World University Index

THE World University Rankings by Subject: Education

2025 edition, Education. Published by Times Higher Education.

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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 Stanford University 1st in the world for Education
2 University of California, Berkeley 2nd in the world for Education
3 University of Oxford 3rd in the world for Education
4 University of Cambridge 4th in the world for Education
5 Harvard University 5th in the world for Education
6 University of Hong Kong 6th in the world for Education
7 Tsinghua University 7th in the world for Education
8 Peking University 8th in the world for Education
9 University of Toronto 9th in the world for Education
10 University College London 10th in the world for Education
11 Chinese University of Hong Kong 11th in the world for Education
12 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 12th in the world for Education
13 University of California, Los Angeles 13th in the world for Education
14 University of Wisconsin-Madison 14th in the world for Education
15 Michigan State University 15th in the world for Education
=16 University of Pennsylvania 16th in the world for Education
=16 University of Melbourne 16th in the world for Education
18 Nanyang Technological University 18th in the world for Education
19 Monash University 19th in the world for Education
20 Beijing Normal University 20th in the world for Education
=21 University of Texas at Austin 21st in the world for Education
=21 University of Sydney 21st in the world for Education
23 New York University 23rd in the world for Education
24 University of Tokyo 24th in the world for Education
25 University of British Columbia 25th in the world for Education
26 Maastricht University 26th in the world for Education
27 University of Edinburgh 27th in the world for Education
28 Vanderbilt University 28th in the world for Education
29 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 29th in the world for Education
30 Johns Hopkins University 30th in the world for Education
31 Pennsylvania State University 31st in the world for Education
32 University of Washington 32nd in the world for Education
33 Boston College 33rd in the world for Education
34 University of Auckland 34th in the world for Education
35 King's College London 35th in the world for Education
36 Ohio State University 36th in the world for Education
38 McGill University 38th in the world for Education
39 Lancaster University 39th in the world for Education
40 University of Queensland 40th in the world for Education
41 National Taiwan Normal University 41st in the world for Education
42 Technical University of Munich 42nd in the world for Education
43 University of Bristol 43rd in the world for Education
=44 KU Leuven 44th in the world for Education
=44 University of California, Irvine 44th in the world for Education
46 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 46th in the world for Education
47 Purdue University 47th in the world for Education
48 University of Maryland, College Park 48th in the world for Education
49 Indiana University 49th in the world for Education
50 University of Helsinki 50th in the world for Education
51 Northwestern University 51st in the world for Education
52 Kyoto University 52nd in the world for Education
53 University of Oslo 53rd in the world for Education
=54 University of Nottingham 54th in the world for Education
=54 Ghent University 54th in the world for Education
=56 University of California, San Diego 56th in the world for Education
=56 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 56th in the world for Education
58 University of Tübingen 58th in the world for Education
59 East China Normal University 59th in the world for Education
60 University of New South Wales 60th in the world for Education
62 Zhejiang University 62nd in the world for Education
63 University of Groningen 63rd in the world for Education
64 University of Southern California 64th in the world for Education
65 Seoul National University 65th in the world for Education
66 Florida State University 66th in the world for Education
67 University of Sao Paulo 67th in the world for Education
68 University of Florida 68th in the world for Education
=70 Deakin University 70th in the world for Education
=70 University of Vienna 70th in the world for Education
=70 University of Minnesota 70th in the world for Education
73 University of Birmingham 73rd in the world for Education
76 University of Alberta 76th in the world for Education
=78 Lomonosov Moscow State University 78th in the world for Education
=78 University of Twente 78th in the world for Education
80 University of Montreal 80th in the world for Education
=82 University of Bath 82nd in the world for Education
=82 Universität Hamburg 82nd in the world for Education
84 University of Manchester 84th in the world for Education
85 Aarhus University 85th in the world for Education
86 University of Amsterdam 86th in the world for Education
87 Texas A&M University 87th in the world for Education
88 Ajman University 88th in the world for Education
89 University of Leeds 89th in the world for Education
=91 University of Adelaide 91st in the world for Education
=91 Macquarie University 91st in the world for Education
=91 University of Cape Town 91st in the world for Education
94 Durham University 94th in the world for Education
95 University of Colorado Boulder 95th in the world for Education
96 University of Glasgow 96th in the world for Education
97 University College Dublin 97th in the world for Education
98 University of Technology Sydney 98th in the world for Education
99 University of California, Santa Barbara 99th in the world for Education
100 Western University 100th in the world for Education
=101 Korea University 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Sheffield 101st in the world for Education
=101 Delft University of Technology 101st in the world for Education
=101 Curtin University 101st in the world for Education
=101 Fudan University 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of California, Davis 101st in the world for Education
=101 Brown University 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Warwick 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Southampton 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Western Australia 101st in the world for Education
=101 Trinity College Dublin 101st in the world for Education
=101 Virginia Tech 101st in the world for Education
=101 Boston University 101st in the world for Education
=101 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Antwerp 101st in the world for Education
=101 Simon Fraser University 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Calgary 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Illinois Chicago 101st in the world for Education
=101 Universitat de Barcelona 101st in the world for Education
=101 The Open University 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Freiburg 101st in the world for Education
=101 Universidade do Porto 101st in the world for Education
=126 Griffith University 126th in the world for Education
=126 RMIT University 126th in the world for Education
=126 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) 126th in the world for Education
=126 University of Exeter 126th in the world for Education
=126 University of Wollongong 126th in the world for Education
=126 University of Lisbon 126th in the world for Education
=126 King Khalid University 126th in the world for Education
=126 North Carolina State University 126th in the world for Education
=126 University of Reading 126th in the world for Education
=126 Queensland University of Technology 126th in the world for Education
=126 University at Buffalo, State University of New York 126th in the world for Education
=126 University of Macau 126th in the world for Education
=126 University of Iowa 126th in the world for Education
=126 Freie Universität Berlin 126th in the world for Education
=126 Zayed University 126th in the world for Education
=126 Stockholm University 126th in the world for Education
=126 Cardiff University 126th in the world for Education
=126 Hong Kong Baptist University 126th in the world for Education
=126 University of Rochester 126th in the world for Education
=151 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 151st in the world for Education
=151 Tecnológico de Monterrey 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of Arizona 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of Central Florida 151st in the world for Education
=151 Australian Catholic University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 151st in the world for Education
=151 Dublin City University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of Johannesburg 151st in the world for Education
=151 Peoples' Friendship University of Russia 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of Potsdam 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of Leicester 151st in the world for Education
=151 Universiti Sains Malaysia 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of California, Santa Cruz 151st in the world for Education
=176 Western Sydney University 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Newcastle 176th in the world for Education
=176 United Arab Emirates University 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Connecticut 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Bologna 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Limerick 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Geneva 176th in the world for Education
=176 Syracuse University 176th in the world for Education
=176 Aalborg University 176th in the world for Education
=176 Georgia State University 176th in the world for Education
=176 Temple University 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Technology Malaysia 176th in the world for Education
=176 York University 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Mannheim 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Duisburg-Essen 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Ottawa 176th in the world for Education
=176 Queen's University Belfast 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Padua 176th in the world for Education
=201 Edith Cowan University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Qatar University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Sorbonne University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Tianjin University 201st in the world for Education
=201 La Trobe University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Sun Yat-sen University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 201st in the world for Education
=201 Victoria University 201st in the world for Education
=201 King Abdulaziz University 201st in the world for Education
=201 George Washington University 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Saskatchewan 201st in the world for Education
=201 Newcastle University 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Miami 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Tasmania 201st in the world for Education
=201 Al Ain University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Tilburg University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Iowa State University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Uppsala University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Tel Aviv University 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Turku 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Gothenburg 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Haifa 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of South Florida 201st in the world for Education
=201 Chalmers University of Technology 201st in the world for Education
=201 Universidad Complutense de Madrid 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of East Anglia 201st in the world for Education
=201 Tufts University 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Utah 201st in the world for Education
=201 Murdoch University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Concordia University 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Notre Dame 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Sussex 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Oulu 201st in the world for Education
=251 Swinburne University of Technology 251st in the world for Education
=251 Flinders University 251st in the world for Education
=251 King Saud University 251st in the world for Education
=251 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Canberra 251st in the world for Education
=251 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 251st in the world for Education
=251 Hacettepe University 251st in the world for Education
=251 Brunel University of London 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Houston 251st in the world for Education
=251 Chulalongkorn University 251st in the world for Education
=251 Université Grenoble Alpes 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Otago 251st in the world for Education
=251 National University of Malaysia 251st in the world for Education
=251 Nagoya University 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Eastern Finland 251st in the world for Education
=251 Kyushu University 251st in the world for Education
=251 Université de Toulouse 251st in the world for Education
=251 Manchester Metropolitan University 251st in the world for Education
=251 Massey University 251st in the world for Education
=251 Aix-Marseille Université 251st in the world for Education
=301 Beihang University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Sichuan University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Tongji University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Nottingham Trent University 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Southern Queensland 301st in the world for Education
=301 Kyung Hee University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 301st in the world for Education
=301 American University of Beirut 301st in the world for Education
=301 Washington State University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Universiti Putra Malaysia 301st in the world for Education
=301 Xiamen University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 301st in the world for Education
=301 National Autonomous University of Mexico 301st in the world for Education
=301 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Jordan 301st in the world for Education
=301 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Strathclyde 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Turin 301st in the world for Education
=301 King Faisal University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Cairo University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Hanyang University 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Canterbury 301st in the world for Education
=301 Drexel University 301st in the world for Education
=301 The University of Texas at San Antonio 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Victoria 301st in the world for Education
=301 National Tsing Hua University 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Stavanger 301st in the world for Education
=301 Qassim University 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Wurzburg 301st in the world for Education
=301 George Mason University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Universitat de València 301st in the world for Education
=301 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Portsmouth 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Pretoria 301st in the world for Education
=301 Auckland University of Technology 301st in the world for Education
=301 Southern Cross University 301st in the world for Education
=401 James Cook University 401st in the world for Education
=401 University College Cork 401st in the world for Education
=401 CQUniversity 401st in the world for Education
=401 Beijing Institute of Technology 401st in the world for Education
=401 University of Chile 401st in the world for Education
=401 University of the Sunshine Coast 401st in the world for Education
=401 Charles Darwin University 401st in the world for Education
=401 University of Bremen 401st in the world for Education
=401 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 401st in the world for Education
=401 Charles Sturt University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Old Dominion University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 401st in the world for Education
=401 The University of Texas at Dallas 401st in the world for Education
=401 Shenzhen University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Liverpool John Moores University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Umm al-Qura University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Oklahoma State University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Yarmouk University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 401st in the world for Education
=401 William & Mary 401st in the world for Education
=401 Florida Atlantic University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Memorial University of Newfoundland 401st in the world for Education
=401 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 401st in the world for Education
=401 Keio University 401st in the world for Education
=501 An-Najah National University 501st in the world for Education
=501 American University 501st in the world for Education
=501 Université de Bretagne Occidentale 501st in the world for Education
=501 Universidade Federal de São Carlos 501st in the world for Education
=501 Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University 501st in the world for Education
=501 Universidade de Brasília 501st in the world for Education
=501 Federation University Australia 501st in the world for Education
=501 Mississippi State University 501st in the world for Education
=501 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso 501st in the world for Education
=501 Wake Forest University 501st in the world for Education
=501 Al-Farabi Kazakh National University 501st in the world for Education
=501 Université de Lille 501st in the world for Education
=501 University of Córdoba 501st in the world for Education
=501 Chiang Mai University 501st in the world for Education
=501 Sebelas Maret University 501st in the world for Education
=501 University of Szeged 501st in the world for Education
=501 University of Florence 501st in the world for Education
=501 Universidad de Zaragoza 501st in the world for Education
=601 University of Concepción 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidad Nacional de Colombia 601st in the world for Education
=601 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 601st in the world for Education
=601 Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidad de Costa Rica 601st in the world for Education
=601 University of Tarapacá 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidad de Antioquia 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidad Nacional de La Plata 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidade Federal de Pernambuco 601st in the world for Education
=601 Kasetsart University 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidade de Vigo 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidade Federal de Goiás 601st in the world for Education
=601 State University of Semarang 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidade Federal de Santa Maria 601st in the world for Education
=601 Ege University 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidad de La Sabana 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 601st in the world for Education
=601 University of Baghdad 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidad de La Frontera 601st in the world for Education
=601 Austral University of Chile 601st in the world for Education
=601 Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla 601st in the world for Education
=601 University of Zagreb 601st in the world for Education
=601 Al-Balqa Applied University 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidad de Guadalajara 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidad Diego Portales 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidade Estadual de Maringá 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidad de Talca 601st in the world for Education
=601 Nantes Université 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidade Federal Fluminense 601st in the world for Education
=601 Kuwait University 601st in the world for Education
=601 King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidade Federal de Pelotas 601st in the world for Education
=601 University of Notre Dame Australia 601st in the world for Education