World University Index

CWTS Leiden Ranking Open Edition

2025 edition. Published by CWTS, Leiden University.

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Rank Institution Claim
1 Harvard University 1st in the world
2 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2nd in the world
3 Zhejiang University 3rd in the world
4 Sichuan University 4th in the world
5 Central South University 5th in the world
6 Sun Yat-sen University 6th in the world
7 University of Toronto 7th in the world
8 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 8th in the world
9 Peking University 9th in the world
10 Tsinghua University 10th in the world
11 Xi'an Jiaotong University 11th in the world
12 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences 12th in the world
13 Harbin Institute of Technology 13th in the world
14 Wuhan University 14th in the world
15 Johns Hopkins University 15th in the world
16 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 16th in the world
17 University College London 17th in the world
18 University of Science and Technology of China 18th in the world
19 University of Sao Paulo 19th in the world
20 Fudan University 20th in the world
21 Stanford University 21st in the world
22 Jilin University 22nd in the world
23 Shandong University 23rd in the world
24 Seoul National University 24th in the world
25 Tianjin University 25th in the world
26 University of Pennsylvania 26th in the world
27 University of Oxford 27th in the world
28 Southeast University 28th in the world
29 Tongji University 29th in the world
30 University of Tokyo 30th in the world
31 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College 31st in the world
32 Zhengzhou University 32nd in the world
33 University of Melbourne 33rd in the world
34 University of Sydney 34th in the world
35 National University of Singapore 35th in the world
36 University of Washington 36th in the world
37 Cornell University 37th in the world
38 Ohio State University 38th in the world
39 University of British Columbia 39th in the world
40 Monash University 40th in the world
41 University of Copenhagen 41st in the world
42 Chongqing University 42nd in the world
43 University of Cambridge 43rd in the world
44 South China University of Technology 44th in the world
45 University of Florida 45th in the world
46 Northwestern Polytechnical University 46th in the world
47 Pennsylvania State University 47th in the world
48 Beijing Institute of Technology 48th in the world
49 Imperial College London 49th in the world
50 University of California, Los Angeles 50th in the world
51 Columbia University 51st in the world
52 University of California, San Diego 52nd in the world
53 Capital Medical University 53rd in the world
54 Yale University 54th in the world
55 Soochow University 55th in the world
56 KU Leuven 56th in the world
57 University of Queensland 57th in the world
58 University of Pittsburgh 58th in the world
59 Beihang University 59th in the world
60 Dalian University of Technology 60th in the world
61 Duke University 61st in the world
62 University of Wisconsin-Madison 62nd in the world
63 University of New South Wales 63rd in the world
64 King Saud University 64th in the world
65 University of Alberta 65th in the world
66 University of Hong Kong 66th in the world
67 Yonsei University 67th in the world
68 Case Western Reserve University 68th in the world
69 University of Minnesota 69th in the world
70 McGill University 70th in the world
71 Sapienza University of Rome 71st in the world
72 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 72nd in the world
75 New York University 75th in the world
76 Nanjing University 76th in the world
77 Kyoto University 77th in the world
78 Jiangsu University 78th in the world
79 China University of Mining and Technology 79th in the world
80 Northwestern University 80th in the world
81 Ghent University 81st in the world
82 University of Science and Technology Beijing 82nd in the world
85 Xiamen University 85th in the world
86 University of Padua 86th in the world
87 University of Chicago 87th in the world
88 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 88th in the world
89 University of California, San Francisco 89th in the world
90 King's College London 90th in the world
91 University of California, Davis 91st in the world
92 Technical University of Munich 92nd in the world
93 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 93rd in the world
94 Tel Aviv University 94th in the world
95 University of Manchester 95th in the world
96 Utrecht University 96th in the world
97 University of Bologna 97th in the world
98 Hunan University 98th in the world
100 Purdue University 100th in the world
101 Nanyang Technological University 101st in the world
102 Shenzhen University 102nd in the world
103 University of Southern California 103rd in the world
104 Nanjing Medical University 104th in the world
105 ETH Zurich 105th in the world
106 University of Edinburgh 106th in the world
107 University of Texas at Austin 107th in the world
108 University of Naples Federico II 108th in the world
109 University of Zurich 109th in the world
110 University of Groningen 110th in the world
111 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 111th in the world
112 National Taiwan University 112th in the world
113 Tohoku University 113th in the world
114 Sungkyunkwan University 114th in the world
115 Osaka University 115th in the world
117 University of Milan 117th in the world
118 Beijing Normal University 118th in the world
119 Jiangnan University 119th in the world
120 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 120th in the world
122 Nanchang University 122nd in the world
123 Emory University 123rd in the world
124 Vanderbilt University 124th in the world
125 University of Calgary 125th in the world
126 National Autonomous University of Mexico 126th in the world
127 University of Nottingham 127th in the world
128 Nankai University 128th in the world
129 University of Lisbon 129th in the world
130 University of California, Berkeley 130th in the world
131 Lanzhou University 131st in the world
132 Universidade do Porto 132nd in the world
133 Wuhan University of Technology 133rd in the world
134 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 134th in the world
135 Korea University 135th in the world
136 Michigan State University 136th in the world
137 Qingdao University 137th in the world
138 Washington University in St. Louis 138th in the world
139 Aarhus University 139th in the world
140 Shanghai University 140th in the world
141 Nanjing University of Science and Technology 141st in the world
142 China Agricultural University 142nd in the world
143 Southwest Jiaotong University 143rd in the world
144 Heidelberg University 144th in the world
145 Chinese University of Hong Kong 145th in the world
146 Lund University 146th in the world
147 University of Oslo 147th in the world
148 University of Utah 148th in the world
149 King Abdulaziz University 149th in the world
150 Karolinska Institute 150th in the world
151 Beijing University of Technology 151st in the world
152 University of Helsinki 152nd in the world
153 RWTH Aachen University 153rd in the world
154 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 154th in the world
155 University of Ottawa 155th in the world
157 University of Montreal 157th in the world
158 University of Colorado Denver 158th in the world
160 Sorbonne University 160th in the world
161 University of Tehran 161st in the world
163 Politecnico di Milano 163rd in the world
164 Delft University of Technology 164th in the world
166 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 166th in the world
168 Xidian University 168th in the world
169 McMaster University 169th in the world
170 Arizona State University 170th in the world
171 University of Arizona 171st in the world
172 Erasmus University Rotterdam 172nd in the world
173 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) 173rd in the world
174 Yangzhou University 174th in the world
175 North Carolina State University 175th in the world
176 University of California, Irvine 176th in the world
177 Uppsala University 177th in the world
178 National University of Defense Technology 178th in the world
179 University of Birmingham 179th in the world
180 Southwest University 180th in the world
181 Hohai University 181st in the world
182 Radboud University Nijmegen 182nd in the world
183 Universität Hamburg 183rd in the world
184 University of Florence 184th in the world
185 Leiden University 185th in the world
186 University of Cincinnati 186th in the world
188 Jinan University 188th in the world
191 East China University of Science and Technology 191st in the world
194 University of Waterloo 194th in the world
195 University of Auckland 195th in the world
196 Boston University 196th in the world
197 Southern Medical University 197th in the world
198 University of Liverpool 198th in the world
199 Beijing Jiaotong University 199th in the world
200 University of Amsterdam 200th in the world
201 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 201st in the world
202 Guangxi University 202nd in the world
204 University of Leeds 204th in the world
205 Georgia Institute of Technology 205th in the world
206 Ocean University of China 206th in the world
207 Virginia Tech 207th in the world
208 Nagoya University 208th in the world
209 Zhejiang University of Technology 209th in the world
212 University of Maryland, College Park 212th in the world
213 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 213th in the world
214 University of Bristol 214th in the world
215 University of Sheffield 215th in the world
216 University of Miami 216th in the world
217 China University of Geosciences 217th in the world
219 Universiti Sains Malaysia 219th in the world
220 Hefei University of Technology 220th in the world
221 East China Normal University 221st in the world
222 Wenzhou Medical University 222nd in the world
223 University of Bern 223rd in the world
228 North China Electric Power University 228th in the world
230 University of Turin 230th in the world
231 Nanjing Tech University 231st in the world
232 University of Gothenburg 232nd in the world
233 Nanjing Agricultural University 233rd in the world
235 Universidad Complutense de Madrid 235th in the world
236 University of Virginia 236th in the world
238 Ningbo University 238th in the world
239 University of Pisa 239th in the world
240 City University of Hong Kong 240th in the world
241 Beijing University of Chemical Technology 241st in the world
242 Guangdong University of Technology 242nd in the world
243 Fuzhou University 243rd in the world
244 University of Glasgow 244th in the world
245 China University of Petroleum, East China 245th in the world
246 Southern University of Science and Technology 246th in the world
247 University of Iowa 247th in the world
248 Kunming University of Science and Technology 248th in the world
250 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 250th in the world
252 University of Illinois Chicago 252nd in the world
254 University of Adelaide 254th in the world
255 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 255th in the world
257 Baylor College of Medicine 257th in the world
260 University of Western Australia 260th in the world
261 Nanjing Forestry University 261st in the world
262 University of Connecticut 262nd in the world
263 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 263rd in the world
264 University of Southampton 264th in the world
265 KAIST 265th in the world
268 Technical University of Denmark 268th in the world
269 Hanyang University 269th in the world
270 Shandong University of Science and Technology 270th in the world
271 Kyung Hee University 271st in the world
272 Huazhong Agricultural University 272nd in the world
273 Deakin University 273rd in the world
274 Harbin Engineering University 274th in the world
275 University of Zagreb 275th in the world
278 Australian National University 278th in the world
282 Universitat de València 282nd in the world
283 Mahidol University 283rd in the world
284 Maastricht University 284th in the world
285 Universiti Putra Malaysia 285th in the world
286 EPFL 286th in the world
287 Freie Universität Berlin 287th in the world
288 Wageningen University & Research 288th in the world
289 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 289th in the world
291 Brown University 291st in the world
292 University of Geneva 292nd in the world
293 University of Technology Sydney 293rd in the world
294 AGH University of Krakow 294th in the world
297 University College Dublin 297th in the world
299 Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications 299th in the world
300 University of Colorado Boulder 300th in the world
302 Griffith University 302nd in the world
303 Newcastle University 303rd in the world
305 Princeton University 305th in the world
307 University of Indonesia 307th in the world
308 Iowa State University 308th in the world
309 University of Freiburg 309th in the world
310 South China Agricultural University 310th in the world
311 Chulalongkorn University 311th in the world
313 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 313th in the world
316 Politecnico di Torino 316th in the world
317 Cardiff University 317th in the world
322 Aalborg University 322nd in the world
324 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 324th in the world
325 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology 325th in the world
327 Taiyuan University of Technology 327th in the world
331 University of Warwick 331st in the world
335 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 335th in the world
337 Queensland University of Technology 337th in the world
339 University of Johannesburg 339th in the world
340 University of Bonn 340th in the world
342 Donghua University 342nd in the world
344 University of Missouri 344th in the world
345 California Institute of Technology 345th in the world
346 RMIT University 346th in the world
347 University of Rochester 347th in the world
356 University of Maryland, Baltimore 356th in the world
357 University of Vienna 357th in the world
358 Universitat Politecnica de Valencia 358th in the world
361 Chang'an University 361st in the world
365 Aix-Marseille Université 365th in the world
367 Medical University of Vienna 367th in the world
369 Université Grenoble Alpes 369th in the world
372 Colorado State University 372nd in the world
373 University of Exeter 373rd in the world
374 University of Technology Malaysia 374th in the world
375 University of Göttingen 375th in the world
376 China University of Petroleum, Beijing 376th in the world
379 Curtin University 379th in the world
380 Dalhousie University 380th in the world
382 University of Otago 382nd in the world
383 Sichuan Agricultural University 383rd in the world
385 Macquarie University 385th in the world
386 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 386th in the world
396 Hacettepe University 396th in the world
397 Guangzhou University 397th in the world
400 Queen Mary University of London 400th in the world
405 University of Central Florida 405th in the world
406 University of Saskatchewan 406th in the world
409 University of Duisburg-Essen 409th in the world
411 University of Pretoria 411th in the world
412 University of Antwerp 412th in the world
417 University of Oklahoma 417th in the world
418 Yanshan University 418th in the world
419 Oregon Health & Science University 419th in the world
422 University of Bergen 422nd in the world
425 Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications 425th in the world
426 Anhui University 426th in the world
427 University of Guelph 427th in the world
429 Eindhoven University of Technology 429th in the world
431 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 431st in the world
432 Stockholm University 432nd in the world
434 Southwest Petroleum University 434th in the world
437 Florida State University 437th in the world
438 University of California, Santa Barbara 438th in the world
439 China University of Geosciences (Beijing) 439th in the world
441 Hainan University 441st in the world
442 PSL University 442nd in the world
443 University of Cape Town 443rd in the world
445 Washington State University 445th in the world
448 George Washington University 448th in the world
455 Beijing Forestry University 455th in the world
460 Dalian Maritime University 460th in the world
461 University of Wollongong 461st in the world
462 Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology 462nd in the world
463 Carnegie Mellon University 463rd in the world
464 Northeast Agricultural University 464th in the world
468 Oregon State University 468th in the world
469 University of Houston 469th in the world
472 University of Wurzburg 472nd in the world
473 University of Newcastle 473rd in the world
474 Indiana University Bloomington 474th in the world
477 Aalto University 477th in the world
478 King Khalid University 478th in the world
481 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 481st in the world
482 Universidad de Zaragoza 482nd in the world
483 Xinjiang University 483rd in the world
485 University of Massachusetts Amherst 485th in the world
494 Queen's University Belfast 494th in the world
498 Zhejiang Sci-Tech University 498th in the world
499 Northeast Forestry University 499th in the world
500 University of Twente 500th in the world
501 Tufts University 501st in the world
506 University of Turku 506th in the world
507 Wuhan University of Science and Technology 507th in the world
509 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 509th in the world
510 Chalmers University of Technology 510th in the world
511 Istanbul Technical University 511th in the world
512 York University 512th in the world
513 Universitas Gadjah Mada 513th in the world
517 La Trobe University 517th in the world
518 TU Wien 518th in the world
519 Durham University 519th in the world
525 University of Tasmania 525th in the world
531 University of Macau 531st in the world
534 Georgetown University 534th in the world
540 Henan Polytechnic University 540th in the world
547 Wake Forest University 547th in the world
549 University of Strathclyde 549th in the world
551 University of Oulu 551st in the world
555 China Pharmaceutical University 555th in the world
564 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 564th in the world
568 Renmin University of China 568th in the world
569 Western Sydney University 569th in the world
570 Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University 570th in the world
572 Temple University 572nd in the world
580 Pohang University of Science and Technology 580th in the world
582 Concordia University 582nd in the world
595 Flinders University 595th in the world
597 Simon Fraser University 597th in the world
601 University of Bath 601st in the world
606 University College Cork 606th in the world
608 North University of China 608th in the world
613 University of Notre Dame 613th in the world
616 Shaanxi University of Science and Technology 616th in the world
619 Chengdu University of Technology 619th in the world
622 Jiangsu University of Science and Technology 622nd in the world
624 Swinburne University of Technology 624th in the world
627 Tiangong University 627th in the world
628 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 628th in the world
638 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 638th in the world
639 Memorial University of Newfoundland 639th in the world
640 Universitas Airlangga 640th in the world
643 George Mason University 643rd in the world
646 Shandong Agricultural University 646th in the world
650 Taipei Medical University 650th in the world
654 University of Trento 654th in the world
655 Lancaster University 655th in the world
656 Loughborough University 656th in the world
658 Ege University 658th in the world
662 University of Leicester 662nd in the world
665 University of North Texas 665th in the world
667 Drexel University 667th in the world
672 University of Surrey 672nd in the world
675 University of Haifa 675th in the world
677 Massey University 677th in the world
681 Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine 681st in the world
686 University of Eastern Finland 686th in the world
693 Saarland University 693rd in the world
699 Xi'an University of Science and Technology 699th in the world
700 University of Victoria 700th in the world
710 Rice University 710th in the world
712 Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications 712th in the world
716 Qassim University 716th in the world
718 University of Buenos Aires 718th in the world
725 Dartmouth College 725th in the world
726 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 726th in the world
732 Yıldız Technical University 732nd in the world
743 Georgia State University 743rd in the world
747 University of Sussex 747th in the world
751 Sejong University 751st in the world
752 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 752nd in the world
755 Mississippi State University 755th in the world
762 London School of Economics and Political Science 762nd in the world
764 Universidade de Vigo 764th in the world
766 Shanghai Ocean University 766th in the world
776 Weizmann Institute of Science 776th in the world
778 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 778th in the world
783 Khalifa University of Science and Technology 783rd in the world
792 Huaqiao University 792nd in the world
795 Beijing Technology and Business University 795th in the world
796 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology 796th in the world
797 University of Sharjah 797th in the world
801 University of Bremen 801st in the world
804 Université de Sherbrooke 804th in the world
806 Shanghai Maritime University 806th in the world
809 University of Reading 809th in the world
811 Kasetsart University 811th in the world
815 Kaohsiung Medical University 815th in the world
821 University of Potsdam 821st in the world
823 The University of Texas at Dallas 823rd in the world
829 James Cook University 829th in the world
832 Universidad de Extremadura 832nd in the world
836 Henan Agricultural University 836th in the world
837 Tianjin University of Science and Technology 837th in the world
838 University of Szeged 838th in the world
843 University of California, Santa Cruz 843rd in the world
853 University of St Andrews 853rd in the world
855 Anhui Agricultural University 855th in the world
860 University of L'Aquila 860th in the world
861 University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School 861st in the world
881 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 881st in the world
886 University of Córdoba 886th in the world
887 Sebelas Maret University 887th in the world
898 University of Limerick 898th in the world
900 Qilu University of Technology 900th in the world
909 University of East Anglia 909th in the world
915 Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah 915th in the world
920 Shenyang Pharmaceutical University 920th in the world
921 University of Canterbury 921st in the world
926 Hong Kong Baptist University 926th in the world
929 Syracuse University 929th in the world
930 The University of Texas at San Antonio 930th in the world
937 Qingdao Agricultural University 937th in the world
952 University of Monastir 952nd in the world
959 Zhejiang Gongshang University 959th in the world
971 Dalian Polytechnic University 971st in the world
981 BOKU University 981st in the world
988 Manchester Metropolitan University 988th in the world
991 Chengdu University 991st in the world
994 Auckland University of Technology 994th in the world
1011 Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León 1011th in the world
1024 Florida Atlantic University 1024th in the world
1027 Cranfield University 1027th in the world
1032 Brunel University of London 1032nd in the world
1039 Universitat Pompeu Fabra 1039th in the world
1041 University of Portsmouth 1041st in the world
1044 Edith Cowan University 1044th in the world
1046 Liverpool John Moores University 1046th in the world
1050 Semmelweis University 1050th in the world
1056 Macau University of Science and Technology 1056th in the world
1061 Southwestern University of Finance and Economics 1061st in the world
1067 Universidade Federal de Lavras 1067th in the world
1071 Nottingham Trent University 1071st in the world
1096 Luleå University of Technology 1096th in the world
1100 Bahir Dar University 1100th in the world
1101 University of Konstanz 1101st in the world
1102 Tilburg University 1102nd in the world
1115 Czech University of Life Sciences Prague 1115th in the world
1119 Kent State University 1119th in the world
1123 Dublin City University 1123rd in the world
1140 Education University of Hong Kong 1140th in the world
1152 IPB University 1152nd in the world
1156 University of Stavanger 1156th in the world
1160 Boston College 1160th in the world
1165 Peoples' Friendship University of Russia 1165th in the world
1169 University of Pecs 1169th in the world
1179 Old Dominion University 1179th in the world
1180 Murdoch University 1180th in the world
1192 University of Southern Queensland 1192nd in the world
1201 Wuhan Textile University 1201st in the world
1209 Charles Sturt University 1209th in the world
1220 The Open University 1220th in the world
1244 National Taiwan Normal University 1244th in the world
1267 University of Canberra 1267th in the world
1313 Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1313th in the world
1316 University of the Sunshine Coast 1316th in the world
1319 CQUniversity 1319th in the world
1365 King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi 1365th in the world
1410 Royal Holloway University of London 1410th in the world
1424 Central University of Finance and Economics 1424th in the world
1425 Zhongnan University of Economics and Law 1425th in the world
1433 Singapore University of Technology and Design 1433rd in the world
1449 Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla 1449th in the world
1454 Bournemouth University 1454th in the world
1491 National Yunlin University of Science and Technology 1491st in the world
1497 Linnaeus University 1497th in the world
1514 Shanghai University of Finance and Economics 1514th in the world
1548 Montanuniversität Leoben 1548th in the world
1572 Charles Darwin University 1572nd in the world
1613 University of International Business and Economics 1613th in the world
1631 Australian Catholic University 1631st in the world
1662 Westlake University 1662nd in the world
1680 Siberian Federal University 1680th in the world
1683 Riga Technical University 1683rd in the world
1695 Copenhagen Business School 1695th in the world
1756 University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna 1756th in the world
1777 Southern Cross University 1777th in the world
1806 American University 1806th in the world
1812 Al-Balqa Applied University 1812th in the world
1822 An-Najah National University 1822nd in the world
1826 State University of Semarang 1826th in the world
1866 Federation University Australia 1866th in the world
1895 Roskilde University 1895th in the world
1934 City University of Macau 1934th in the world
1937 Singapore Management University 1937th in the world
1960 Bond University 1960th in the world
1990 Bocconi University 1990th in the world
2014 Rockefeller University 2014th in the world
2101 Chaoyang University of Technology 2101st in the world
2110 National Pingtung University of Science and Technology 2110th in the world
2194 Tunghai University 2194th in the world
2261 Universidad del Rosario 2261st in the world
2370 Centrale Lille Institut 2370th in the world
2396 University of Notre Dame Australia 2396th in the world