101 universities
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| Rank | Change | University | Country | Score | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | IRN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | United States of America | 97.2 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 83.0 | 100.0 | 97.6 | |
| 2 | 2 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 93.4 | 96.4 | 96.8 | 88.1 | 96.3 | 78.2 |
| 3 | Stanford University | United States of America | 92.9 | 96.7 | 95.9 | 89.2 | 99.6 | 67.0 | |
| 3 | 1 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 92.9 | 96.5 | 97.3 | 86.1 | 94.9 | 77.0 |
| 5 | 1 | UCL | United Kingdom | 89.5 | 90.8 | 81.9 | 84.5 | 99.6 | 91.4 |
| 6 | 1 | Yale University | United States of America | 88.8 | 91.6 | 90.3 | 82.4 | 94.5 | 75.4 |
| 7 | Columbia University | United States of America | 87.5 | 87.9 | 79.9 | 81.2 | 94.4 | 100.0 | |
| 8 | 5 | University of Toronto | Canada | 87.4 | 87.1 | 86.3 | 81.6 | 96.8 | 85.2 |
| 9 | 1 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 87.0 | 91.1 | 73.6 | 86.9 | 99.9 | 77.7 |
| 10 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America | 86.7 | 87.1 | 96.0 | 94.6 | 85.8 | 55.9 |
| 11 | 2 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America | 86.3 | 89.8 | 84.1 | 82.0 | 93.0 | 72.7 |
| 12 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States of America | 86.0 | 89.8 | 87.9 | 84.5 | 88.4 | 66.0 | |
| 13 | 1 | New York University (NYU) | United States of America | 85.6 | 89.9 | 77.0 | 80.8 | 92.6 | 81.9 |
| 14 | 6 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States of America | 84.7 | 92.8 | 68.1 | 82.2 | 94.2 | 75.4 |
| 15 | 1 | University of Pennsylvania | United States of America | 83.8 | 87.3 | 81.9 | 81.8 | 92.3 | 63.6 |
| 15 | 3 | King's College London | United Kingdom | 83.8 | 80.9 | 79.8 | 83.0 | 93.2 | 90.3 |
| 15 | 1 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 83.8 | 85.4 | 94.0 | 87.6 | 84.4 | 50.8 |
| 18 | 4 | Princeton University | United States of America | 83.4 | 91.5 | 83.2 | 90.7 | 83.1 | 40.8 |
| 19 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom | 82.3 | 85.7 | 84.3 | 90.4 | 78.2 | 59.0 | |
| 20 | 1 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 82.1 | 83.0 | 79.6 | 82.7 | 94.9 | 63.5 |
| 21 | 2 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 81.8 | 85.3 | 82.3 | 81.0 | 89.2 | 57.3 |
| 22 | 3 | McGill University | Canada | 81.3 | 85.4 | 79.2 | 80.2 | 86.7 | 62.3 |
| 23 | 7 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 80.9 | 79.2 | 79.6 | 82.6 | 84.4 | 82.8 |
| 24 | 7 | KU Leuven | Belgium | 80.7 | 78.3 | 73.1 | 84.3 | 92.6 | 82.0 |
| 25 | 2 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | Singapore | 79.7 | 81.7 | 89.0 | 81.5 | 79.4 | 51.0 |
| 26 | 6 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia | 79.5 | 78.7 | 76.1 | 82.5 | 89.2 | 70.5 |
| 27 | 7 | The University of Queensland | Australia | 79.1 | 81.4 | 70.6 | 81.5 | 89.4 | 67.8 |
| 28 | 23 | The University of Auckland | New Zealand | 78.9 | 77.6 | 74.9 | 94.7 | 83.6 | 60.9 |
| 28 | 2 | Utrecht University | Netherlands | 78.9 | 78.8 | 65.8 | 84.0 | 92.6 | 77.0 |
| 28 | 4 | University of Chicago | United States of America | 78.9 | 85.1 | 73.6 | 80.0 | 83.4 | 55.8 |
| 31 | 5 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | United States of America | 78.4 | 82.9 | 69.3 | 82.4 | 88.2 | 57.5 |
| 32 | 9 | Northwestern University | United States of America | 78.0 | 78.6 | 70.9 | 84.5 | 93.0 | 57.1 |
| 33 | 16 | Cornell University | United States of America | 77.7 | 74.4 | 80.8 | 82.3 | 84.8 | 67.4 |
| 34 | 3 | Duke University | United States of America | 77.6 | 75.0 | 73.8 | 80.7 | 87.7 | 75.7 |
| 35 | 7 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR, China | 77.3 | 78.6 | 81.1 | 78.5 | 82.4 | 55.4 |
| 36 | 7 | University of Groningen | Netherlands | 76.9 | 79.1 | 58.1 | 84.7 | 92.3 | 70.8 |
| 37 | 2 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 76.8 | 75.3 | 77.4 | 80.9 | 86.9 | 60.4 |
| 38 | 7 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Netherlands | 76.7 | 77.5 | 59.9 | 84.1 | 91.9 | 72.9 |
| 39 | 13 | University of Texas at Austin | United States of America | 76.6 | 74.9 | 68.3 | 86.1 | 93.5 | 60.7 |
| 40 | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 76.3 | 76.4 | 65.9 | 81.4 | 86.7 | 73.7 | |
| 41 | 15 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany | 75.9 | 75.1 | 67.2 | 84.2 | 87.7 | 66.5 |
| 41 | 6 | Peking University | China (Mainland) | 75.9 | 75.8 | 84.9 | 82.0 | 80.5 | 42.4 |
| 43 | 5 | University of Minnesota (System) | United States of America | 75.4 | 78.3 | 58.3 | 80.5 | 91.5 | 65.9 |
| 43 | 11 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong SAR, China | 75.4 | 78.6 | 75.4 | 80.7 | 82.1 | 44.5 |
| 45 | 23 | Monash University | Australia | 75.3 | 72.9 | 76.2 | 79.6 | 84.1 | 63.2 |
| 46 | 4 | Pennsylvania State University | United States of America | 75.1 | 77.7 | 64.8 | 78.7 | 88.8 | 59.5 |
| 47 | 1 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States of America | 75.0 | 75.1 | 61.1 | 80.9 | 87.5 | 74.9 |
| 48 | 21 | Università di Padova | Italy | 74.6 | 70.6 | 68.7 | 81.8 | 85.5 | 75.0 |
| 49 | 8 | Boston University | United States of America | 74.1 | 70.5 | 71.6 | 79.0 | 86.2 | 67.5 |
| 49 | 8 | Michigan State University | United States of America | 74.1 | 74.9 | 60.7 | 81.7 | 90.2 | 61.8 |
| 49 | 5 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands | 74.1 | 72.3 | 69.4 | 85.6 | 88.4 | 52.3 |
| 49 | 1 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 74.1 | 68.4 | 76.3 | 83.1 | 85.1 | 62.2 |
| 53 | 23 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany | 73.7 | 75.7 | 67.5 | 80.9 | 80.2 | 57.9 |
| 54 | 4 | Beijing Normal University | China (Mainland) | 73.6 | 76.0 | 66.8 | 80.5 | 84.6 | 51.2 |
| 55 | 12 | University of Washington | United States of America | 73.5 | 70.0 | 63.5 | 80.6 | 89.2 | 73.5 |
| 55 | 19 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 73.5 | 69.3 | 71.3 | 85.5 | 81.9 | 64.2 |
| 57 | 6 | Sapienza University of Rome | Italy | 73.3 | 67.4 | 71.7 | 80.4 | 86.2 | 70.2 |
| 57 | 17 | University of Bath | United Kingdom | 73.3 | 68.1 | 70.6 | 88.5 | 85.1 | 58.9 |
| 59 | 8 | Arizona State University | United States of America | 73.2 | 68.4 | 67.8 | 80.0 | 86.4 | 73.5 |
| 60 | 13 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States of America | 73.0 | 70.0 | 59.8 | 81.1 | 90.8 | 72.9 |
| 61 | 10 | Johns Hopkins University | United States of America | 72.8 | 65.8 | 70.5 | 76.8 | 84.4 | 81.7 |
| 62 | 7 | Maastricht University | Netherlands | 72.7 | 70.1 | 64.2 | 81.7 | 84.1 | 69.0 |
| 62 | 11 | University of Southern California | United States of America | 72.7 | 70.5 | 66.3 | 80.6 | 88.0 | 59.7 |
| 64 | 21 | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil | 72.5 | 70.0 | 77.3 | 69.8 | 74.4 | 73.9 |
| 65 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 72.4 | 70.5 | 60.1 | 82.6 | 87.3 | 66.8 | |
| 66 | 15 | Tilburg University | Netherlands | 72.3 | 72.5 | 56.6 | 85.0 | 88.6 | 59.5 |
| 66 | 7 | Ghent University | Belgium | 72.3 | 69.5 | 61.3 | 83.1 | 86.4 | 68.5 |
| 68 | 33 | Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) | Australia | 72.2 | 72.6 | 67.5 | 82.4 | 83.4 | 47.9 |
| 68 | 6 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States of America | 72.2 | 71.3 | 65.7 | 77.0 | 83.6 | 64.4 |
| 70 | 14 | Durham University | United Kingdom | 72.1 | 69.7 | 74.6 | 82.3 | 77.3 | 54.0 |
| 71 | 11 | The Ohio State University | United States of America | 71.9 | 74.0 | 60.5 | 80.9 | 87.3 | 49.6 |
| 72 | 8 | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 71.7 | 69.1 | 72.8 | 80.3 | 77.3 | 58.6 |
| 72 | 12 | Universitat de Barcelona | Spain | 71.7 | 66.9 | 70.3 | 80.0 | 80.2 | 68.0 |
| 74 | 2 | Freie Universitaet Berlin | Germany | 71.6 | 72.6 | 64.2 | 82.6 | 78.5 | 55.7 |
| 74 | 6 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | Spain | 71.6 | 68.8 | 68.0 | 78.7 | 74.7 | 74.6 |
| 74 | 14 | Australian National University (ANU) | Australia | 71.6 | 71.7 | 75.8 | 79.6 | 76.7 | 43.5 |
| 77 | 13 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States of America | 71.5 | 71.3 | 59.7 | 83.2 | 89.4 | 51.3 |
| 77 | 29 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States of America | 71.5 | 71.9 | 70.3 | 85.1 | 79.4 | 40.4 |
| 79 | 22 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom | 71.2 | 69.7 | 63.7 | 84.7 | 82.9 | 54.8 |
| 79 | 6 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | Chile | 71.2 | 75.8 | 82.4 | 70.4 | 61.2 | 46.5 |
| 81 | 3 | Radboud University | Netherlands | 71.1 | 73.3 | 49.9 | 79.9 | 86.0 | 69.3 |
| 82 | 6 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | 71.0 | 68.3 | 68.9 | 80.7 | 79.7 | 58.5 |
| 82 | 19 | University of Exeter | United Kingdom | 71.0 | 66.3 | 64.9 | 86.8 | 83.1 | 60.4 |
| 82 | 15 | Tsinghua University | China (Mainland) | 71.0 | 70.9 | 85.0 | 82.4 | 74.1 | 21.6 |
| 82 | 10 | University of Vienna | Austria | 71.0 | 69.6 | 61.8 | 80.3 | 78.8 | 69.4 |
| 86 | 15 | Brown University | United States of America | 70.6 | 67.0 | 68.7 | 79.3 | 85.8 | 52.6 |
| 86 | 1 | Karolinska Institutet | Sweden | 70.6 | 67.7 | 59.9 | 81.9 | 85.5 | 64.0 |
| 88 | 4 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | Mexico | 70.5 | 73.0 | 83.7 | 60.4 | 54.4 | 73.7 |
| 89 | 12 | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | 70.4 | 63.6 | 67.5 | 84.5 | 84.1 | 61.3 |
| 90 | 11 | Western University | Canada | 70.3 | 68.7 | 64.7 | 79.2 | 80.8 | 59.1 |
| 91 | 10 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom | 70.2 | 67.5 | 68.8 | 83.8 | 76.4 | 53.9 |
| 91 | 10 | Universität Heidelberg | Germany | 70.2 | 65.7 | 67.1 | 78.7 | 80.5 | 65.8 |
| 91 | 10 | University of Sussex | United Kingdom | 70.2 | 68.6 | 55.8 | 82.0 | 80.8 | 71.3 |
| 94 | 7 | University of Virginia | United States of America | 70.0 | 65.9 | 63.6 | 82.1 | 85.3 | 57.9 |
| 94 | 9 | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | 70.0 | 65.5 | 65.9 | 85.3 | 80.5 | 57.2 |
| 96 | 5 | University of Florida | United States of America | 69.5 | 67.6 | 58.2 | 80.5 | 87.1 | 56.8 |
| 96 | 5 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | Ireland | 69.5 | 64.3 | 73.6 | 78.4 | 76.1 | 58.7 |
| 98 | 1 | University of York | United Kingdom | 69.4 | 69.2 | 61.0 | 82.2 | 78.5 | 54.0 |
| 99 | 2 | York University | Canada | 69.3 | 68.6 | 63.4 | 80.4 | 81.6 | 48.5 |
| 99 | 2 | University of California, Davis | United States of America | 69.3 | 62.0 | 60.3 | 84.6 | 89.2 | 63.4 |
| 2026 | 1 | INSTITUTION | COUNTRY/TERRITORY | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1
Harvard University
United States of America
97.2·Acad: 100.0·Empl: 100.0
22
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
93.4·Acad: 96.4·Empl: 96.8
3
Stanford University
United States of America
92.9·Acad: 96.7·Empl: 95.9
31
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
92.9·Acad: 96.5·Empl: 97.3
51
UCL
United Kingdom
89.5·Acad: 90.8·Empl: 81.9
61
Yale University
United States of America
88.8·Acad: 91.6·Empl: 90.3
7
Columbia University
United States of America
87.5·Acad: 87.9·Empl: 79.9
85
University of Toronto
Canada
87.4·Acad: 87.1·Empl: 86.3
91
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
87.0·Acad: 91.1·Empl: 73.6
101
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States of America
86.7·Acad: 87.1·Empl: 96.0
112
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States of America
86.3·Acad: 89.8·Empl: 84.1
12
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States of America
86.0·Acad: 89.8·Empl: 87.9
131
New York University (NYU)
United States of America
85.6·Acad: 89.9·Empl: 77.0
146
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
United States of America
84.7·Acad: 92.8·Empl: 68.1
151
University of Pennsylvania
United States of America
83.8·Acad: 87.3·Empl: 81.9
153
King's College London
United Kingdom
83.8·Acad: 80.9·Empl: 79.8
151
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
83.8·Acad: 85.4·Empl: 94.0
184
Princeton University
United States of America
83.4·Acad: 91.5·Empl: 83.2
19
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
United Kingdom
82.3·Acad: 85.7·Empl: 84.3
201
The University of Melbourne
Australia
82.1·Acad: 83.0·Empl: 79.6
212
University of British Columbia
Canada
81.8·Acad: 85.3·Empl: 82.3
223
McGill University
Canada
81.3·Acad: 85.4·Empl: 79.2
237
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
80.9·Acad: 79.2·Empl: 79.6
247
KU Leuven
Belgium
80.7·Acad: 78.3·Empl: 73.1
252
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)
Singapore
79.7·Acad: 81.7·Empl: 89.0
266
The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
Australia
79.5·Acad: 78.7·Empl: 76.1
277
The University of Queensland
Australia
79.1·Acad: 81.4·Empl: 70.6
2823
The University of Auckland
New Zealand
78.9·Acad: 77.6·Empl: 74.9
282
Utrecht University
Netherlands
78.9·Acad: 78.8·Empl: 65.8
284
University of Chicago
United States of America
78.9·Acad: 85.1·Empl: 73.6
315
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
United States of America
78.4·Acad: 82.9·Empl: 69.3
329
Northwestern University
United States of America
78.0·Acad: 78.6·Empl: 70.9
3316
Cornell University
United States of America
77.7·Acad: 74.4·Empl: 80.8
343
Duke University
United States of America
77.6·Acad: 75.0·Empl: 73.8
357
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR, China
77.3·Acad: 78.6·Empl: 81.1
367
University of Groningen
Netherlands
76.9·Acad: 79.1·Empl: 58.1
372
The University of Sydney
Australia
76.8·Acad: 75.3·Empl: 77.4
387
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Netherlands
76.7·Acad: 77.5·Empl: 59.9
3913
University of Texas at Austin
United States of America
76.6·Acad: 74.9·Empl: 68.3
40
University of Zurich
Switzerland
76.3·Acad: 76.4·Empl: 65.9
4115
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Germany
75.9·Acad: 75.1·Empl: 67.2
416
Peking University
China (Mainland)
75.9·Acad: 75.8·Empl: 84.9
435
University of Minnesota (System)
United States of America
75.4·Acad: 78.3·Empl: 58.3
4311
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Hong Kong SAR, China
75.4·Acad: 78.6·Empl: 75.4
4523
Monash University
Australia
75.3·Acad: 72.9·Empl: 76.2
464
Pennsylvania State University
United States of America
75.1·Acad: 77.7·Empl: 64.8
471
University of Maryland, College Park
United States of America
75.0·Acad: 75.1·Empl: 61.1
4821
Università di Padova
Italy
74.6·Acad: 70.6·Empl: 68.7
498
Boston University
United States of America
74.1·Acad: 70.5·Empl: 71.6
498
Michigan State University
United States of America
74.1·Acad: 74.9·Empl: 60.7
495
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands
74.1·Acad: 72.3·Empl: 69.4
491
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom
74.1·Acad: 68.4·Empl: 76.3
5323
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Germany
73.7·Acad: 75.7·Empl: 67.5
544
Beijing Normal University
China (Mainland)
73.6·Acad: 76.0·Empl: 66.8
5512
University of Washington
United States of America
73.5·Acad: 70.0·Empl: 63.5
5519
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
73.5·Acad: 69.3·Empl: 71.3
576
Sapienza University of Rome
Italy
73.3·Acad: 67.4·Empl: 71.7
5717
University of Bath
United Kingdom
73.3·Acad: 68.1·Empl: 70.6
598
Arizona State University
United States of America
73.2·Acad: 68.4·Empl: 67.8
6013
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
United States of America
73.0·Acad: 70.0·Empl: 59.8
6110
Johns Hopkins University
United States of America
72.8·Acad: 65.8·Empl: 70.5
627
Maastricht University
Netherlands
72.7·Acad: 70.1·Empl: 64.2
6211
University of Southern California
United States of America
72.7·Acad: 70.5·Empl: 66.3
6421
Universidade de São Paulo
Brazil
72.5·Acad: 70.0·Empl: 77.3
65
Leiden University
Netherlands
72.4·Acad: 70.5·Empl: 60.1
6615
Tilburg University
Netherlands
72.3·Acad: 72.5·Empl: 56.6
667
Ghent University
Belgium
72.3·Acad: 69.5·Empl: 61.3
6833
Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia)
Australia
72.2·Acad: 72.6·Empl: 67.5
686
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
United States of America
72.2·Acad: 71.3·Empl: 65.7
7014
Durham University
United Kingdom
72.1·Acad: 69.7·Empl: 74.6
7111
The Ohio State University
United States of America
71.9·Acad: 74.0·Empl: 60.5
728
The University of Warwick
United Kingdom
71.7·Acad: 69.1·Empl: 72.8
7212
Universitat de Barcelona
Spain
71.7·Acad: 66.9·Empl: 70.3
742
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Germany
71.6·Acad: 72.6·Empl: 64.2
746
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Spain
71.6·Acad: 68.8·Empl: 68.0
7414
Australian National University (ANU)
Australia
71.6·Acad: 71.7·Empl: 75.8
7713
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States of America
71.5·Acad: 71.3·Empl: 59.7
7729
Carnegie Mellon University
United States of America
71.5·Acad: 71.9·Empl: 70.3
7922
Cardiff University
United Kingdom
71.2·Acad: 69.7·Empl: 63.7
796
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)
Chile
71.2·Acad: 75.8·Empl: 82.4
813
Radboud University
Netherlands
71.1·Acad: 73.3·Empl: 49.9
826
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
71.0·Acad: 68.3·Empl: 68.9
8219
University of Exeter
United Kingdom
71.0·Acad: 66.3·Empl: 64.9
8215
Tsinghua University
China (Mainland)
71.0·Acad: 70.9·Empl: 85.0
8210
University of Vienna
Austria
71.0·Acad: 69.6·Empl: 61.8
8615
Brown University
United States of America
70.6·Acad: 67.0·Empl: 68.7
861
Karolinska Institutet
Sweden
70.6·Acad: 67.7·Empl: 59.9
884
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Mexico
70.5·Acad: 73.0·Empl: 83.7
8912
The University of Sheffield
United Kingdom
70.4·Acad: 63.6·Empl: 67.5
9011
Western University
Canada
70.3·Acad: 68.7·Empl: 64.7
9110
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
70.2·Acad: 67.5·Empl: 68.8
9110
Universität Heidelberg
Germany
70.2·Acad: 65.7·Empl: 67.1
9110
University of Sussex
United Kingdom
70.2·Acad: 68.6·Empl: 55.8
947
University of Virginia
United States of America
70.0·Acad: 65.9·Empl: 63.6
949
University of Nottingham
United Kingdom
70.0·Acad: 65.5·Empl: 65.9
965
University of Florida
United States of America
69.5·Acad: 67.6·Empl: 58.2
965
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Ireland
69.5·Acad: 64.3·Empl: 73.6
981
University of York
United Kingdom
69.4·Acad: 69.2·Empl: 61.0
992
York University
Canada
69.3·Acad: 68.6·Empl: 63.4
992
University of California, Davis
United States of America
69.3·Acad: 62.0·Empl: 60.3
20261
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