World University Index

THE World University Rankings by Subject: Education

2026 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 Tsinghua University 5th in the world for Education
6 Harvard University 6th in the world for Education
7 University of Hong Kong 7th in the world for Education
8 Peking University 8th in the world for Education
9 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 9th in the world for Education
10 University College London 10th in the world for Education
11 University of Toronto 11th in the world for Education
12 University of Pennsylvania 12th in the world for Education
13 Chinese University of Hong Kong 13th in the world for Education
14 University of California, Los Angeles 14th in the world for Education
15 Michigan State University 15th in the world for Education
16 University of Melbourne 16th in the world for Education
17 University of Wisconsin-Madison 17th in the world for Education
18 Monash University 18th in the world for Education
19 Nanyang Technological University 19th in the world for Education
20 Beijing Normal University 20th in the world for Education
21 University of Edinburgh 21st in the world for Education
22 University of Texas at Austin 22nd in the world for Education
=23 New York University 23rd in the world for Education
=23 University of British Columbia 23rd in the world for Education
25 University of Tokyo 25th in the world for Education
26 University of Sydney 26th in the world for Education
27 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 27th in the world for Education
28 Johns Hopkins University 28th in the world for Education
29 King's College London 29th in the world for Education
30 Vanderbilt University 30th in the world for Education
31 Technical University of Munich 31st in the world for Education
32 University of Washington 32nd in the world for Education
33 University of Auckland 33rd in the world for Education
34 Education University of Hong Kong 34th in the world for Education
35 Pennsylvania State University 35th in the world for Education
36 Maastricht University 36th in the world for Education
37 McGill University 37th in the world for Education
38 Zhejiang University 38th in the world for Education
39 University of Queensland 39th in the world for Education
40 Ohio State University 40th in the world for Education
41 University of Helsinki 41st in the world for Education
42 Lancaster University 42nd in the world for Education
43 University of Bristol 43rd in the world for Education
44 Boston College 44th in the world for Education
46 East China Normal University 46th in the world for Education
=47 KU Leuven 47th in the world for Education
=47 Florida State University 47th in the world for Education
49 National Taiwan Normal University 49th in the world for Education
=50 Seoul National University 50th in the world for Education
=50 Indiana University 50th in the world for Education
52 Purdue University 52nd in the world for Education
53 University of Oslo 53rd in the world for Education
=54 University of New South Wales 54th in the world for Education
=54 Nanjing University 54th in the world for Education
=54 Kyoto University 54th in the world for Education
=54 University of Maryland, College Park 54th in the world for Education
58 University of Southern California 58th in the world for Education
59 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 59th in the world for Education
60 University of California, Irvine 60th in the world for Education
61 University of Sao Paulo 61st in the world for Education
62 Northwestern University 62nd in the world for Education
63 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 63rd in the world for Education
64 University of Minnesota 64th in the world for Education
66 University of Florida 66th in the world for Education
67 King Khalid University 67th in the world for Education
68 University of Tübingen 68th in the world for Education
69 Ghent University 69th in the world for Education
70 Deakin University 70th in the world for Education
=71 University of Technology Sydney 71st in the world for Education
=71 University College Dublin 71st in the world for Education
=75 University of Amsterdam 75th in the world for Education
=75 Tecnológico de Monterrey 75th in the world for Education
=77 University of Glasgow 77th in the world for Education
=77 University of Bath 77th in the world for Education
=77 University of Twente 77th in the world for Education
80 University of Nottingham 80th in the world for Education
82 University of Alberta 82nd in the world for Education
83 University of Macau 83rd in the world for Education
=84 University of Vienna 84th in the world for Education
=84 University of Leeds 84th in the world for Education
87 University of California, San Diego 87th in the world for Education
88 University of California, Santa Barbara 88th in the world for Education
=89 University of Groningen 89th in the world for Education
=89 Adelaide University 89th in the world for Education
=90 Korea University 90th in the world for Education
=90 University of Birmingham 90th in the world for Education
=90 Lomonosov Moscow State University 90th in the world for Education
94 University of Cape Town 94th in the world for Education
95 University of California, Davis 95th in the world for Education
96 Universität Hamburg 96th in the world for Education
99 University of Manchester 99th in the world for Education
100 Delft University of Technology 100th in the world for Education
=101 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Colorado Boulder 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Sheffield 101st in the world for Education
=101 Aarhus University 101st in the world for Education
=101 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) 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 Texas A&M University 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Lisbon 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Warwick 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Montreal 101st in the world for Education
=101 University of Reading 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 Western University 101st in the world for Education
=101 Macquarie University 101st in the world for Education
=101 Boston University 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 Hong Kong Baptist University 101st in the world for Education
=126 RMIT University 126th in the world for Education
=126 University of Exeter 126th in the world for Education
=126 Durham University 126th in the world for Education
=126 University of Arizona 126th in the world for Education
=126 Brown University 126th in the world for Education
=126 North Carolina State University 126th in the world for Education
=126 Trinity College Dublin 126th in the world for Education
=126 Ajman University 126th in the world for Education
=126 Virginia Tech 126th in the world for Education
=126 University of Johannesburg 126th in the world for Education
=126 Aalborg University 126th in the world for Education
=126 Mahidol University 126th in the world for Education
=126 University of Calgary 126th in the world for Education
=126 University of Illinois Chicago 126th in the world for Education
=126 Universitat de Barcelona 126th in the world for Education
=126 The Open University 126th in the world for Education
=126 Universidade do Porto 126th in the world for Education
=151 Griffith University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Sorbonne University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Tianjin University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Sun Yat-sen University 151st in the world for Education
=151 United Arab Emirates University 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 University of Connecticut 151st in the world for Education
=151 Queensland University of Technology 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of Geneva 151st in the world for Education
=151 Peoples' Friendship University of Russia 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of Iowa 151st in the world for Education
=151 Freie Universität Berlin 151st in the world for Education
=151 Zayed University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Tel Aviv University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Stockholm University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Chalmers University of Technology 151st in the world for Education
=151 Kyushu University 151st in the world for Education
=151 Universiti Sains Malaysia 151st in the world for Education
=151 Queen's University Belfast 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of California, Santa Cruz 151st in the world for Education
=151 University of Rochester 151st in the world for Education
=176 Western Sydney University 176th in the world for Education
=176 Qatar University 176th in the world for Education
=176 National Autonomous University of Mexico 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Bologna 176th in the world for Education
=176 Dublin City University 176th in the world for Education
=176 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 176th in the world for Education
=176 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Potsdam 176th in the world for Education
=176 Uppsala University 176th in the world for Education
=176 Al-Ahliyya Amman University 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Leicester 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Technology Malaysia 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Mannheim 176th in the world for Education
=176 Universidad Complutense de Madrid 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Padua 176th in the world for Education
=176 University of Sussex 176th in the world for Education
=201 Edith Cowan University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Swinburne University of Technology 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Newcastle 201st in the world for Education
=201 La Trobe University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) 201st in the world for Education
=201 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Wollongong 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 Lebanese American University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Newcastle University 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Sharjah 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Limerick 201st in the world for Education
=201 Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University 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 University at Buffalo, State University of New York 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Houston 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Otago 201st in the world for Education
=201 Iowa State University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Georgia State University 201st in the world for Education
=201 National University of Malaysia 201st in the world for Education
=201 Temple University 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Gothenburg 201st in the world for Education
=201 York University 201st in the world for Education
=201 Nagoya University 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Duisburg-Essen 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Ottawa 201st in the world for Education
=201 Cardiff University 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of East Anglia 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Utah 201st in the world for Education
=201 Massey University 201st in the world for Education
=201 University of Oulu 201st in the world for Education
=251 Tohoku University 251st in the world for Education
=251 Kyung Hee University 251st in the world for Education
=251 Beijing Institute of Technology 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Canberra 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Central Florida 251st in the world for Education
=251 Universiti Putra Malaysia 251st in the world for Education
=251 Xiamen University 251st in the world for Education
=251 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Saskatchewan 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Jordan 251st in the world for Education
=251 Hacettepe University 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Miami 251st in the world for Education
=251 City University of Macau 251st in the world for Education
=251 King Faisal University 251st in the world for Education
=251 Chulalongkorn University 251st in the world for Education
=251 Syracuse University 251st in the world for Education
=251 Université Grenoble Alpes 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Turku 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Haifa 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of South Florida 251st in the world for Education
=251 Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Victoria 251st in the world for Education
=251 Tufts University 251st in the world for Education
=251 Murdoch University 251st in the world for Education
=251 Concordia University 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Notre Dame 251st in the world for Education
=251 University of Tehran 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 Flinders University 301st in the world for Education
=301 James Cook 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 King Saud University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 301st in the world for Education
=301 Victoria University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Washington State University 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of the Sunshine Coast 301st in the world for Education
=301 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 301st in the world for Education
=301 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Bremen 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 Brunel University of London 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Turin 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 Nebraska–Lincoln 301st in the world for Education
=301 Liverpool John Moores University 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Canterbury 301st in the world for Education
=301 Stony Brook University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Drexel University 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Eastern Finland 301st in the world for Education
=301 The University of Texas at San Antonio 301st in the world for Education
=301 National Tsing Hua University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Université de Toulouse 301st in the world for Education
=301 Yarmouk University 301st in the world for Education
=301 Sebelas Maret 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 University of Florence 301st in the world for Education
=301 Arabian Gulf University 301st in the world for Education
=301 University of Portsmouth 301st in the world for Education
=301 Manchester Metropolitan University 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 University College Cork 401st in the world for Education
=401 CQUniversity 401st in the world for Education
=401 An-Najah National University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Qingdao University 401st in the world for Education
=401 University of Chile 401st in the world for Education
=401 Charles Darwin University 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 Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University 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 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 401st in the world for Education
=401 Al-Farabi Kazakh National University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Majmaah University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Oklahoma State University 401st in the world for Education
=401 William & Mary 401st in the world for Education
=401 Qassim University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Saarland University 401st in the world for Education
=401 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 401st in the world for Education
=401 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 401st in the world for Education
=501 American University 501st in the world for Education
=501 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 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 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 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 Umm al-Qura University 501st in the world for Education
=501 Ain Shams University 501st in the world for Education
=501 Ege University 501st in the world for Education
=501 Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 501st in the world for Education
=501 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 501st in the world for Education
=501 University of Szeged 501st in the world for Education
=501 Al-Balqa Applied University 501st in the world for Education
=501 Florida Atlantic University 501st in the world for Education
=501 Memorial University of Newfoundland 501st in the world for Education
=501 Keio University 501st in the world for Education
=501 Chaoyang University of Technology 501st in the world for Education
=501 King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi 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 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 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidade de Vigo 601st in the world for Education
=601 Wake Forest University 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 Université de Lille 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidad de La Sabana 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 Córdoba 601st in the world for Education
=601 Chiang Mai University 601st in the world for Education
=601 University of Zagreb 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 National University of San Marcos 601st in the world for Education
=601 Taif University 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 Fluminense 601st in the world for Education
=601 Kuwait University 601st in the world for Education
=601 Universidad de Zaragoza 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
=801 Universidade Federal de Goiás 801st in the world for Education
=801 Universidade Federal de Santa Maria 801st in the world for Education
=801 Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo 801st in the world for Education