World University Index

SCImago Institutions Rankings: universities (2026)

2026 edition. Published by SCImago Research Group.

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  • In the 2026 list, Istanbul Medeniyet University ranked 2589th among universities in the world.

    Istanbul Medeniyet University , source , retrieved

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Recorded placements 126

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
3 Zhejiang University 3rd in the world
4 Tsinghua University 4th in the world
5 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 5th in the world
6 Peking University 6th in the world
8 Stanford University 8th in the world
10 University of Oxford 10th in the world
11 University College London 11th in the world
13 Johns Hopkins University 13th in the world
14 University of Toronto 14th in the world
16 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 16th in the world
18 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 18th in the world
19 University of Washington 19th in the world
20 Fudan University 20th in the world
21 University of Pennsylvania 21st in the world
24 National University of Singapore 24th in the world
25 Cornell University 25th in the world
26 University of Cambridge 26th in the world
27 Columbia University 27th in the world
28 Imperial College London 28th in the world
29 University of California, Los Angeles 29th in the world
30 University of Melbourne 30th in the world
31 University of Amsterdam 31st in the world
32 Yale University 32nd in the world
33 University of Science and Technology of China 33rd in the world
39 University of Sydney 39th in the world
40 Monash University 40th in the world
41 University of California, Berkeley 41st in the world
42 University of California, San Francisco 42nd in the world
43 University of Sao Paulo 43rd in the world
45 University of New South Wales 45th in the world
48 Duke University 48th in the world
49 New York University 49th in the world
52 University of California, San Diego 52nd in the world
53 University of Chicago 53rd in the world
54 University of Queensland 54th in the world
58 Seoul National University 58th in the world
59 Nanyang Technological University 59th in the world
=60 Sorbonne University 60th in the world
=60 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 60th in the world
62 University of Tokyo 62nd in the world
63 Northwestern University 63rd in the world
64 University of British Columbia 64th in the world
65 King's College London 65th in the world
66 Ohio State University 66th in the world
68 Utrecht University 68th in the world
69 Chinese University of Hong Kong 69th in the world
70 University of Minnesota 70th in the world
73 McGill University 73rd in the world
75 University of Wisconsin-Madison 75th in the world
76 University of Copenhagen 76th in the world
78 KU Leuven 78th in the world
79 University of Edinburgh 79th in the world
80 Technical University of Munich 80th in the world
82 University of Southern California 82nd in the world
84 University of Hong Kong 84th in the world
85 University of Manchester 85th in the world
86 Pennsylvania State University 86th in the world
87 Karolinska Institute 87th in the world
90 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 90th in the world
93 University of Pittsburgh 93rd in the world
96 University of Texas at Austin 96th in the world
102 Yonsei University 102nd in the world
107 Purdue University 107th in the world
110 University of Alberta 110th in the world
112 Carnegie Mellon University 112th in the world
115 Georgia Institute of Technology 115th in the world
116 Boston University 116th in the world
117 Korea University 117th in the world
127 University of Zurich 127th in the world
129 University of Nottingham 129th in the world
134 National Autonomous University of Mexico 134th in the world
135 City University of Hong Kong 135th in the world
136 University of Maryland, College Park 136th in the world
140 University of Glasgow 140th in the world
143 Delft University of Technology 143rd in the world
144 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 144th in the world
146 KAIST 146th in the world
148 University of Birmingham 148th in the world
149 Kyoto University 149th in the world
150 University of Leeds 150th in the world
153 Princeton University 153rd in the world
156 EPFL 156th in the world
163 Lund University 163rd in the world
166 Queen Mary University of London 166th in the world
172 PSL University 172nd in the world
175 California Institute of Technology 175th in the world
178 Heidelberg University 178th in the world
182 University of Bristol 182nd in the world
183 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 183rd in the world
190 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 190th in the world
195 Tel Aviv University 195th in the world
201 University of Sheffield 201st in the world
209 Osaka University 209th in the world
211 Brown University 211th in the world
212 University of Southampton 212th in the world
228 Australian National University 228th in the world
230 Deakin University 230th in the world
232 RWTH Aachen University 232nd in the world
233 Vanderbilt University 233rd in the world
238 University of Auckland 238th in the world
248 University of Western Australia 248th in the world
250 University of Adelaide 250th in the world
252 Tohoku University 252nd in the world
253 University of Warwick 253rd in the world
262 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 262nd in the world
265 University of Montreal 265th in the world
271 Politecnico di Milano 271st in the world
280 RMIT University 280th in the world
299 Queensland University of Technology 299th in the world
315 Rice University 315th in the world
327 Griffith University 327th in the world
339 University of Vienna 339th in the world
347 Trinity College Dublin 347th in the world
366 Institute of Science Tokyo 366th in the world
384 Curtin University 384th in the world
393 Macquarie University 393rd in the world
407 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 407th in the world
425 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 425th in the world
456 Universiti Malaya 456th in the world
462 University of Wollongong 462nd in the world
470 University of Otago 470th in the world
474 La Trobe University 474th in the world
486 Durham University 486th in the world
495 Swinburne University of Technology 495th in the world
499 London School of Economics and Political Science 499th in the world