World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Psychology

2026 edition, Psychology. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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Rank Institution Claim
1 Harvard University 1st in the world for Psychology
2 Stanford University 2nd in the world for Psychology
3 Yale University 3rd in the world for Psychology
4 University College London 4th in the world for Psychology
5 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 5th in the world for Psychology
6 University of Cambridge 6th in the world for Psychology
7 University of California, Los Angeles 7th in the world for Psychology
8 University of Amsterdam 8th in the world for Psychology
9 New York University 9th in the world for Psychology
10 Columbia University 10th in the world for Psychology
11 University of Pennsylvania 11th in the world for Psychology
=12 King's College London 12th in the world for Psychology
=12 University of Toronto 12th in the world for Psychology
14 Ohio State University 14th in the world for Psychology
15 University of Minnesota 15th in the world for Psychology
16 University of Oxford 16th in the world for Psychology
17 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 17th in the world for Psychology
18 University of California, Berkeley 18th in the world for Psychology
19 Duke University 19th in the world for Psychology
20 Arizona State University 20th in the world for Psychology
21 Indiana University Bloomington 21st in the world for Psychology
22 Utrecht University 22nd in the world for Psychology
23 Princeton University 23rd in the world for Psychology
24 Vanderbilt University 24th in the world for Psychology
25 Northwestern University 25th in the world for Psychology
26 University of Texas at Austin 26th in the world for Psychology
27 University of British Columbia 27th in the world for Psychology
28 University of Virginia 28th in the world for Psychology
29 Northeastern University 29th in the world for Psychology
30 McGill University 30th in the world for Psychology
31 University of Wisconsin-Madison 31st in the world for Psychology
32 University of California, Davis 32nd in the world for Psychology
33 University of Melbourne 33rd in the world for Psychology
34 University of Chicago 34th in the world for Psychology
35 Ghent University 35th in the world for Psychology
36 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 36th in the world for Psychology
37 Washington University in St. Louis 37th in the world for Psychology
38 Radboud University Nijmegen 38th in the world for Psychology
39 University of Pittsburgh 39th in the world for Psychology
=40 Pennsylvania State University 40th in the world for Psychology
=40 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 40th in the world for Psychology
=40 Florida State University 40th in the world for Psychology
43 University of Maryland, College Park 43rd in the world for Psychology
=44 University of Florida 44th in the world for Psychology
=44 KU Leuven 44th in the world for Psychology
46 University of Washington 46th in the world for Psychology
47 University of Sydney 47th in the world for Psychology
48 University of California, Irvine 48th in the world for Psychology
49 University of Birmingham 49th in the world for Psychology
50 University of Connecticut 50th in the world for Psychology
=51 Johns Hopkins University 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 Leiden University 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 University of California, San Diego 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 University of Colorado Boulder 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 University of Edinburgh 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 Aarhus University 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 Monash University 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 University of New South Wales 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 University of Queensland 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 Carnegie Mellon University 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 Cornell University 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 University of Groningen 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 Erasmus University Rotterdam 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 University of Arizona 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 Beijing Normal University 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 Australian Catholic University 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 Purdue University 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 University of Zurich 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 University of California, Santa Barbara 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 University of Bristol 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 Emory University 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 University of Auckland 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 Western University 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 Macquarie University 51st in the world for Psychology
=51 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 51st in the world for Psychology
=76 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 University of Vienna 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 University of Bern 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 Michigan State University 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 Brown University 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 Heidelberg University 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 University of Southern California 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 Georgetown University 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 University of Oslo 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 Tilburg University 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 University of Houston 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 University of Waterloo 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 Maastricht University 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 York University 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 University of Missouri 76th in the world for Psychology
=76 University of Utah 76th in the world for Psychology
=101 Deakin University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Griffith University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Karolinska Institute 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Nanyang Technological University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Peking University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Manchester 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Zhejiang University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of California, San Francisco 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Exeter 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Durham University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Texas A&M University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Chinese University of Hong Kong 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Technical University of Munich 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Warwick 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 PSL University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Massachusetts Amherst 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Western Australia 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Trinity College Dublin 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Miami 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Georgia 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Boston University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Geneva 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Sapienza University of Rome 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Eindhoven University of Technology 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Iowa 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Tel Aviv University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Temple University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Bergen 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Victoria 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 McMaster University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University at Albany, State University of New York 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Universität Hamburg 101st in the world for Psychology
=151 National University of Singapore 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Tsinghua University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Hong Kong 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Flinders University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 London School of Economics and Political Science 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Australian National University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Copenhagen 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Curtin University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Kyoto University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Georgia Institute of Technology 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Glasgow 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Nottingham 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 George Washington University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Montreal 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Leeds 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Queen Mary University of London 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Université Paris Cité 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Boston College 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Macau 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Iowa State University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Georgia State University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Drexel University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Cardiff University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Tufts University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Baylor College of Medicine 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Dartmouth College 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Royal Holloway University of London 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Rochester 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Aix-Marseille Université 151st in the world for Psychology
=201 City University of Hong Kong 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Alberta 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Sheffield 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Technology Sydney 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Imperial College London 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Newcastle 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Education University of Hong Kong 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 La Trobe University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Sun Yat-sen University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Central Florida 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Wollongong 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Lisbon 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Southampton 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Bremen 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Rice University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Guelph 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 East China Normal University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Adelaide University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Shenzhen University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Cincinnati 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Loughborough University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Otago 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Liverpool John Moores University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Uppsala University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Helsinki 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Turku 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Simon Fraser University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Stony Brook University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Bath 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Illinois Chicago 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of South Florida 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Lancaster University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of North Texas 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Universidad Complutense de Madrid 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of East Anglia 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Queen's University Belfast 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Universitat Pompeu Fabra 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Freiburg 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Concordia University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Notre Dame 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 George Mason University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Saarland University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Florence 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Portsmouth 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of California, Santa Cruz 201st in the world for Psychology
=301 ETH Zurich 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Swinburne University of Technology 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Sao Paulo 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Western Sydney University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Sorbonne University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of St Andrews 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Surrey 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Tokyo 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Fudan University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Oregon State University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Washington State University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Colorado State University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Reading 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Oregon Health & Science University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Queensland University of Technology 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Case Western Reserve University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Lund University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Newcastle University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Strathclyde 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Turin 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Southwest University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Sungkyunkwan University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Tasmania 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Syracuse University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Université Grenoble Alpes 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 National Taiwan University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Aalborg University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Stockholm University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Göttingen 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Liverpool 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Gothenburg 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Wake Forest University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Kent State University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Maryland, Baltimore 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Cape Town 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Oklahoma State University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Singapore Management University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Dalhousie University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Florida Atlantic University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Massey University 301st in the world for Psychology
=401 Korea University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Yonsei University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 James Cook University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Delft University of Technology 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Renmin University of China 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Seoul National University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Montpellier 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Milan 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Brunel University of London 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Virginia Tech 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Old Dominion University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Konstanz 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 The University of Texas at Dallas 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University College Dublin 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Leicester 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 RWTH Aachen University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Linnaeus University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Bournemouth University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Bonn 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Canterbury 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Université de Lille 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Twente 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 The University of Texas at San Antonio 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Stavanger 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Capital Medical University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Indiana University Indianapolis 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Universidade do Porto 401st in the world for Psychology