World University Index

Round University Ranking (2026)

2026 edition. Published by RUR Rankings Agency.

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5 institutions
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128 institutions
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In their own words

  • securing first place in Palestine and 329th globally in the Round University Ranking (RUR) World University Ranking 2026

    An-Najah National University , source , retrieved

  • In the RUR 2026 ranking, the university was placed 964th globally and 5th nationally.

    Azerbaijan University of Languages , source , retrieved

Citing other editions of this index

  • our University ranked 11th among 16 higher education institutions classified from Poland and 808th among 1,314 universities

    Bialystok University of Technology , source , retrieved

  • In the RUR Round University Ranking 2025, Hacettepe University ranks 551st out of 2,391 universities.

    Hacettepe University , source , retrieved

  • UH Mānoa is No. 200 in the world and No. 65 in the U.S.

    University of Hawaii at Manoa , source , retrieved

Recorded placements 128

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 California Institute of Technology 2nd in the world
3 Stanford University 3rd in the world
4 Johns Hopkins University 4th in the world
5 University of Pennsylvania 5th in the world
6 Peking University 6th in the world
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7th in the world
8 Yale University 8th in the world
9 Columbia University 9th in the world
10 University of Oxford 10th in the world
11 University of Chicago 11th in the world
12 Tsinghua University 12th in the world
13 Northwestern University 13th in the world
14 Imperial College London 14th in the world
15 University of Cambridge 15th in the world
16 Princeton University 16th in the world
17 Karolinska Institute 17th in the world
18 ETH Zurich 18th in the world
19 Vanderbilt University 19th in the world
20 University College London 20th in the world
21 Zhejiang University 21st in the world
22 Cornell University 22nd in the world
=23 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 23rd in the world
=23 Case Western Reserve University 23rd in the world
25 Boston University 25th in the world
27 University of Southern California 27th in the world
29 Carnegie Mellon University 29th in the world
30 McGill University 30th in the world
31 Brown University 31st in the world
32 University of Washington 32nd in the world
33 New York University 33rd in the world
34 Rice University 34th in the world
35 Fudan University 35th in the world
36 University of Tokyo 36th in the world
37 University of Edinburgh 37th in the world
38 University of Science and Technology of China 38th in the world
39 City University of Hong Kong 39th in the world
40 King's College London 40th in the world
50 University of Pittsburgh 50th in the world
51 Australian National University 51st in the world
53 University of California, Los Angeles 53rd in the world
55 Lund University 55th in the world
57 University of Minnesota 57th in the world
60 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 60th in the world
61 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 61st in the world
63 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 63rd in the world
64 EPFL 64th in the world
65 Kyoto University 65th in the world
67 Tohoku University 67th in the world
72 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 72nd in the world
73 University of Wisconsin-Madison 73rd in the world
77 Seoul National University 77th in the world
79 University of Zurich 79th in the world
81 University of Manchester 81st in the world
87 University of California, San Diego 87th in the world
89 Georgia Institute of Technology 89th in the world
94 University of Toronto 94th in the world
96 Osaka University 96th in the world
97 University of Sheffield 97th in the world
98 University of Birmingham 98th in the world
99 University of New South Wales 99th in the world
100 Ohio State University 100th in the world
101 Queen Mary University of London 101st in the world
103 Chinese University of Hong Kong 103rd in the world
104 Utrecht University 104th in the world
105 KU Leuven 105th in the world
107 University of Sydney 107th in the world
108 University of Bristol 108th in the world
109 University of Sao Paulo 109th in the world
112 University of Southampton 112th in the world
117 University of California, Berkeley 117th in the world
121 University of Glasgow 121st in the world
123 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 123rd in the world
128 Tel Aviv University 128th in the world
130 Yonsei University 130th in the world
131 University of Western Australia 131st in the world
134 Nanyang Technological University 134th in the world
135 Universiti Malaya 135th in the world
142 Monash University 142nd in the world
146 University of Queensland 146th in the world
148 University of British Columbia 148th in the world
153 University of Warwick 153rd in the world
159 RWTH Aachen University 159th in the world
164 Trinity College Dublin 164th in the world
187 University of Maryland, College Park 187th in the world
188 University of Adelaide 188th in the world
195 Technical University of Munich 195th in the world
201 Purdue University 201st in the world
204 London School of Economics and Political Science 204th in the world
205 Sorbonne University 205th in the world
208 University of Nottingham 208th in the world
210 University of St Andrews 210th in the world
213 Pennsylvania State University 213th in the world
223 KAIST 223rd in the world
225 University of Alberta 225th in the world
229 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 229th in the world
255 Macquarie University 255th in the world
256 University of Wollongong 256th in the world
266 National University of Singapore 266th in the world
268 University of Hong Kong 268th in the world
269 Durham University 269th in the world
283 RMIT University 283rd in the world
303 Swinburne University of Technology 303rd in the world
312 University of Auckland 312th in the world
334 Curtin University 334th in the world
340 Flinders University 340th in the world
343 Deakin University 343rd in the world
362 University of Otago 362nd in the world
367 Queensland University of Technology 367th in the world
370 University of Newcastle 370th in the world
405 Griffith University 405th in the world
421 La Trobe University 421st in the world
422 Politecnico di Milano 422nd in the world
432 James Cook University 432nd in the world
440 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 440th in the world
464 Western Sydney University 464th in the world
467 National Autonomous University of Mexico 467th in the world
473 University of Southern Queensland 473rd in the world
493 Murdoch University 493rd in the world
494 Charles Darwin University 494th in the world
499 Edith Cowan University 499th in the world
581 University of Canberra 581st in the world
614 University of the Sunshine Coast 614th in the world
646 PSL University 646th in the world
650 Southern Cross University 650th in the world
740 Federation University Australia 740th in the world
754 Australian Catholic University 754th in the world
770 Victoria University 770th in the world