World University Index

THE World University Rankings

2027 edition. Published by Times Higher Education.

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Rank Institution Claim
1 University of Oxford 1st in the world
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2nd in the world
=3 Princeton University 3rd in the world
=3 Stanford University 3rd in the world
5 University of Cambridge 5th in the world
6 Harvard University 6th in the world
7 California Institute of Technology 7th in the world
8 Imperial College London 8th in the world
=9 University of California, Berkeley 9th in the world
=9 Yale University 9th in the world
11 Tsinghua University 11th in the world
12 ETH Zurich 12th in the world
13 Peking University 13th in the world
14 University of Pennsylvania 14th in the world
15 National University of Singapore 15th in the world
16 University of Chicago 16th in the world
=17 Johns Hopkins University 17th in the world
=17 University College London 17th in the world
19 Columbia University 19th in the world
20 University of California, Los Angeles 20th in the world
21 Cornell University 21st in the world
22 University of Toronto 22nd in the world
23 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 23rd in the world
24 Carnegie Mellon University 24th in the world
25 Technical University of Munich 25th in the world
26 University of Washington 26th in the world
27 University of Tokyo 27th in the world
28 Nanyang Technological University 28th in the world
=29 New York University 29th in the world
=29 University of Edinburgh 29th in the world
=29 Northwestern University 29th in the world
32 Duke University 32nd in the world
33 University of Hong Kong 33rd in the world
=34 Zhejiang University 34th in the world
=34 University of Melbourne 34th in the world
36 EPFL 36th in the world
37 University of California, San Diego 37th in the world
38 Fudan University 38th in the world
39 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 39th in the world
40 King's College London 40th in the world
41 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 41st in the world
42 Chinese University of Hong Kong 42nd in the world
43 McGill University 43rd in the world
44 University of British Columbia 44th in the world
=45 Heidelberg University 45th in the world
=45 KU Leuven 45th in the world
47 London School of Economics and Political Science 47th in the world
48 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 48th in the world
49 Georgia Institute of Technology 49th in the world
50 Delft University of Technology 50th in the world
=51 University of Science and Technology of China 51st in the world
=51 University of Sydney 51st in the world
=53 University of Texas at Austin 53rd in the world
=53 University of Wisconsin-Madison 53rd in the world
55 Karolinska Institute 55th in the world
56 Seoul National University 56th in the world
58 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 58th in the world
59 Nanjing University 59th in the world
60 University of Manchester 60th in the world
61 Monash University 61st in the world
=62 University of Amsterdam 62nd in the world
=62 Kyoto University 62nd in the world
65 University of California, Davis 65th in the world
=66 Wageningen University & Research 66th in the world
=66 Washington University in St. Louis 66th in the world
69 Leiden University 69th in the world
70 City University of Hong Kong 70th in the world
=71 University of California, Santa Barbara 71st in the world
=71 University of Southern California 71st in the world
=73 University of Queensland 73rd in the world
=73 Brown University 73rd in the world
=75 University of New South Wales 75th in the world
=75 Institut Polytechnique de Paris 75th in the world
77 Australian National University 77th in the world
78 Université Paris-Saclay 78th in the world
79 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 79th in the world
81 University of Copenhagen 81st in the world
82 University of Bristol 82nd in the world
83 University of Glasgow 83rd in the world
84 Purdue University 84th in the world
85 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 85th in the world
86 Boston University 86th in the world
87 University of Groningen 87th in the world
88 University of Minnesota 88th in the world
89 University of Bonn 89th in the world
90 RWTH Aachen University 90th in the world
91 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 91st in the world
92 Vanderbilt University 92nd in the world
93 Michigan State University 93rd in the world
95 University of Vienna 95th in the world
96 Harbin Institute of Technology 96th in the world
=97 Aarhus University 97th in the world
=97 University of Birmingham 97th in the world
=97 University of California, Irvine 97th in the world
=101 Rice University 101st in the world
=101 University of Tübingen 101st in the world
=104 University of Sheffield 104th in the world
=104 Lund University 104th in the world
=106 Tohoku University 106th in the world
=106 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 106th in the world
108 Emory University 108th in the world
109 Erasmus University Rotterdam 109th in the world
110 Technical University of Denmark 110th in the world
111 University of Bologna 111th in the world
=113 University of Warwick 113th in the world
=113 University of Leeds 113th in the world
=113 Freie Universität Berlin 113th in the world
=116 Ghent University 116th in the world
=116 McMaster University 116th in the world
=118 University of Alberta 118th in the world
=118 University of Oslo 118th in the world
=118 University of Helsinki 118th in the world
=121 Wuhan University 121st in the world
=121 University of Bern 121st in the world
123 University of Maryland, College Park 123rd in the world
124 Tongji University 124th in the world
125 Beijing Normal University 125th in the world
126 Hamad bin Khalifa University 126th in the world
128 Korea University 128th in the world
=129 Queen Mary University of London 129th in the world
=129 Universität Hamburg 129th in the world
132 University of Montreal 132nd in the world
=133 Uppsala University 133rd in the world
=133 Maastricht University 133rd in the world
=133 University of Göttingen 133rd in the world
=136 University of Southampton 136th in the world
=136 University of Rochester 136th in the world
138 University of Florida 138th in the world
=139 University of Arizona 139th in the world
=139 University of Freiburg 139th in the world
=141 University of Sao Paulo 141st in the world
=141 Adelaide University 141st in the world
143 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 143rd in the world
=147 Osaka University 147th in the world
=147 Case Western Reserve University 147th in the world
=147 Sapienza University of Rome 147th in the world
=147 University of Cape Town 147th in the world
152 University of Technology Sydney 152nd in the world
153 Texas A&M University 153rd in the world
=154 Newcastle University 154th in the world
=154 University of Macau 154th in the world
=154 University of Liverpool 154th in the world
=157 University of Exeter 157th in the world
=157 Durham University 157th in the world
=157 Politecnico di Milano 157th in the world
=157 University of Nottingham 157th in the world
=161 Macquarie University 161st in the world
=161 Radboud University Nijmegen 161st in the world
163 University of Geneva 163rd in the world
167 Dartmouth College 167th in the world
168 University of Auckland 168th in the world
=171 Trinity College Dublin 171st in the world
=171 Technische Universität Berlin 171st in the world
=173 Nankai University 173rd in the world
=173 University of Western Australia 173rd in the world
176 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 176th in the world
178 University of Waterloo 178th in the world
=180 Eindhoven University of Technology 180th in the world
=180 Medical University of Vienna 180th in the world
182 University of Wurzburg 182nd in the world
=183 Aalto University 183rd in the world
=183 Lancaster University 183rd in the world
=185 Beihang University 185th in the world
=185 University of St Andrews 185th in the world
=185 Institute of Science Tokyo 185th in the world
=185 University of Antwerp 185th in the world
=185 University of Calgary 185th in the world
=185 University of Ottawa 185th in the world
=191 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 191st in the world
=191 University of Notre Dame 191st in the world
=196 Tianjin University 196th in the world
=196 Xi'an Jiaotong University 196th in the world
=196 Georgetown University 196th in the world
=196 Queen's University Belfast 196th in the world
=201 Université Paris Cité 201st in the world
=201 University of Twente 201st in the world
=201 University of California, Santa Cruz 201st in the world
=205 Sun Yat-sen University 205th in the world
=205 Universitat Pompeu Fabra 205th in the world
=205 Hong Kong Baptist University 205th in the world
=209 Tel Aviv University 209th in the world
=209 University of Leicester 209th in the world
=209 Tufts University 209th in the world
=212 Education University of Hong Kong 212th in the world
=212 Western University 212th in the world
=212 University College Dublin 212th in the world
216 King Saud University 216th in the world
218 Deakin University 218th in the world
=219 University of Reading 219th in the world
=219 University of Gothenburg 219th in the world
=222 Qatar University 222nd in the world
=222 Queensland University of Technology 222nd in the world
=224 Sichuan University 224th in the world
=224 Northwestern Polytechnical University 224th in the world
=224 Xiamen University 224th in the world
=224 University of Miami 224th in the world
=224 Aalborg University 224th in the world
=224 University of Padua 224th in the world
231 Stockholm University 231st in the world
234 Beijing Institute of Technology 234th in the world
=235 Khalifa University of Science and Technology 235th in the world
=235 United Arab Emirates University 235th in the world
=237 University of Surrey 237th in the world
=237 Kyung Hee University 237th in the world
239 RMIT University 239th in the world
=242 East China Normal University 242nd in the world
=242 Nagoya University 242nd in the world
=242 Universiti Teknologi Petronas 242nd in the world
=242 University of Utah 242nd in the world
=247 Southeast University 247th in the world
=247 University of Wollongong 247th in the world
=247 University of Potsdam 247th in the world
=247 Semmelweis University 247th in the world
254 George Washington University 254th in the world
=257 Chalmers University of Technology 257th in the world
=257 Cardiff University 257th in the world
=263 Hunan University 263rd in the world
=263 Shandong University 263rd in the world
265 South China University of Technology 265th in the world
266 Griffith University 266th in the world
267 Humanitas University 267th in the world
269 Macau University of Science and Technology 269th in the world
272 University of Illinois Chicago 272nd in the world
=273 University of Bergen 273rd in the world
=273 University of Sussex 273rd in the world
275 University of Konstanz 275th in the world
=277 Central South University 277th in the world
=277 Virginia Tech 277th in the world
=277 University of Tasmania 277th in the world
281 Sejong University 281st in the world
=284 Dublin City University 284th in the world
=284 Southern Medical University 284th in the world
=284 Boston College 284th in the world
=284 University of Bath 284th in the world
=284 University of Oulu 284th in the world
291 La Trobe University 291st in the world
=292 Curtin University 292nd in the world
=292 University of Duisburg-Essen 292nd in the world
294 Swinburne University of Technology 294th in the world
295 University of Newcastle 295th in the world
=296 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 296th in the world
=296 Hanyang University 296th in the world
=296 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 296th in the world
=299 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 299th in the world
=299 Ahlia University 299th in the world
=301 Western Sydney University 301st in the world
=301 Flinders University 301st in the world
=301 University College Cork 301st in the world
=301 Abu Dhabi University 301st in the world
=301 King Khalid University 301st in the world
=301 University of Connecticut 301st in the world
=301 North Carolina State University 301st in the world
=301 University of Sharjah 301st in the world
=301 TU Wien 301st in the world
=301 National University of Malaysia 301st in the world
=301 Singapore University of Technology and Design 301st in the world
=301 Kyushu University 301st in the world
=301 University of Victoria 301st in the world
=301 University of East Anglia 301st in the world
=326 James Cook University 326th in the world
=326 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) 326th in the world
=326 Dalian University of Technology 326th in the world
=326 Florida State University 326th in the world
=326 Tilburg University 326th in the world
=326 University at Buffalo, State University of New York 326th in the world
=326 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 326th in the world
=326 Loughborough University 326th in the world
=326 University of Iowa 326th in the world
=326 Taipei Medical University 326th in the world
=326 Stony Brook University 326th in the world
=326 Universiti Sains Malaysia 326th in the world
=351 Edith Cowan University 351st in the world
=351 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 351st in the world
=351 Lebanese American University 351st in the world
=351 University of Saskatchewan 351st in the world
=351 University of Bremen 351st in the world
=351 University of Milan 351st in the world
=351 University of Strathclyde 351st in the world
=351 Shenzhen University 351st in the world
=351 University of Johannesburg 351st in the world
=351 University of Otago 351st in the world
=351 University of Turku 351st in the world
=351 Simon Fraser University 351st in the world
=351 University of Trento 351st in the world
=351 National Tsing Hua University 351st in the world
=351 Dalhousie University 351st in the world
=351 University of Florence 351st in the world
=376 University of Southern Queensland 376th in the world
=376 Chongqing University 376th in the world
=376 University of Naples Federico II 376th in the world
=376 University of Lisbon 376th in the world
=376 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 376th in the world
=376 Ajman University 376th in the world
=376 Jilin University 376th in the world
=376 University of Turin 376th in the world
=376 Al-Ahliyya Amman University 376th in the world
=376 Drexel University 376th in the world
=376 Hokkaido University 376th in the world
=401 University of Canberra 401st in the world
=401 Australian Catholic University 401st in the world
=401 King Abdulaziz University 401st in the world
=401 Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University 401st in the world
=401 Brunel University of London 401st in the world
=401 Politecnico di Torino 401st in the world
=401 Al Ain University 401st in the world
=401 University of Houston 401st in the world
=401 Université Grenoble Alpes 401st in the world
=401 Iowa State University 401st in the world
=401 Temple University 401st in the world
=401 University of Technology Malaysia 401st in the world
=401 Applied Science Private University 401st in the world
=401 University of Pisa 401st in the world
=401 University of South Florida 401st in the world
=401 Universidad Complutense de Madrid 401st in the world
=401 Murdoch University 401st in the world
=401 George Mason University 401st in the world
=401 Saarland University 401st in the world
=401 University of Portsmouth 401st in the world
=401 Universidade do Porto 401st in the world
=401 Royal Holloway University of London 401st in the world
=401 L'Institut Agro 401st in the world
=401 Bond University 401st in the world
=451 Donghua University 451st in the world
=451 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 451st in the world
=451 CQUniversity 451st in the world
=451 Shoolini University 451st in the world
=451 Washington State University 451st in the world
=451 Universiti Putra Malaysia 451st in the world
=451 Charles Darwin University 451st in the world
=451 City University of Macau 451st in the world
=451 University of Guelph 451st in the world
=451 The University of Texas at Dallas 451st in the world
=451 Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University 451st in the world
=451 Syracuse University 451st in the world
=451 Umm al-Qura University 451st in the world
=451 Wake Forest University 451st in the world
=451 York University 451st in the world
=451 University of Eastern Finland 451st in the world
=451 The University of Texas at San Antonio 451st in the world
=451 National Yunlin University of Science and Technology 451st in the world
=451 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 451st in the world
=451 University of Pretoria 451st in the world
=451 University of Tehran 451st in the world
=501 Roskilde University 501st in the world
=501 Tecnológico de Monterrey 501st in the world
=501 Jiangsu University 501st in the world
=501 Sultan Qaboos University 501st in the world
=501 American University of Sharjah 501st in the world
=501 Shanghai University 501st in the world
=501 University of Limerick 501st in the world
=501 Chulalongkorn University 501st in the world
=501 Federation University Australia 501st in the world
=501 Zayed University 501st in the world
=501 Bournemouth University 501st in the world
=501 China University of Petroleum, Beijing 501st in the world
=501 National Taiwan Normal University 501st in the world
=501 Université de Toulouse 501st in the world
=501 Zhejiang University of Technology 501st in the world
=501 Universitat de València 501st in the world
=501 Massey University 501st in the world
=551 Yangzhou University 551st in the world
=551 University of Central Florida 551st in the world
=551 Royal Veterinary College 551st in the world
=551 Victoria University 551st in the world
=551 University of the Sunshine Coast 551st in the world
=551 East China University of Science and Technology 551st in the world
=551 Beijing University of Chemical Technology 551st in the world
=551 King Faisal University 551st in the world
=551 Liverpool John Moores University 551st in the world
=551 University of Canterbury 551st in the world
=551 Mahidol University 551st in the world
=551 Memorial University of Newfoundland 551st in the world
=551 Manchester Metropolitan University 551st in the world
=551 University of International Business and Economics 551st in the world
=551 Auckland University of Technology 551st in the world
=551 Southern Cross University 551st in the world
=601 Jiangnan University 601st in the world
=601 Ocean University of China 601st in the world
=601 Nottingham Trent University 601st in the world
=601 Xidian University 601st in the world
=601 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 601st in the world
=601 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya 601st in the world
=601 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 601st in the world
=601 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 601st in the world
=601 Georgia State University 601st in the world
=601 Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University 601st in the world
=601 Yarmouk University 601st in the world
=651 Harbin Engineering University 651st in the world
=651 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 651st in the world
=651 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) 651st in the world
=651 Nanjing Forestry University 651st in the world
=651 Charles Sturt University 651st in the world
=651 Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University 651st in the world
=651 Zhengzhou University 651st in the world
=651 American University of the Middle East 651st in the world
=651 University of Indonesia 651st in the world
=651 Istanbul Technical University 651st in the world
=651 Université de Lille 651st in the world
=651 Oklahoma State University 651st in the world
=651 Concordia University 651st in the world
=651 Jouf University 651st in the world
=651 BOKU University 651st in the world
=701 An-Najah National University 701st in the world
=701 Qingdao University 701st in the world
=701 Wuhan University of Technology 701st in the world
=701 American University 701st in the world
=701 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 701st in the world
=701 Duy Tan University 701st in the world
=701 National Autonomous University of Mexico 701st in the world
=701 Southwest Jiaotong University 701st in the world
=701 American University in Cairo 701st in the world
=701 Nanjing Tech University 701st in the world
=701 Mississippi State University 701st in the world
=701 University of Haifa 701st in the world
=701 University of L'Aquila 701st in the world
=701 Guangdong University of Technology 701st in the world
=701 Universitat Politecnica de Valencia 701st in the world
=701 Fuzhou University 701st in the world
=701 Nantes Université 701st in the world
=801 Universitas Gadjah Mada 801st in the world
=801 University of Chile 801st in the world
=801 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology 801st in the world
=801 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 801st in the world
=801 Hacettepe University 801st in the world
=801 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 801st in the world
=801 Old Dominion University 801st in the world
=801 Cairo University 801st in the world
=801 Zhejiang Gongshang University 801st in the world
=801 Peoples' Friendship University of Russia 801st in the world
=801 Universidade de Vigo 801st in the world
=801 Hainan University 801st in the world
=801 Tunis El Manar University 801st in the world
=801 Alexandria University 801st in the world
=801 Beirut Arab University 801st in the world
=801 Nanjing Medical University 801st in the world
=801 University of Engineering and Technology Taxila 801st in the world
=801 North China Electric Power University 801st in the world
=801 Holy Spirit University of Kaslik 801st in the world
=801 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 801st in the world
=801 William & Mary 801st in the world
=801 Qassim University 801st in the world
=801 Riga Technical University 801st in the world
=801 The Open University 801st in the world
=801 Montanuniversität Leoben 801st in the world
=801 Future University in Egypt 801st in the world
=801 Florida Atlantic University 801st in the world
=801 Al-Azhar University 801st in the world
=801 Kaohsiung Medical University 801st in the world
=801 Mansoura University 801st in the world
=801 Keio University 801st in the world
=801 University of Notre Dame Australia 801st in the world
=1001 Université de Bretagne Occidentale 1001st in the world
=1001 Jiangsu University of Science and Technology 1001st in the world
=1001 Chang'an University 1001st in the world
=1001 Ton Duc Thang University 1001st in the world
=1001 Ain Shams University 1001st in the world
=1001 University of Pecs 1001st in the world
=1001 Kent State University 1001st in the world
=1001 Anhui University 1001st in the world
=1001 Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University 1001st in the world
=1001 University of Córdoba 1001st in the world
=1001 Sebelas Maret University 1001st in the world
=1001 Wenzhou Medical University 1001st in the world
=1001 AGH University of Krakow 1001st in the world
=1001 University of Szeged 1001st in the world
=1001 Al-Balqa Applied University 1001st in the world
=1001 Capital Medical University 1001st in the world
=1001 Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology 1001st in the world
=1001 King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi 1001st in the world
=1001 Siberian Federal University 1001st in the world
=1001 Universidad de Zaragoza 1001st in the world
=1201 Wuhan Textile University 1201st in the world
=1201 Universidade Federal de São Carlos 1201st in the world
=1201 Universidad San Francisco de Quito 1201st in the world
=1201 Huaqiao University 1201st in the world
=1201 University of Zagreb 1201st in the world
=1201 Universidad Diego Portales 1201st in the world
=1201 Universitas Airlangga 1201st in the world
=1401 University of Concepción 1401st in the world
=1401 Universidad de Antioquia 1401st in the world
=1401 Universidade de Brasília 1401st in the world
=1401 Yanshan University 1401st in the world
=1401 Adolfo Ibáñez University 1401st in the world
=1401 Universidade Federal de Lavras 1401st in the world
=1401 University of Monastir 1401st in the world
=1401 Diponegoro University 1401st in the world
=1401 Tiangong University 1401st in the world
=1401 Al-Farabi Kazakh National University 1401st in the world
=1401 IPB University 1401st in the world
=1401 Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral 1401st in the world
=1401 Ege University 1401st in the world
=1401 Universidad de La Sabana 1401st in the world
=1401 Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1401st in the world
=1401 Chaoyang University of Technology 1401st in the world
=1401 Kuwait University 1401st in the world
=1601 Universidad Nacional de Colombia 1601st in the world
=1601 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 1601st in the world
=1601 National Textile University 1601st in the world
=1601 Kasetsart University 1601st in the world
=1601 Lebanese University 1601st in the world
=1601 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso 1601st in the world
=1601 University of Havana 1601st in the world
=1601 Universidad de Los Andes, Chile 1601st in the world
=1601 University of Baghdad 1601st in the world
=1601 Austral University of Chile 1601st in the world
=1601 Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María 1601st in the world
=1601 Al-Quds University 1601st in the world
=1601 Tunghai University 1601st in the world
=1601 Universidad de Talca 1601st in the world
=1601 Southwest Petroleum University 1601st in the world
=1801 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 1801st in the world
=1801 Universidad de Costa Rica 1801st in the world
=1801 National Pingtung University of Science and Technology 1801st in the world
=1801 Universidad Nacional de La Plata 1801st in the world
=1801 State University of Semarang 1801st in the world
=1801 National Chi Nan University 1801st in the world
=1801 Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana 1801st in the world
=1801 Universidad Iberoamericana 1801st in the world
=2001 Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 2001st in the world
=2001 Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla 2001st in the world
=2001 Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina 2001st in the world
=2001 Universidad de Guadalajara 2001st in the world
=2001 National University of San Marcos 2001st in the world