Round University Ranking: Research (2026)

Recorded placements 127

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 for research
2. #2Imperial College London2nd in the world for research
3. #3Stanford University3rd in the world for research
4. #4California Institute of Technology4th in the world for research
5. #5Northwestern University5th in the world for research
6. #6Peking University6th in the world for research
7. #7University College London7th in the world for research
8. #8University of Pennsylvania8th in the world for research
9. #9ETH Zurich9th in the world for research
10. #10University of Cambridge10th in the world for research
11. #11University of New South Wales11th in the world for research
12. #12University of Sydney12th in the world for research
13. #13University of Oxford13th in the world for research
14. #15Yale University15th in the world for research
15. #16Johns Hopkins University16th in the world for research
16. #17KU Leuven17th in the world for research
17. #18Tsinghua University18th in the world for research
18. #19Carnegie Mellon University19th in the world for research
19. #20Technical University of Munich20th in the world for research
20. #21City University of Hong Kong21st in the world for research
21. #22Georgia Institute of Technology22nd in the world for research
22. #24University of Chicago24th in the world for research
23. #25King's College London25th in the world for research
24. #26University of Queensland26th in the world for research
25. #27Hong Kong University of Science and Technology27th in the world for research
26. #28Karolinska Institute28th in the world for research
27. #29Princeton University29th in the world for research
28. #30McGill University30th in the world for research
29. #32Massachusetts Institute of Technology32nd in the world for research
30. #33University of Southern California33rd in the world for research
31. #34Columbia University34th in the world for research
32. #35Monash University35th in the world for research
33. #36Cornell University36th in the world for research
34. #37Utrecht University37th in the world for research
35. #38Nanyang Technological University38th in the world for research
36. #39University of Toronto39th in the world for research
37. #40University of Western Australia40th in the world for research
38. #42University of Edinburgh42nd in the world for research
39. #43Boston University43rd in the world for research
40. #45Rice University45th in the world for research
41. #48Zhejiang University48th in the world for research
42. #50Queen Mary University of London50th in the world for research
43. #51Shanghai Jiao Tong University51st in the world for research
44. #54Vanderbilt University54th in the world for research
45. #56University of Washington56th in the world for research
46. #57Brown University57th in the world for research
47. #58Australian National University58th in the world for research
48. #59EPFL59th in the world for research
49. #60University of Science and Technology of China60th in the world for research
50. #62Tel Aviv University62nd in the world for research
51. #63RWTH Aachen University63rd in the world for research
52. #65Macquarie University65th in the world for research
53. #66University of Bristol66th in the world for research
54. #67New York University67th in the world for research
55. #68University of Manchester68th in the world for research
56. #69Lund University69th in the world for research
57. #72RMIT University72nd in the world for research
58. #74University of California, Berkeley74th in the world for research
59. #76University of Birmingham76th in the world for research
60. #77KTH Royal Institute of Technology77th in the world for research
61. #80University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign80th in the world for research
62. #83Trinity College Dublin83rd in the world for research
63. #87Chinese University of Hong Kong87th in the world for research
64. #89University of Adelaide89th in the world for research
65. #97University of Nottingham97th in the world for research
66. #98Deakin University98th in the world for research
67. #103University of Southampton103rd in the world for research
68. #104University of Wollongong104th in the world for research
69. #107Swinburne University of Technology107th in the world for research
70. #108Fudan University108th in the world for research
71. #111University of Warwick111th in the world for research
72. #114University of British Columbia114th in the world for research
73. #116University of Sheffield116th in the world for research
74. #118Yonsei University118th in the world for research
75. #121University of Tokyo121st in the world for research
76. #123University of Newcastle123rd in the world for research
77. #127University of California, Los Angeles127th in the world for research
78. #138National University of Singapore138th in the world for research
79. #144Queensland University of Technology144th in the world for research
80. #149Flinders University149th in the world for research
81. #152University of Alberta152nd in the world for research
82. #158Edith Cowan University158th in the world for research
83. #162University of Minnesota162nd in the world for research
84. #165University of Pittsburgh165th in the world for research
85. #167Seoul National University167th in the world for research
86. #171University of Southern Queensland171st in the world for research
87. #177University of Michigan-Ann Arbor177th in the world for research
88. #183Griffith University183rd in the world for research
89. #187Western Sydney University187th in the world for research
90. #188Universiti Malaya188th in the world for research
91. #190Curtin University190th in the world for research
92. #196University of California, San Diego196th in the world for research
93. #197University of Zurich197th in the world for research
94. #207London School of Economics and Political Science207th in the world for research
95. #211Tohoku University211th in the world for research
96. #212University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill212th in the world for research
97. #219University of Wisconsin-Madison219th in the world for research
98. #223University of Hong Kong223rd in the world for research
99. #225University of Glasgow225th in the world for research
100. #228Politecnico di Milano228th in the world for research
101. #233University of Maryland, College Park233rd in the world for research
102. #238Hebrew University of Jerusalem238th in the world for research
103. #244Kyoto University244th in the world for research
104. #250Ohio State University250th in the world for research
105. #251Durham University251st in the world for research
106. #256James Cook University256th in the world for research
107. #258University of Auckland258th in the world for research
108. #259La Trobe University259th in the world for research
109. #267Pennsylvania State University267th in the world for research
110. #268Purdue University268th in the world for research
111. #279Charles Darwin University279th in the world for research
112. #283University of Sao Paulo283rd in the world for research
113. #290University of Canberra290th in the world for research
114. #305University of St Andrews305th in the world for research
115. #316Osaka University316th in the world for research
116. #323Murdoch University323rd in the world for research
117. #327Sorbonne University327th in the world for research
118. #347University of Otago347th in the world for research
119. #366Federation University Australia366th in the world for research
120. #412Southern Cross University412th in the world for research
121. #433Australian Catholic University433rd in the world for research
122. #438University of the Sunshine Coast438th in the world for research
123. #492Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile492nd in the world for research
124. #585National Autonomous University of Mexico585th in the world for research
125. #761KAIST761st in the world for research
126. #886Victoria University886th in the world for research
127. #969PSL University969th in the world for research