Time World's Top Universities (2026)

Recorded placements 130

Institutions the Index records in this table. A placement here is a placement anywhere: the Index reports each institution's best, whatever its scope.

1. #1University of Oxford1st in the world
2. #2Yale University2nd in the world
3. #3Stanford University3rd in the world
4. #4Massachusetts Institute of Technology4th in the world
5. #5University of Chicago5th in the world
6. #6Harvard University6th in the world
7. #7University of Cambridge7th in the world
8. #8Imperial College London8th in the world
9. #9University of Michigan-Ann Arbor9th in the world
10. #10University of Pennsylvania10th in the world
11. #11Princeton University11th in the world
12. #12Johns Hopkins University12th in the world
13. #13California Institute of Technology13th in the world
14. #14Duke University14th in the world
15. #15Northwestern University15th in the world
16. #16Cornell University16th in the world
17. #17EPFL17th in the world
18. #18University of Edinburgh18th in the world
19. #20University of California, Berkeley20th in the world
20. #21University of Hong Kong21st in the world
21. #22University of California, Los Angeles22nd in the world
22. #23University of Wisconsin-Madison23rd in the world
23. #24Chinese University of Hong Kong24th in the world
24. #25New York University25th in the world
25. #27University of Zurich27th in the world
26. #28Vanderbilt University28th in the world
27. #29ETH Zurich29th in the world
28. #30Rice University30th in the world
29. #31University of Toronto31st in the world
30. #34University of Washington34th in the world
31. #35University of Manchester35th in the world
32. #38University of Queensland38th in the world
33. #39Technical University of Munich39th in the world
34. #41University College London41st in the world
35. #42University of British Columbia42nd in the world
36. #43University of Minnesota43rd in the world
37. #44University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill44th in the world
38. #45University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign45th in the world
39. #47University of Texas at Austin47th in the world
40. #48University of Bristol48th in the world
41. #49Ohio State University49th in the world
42. #50Brown University50th in the world
43. #51Carnegie Mellon University51st in the world
44. #52University of Southampton52nd in the world
45. #53University of Southern California53rd in the world
46. #54Boston University54th in the world
47. #55University of Melbourne55th in the world
48. #57Tsinghua University57th in the world
49. #58University of Tokyo58th in the world
50. #59University of Glasgow59th in the world
51. #63Columbia University63rd in the world
52. #64University of Sheffield64th in the world
53. #65University of California, San Diego65th in the world
54. #66Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich66th in the world
55. #67King's College London67th in the world
56. #69Kyoto University69th in the world
57. #71University of Leeds71st in the world
58. #72Purdue University72nd in the world
59. #73University of Sydney73rd in the world
60. #74Georgia Institute of Technology74th in the world
61. #76University of Western Australia76th in the world
62. #77University of Birmingham77th in the world
63. #78Australian National University78th in the world
64. #79University of New South Wales79th in the world
65. #80Heidelberg University80th in the world
66. #81Seoul National University81st in the world
67. #82Shanghai Jiao Tong University82nd in the world
68. #83Nanyang Technological University83rd in the world
69. #85University of Adelaide85th in the world
70. #86University of Alberta86th in the world
71. #87University of Pittsburgh87th in the world
72. #88National University of Singapore88th in the world
73. #90University of Nottingham90th in the world
74. #92London School of Economics and Political Science92nd in the world
75. #93Pennsylvania State University93rd in the world
76. #96Lund University96th in the world
77. #97University of Warwick97th in the world
78. #100University of Auckland100th in the world
79. #102Monash University102nd in the world
80. #103University of St Andrews103rd in the world
81. #104University of Maryland, College Park104th in the world
82. #106Delft University of Technology106th in the world
83. #110Peking University110th in the world
84. #113Trinity College Dublin113th in the world
85. #117Durham University117th in the world
86. #118University of California, San Francisco118th in the world
87. #123Yonsei University123rd in the world
88. #125Queen Mary University of London125th in the world
89. #126Fudan University126th in the world
90. #130City University of Hong Kong130th in the world
91. #131University of Vienna131st in the world
92. #132RWTH Aachen University132nd in the world
93. #136Sorbonne University136th in the world
94. #138University of Amsterdam138th in the world
95. #142Karolinska Institute142nd in the world
96. #144Osaka University144th in the world
97. #146Institute of Science Tokyo146th in the world
98. #154Utrecht University154th in the world
99. #159Hong Kong University of Science and Technology159th in the world
100. #167Korea University167th in the world
101. #168McGill University168th in the world
102. #182University of Sao Paulo182nd in the world
103. #183University of Montreal183rd in the world
104. #184University of Otago184th in the world
105. #188University of Science and Technology of China188th in the world
106. #189PSL University189th in the world
107. #232Macquarie University232nd in the world
108. #235Curtin University235th in the world
109. #260James Cook University260th in the world
110. #278University of Newcastle278th in the world
111. #279KTH Royal Institute of Technology279th in the world
112. #281KU Leuven281st in the world
113. #284Deakin University284th in the world
114. #292Hebrew University of Jerusalem292nd in the world
115. #296University of Technology Sydney296th in the world
116. #304University of Wollongong304th in the world
117. #313Murdoch University313th in the world
118. #314Tel Aviv University314th in the world
119. #332Griffith University332nd in the world
120. #333RMIT University333rd in the world
121. #338Queensland University of Technology338th in the world
122. #359KAIST359th in the world
123. #360University of Copenhagen360th in the world
124. #366Zhejiang University366th in the world
125. #379La Trobe University379th in the world
126. #400Bond University400th in the world
127. #402Western Sydney University402nd in the world
128. #404Tohoku University404th in the world
129. #406Swinburne University of Technology406th in the world
130. #512Victoria University512th in the world