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QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026
102 universities
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| Rank | Change | University | Country | Score | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | IRN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | United States of America | 99.4 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 88.7 | 100.0 | — | |
| 2 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 96.8 | 97.7 | 97.5 | 84.4 | 96.4 | — | |
| 3 | Stanford University | United States of America | 95.6 | 94.8 | 95.9 | 94.7 | 99.7 | — | |
| 4 | 4 | Princeton University | United States of America | 94.8 | 97.6 | 77.5 | 91.3 | 94.2 | — |
| 5 | 1 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States of America | 94.7 | 97.7 | 80.2 | 86.7 | 92.9 | — |
| 6 | 1 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom | 94.2 | 96.6 | 85.1 | 84.7 | 92.5 | — |
| 7 | 1 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 93.7 | 95.6 | 96.2 | 79.5 | 88.2 | — |
| 8 | 1 | University of Chicago | United States of America | 91.1 | 96.0 | 71.0 | 82.7 | 84.6 | — |
| 9 | Yale University | United States of America | 90.8 | 90.7 | 92.4 | 86.5 | 91.7 | — | |
| 10 | 5 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 90.7 | 92.1 | 95.6 | 80.0 | 84.6 | — |
| 11 | 3 | University of Toronto | Canada | 90.4 | 90.4 | 89.4 | 80.9 | 94.0 | — |
| 12 | 1 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States of America | 90.0 | 95.8 | 47.8 | 87.3 | 91.9 | — |
| 13 | 3 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States of America | 89.9 | 91.9 | 69.0 | 87.2 | 95.3 | — |
| 14 | 2 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America | 89.8 | 92.5 | 74.2 | 82.5 | 89.9 | — |
| 15 | 3 | Columbia University | United States of America | 89.4 | 89.6 | 89.1 | 83.2 | 90.8 | — |
| 16 | 5 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 86.7 | 87.3 | 73.5 | 84.0 | 93.8 | — |
| 17 | 1 | New York University (NYU) | United States of America | 86.5 | 86.7 | 78.8 | 84.4 | 91.5 | — |
| 18 | 16 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 85.2 | 85.3 | 78.7 | 80.9 | 90.3 | — |
| 19 | 4 | Australian National University (ANU) | Australia | 85.0 | 86.1 | 81.3 | 78.2 | 84.3 | — |
| 20 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 84.8 | 86.0 | 71.2 | 83.6 | 88.4 | — | |
| 21 | 2 | Peking University | China (Mainland) | 84.5 | 85.1 | 86.8 | 82.4 | 80.7 | — |
| 22 | 16 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 83.7 | 84.5 | 75.9 | 79.6 | 86.3 | — |
| 23 | 2 | Cornell University | United States of America | 83.6 | 83.6 | 72.4 | 87.8 | 89.9 | — |
| 24 | 7 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR, China | 83.5 | 85.5 | 79.5 | 76.9 | 78.9 | — |
| 25 | 11 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany | 83.4 | 86.6 | 65.7 | 80.1 | 81.4 | — |
| 26 | 1 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 83.0 | 87.5 | 75.2 | 74.9 | 69.7 | — |
| 27 | 3 | Duke University | United States of America | 82.9 | 83.9 | 67.2 | 86.3 | 87.6 | — |
| 28 | 2 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 82.6 | 82.9 | 77.5 | 78.7 | 85.7 | — |
| 29 | 1 | University of Pennsylvania | United States of America | 82.2 | 78.4 | 86.4 | 89.2 | 94.7 | — |
| 30 | 12 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong SAR, China | 82.0 | 83.9 | 75.1 | 79.2 | 78.5 | — |
| 31 | 9 | UCL | United Kingdom | 81.8 | 80.6 | 78.6 | 81.0 | 89.6 | — |
| 32 | 16 | McGill University | Canada | 81.7 | 82.4 | 72.3 | 80.2 | 85.2 | — |
| 33 | 6 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 81.1 | 82.6 | 71.4 | 78.1 | 81.8 | — |
| 33 | Sciences Po | France | 81.1 | 82.4 | 68.8 | 80.8 | 83.1 | — | |
| 35 | 8 | Freie Universitaet Berlin | Germany | 81.0 | 83.4 | 67.1 | 78.1 | 80.0 | — |
| 36 | Northwestern University | United States of America | 80.4 | 80.5 | 58.4 | 88.2 | 92.1 | — | |
| 36 | 15 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States of America | 80.4 | 81.9 | 50.5 | 84.5 | 91.7 | — |
| 38 | 16 | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales | France | 80.1 | 87.2 | 50.6 | 68.6 | 70.3 | — |
| 38 | 18 | Stockholm University | Sweden | 80.1 | 81.4 | 59.8 | 82.4 | 86.8 | — |
| 40 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America | 79.9 | 75.4 | 89.7 | 98.4 | 88.4 | — |
| 40 | 11 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | Mexico | 79.9 | 84.0 | 77.0 | 62.2 | 68.6 | — |
| 42 | 5 | University of Texas at Austin | United States of America | 79.6 | 78.2 | 72.2 | 83.6 | 89.9 | — |
| 43 | 12 | Utrecht University | Netherlands | 79.5 | 80.6 | 58.5 | 83.6 | 86.8 | — |
| 44 | 5 | King's College London | United Kingdom | 79.4 | 77.5 | 79.1 | 80.7 | 87.9 | — |
| 45 | 1 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 79.2 | 80.1 | 60.7 | 82.8 | 86.0 | — |
| 46 | 7 | University of Sussex | United Kingdom | 78.8 | 80.3 | 59.4 | 81.6 | 84.0 | — |
| 47 | 15 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 78.7 | 82.8 | 71.7 | 74.8 | 65.4 | — |
| 48 | 10 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | Singapore | 78.4 | 78.4 | 85.2 | 79.3 | 73.4 | — |
| 49 | 6 | Tsinghua University | China (Mainland) | 78.1 | 76.9 | 87.3 | 85.9 | 74.8 | — |
| 50 | 2 | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil | 77.6 | 81.7 | 69.7 | 61.6 | 69.2 | — |
| 51 | 21 | University of Oslo | Norway | 77.2 | 77.9 | 57.3 | 80.1 | 86.3 | — |
| 52 | 26 | Monash University | Australia | 77.1 | 74.5 | 82.5 | 79.9 | 84.9 | — |
| 53 | 18 | Seoul National University | Republic of Korea | 77.0 | 79.6 | 72.6 | 74.9 | 68.6 | — |
| 53 | 17 | Lund University | Sweden | 77.0 | 77.5 | 57.4 | 81.9 | 86.0 | — |
| 55 | 2 | University of Washington | United States of America | 76.3 | 76.0 | 63.5 | 82.0 | 84.3 | — |
| 55 | 24 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | France | 76.3 | 78.9 | 79.0 | 66.5 | 65.4 | — |
| 57 | 23 | University of Helsinki | Finland | 75.7 | 75.8 | 63.8 | 77.4 | 82.7 | — |
| 57 | 4 | Brown University | United States of America | 75.7 | 76.5 | 63.0 | 80.1 | 78.9 | — |
| 59 | 10 | University of Vienna | Austria | 75.5 | 75.4 | 60.9 | 82.0 | 83.7 | — |
| 59 | 8 | Lancaster University | United Kingdom | 75.5 | 76.3 | 64.8 | 80.7 | 77.4 | — |
| 61 | 5 | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 75.4 | 73.8 | 71.4 | 82.1 | 83.1 | — |
| 62 | 36 | Yonsei University | Republic of Korea | 75.3 | 77.2 | 68.8 | 76.3 | 70.3 | — |
| 62 | 9 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | Chile | 75.3 | 75.1 | 82.4 | 71.7 | 72.9 | — |
| 64 | 14 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | Argentina | 75.1 | 79.0 | 79.2 | 55.2 | 60.9 | — |
| 64 | 37 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom | 75.1 | 75.6 | 63.4 | 78.8 | 79.3 | — |
| 66 | 4 | University of California, Irvine | United States of America | 74.9 | 76.1 | 50.8 | 84.5 | 82.4 | — |
| 67 | 25 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 74.8 | 73.9 | 71.0 | 77.9 | 80.4 | — |
| 67 | 14 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Spain | 74.8 | 75.0 | 58.5 | 79.5 | 83.1 | — |
| 69 | 10 | The University of Queensland | Australia | 74.7 | 72.3 | 74.1 | 79.2 | 84.6 | — |
| 69 | 6 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 74.7 | 75.1 | 57.5 | 78.4 | 83.1 | — |
| 71 | 22 | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | 74.5 | 71.7 | 64.6 | 87.6 | 89.9 | — |
| 72 | 29 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States of America | 74.4 | 74.6 | 52.4 | 85.4 | 84.6 | — |
| 73 | 8 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom | 74.3 | 73.5 | 68.4 | 78.7 | 80.7 | — |
| 73 | 28 | Fudan University | China (Mainland) | 74.3 | 75.4 | 74.3 | 74.9 | 69.2 | — |
| 75 | 16 | Kyoto University | Japan | 74.2 | 79.3 | 65.7 | 66.7 | 58.3 | — |
| 76 | 13 | Johns Hopkins University | United States of America | 74.1 | 72.8 | 63.2 | 80.7 | 84.9 | — |
| 77 | 13 | Universidad de Chile | Chile | 73.8 | 75.7 | 80.2 | 65.2 | 63.3 | — |
| 78 | 6 | SOAS University of London | United Kingdom | 73.7 | 75.6 | 64.5 | 76.6 | 69.7 | — |
| 78 | 23 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States of America | 73.7 | 74.9 | 44.6 | 83.5 | 84.3 | — |
| 80 | 9 | European University Institute | Italy | 73.5 | 73.3 | 51.0 | 85.0 | 85.5 | — |
| 81 | 20 | City University of New York | United States of America | 73.4 | 72.1 | 68.2 | 75.7 | 82.4 | — |
| 81 | 20 | Complutense University of Madrid | Spain | 73.4 | 75.3 | 68.4 | 63.7 | 70.8 | — |
| 81 | 20 | The New School, New York City and Paris | United States of America | 73.4 | 79.1 | 49.0 | 67.9 | 64.7 | — |
| 84 | 17 | Boston University | United States of America | 73.2 | 72.0 | 60.0 | 82.6 | 84.6 | — |
| 85 | 12 | Pennsylvania State University | United States of America | 72.9 | 68.7 | 72.6 | 81.5 | 90.1 | — |
| 86 | 65 | Sorbonne University | France | 72.8 | 78.0 | 74.6 | 54.7 | 53.2 | — |
| 86 | 15 | Jawaharlal Nehru University | India | 72.8 | 76.9 | 63.8 | 66.4 | 61.7 | — |
| 86 | 15 | Uppsala University | Sweden | 72.8 | 71.7 | 61.1 | 83.3 | 82.4 | — |
| 89 | 5 | University of Groningen | Netherlands | 72.7 | 73.0 | 50.1 | 80.8 | 83.4 | — |
| 89 | 17 | Essex, University of | United Kingdom | 72.7 | 73.4 | 51.9 | 81.3 | 80.7 | — |
| 91 | 10 | University College Dublin | Ireland | 72.4 | 71.0 | 68.0 | 78.4 | 79.7 | — |
| 92 | 9 | Waseda University | Japan | 72.1 | 75.1 | 67.5 | 65.9 | 63.3 | — |
| 93 | 28 | Korea University | Republic of Korea | 72.0 | 74.6 | 70.1 | 68.5 | 62.5 | — |
| 93 | 8 | University of Milan | Italy | 72.0 | 72.4 | 60.9 | 73.0 | 76.9 | — |
| 95 | 4 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia | 71.9 | 69.0 | 77.9 | 77.0 | 80.0 | — |
| 95 | 7 | University of York | United Kingdom | 71.9 | 72.6 | 56.6 | 78.1 | 76.9 | — |
| 95 | 28 | KU Leuven | Belgium | 71.9 | 70.0 | 62.1 | 79.6 | 84.9 | — |
| 95 | 67 | Renmin (People's) University of China | China (Mainland) | 71.9 | 71.5 | 64.9 | 80.8 | 75.7 | — |
| 99 | 2 | York University | Canada | 71.8 | 72.0 | 59.8 | 75.4 | 77.8 | — |
| 100 | 7 | Central European University | Austria | 71.7 | 72.0 | 59.5 | 80.3 | 75.7 | — |
| 100 | 1 | Universitat de Barcelona | Spain | 71.7 | 71.8 | 72.5 | 69.2 | 71.4 | — |
| 2026 | 1 | INSTITUTION | COUNTRY/TERRITORY | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1
Harvard University
United States of America
99.4·Acad: 100.0·Empl: 100.0
2
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
96.8·Acad: 97.7·Empl: 97.5
3
Stanford University
United States of America
95.6·Acad: 94.8·Empl: 95.9
44
Princeton University
United States of America
94.8·Acad: 97.6·Empl: 77.5
51
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States of America
94.7·Acad: 97.7·Empl: 80.2
61
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
United Kingdom
94.2·Acad: 96.6·Empl: 85.1
71
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
93.7·Acad: 95.6·Empl: 96.2
81
University of Chicago
United States of America
91.1·Acad: 96.0·Empl: 71.0
9
Yale University
United States of America
90.8·Acad: 90.7·Empl: 92.4
105
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
90.7·Acad: 92.1·Empl: 95.6
113
University of Toronto
Canada
90.4·Acad: 90.4·Empl: 89.4
121
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States of America
90.0·Acad: 95.8·Empl: 47.8
133
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
United States of America
89.9·Acad: 91.9·Empl: 69.0
142
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States of America
89.8·Acad: 92.5·Empl: 74.2
153
Columbia University
United States of America
89.4·Acad: 89.6·Empl: 89.1
165
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
86.7·Acad: 87.3·Empl: 73.5
171
New York University (NYU)
United States of America
86.5·Acad: 86.7·Empl: 78.8
1816
The University of Melbourne
Australia
85.2·Acad: 85.3·Empl: 78.7
194
Australian National University (ANU)
Australia
85.0·Acad: 86.1·Empl: 81.3
20
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom
84.8·Acad: 86.0·Empl: 71.2
212
Peking University
China (Mainland)
84.5·Acad: 85.1·Empl: 86.8
2216
University of British Columbia
Canada
83.7·Acad: 84.5·Empl: 75.9
232
Cornell University
United States of America
83.6·Acad: 83.6·Empl: 72.4
247
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR, China
83.5·Acad: 85.5·Empl: 79.5
2511
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Germany
83.4·Acad: 86.6·Empl: 65.7
261
The University of Tokyo
Japan
83.0·Acad: 87.5·Empl: 75.2
273
Duke University
United States of America
82.9·Acad: 83.9·Empl: 67.2
282
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
82.6·Acad: 82.9·Empl: 77.5
291
University of Pennsylvania
United States of America
82.2·Acad: 78.4·Empl: 86.4
3012
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Hong Kong SAR, China
82.0·Acad: 83.9·Empl: 75.1
319
UCL
United Kingdom
81.8·Acad: 80.6·Empl: 78.6
3216
McGill University
Canada
81.7·Acad: 82.4·Empl: 72.3
336
The University of Sydney
Australia
81.1·Acad: 82.6·Empl: 71.4
33
Sciences Po
France
81.1·Acad: 82.4·Empl: 68.8
358
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Germany
81.0·Acad: 83.4·Empl: 67.1
36
Northwestern University
United States of America
80.4·Acad: 80.5·Empl: 58.4
3615
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
United States of America
80.4·Acad: 81.9·Empl: 50.5
3816
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
France
80.1·Acad: 87.2·Empl: 50.6
3818
Stockholm University
Sweden
80.1·Acad: 81.4·Empl: 59.8
401
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States of America
79.9·Acad: 75.4·Empl: 89.7
4011
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Mexico
79.9·Acad: 84.0·Empl: 77.0
425
University of Texas at Austin
United States of America
79.6·Acad: 78.2·Empl: 72.2
4312
Utrecht University
Netherlands
79.5·Acad: 80.6·Empl: 58.5
445
King's College London
United Kingdom
79.4·Acad: 77.5·Empl: 79.1
451
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
79.2·Acad: 80.1·Empl: 60.7
467
University of Sussex
United Kingdom
78.8·Acad: 80.3·Empl: 59.4
4715
National Taiwan University (NTU)
Taiwan
78.7·Acad: 82.8·Empl: 71.7
4810
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)
Singapore
78.4·Acad: 78.4·Empl: 85.2
496
Tsinghua University
China (Mainland)
78.1·Acad: 76.9·Empl: 87.3
502
Universidade de São Paulo
Brazil
77.6·Acad: 81.7·Empl: 69.7
5121
University of Oslo
Norway
77.2·Acad: 77.9·Empl: 57.3
5226
Monash University
Australia
77.1·Acad: 74.5·Empl: 82.5
5318
Seoul National University
Republic of Korea
77.0·Acad: 79.6·Empl: 72.6
5317
Lund University
Sweden
77.0·Acad: 77.5·Empl: 57.4
552
University of Washington
United States of America
76.3·Acad: 76.0·Empl: 63.5
5524
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
France
76.3·Acad: 78.9·Empl: 79.0
5723
University of Helsinki
Finland
75.7·Acad: 75.8·Empl: 63.8
574
Brown University
United States of America
75.7·Acad: 76.5·Empl: 63.0
5910
University of Vienna
Austria
75.5·Acad: 75.4·Empl: 60.9
598
Lancaster University
United Kingdom
75.5·Acad: 76.3·Empl: 64.8
615
The University of Warwick
United Kingdom
75.4·Acad: 73.8·Empl: 71.4
6236
Yonsei University
Republic of Korea
75.3·Acad: 77.2·Empl: 68.8
629
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)
Chile
75.3·Acad: 75.1·Empl: 82.4
6414
Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Argentina
75.1·Acad: 79.0·Empl: 79.2
6437
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
75.1·Acad: 75.6·Empl: 63.4
664
University of California, Irvine
United States of America
74.9·Acad: 76.1·Empl: 50.8
6725
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
74.8·Acad: 73.9·Empl: 71.0
6714
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Spain
74.8·Acad: 75.0·Empl: 58.5
6910
The University of Queensland
Australia
74.7·Acad: 72.3·Empl: 74.1
696
Leiden University
Netherlands
74.7·Acad: 75.1·Empl: 57.5
7122
The University of Sheffield
United Kingdom
74.5·Acad: 71.7·Empl: 64.6
7229
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
United States of America
74.4·Acad: 74.6·Empl: 52.4
738
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
74.3·Acad: 73.5·Empl: 68.4
7328
Fudan University
China (Mainland)
74.3·Acad: 75.4·Empl: 74.3
7516
Kyoto University
Japan
74.2·Acad: 79.3·Empl: 65.7
7613
Johns Hopkins University
United States of America
74.1·Acad: 72.8·Empl: 63.2
7713
Universidad de Chile
Chile
73.8·Acad: 75.7·Empl: 80.2
786
SOAS University of London
United Kingdom
73.7·Acad: 75.6·Empl: 64.5
7823
Indiana University Bloomington
United States of America
73.7·Acad: 74.9·Empl: 44.6
809
European University Institute
Italy
73.5·Acad: 73.3·Empl: 51.0
8120
City University of New York
United States of America
73.4·Acad: 72.1·Empl: 68.2
8120
Complutense University of Madrid
Spain
73.4·Acad: 75.3·Empl: 68.4
8120
The New School, New York City and Paris
United States of America
73.4·Acad: 79.1·Empl: 49.0
8417
Boston University
United States of America
73.2·Acad: 72.0·Empl: 60.0
8512
Pennsylvania State University
United States of America
72.9·Acad: 68.7·Empl: 72.6
8665
Sorbonne University
France
72.8·Acad: 78.0·Empl: 74.6
8615
Jawaharlal Nehru University
India
72.8·Acad: 76.9·Empl: 63.8
8615
Uppsala University
Sweden
72.8·Acad: 71.7·Empl: 61.1
895
University of Groningen
Netherlands
72.7·Acad: 73.0·Empl: 50.1
8917
Essex, University of
United Kingdom
72.7·Acad: 73.4·Empl: 51.9
9110
University College Dublin
Ireland
72.4·Acad: 71.0·Empl: 68.0
929
Waseda University
Japan
72.1·Acad: 75.1·Empl: 67.5
9328
Korea University
Republic of Korea
72.0·Acad: 74.6·Empl: 70.1
938
University of Milan
Italy
72.0·Acad: 72.4·Empl: 60.9
954
The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
Australia
71.9·Acad: 69.0·Empl: 77.9
957
University of York
United Kingdom
71.9·Acad: 72.6·Empl: 56.6
9528
KU Leuven
Belgium
71.9·Acad: 70.0·Empl: 62.1
9567
Renmin (People's) University of China
China (Mainland)
71.9·Acad: 71.5·Empl: 64.9
992
York University
Canada
71.8·Acad: 72.0·Empl: 59.8
1007
Central European University
Austria
71.7·Acad: 72.0·Empl: 59.5
1001
Universitat de Barcelona
Spain
71.7·Acad: 71.8·Empl: 72.5
20261
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