World University Index

University Ranking by Academic Performance (2025-2026)

2025-2026 edition. Published by URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University.

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Citing other editions of this index

  • BARU, by showing a sustainable performance, rose 29 places this year and reached the 2,251st place.

    Bartin University , source , retrieved

  • Hacettepe University ranks 573rd among 3,000 universities worldwide.

    Hacettepe University , source , retrieved

  • ranked 2137th with an increase of 162 places in the URAP general ranking

    Istanbul Gelisim University , source , retrieved

  • ranked first among all other universities in Turkey and ranked 431st among the top universities in the world

    Izmir University of Economics , source , retrieved

Recorded placements 147

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 Harvard University 1st in the world
2 Zhejiang University 2nd in the world
3 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 3rd in the world
4 Tsinghua University 4th in the world
5 University College London 5th in the world
6 University of Toronto 6th in the world
7 University of Oxford 7th in the world
8 Peking University 8th in the world
9 Stanford University 9th in the world
11 Johns Hopkins University 11th in the world
13 University of Cambridge 13th in the world
14 National University of Singapore 14th in the world
15 Imperial College London 15th in the world
18 Fudan University 18th in the world
20 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 20th in the world
21 University of Washington 21st in the world
22 Cornell University 22nd in the world
23 University of Pennsylvania 23rd in the world
24 University of Science and Technology of China 24th in the world
26 University of Melbourne 26th in the world
27 University of Sydney 27th in the world
28 Monash University 28th in the world
29 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 29th in the world
30 University of California, Los Angeles 30th in the world
31 Columbia University 31st in the world
34 University of New South Wales 34th in the world
35 University of Copenhagen 35th in the world
37 University of British Columbia 37th in the world
38 Yale University 38th in the world
40 Sorbonne University 40th in the world
45 University of Queensland 45th in the world
47 University of California, San Diego 47th in the world
48 Nanyang Technological University 48th in the world
49 KU Leuven 49th in the world
50 University of Amsterdam 50th in the world
51 University of Sao Paulo 51st in the world
52 University of California, San Francisco 52nd in the world
53 University of Tokyo 53rd in the world
55 King's College London 55th in the world
57 Seoul National University 57th in the world
58 Duke University 58th in the world
59 Ohio State University 59th in the world
60 ETH Zurich 60th in the world
61 University of California, Berkeley 61st in the world
62 University of Manchester 62nd in the world
63 Northwestern University 63rd in the world
64 University of Edinburgh 64th in the world
66 Utrecht University 66th in the world
68 Karolinska Institute 68th in the world
69 McGill University 69th in the world
70 University of Pittsburgh 70th in the world
78 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 78th in the world
79 University of Minnesota 79th in the world
82 University of Hong Kong 82nd in the world
83 New York University 83rd in the world
84 University of Zurich 84th in the world
85 Technical University of Munich 85th in the world
86 Heidelberg University 86th in the world
88 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 88th in the world
89 Pennsylvania State University 89th in the world
91 University of Wisconsin-Madison 91st in the world
93 University of Alberta 93rd in the world
97 Yonsei University 97th in the world
101 City University of Hong Kong 101st in the world
108 PSL University 108th in the world
109 University of Texas at Austin 109th in the world
111 University of Birmingham 111th in the world
114 University of Chicago 114th in the world
117 University of Southern California 117th in the world
122 Vanderbilt University 122nd in the world
124 Lund University 124th in the world
126 University of Montreal 126th in the world
131 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 131st in the world
132 University of Western Australia 132nd in the world
134 Tel Aviv University 134th in the world
138 University of Glasgow 138th in the world
140 Korea University 140th in the world
141 University of Bristol 141st in the world
143 Purdue University 143rd in the world
145 Kyoto University 145th in the world
148 University of Technology Sydney 148th in the world
149 University of Maryland, College Park 149th in the world
150 University of Leeds 150th in the world
161 Boston University 161st in the world
163 University of Nottingham 163rd in the world
164 University of Adelaide 164th in the world
165 Georgia Institute of Technology 165th in the world
166 Queen Mary University of London 166th in the world
169 University of Southampton 169th in the world
175 Princeton University 175th in the world
177 Delft University of Technology 177th in the world
180 California Institute of Technology 180th in the world
187 RWTH Aachen University 187th in the world
188 EPFL 188th in the world
191 University of Sheffield 191st in the world
192 Australian National University 192nd in the world
199 National Autonomous University of Mexico 199th in the world
204 Deakin University 204th in the world
207 Tohoku University 207th in the world
211 University of Auckland 211th in the world
217 Osaka University 217th in the world
220 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 220th in the world
223 Brown University 223rd in the world
225 University of Warwick 225th in the world
241 Curtin University 241st in the world
257 University of Vienna 257th in the world
258 RMIT University 258th in the world
263 Queensland University of Technology 263rd in the world
268 Macquarie University 268th in the world
272 Griffith University 272nd in the world
278 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 278th in the world
279 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 279th in the world
282 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 282nd in the world
288 KAIST 288th in the world
290 Politecnico di Milano 290th in the world
292 Trinity College Dublin 292nd in the world
295 University of Wollongong 295th in the world
297 Universiti Malaya 297th in the world
344 University of Newcastle 344th in the world
351 Carnegie Mellon University 351st in the world
361 Swinburne University of Technology 361st in the world
384 La Trobe University 384th in the world
392 Durham University 392nd in the world
411 Western Sydney University 411th in the world
433 University of Otago 433rd in the world
444 University of Buenos Aires 444th in the world
474 Rice University 474th in the world
476 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 476th in the world
587 University of St Andrews 587th in the world
617 James Cook University 617th in the world
639 Edith Cowan University 639th in the world
653 University of Southern Queensland 653rd in the world
676 London School of Economics and Political Science 676th in the world
726 Murdoch University 726th in the world
953 Australian Catholic University 953rd in the world
1006 Charles Darwin University 1006th in the world
1078 CQUniversity 1078th in the world
1108 Victoria University 1108th in the world
1121 University of the Sunshine Coast 1121st in the world
1158 Charles Sturt University 1158th in the world
1200 University of Canberra 1200th in the world
1217 Bond University 1217th in the world
1241 University of New England 1241st in the world
1247 Federation University Australia 1247th in the world
1358 Southern Cross University 1358th in the world
1614 University of Notre Dame Australia 1614th in the world
1662 Torrens University Australia 1662nd in the world