World University Index

Round University Ranking: Research (2026)

2026 edition, research. Published by RUR Rankings Agency.

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  • 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

  • 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 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.

Rank Institution Claim
1 Harvard University 1st in the world for research
2 Imperial College London 2nd in the world for research
3 Stanford University 3rd in the world for research
4 California Institute of Technology 4th in the world for research
5 Northwestern University 5th in the world for research
6 Peking University 6th in the world for research
7 University College London 7th in the world for research
8 University of Pennsylvania 8th in the world for research
9 ETH Zurich 9th in the world for research
10 University of Cambridge 10th in the world for research
11 University of New South Wales 11th in the world for research
12 University of Sydney 12th in the world for research
13 University of Oxford 13th in the world for research
15 Yale University 15th in the world for research
16 Johns Hopkins University 16th in the world for research
17 KU Leuven 17th in the world for research
18 Tsinghua University 18th in the world for research
19 Carnegie Mellon University 19th in the world for research
20 Technical University of Munich 20th in the world for research
21 City University of Hong Kong 21st in the world for research
22 Georgia Institute of Technology 22nd in the world for research
24 University of Chicago 24th in the world for research
25 King's College London 25th in the world for research
26 University of Queensland 26th in the world for research
27 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 27th in the world for research
28 Karolinska Institute 28th in the world for research
29 Princeton University 29th in the world for research
30 McGill University 30th in the world for research
32 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 32nd in the world for research
33 University of Southern California 33rd in the world for research
34 Columbia University 34th in the world for research
35 Monash University 35th in the world for research
36 Cornell University 36th in the world for research
37 Utrecht University 37th in the world for research
38 Nanyang Technological University 38th in the world for research
39 University of Toronto 39th in the world for research
40 University of Western Australia 40th in the world for research
42 University of Edinburgh 42nd in the world for research
43 Boston University 43rd in the world for research
45 Rice University 45th in the world for research
48 Zhejiang University 48th in the world for research
50 Queen Mary University of London 50th in the world for research
51 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 51st in the world for research
54 Vanderbilt University 54th in the world for research
56 University of Washington 56th in the world for research
57 Brown University 57th in the world for research
58 Australian National University 58th in the world for research
59 EPFL 59th in the world for research
60 University of Science and Technology of China 60th in the world for research
62 Tel Aviv University 62nd in the world for research
63 RWTH Aachen University 63rd in the world for research
65 Macquarie University 65th in the world for research
66 University of Bristol 66th in the world for research
67 New York University 67th in the world for research
68 University of Manchester 68th in the world for research
69 Lund University 69th in the world for research
72 RMIT University 72nd in the world for research
74 University of California, Berkeley 74th in the world for research
76 University of Birmingham 76th in the world for research
77 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 77th in the world for research
80 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 80th in the world for research
83 Trinity College Dublin 83rd in the world for research
87 Chinese University of Hong Kong 87th in the world for research
89 University of Adelaide 89th in the world for research
97 University of Nottingham 97th in the world for research
98 Deakin University 98th in the world for research
103 University of Southampton 103rd in the world for research
104 University of Wollongong 104th in the world for research
107 Swinburne University of Technology 107th in the world for research
108 Fudan University 108th in the world for research
111 University of Warwick 111th in the world for research
114 University of British Columbia 114th in the world for research
116 University of Sheffield 116th in the world for research
118 Yonsei University 118th in the world for research
121 University of Tokyo 121st in the world for research
123 University of Newcastle 123rd in the world for research
127 University of California, Los Angeles 127th in the world for research
138 National University of Singapore 138th in the world for research
144 Queensland University of Technology 144th in the world for research
149 Flinders University 149th in the world for research
152 University of Alberta 152nd in the world for research
158 Edith Cowan University 158th in the world for research
162 University of Minnesota 162nd in the world for research
165 University of Pittsburgh 165th in the world for research
167 Seoul National University 167th in the world for research
171 University of Southern Queensland 171st in the world for research
177 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 177th in the world for research
183 Griffith University 183rd in the world for research
187 Western Sydney University 187th in the world for research
188 Universiti Malaya 188th in the world for research
190 Curtin University 190th in the world for research
196 University of California, San Diego 196th in the world for research
197 University of Zurich 197th in the world for research
207 London School of Economics and Political Science 207th in the world for research
211 Tohoku University 211th in the world for research
212 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 212th in the world for research
219 University of Wisconsin-Madison 219th in the world for research
223 University of Hong Kong 223rd in the world for research
225 University of Glasgow 225th in the world for research
228 Politecnico di Milano 228th in the world for research
233 University of Maryland, College Park 233rd in the world for research
238 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 238th in the world for research
244 Kyoto University 244th in the world for research
250 Ohio State University 250th in the world for research
251 Durham University 251st in the world for research
256 James Cook University 256th in the world for research
258 University of Auckland 258th in the world for research
259 La Trobe University 259th in the world for research
267 Pennsylvania State University 267th in the world for research
268 Purdue University 268th in the world for research
279 Charles Darwin University 279th in the world for research
283 University of Sao Paulo 283rd in the world for research
290 University of Canberra 290th in the world for research
305 University of St Andrews 305th in the world for research
316 Osaka University 316th in the world for research
323 Murdoch University 323rd in the world for research
327 Sorbonne University 327th in the world for research
347 University of Otago 347th in the world for research
366 Federation University Australia 366th in the world for research
412 Southern Cross University 412th in the world for research
433 Australian Catholic University 433rd in the world for research
438 University of the Sunshine Coast 438th in the world for research
492 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 492nd in the world for research
585 National Autonomous University of Mexico 585th in the world for research
761 KAIST 761st in the world for research
886 Victoria University 886th in the world for research
969 PSL University 969th in the world for research