University Ranking by Academic Performance (2025-2026)

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.

1. #1Harvard University1st in the world
2. #2Zhejiang University2nd in the world
3. #3Shanghai Jiao Tong University3rd in the world
4. #4Tsinghua University4th in the world
5. #5University College London5th in the world
6. #6University of Toronto6th in the world
7. #7University of Oxford7th in the world
8. #8Peking University8th in the world
9. #9Stanford University9th in the world
10. #11Johns Hopkins University11th in the world
11. #13University of Cambridge13th in the world
12. #14National University of Singapore14th in the world
13. #15Imperial College London15th in the world
14. #18Fudan University18th in the world
15. #20University of Michigan-Ann Arbor20th in the world
16. #21University of Washington21st in the world
17. #22Cornell University22nd in the world
18. #23University of Pennsylvania23rd in the world
19. #24University of Science and Technology of China24th in the world
20. #26University of Melbourne26th in the world
21. #27University of Sydney27th in the world
22. #28Monash University28th in the world
23. #29Massachusetts Institute of Technology29th in the world
24. #30University of California, Los Angeles30th in the world
25. #31Columbia University31st in the world
26. #34University of New South Wales34th in the world
27. #35University of Copenhagen35th in the world
28. #37University of British Columbia37th in the world
29. #38Yale University38th in the world
30. #40Sorbonne University40th in the world
31. #45University of Queensland45th in the world
32. #47University of California, San Diego47th in the world
33. #48Nanyang Technological University48th in the world
34. #49KU Leuven49th in the world
35. #50University of Amsterdam50th in the world
36. #51University of Sao Paulo51st in the world
37. #52University of California, San Francisco52nd in the world
38. #53University of Tokyo53rd in the world
39. #55King's College London55th in the world
40. #57Seoul National University57th in the world
41. #58Duke University58th in the world
42. #59Ohio State University59th in the world
43. #60ETH Zurich60th in the world
44. #61University of California, Berkeley61st in the world
45. #62University of Manchester62nd in the world
46. #63Northwestern University63rd in the world
47. #64University of Edinburgh64th in the world
48. #66Utrecht University66th in the world
49. #68Karolinska Institute68th in the world
50. #69McGill University69th in the world
51. #70University of Pittsburgh70th in the world
52. #78Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich78th in the world
53. #79University of Minnesota79th in the world
54. #82University of Hong Kong82nd in the world
55. #83New York University83rd in the world
56. #84University of Zurich84th in the world
57. #85Technical University of Munich85th in the world
58. #86Heidelberg University86th in the world
59. #88University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill88th in the world
60. #89Pennsylvania State University89th in the world
61. #91University of Wisconsin-Madison91st in the world
62. #93University of Alberta93rd in the world
63. #97Yonsei University97th in the world
64. #101City University of Hong Kong101st in the world
65. #108PSL University108th in the world
66. #109University of Texas at Austin109th in the world
67. #111University of Birmingham111th in the world
68. #114University of Chicago114th in the world
69. #117University of Southern California117th in the world
70. #122Vanderbilt University122nd in the world
71. #124Lund University124th in the world
72. #126University of Montreal126th in the world
73. #131University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign131st in the world
74. #132University of Western Australia132nd in the world
75. #134Tel Aviv University134th in the world
76. #138University of Glasgow138th in the world
77. #140Korea University140th in the world
78. #141University of Bristol141st in the world
79. #143Purdue University143rd in the world
80. #145Kyoto University145th in the world
81. #148University of Technology Sydney148th in the world
82. #149University of Maryland, College Park149th in the world
83. #150University of Leeds150th in the world
84. #161Boston University161st in the world
85. #163University of Nottingham163rd in the world
86. #164University of Adelaide164th in the world
87. #165Georgia Institute of Technology165th in the world
88. #166Queen Mary University of London166th in the world
89. #169University of Southampton169th in the world
90. #175Princeton University175th in the world
91. #177Delft University of Technology177th in the world
92. #180California Institute of Technology180th in the world
93. #187RWTH Aachen University187th in the world
94. #188EPFL188th in the world
95. #191University of Sheffield191st in the world
96. #192Australian National University192nd in the world
97. #199National Autonomous University of Mexico199th in the world
98. #204Deakin University204th in the world
99. #207Tohoku University207th in the world
100. #211University of Auckland211th in the world
101. #217Osaka University217th in the world
102. #220Hong Kong University of Science and Technology220th in the world
103. #223Brown University223rd in the world
104. #225University of Warwick225th in the world
105. #241Curtin University241st in the world
106. #257University of Vienna257th in the world
107. #258RMIT University258th in the world
108. #263Queensland University of Technology263rd in the world
109. #268Macquarie University268th in the world
110. #272Griffith University272nd in the world
111. #278KTH Royal Institute of Technology278th in the world
112. #279King Abdullah University of Science and Technology279th in the world
113. #282Hebrew University of Jerusalem282nd in the world
114. #288KAIST288th in the world
115. #290Politecnico di Milano290th in the world
116. #292Trinity College Dublin292nd in the world
117. #295University of Wollongong295th in the world
118. #297Universiti Malaya297th in the world
119. #344University of Newcastle344th in the world
120. #351Carnegie Mellon University351st in the world
121. #361Swinburne University of Technology361st in the world
122. #384La Trobe University384th in the world
123. #392Durham University392nd in the world
124. #411Western Sydney University411th in the world
125. #433University of Otago433rd in the world
126. #444University of Buenos Aires444th in the world
127. #474Rice University474th in the world
128. #476Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile476th in the world
129. #587University of St Andrews587th in the world
130. #617James Cook University617th in the world
131. #639Edith Cowan University639th in the world
132. #653University of Southern Queensland653rd in the world
133. #676London School of Economics and Political Science676th in the world
134. #726Murdoch University726th in the world
135. #953Australian Catholic University953rd in the world
136. #1006Charles Darwin University1006th in the world
137. #1078CQUniversity1078th in the world
138. #1108Victoria University1108th in the world
139. #1121University of the Sunshine Coast1121st in the world
140. #1158Charles Sturt University1158th in the world
141. #1200University of Canberra1200th in the world
142. #1217Bond University1217th in the world
143. #1241University of New England1241st in the world
144. #1247Federation University Australia1247th in the world
145. #1358Southern Cross University1358th in the world
146. #1614University of Notre Dame Australia1614th in the world
147. #1662Torrens University Australia1662nd in the world