World University Index

Nature Index: academic institutions (2025)

2025 edition. Published by Nature / Springer Nature.

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116 institutions
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Citing other editions of this index

  • the 2019 Nature Index ranked University of California San Diego ninth among the top 200 institutions in biomedical sciences worldwide

    University of California, San Diego , source , retrieved

  • According to the latest Nature Index, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg is one of the leading universities in the natural and life sciences.

    University of Wurzburg , source , retrieved

  • Zhejiang University (ZJU) has been ranked first among academic institutions worldwide in the Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders rankings

    Zhejiang University , source , retrieved

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.

Rank Institution Claim
1 Harvard University 1st in the world
2 Zhejiang University 2nd in the world
3 Tsinghua University 3rd in the world
4 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 4th in the world
5 University of Science and Technology of China 5th in the world
7 Peking University 7th in the world
10 Fudan University 10th in the world
11 Stanford University 11th in the world
14 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 14th in the world
18 University of Oxford 18th in the world
19 University of Tokyo 19th in the world
22 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 22nd in the world
25 University of Cambridge 25th in the world
26 ETH Zurich 26th in the world
31 University of Toronto 31st in the world
32 University of Pennsylvania 32nd in the world
33 Yale University 33rd in the world
35 University of California, Berkeley 35th in the world
37 National University of Singapore 37th in the world
38 University of California, Los Angeles 38th in the world
40 Columbia University 40th in the world
41 Cornell University 41st in the world
42 Johns Hopkins University 42nd in the world
43 University of California, San Diego 43rd in the world
44 University of Washington 44th in the world
47 Northwestern University 47th in the world
50 University of Chicago 50th in the world
51 Seoul National University 51st in the world
55 Princeton University 55th in the world
56 Imperial College London 56th in the world
57 University of Texas at Austin 57th in the world
59 University College London 59th in the world
60 City University of Hong Kong 60th in the world
61 Kyoto University 61st in the world
63 California Institute of Technology 63rd in the world
64 Nanyang Technological University 64th in the world
65 New York University 65th in the world
66 University of California, San Francisco 66th in the world
67 University of Wisconsin-Madison 67th in the world
68 Technical University of Munich 68th in the world
69 Duke University 69th in the world
70 University of Minnesota 70th in the world
72 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 72nd in the world
73 EPFL 73rd in the world
74 McGill University 74th in the world
75 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 75th in the world
76 Pennsylvania State University 76th in the world
77 University of Hong Kong 77th in the world
79 University of Copenhagen 79th in the world
81 KAIST 81st in the world
84 Purdue University 84th in the world
88 University of Southern California 88th in the world
89 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 89th in the world
91 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 91st in the world
92 University of Pittsburgh 92nd in the world
93 Monash University 93rd in the world
94 Ohio State University 94th in the world
96 Chinese University of Hong Kong 96th in the world
97 University of British Columbia 97th in the world
105 University of Queensland 105th in the world
106 Osaka University 106th in the world
108 University of Manchester 108th in the world
110 Vanderbilt University 110th in the world
111 University of Edinburgh 111th in the world
113 Yonsei University 113th in the world
114 University of Zurich 114th in the world
115 Karolinska Institute 115th in the world
117 University of New South Wales 117th in the world
118 Boston University 118th in the world
121 University of Maryland, College Park 121st in the world
123 KU Leuven 123rd in the world
127 University of Melbourne 127th in the world
130 Georgia Institute of Technology 130th in the world
140 Heidelberg University 140th in the world
142 Utrecht University 142nd in the world
143 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 143rd in the world
147 Institute of Science Tokyo 147th in the world
148 University of Sydney 148th in the world
153 Tohoku University 153rd in the world
158 University of Alberta 158th in the world
164 Tel Aviv University 164th in the world
165 Korea University 165th in the world
168 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 168th in the world
169 University of Amsterdam 169th in the world
175 Lund University 175th in the world
176 Delft University of Technology 176th in the world
179 King's College London 179th in the world
183 Rice University 183rd in the world
184 RWTH Aachen University 184th in the world
192 University of Bristol 192nd in the world
196 Brown University 196th in the world
203 Carnegie Mellon University 203rd in the world
216 Sorbonne University 216th in the world
217 University of Vienna 217th in the world
225 University of Glasgow 225th in the world
245 University of Birmingham 245th in the world
246 Australian National University 246th in the world
253 PSL University 253rd in the world
257 University of Nottingham 257th in the world
267 University of Sao Paulo 267th in the world
277 Durham University 277th in the world
280 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 280th in the world
286 University of Leeds 286th in the world
288 University of Montreal 288th in the world
296 University of Adelaide 296th in the world
299 University of Southampton 299th in the world
301 Queen Mary University of London 301st in the world
313 University of Warwick 313th in the world
330 University of Sheffield 330th in the world
370 University of Auckland 370th in the world
384 RMIT University 384th in the world
396 University of Western Australia 396th in the world
429 Queensland University of Technology 429th in the world
430 University of Technology Sydney 430th in the world
433 University of St Andrews 433rd in the world
447 National Autonomous University of Mexico 447th in the world