World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Remote Sensing

2026 edition, Remote Sensing. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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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 Wuhan University 1st in the world for Remote Sensing
2 Xidian University 2nd in the world for Remote Sensing
3 China University of Geosciences 3rd in the world for Remote Sensing
4 Northwestern Polytechnical University 4th in the world for Remote Sensing
5 Sun Yat-sen University 5th in the world for Remote Sensing
6 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 6th in the world for Remote Sensing
7 Tongji University 7th in the world for Remote Sensing
8 Tsinghua University 8th in the world for Remote Sensing
9 Beijing Institute of Technology 9th in the world for Remote Sensing
10 Beijing Normal University 10th in the world for Remote Sensing
11 Universidad de Extremadura 11th in the world for Remote Sensing
12 Peking University 12th in the world for Remote Sensing
13 National University of Defense Technology 13th in the world for Remote Sensing
14 University of Hong Kong 14th in the world for Remote Sensing
15 University of Maryland, College Park 15th in the world for Remote Sensing
16 Southwest Jiaotong University 16th in the world for Remote Sensing
17 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology 17th in the world for Remote Sensing
=18 Zhejiang University 18th in the world for Remote Sensing
=18 Technical University of Munich 18th in the world for Remote Sensing
20 Université Grenoble Alpes 20th in the world for Remote Sensing
21 Mississippi State University 21st in the world for Remote Sensing
22 Harbin Institute of Technology 22nd in the world for Remote Sensing
23 Beihang University 23rd in the world for Remote Sensing
24 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 24th in the world for Remote Sensing
25 Hohai University 25th in the world for Remote Sensing
26 Xi'an Jiaotong University 26th in the world for Remote Sensing
27 University of Waterloo 27th in the world for Remote Sensing
28 Jilin University 28th in the world for Remote Sensing
29 Ningbo University 29th in the world for Remote Sensing
30 Central South University 30th in the world for Remote Sensing
31 Nanjing University 31st in the world for Remote Sensing
32 California Institute of Technology 32nd in the world for Remote Sensing
33 University of Twente 33rd in the world for Remote Sensing
=34 Nanjing University of Science and Technology 34th in the world for Remote Sensing
=34 University of Trento 34th in the world for Remote Sensing
36 China University of Petroleum, East China 36th in the world for Remote Sensing
37 Hunan University 37th in the world for Remote Sensing
38 Shenzhen University 38th in the world for Remote Sensing
39 China Agricultural University 39th in the world for Remote Sensing
40 University of Tokyo 40th in the world for Remote Sensing
41 Lancaster University 41st in the world for Remote Sensing
42 Ocean University of China 42nd in the world for Remote Sensing
43 Nanyang Technological University 43rd in the world for Remote Sensing
=44 Fudan University 44th in the world for Remote Sensing
=44 Universitat de València 44th in the world for Remote Sensing
46 National University of Singapore 46th in the world for Remote Sensing
47 ETH Zurich 47th in the world for Remote Sensing
48 China University of Mining and Technology 48th in the world for Remote Sensing
=49 University of New South Wales 49th in the world for Remote Sensing
=49 Chang'an University 49th in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 Griffith University 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 Dalian Maritime University 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 Chongqing University 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 Michigan State University 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 China University of Geosciences (Beijing) 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 Xiamen University 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 Heidelberg University 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 University of Connecticut 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 University of Wisconsin-Madison 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 University of Southampton 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 Boston University 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 East China Normal University 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 Chengdu University of Technology 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 Anhui University 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 Université de Toulouse 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=51 Fuzhou University 51st in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 Southeast University 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 University of Cambridge 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 University of Oxford 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 University of Texas at Austin 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 Wageningen University & Research 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 Harbin Engineering University 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 Tianjin University 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 University of Sydney 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 University of Toronto 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 Delft University of Technology 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 Nanjing Agricultural University 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 Chinese University of Hong Kong 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 University of Minnesota 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 University of Zurich 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 Shandong University of Science and Technology 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 University of Leicester 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 China University of Petroleum, Beijing 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=76 Universitat Politecnica de Valencia 76th in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Harvard University 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Jiangnan University 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Stanford University 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 University College London 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 University of Colorado Boulder 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 University of Science and Technology of China 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 University of Technology Sydney 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Monash University 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 University of California, Berkeley 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 University of California, Los Angeles 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 University of Copenhagen 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 University of Exeter 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Kyoto University 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 University of Florida 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 University of Melbourne 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Politecnico di Milano 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Purdue University 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Seoul National University 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 University of Montpellier 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Colorado State University 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Ghent University 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Nanjing Forestry University 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Kunming University of Science and Technology 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Shandong University 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Beijing Forestry University 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Southwest University 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Macau University of Science and Technology 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Xi'an University of Science and Technology 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Hong Kong Baptist University 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 University of Florence 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=101 Wuhan University of Science and Technology 101st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 New York University 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 University of Alberta 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 University of Edinburgh 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 University of Science and Technology Beijing 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Imperial College London 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Sorbonne University 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 University of Queensland 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Australian National University 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Cornell University 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 University of British Columbia 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Curtin University 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 South China University of Technology 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 University of Arizona 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 University of Virginia 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Southern University of Science and Technology 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Nankai University 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 University of Reading 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 University of Western Australia 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 University of Bristol 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Emory University 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Sejong University 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 University of Macau 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Sapienza University of Rome 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Iowa State University 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Guangzhou University 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 University of Helsinki 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Simon Fraser University 151st in the world for Remote Sensing
=151 Lanzhou University 151st in the world for Remote Sensing