SCImago Institutions Rankings 2026 — Physics and Astronomy

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

• has climbed 47 positions and is ranked the world's 407th best

Recorded placements 106

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
2	Tsinghua University	2nd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
3	Zhejiang University	3rd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
4	Stanford University	4th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
5	Harvard University	5th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
6	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	6th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
7	Peking University	7th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	8th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
9	University of Science and Technology of China	9th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
16	University of Tokyo	16th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
17	National University of Singapore	17th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
18	University of Cambridge	18th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
19	University of Oxford	19th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
22	University of California, Berkeley	22nd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
24	Fudan University	24th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
27	University of California, San Francisco	27th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
28	California Institute of Technology	28th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
41	Columbia University	41st in the world for Physics and Astronomy
42	University College London	42nd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
43	Nanyang Technological University	43rd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
45	Imperial College London	45th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
49	University of California, Los Angeles	49th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
51	University of New South Wales	51st in the world for Physics and Astronomy
53	Karolinska Institute	53rd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
55	Johns Hopkins University	55th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
56	University of Pennsylvania	56th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
59	University of Washington	59th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
60	City University of Hong Kong	60th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
61	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	61st in the world for Physics and Astronomy
62	Yale University	62nd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
63	University of Toronto	63rd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
64	Cornell University	64th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
66	Georgia Institute of Technology	66th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
67	Sorbonne University	67th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
70	University of Maryland, College Park	70th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
71	EPFL	71st in the world for Physics and Astronomy
73	University of Texas at Austin	73rd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
77	University of Chicago	77th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
78	Chinese University of Hong Kong	78th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
79	Princeton University	79th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
83	Seoul National University	83rd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
86	Delft University of Technology	86th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
88	Purdue University	88th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
91	University of California, San Diego	91st in the world for Physics and Astronomy
92	Duke University	92nd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
94	Pennsylvania State University	94th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
96	University of Edinburgh	96th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
97	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	97th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
98	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	98th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
109	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	109th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
113	KAIST	113th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
114	PSL University	114th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
118	University of Melbourne	118th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
120	University of Technology Sydney	120th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
122	University of Hong Kong	122nd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
128	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	128th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
129	Korea University	129th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
135	University of Copenhagen	135th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
142	University of Wisconsin-Madison	142nd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
144	University of Manchester	144th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
145	Yonsei University	145th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
146	King's College London	146th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
152	University of Sydney	152nd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
157	Carnegie Mellon University	157th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
161	Kyoto University	161st in the world for Physics and Astronomy
163	University of Southern California	163rd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
165	Politecnico di Milano	165th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
166	New York University	166th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
169	Tohoku University	169th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
171	University of Pittsburgh	171st in the world for Physics and Astronomy
172	University of Queensland	172nd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
173	University of Southampton	173rd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
176	Utrecht University	176th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
178	Boston University	178th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
185	McGill University	185th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
187	Brown University	187th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
189	University of Amsterdam	189th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
190	Queensland University of Technology	190th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
191	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	191st in the world for Physics and Astronomy
200	University of British Columbia	200th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
204	University of Zurich	204th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
207	Rice University	207th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
209	University of Nottingham	209th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
215	University of Glasgow	215th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
226	Vanderbilt University	226th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
231	RWTH Aachen University	231st in the world for Physics and Astronomy
242	Osaka University	242nd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
253	Australian National University	253rd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
255	Queen Mary University of London	255th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
=261	University of Birmingham	261st in the world for Physics and Astronomy
=261	University of Bristol	261st in the world for Physics and Astronomy
263	Deakin University	263rd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
274	Edith Cowan University	274th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
284	Lund University	284th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
307	University of Leeds	307th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
310	University of Sao Paulo	310th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
335	University of Alberta	335th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
350	University of Warwick	350th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
357	La Trobe University	357th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
365	Swinburne University of Technology	365th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
383	Institute of Science Tokyo	383rd in the world for Physics and Astronomy
386	University of Sheffield	386th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
413	University of Adelaide	413th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
414	Tel Aviv University	414th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
429	Griffith University	429th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
464	University of Wollongong	464th in the world for Physics and Astronomy
471	Macquarie University	471st in the world for Physics and Astronomy