World University Index

THE World University Rankings by Subject: Psychology

2026 edition, Psychology. Published by Times Higher Education.

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Rank Institution Claim
1 University of Cambridge 1st in the world for Psychology
2 Stanford University 2nd in the world for Psychology
3 University of California, Berkeley 3rd in the world for Psychology
4 Princeton University 4th in the world for Psychology
5 Harvard University 5th in the world for Psychology
6 University College London 6th in the world for Psychology
7 Yale University 7th in the world for Psychology
8 University of Pennsylvania 8th in the world for Psychology
9 King's College London 9th in the world for Psychology
10 University of Chicago 10th in the world for Psychology
11 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 11th in the world for Psychology
12 University of California, Los Angeles 12th in the world for Psychology
13 University of Toronto 13th in the world for Psychology
14 University of Amsterdam 14th in the world for Psychology
15 Columbia University 15th in the world for Psychology
16 New York University 16th in the world for Psychology
17 Duke University 17th in the world for Psychology
18 KU Leuven 18th in the world for Psychology
19 University of Melbourne 19th in the world for Psychology
20 University of British Columbia 20th in the world for Psychology
21 Peking University 21st in the world for Psychology
22 Northwestern University 22nd in the world for Psychology
23 University of Edinburgh 23rd in the world for Psychology
24 University of Queensland 24th in the world for Psychology
25 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 25th in the world for Psychology
26 Johns Hopkins University 26th in the world for Psychology
27 McGill University 27th in the world for Psychology
28 University of Groningen 28th in the world for Psychology
29 Carnegie Mellon University 29th in the world for Psychology
30 Beijing Normal University 30th in the world for Psychology
31 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 31st in the world for Psychology
=32 University of Minnesota 32nd in the world for Psychology
=32 University of Wisconsin-Madison 32nd in the world for Psychology
34 Karolinska Institute 34th in the world for Psychology
35 University of Texas at Austin 35th in the world for Psychology
36 Radboud University Nijmegen 36th in the world for Psychology
=37 National University of Singapore 37th in the world for Psychology
=37 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 37th in the world for Psychology
39 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 39th in the world for Psychology
40 University of California, San Diego 40th in the world for Psychology
41 University of Glasgow 41st in the world for Psychology
42 Ghent University 42nd in the world for Psychology
43 University of Washington 43rd in the world for Psychology
44 Maastricht University 44th in the world for Psychology
45 Vanderbilt University 45th in the world for Psychology
=46 University of California, Davis 46th in the world for Psychology
=46 Brown University 46th in the world for Psychology
48 University of Tübingen 48th in the world for Psychology
49 University of Bristol 49th in the world for Psychology
=50 London School of Economics and Political Science 50th in the world for Psychology
=50 Ohio State University 50th in the world for Psychology
52 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 52nd in the world for Psychology
53 University of Sydney 53rd in the world for Psychology
55 Leiden University 55th in the world for Psychology
=56 University of Vienna 56th in the world for Psychology
=56 Washington University in St. Louis 56th in the world for Psychology
58 Boston University 58th in the world for Psychology
59 University of Auckland 59th in the world for Psychology
60 University of California, Irvine 60th in the world for Psychology
61 University of Sussex 61st in the world for Psychology
62 University of Hong Kong 62nd in the world for Psychology
63 Chinese University of Hong Kong 63rd in the world for Psychology
65 University of New South Wales 65th in the world for Psychology
66 Michigan State University 66th in the world for Psychology
67 Monash University 67th in the world for Psychology
68 University of Birmingham 68th in the world for Psychology
70 University of Tokyo 70th in the world for Psychology
71 Tilburg University 71st in the world for Psychology
73 University of Mannheim 73rd in the world for Psychology
74 Freie Universität Berlin 74th in the world for Psychology
75 Kyoto University 75th in the world for Psychology
76 Dartmouth College 76th in the world for Psychology
77 University of Maryland, College Park 77th in the world for Psychology
79 Purdue University 79th in the world for Psychology
=80 University of Bath 80th in the world for Psychology
=80 Cardiff University 80th in the world for Psychology
=82 Georgia Institute of Technology 82nd in the world for Psychology
=82 University of Southern California 82nd in the world for Psychology
=84 University of California, Santa Barbara 84th in the world for Psychology
=84 University of Rochester 84th in the world for Psychology
86 Aarhus University 86th in the world for Psychology
87 University of Exeter 87th in the world for Psychology
88 University of Sheffield 88th in the world for Psychology
89 Macquarie University 89th in the world for Psychology
90 University of Warwick 90th in the world for Psychology
94 Western University 94th in the world for Psychology
95 University of Padua 95th in the world for Psychology
=96 Australian National University 96th in the world for Psychology
=96 University of Western Australia 96th in the world for Psychology
=98 University of Nottingham 98th in the world for Psychology
=98 Indiana University 98th in the world for Psychology
=101 Korea University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Manchester 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of St Andrews 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Copenhagen 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Australian Catholic University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Southampton 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Emory University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Leeds 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Rice University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Oslo 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Geneva 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Boston College 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Macau 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Sapienza University of Rome 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 University of Potsdam 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Lomonosov Moscow State University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Stony Brook University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 McMaster University 101st in the world for Psychology
=101 Universität Hamburg 101st in the world for Psychology
=126 University of Alberta 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 University of Bern 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 Curtin University 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 Durham University 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 University of Arizona 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 University of Montreal 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 Trinity College Dublin 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 Florida State University 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 Adelaide University 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 University of Iowa 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 University of Waterloo 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 Tel Aviv University 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 University of Helsinki 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 York University 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 University of Calgary 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 Lancaster University 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 Universitat de Barcelona 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 University of Notre Dame 126th in the world for Psychology
=126 Royal Holloway University of London 126th in the world for Psychology
=151 Deakin University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Colorado Boulder 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Sao Paulo 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Flinders University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Surrey 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 La Trobe University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Florida 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Connecticut 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Lebanese American University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Bologna 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Reading 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Limerick 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Konstanz 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Loughborough University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Otago 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Stockholm University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Turku 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 Simon Fraser University 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 University of Wurzburg 151st in the world for Psychology
=151 George Mason University 151st in the world for Psychology
=176 Education University of Hong Kong 176th in the world for Psychology
=176 Texas A&M University 176th in the world for Psychology
=176 Dublin City University 176th in the world for Psychology
=176 University of Miami 176th in the world for Psychology
=176 University College Dublin 176th in the world for Psychology
=176 Uppsala University 176th in the world for Psychology
=176 Tufts University 176th in the world for Psychology
=176 University of Freiburg 176th in the world for Psychology
=176 Dalhousie University 176th in the world for Psychology
=201 Griffith University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Swinburne University of Technology 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Zhejiang University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Nottingham Trent University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University College Cork 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Central Florida 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Wollongong 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 George Washington University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 North Carolina State University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Queensland University of Technology 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Lund University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Newcastle University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Virginia Tech 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Université Paris Cité 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Iowa State University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Bergen 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Göttingen 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Liverpool 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Twente 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Trento 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Cape Town 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Ottawa 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Queen's University Belfast 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Concordia University 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 Universitat de València 201st in the world for Psychology
=201 University of Portsmouth 201st in the world for Psychology
=251 RMIT University 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 Tecnológico de Monterrey 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 Victoria University 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 Washington State University 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 Brunel University of London 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 East China Normal University 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 University at Buffalo, State University of New York 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 University of Houston 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 University of Johannesburg 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 University of Leicester 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 University of Bonn 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 University of Gothenburg 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 Wake Forest University 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 Koç University 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 University of Haifa 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 Nagoya University 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 University of Illinois Chicago 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 University of South Florida 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 University of Victoria 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 Universidad Complutense de Madrid 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 251st in the world for Psychology
=251 Universidade do Porto 251st in the world for Psychology
=301 Edith Cowan University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Technology Sydney 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Western Sydney University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Newcastle 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Southern Queensland 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 CQUniversity 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Sun Yat-sen University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 United Arab Emirates University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Osaka University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Naples Federico II 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Lisbon 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Saskatchewan 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Bremen 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Case Western Reserve University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Strathclyde 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Turin 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Guelph 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Tasmania 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Shenzhen University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Université Grenoble Alpes 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Aalborg University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Liverpool John Moores University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Georgia State University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Temple University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Canterbury 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Drexel University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Kyushu University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 National Taiwan Normal University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Université de Toulouse 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of East Anglia 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Utah 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Murdoch University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Manchester Metropolitan University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Massey University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of California, Santa Cruz 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Universidad de Zaragoza 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 Southern Cross University 301st in the world for Psychology
=301 University of Notre Dame Australia 301st in the world for Psychology
=401 James Cook University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 King Saud University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Canberra 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 King Abdulaziz University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of the Sunshine Coast 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Jordan 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Old Dominion University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 King Faisal University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 The University of Texas at Dallas 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Chulalongkorn University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Indonesia 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Syracuse University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Adolfo Ibáñez University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Zayed University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 National University of Malaysia 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Bournemouth University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Université de Lille 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Eastern Finland 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 National Tsing Hua University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Oklahoma State University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Córdoba 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Saarland University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Florida Atlantic University 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Memorial University of Newfoundland 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 University of Pretoria 401st in the world for Psychology
=401 Bond University 401st in the world for Psychology
=501 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 Qingdao University 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 University of Chile 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 American University 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 National Autonomous University of Mexico 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 Charles Sturt University 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 City University of Macau 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 Peoples' Friendship University of Russia 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 Universidade de Brasília 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 Federation University Australia 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 Mississippi State University 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 University of Pecs 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 The University of Texas at San Antonio 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 Chiang Mai University 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 William & Mary 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 The Open University 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 University of Tehran 501st in the world for Psychology
=501 Auckland University of Technology 501st in the world for Psychology
=601 Hacettepe University 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 University of Concepción 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Universidad Nacional de Colombia 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Université de Bretagne Occidentale 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Universidade Federal de São Carlos 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 University of Tarapacá 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Universidad de Antioquia 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Universidade Federal de Pernambuco 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Universidad de La Frontera 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 University of Szeged 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Universidad de Guadalajara 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Universidad Diego Portales 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Universitas Airlangga 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Nantes Université 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo 601st in the world for Psychology
=601 Universidade Federal Fluminense 601st in the world for Psychology