Nature Index: academic institutions (2025)

Recorded placements 116

Institutions the Index records in this table. A placement here is a placement anywhere: the Index reports each institution's best, whatever its scope.

1. #1Harvard University1st in the world
2. #2Zhejiang University2nd in the world
3. #3Tsinghua University3rd in the world
4. #4Shanghai Jiao Tong University4th in the world
5. #5University of Science and Technology of China5th in the world
6. #7Peking University7th in the world
7. #10Fudan University10th in the world
8. #11Stanford University11th in the world
9. #14Massachusetts Institute of Technology14th in the world
10. #18University of Oxford18th in the world
11. #19University of Tokyo19th in the world
12. #22University of Michigan-Ann Arbor22nd in the world
13. #25University of Cambridge25th in the world
14. #26ETH Zurich26th in the world
15. #31University of Toronto31st in the world
16. #32University of Pennsylvania32nd in the world
17. #33Yale University33rd in the world
18. #35University of California, Berkeley35th in the world
19. #37National University of Singapore37th in the world
20. #38University of California, Los Angeles38th in the world
21. #40Columbia University40th in the world
22. #41Cornell University41st in the world
23. #42Johns Hopkins University42nd in the world
24. #43University of California, San Diego43rd in the world
25. #44University of Washington44th in the world
26. #47Northwestern University47th in the world
27. #50University of Chicago50th in the world
28. #51Seoul National University51st in the world
29. #55Princeton University55th in the world
30. #56Imperial College London56th in the world
31. #57University of Texas at Austin57th in the world
32. #59University College London59th in the world
33. #60City University of Hong Kong60th in the world
34. #61Kyoto University61st in the world
35. #63California Institute of Technology63rd in the world
36. #64Nanyang Technological University64th in the world
37. #65New York University65th in the world
38. #66University of California, San Francisco66th in the world
39. #67University of Wisconsin-Madison67th in the world
40. #68Technical University of Munich68th in the world
41. #69Duke University69th in the world
42. #70University of Minnesota70th in the world
43. #72University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign72nd in the world
44. #73EPFL73rd in the world
45. #74McGill University74th in the world
46. #75Hong Kong University of Science and Technology75th in the world
47. #76Pennsylvania State University76th in the world
48. #77University of Hong Kong77th in the world
49. #79University of Copenhagen79th in the world
50. #81KAIST81st in the world
51. #84Purdue University84th in the world
52. #88University of Southern California88th in the world
53. #89University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill89th in the world
54. #91Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich91st in the world
55. #92University of Pittsburgh92nd in the world
56. #93Monash University93rd in the world
57. #94Ohio State University94th in the world
58. #96Chinese University of Hong Kong96th in the world
59. #97University of British Columbia97th in the world
60. #105University of Queensland105th in the world
61. #106Osaka University106th in the world
62. #108University of Manchester108th in the world
63. #110Vanderbilt University110th in the world
64. #111University of Edinburgh111th in the world
65. #113Yonsei University113th in the world
66. #114University of Zurich114th in the world
67. #115Karolinska Institute115th in the world
68. #117University of New South Wales117th in the world
69. #118Boston University118th in the world
70. #121University of Maryland, College Park121st in the world
71. #123KU Leuven123rd in the world
72. #127University of Melbourne127th in the world
73. #130Georgia Institute of Technology130th in the world
74. #140Heidelberg University140th in the world
75. #142Utrecht University142nd in the world
76. #143King Abdullah University of Science and Technology143rd in the world
77. #147Institute of Science Tokyo147th in the world
78. #148University of Sydney148th in the world
79. #153Tohoku University153rd in the world
80. #158University of Alberta158th in the world
81. #164Tel Aviv University164th in the world
82. #165Korea University165th in the world
83. #168Hebrew University of Jerusalem168th in the world
84. #169University of Amsterdam169th in the world
85. #175Lund University175th in the world
86. #176Delft University of Technology176th in the world
87. #179King's College London179th in the world
88. #183Rice University183rd in the world
89. #184RWTH Aachen University184th in the world
90. #192University of Bristol192nd in the world
91. #196Brown University196th in the world
92. #203Carnegie Mellon University203rd in the world
93. #216Sorbonne University216th in the world
94. #217University of Vienna217th in the world
95. #225University of Glasgow225th in the world
96. #245University of Birmingham245th in the world
97. #246Australian National University246th in the world
98. #253PSL University253rd in the world
99. #257University of Nottingham257th in the world
100. #267University of Sao Paulo267th in the world
101. #277Durham University277th in the world
102. #280KTH Royal Institute of Technology280th in the world
103. #286University of Leeds286th in the world
104. #288University of Montreal288th in the world
105. #296University of Adelaide296th in the world
106. #299University of Southampton299th in the world
107. #301Queen Mary University of London301st in the world
108. #313University of Warwick313th in the world
109. #330University of Sheffield330th in the world
110. #370University of Auckland370th in the world
111. #384RMIT University384th in the world
112. #396University of Western Australia396th in the world
113. #429Queensland University of Technology429th in the world
114. #430University of Technology Sydney430th in the world
115. #433University of St Andrews433rd in the world
116. #447National Autonomous University of Mexico447th in the world