401st in the world for Physics