Top universities in the world 2026 ranking

January 30, 2026 anik

Rank	University	Country	Control	Total Score	Global Engagement
1	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	Public	90.20	93.20
2	Yale University	United States	Private	88.55	77.22
3	Stanford University	United States	Private	88.30	68.49
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	Private	88.00	74.59
5	The University of Chicago	United States	Private	87.66	82.60
6	Harvard University	United States	Private	87.06	79.49
7	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	Public	86.86	92.28
8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	Public	86.27	96.56
9	University of Michigan	United States	Public	84.65	64.10
10	University of Pennsylvania	United States	Private	83.93	65.90
11	Princeton University	United States	Private	83.73	75.12
12	Johns Hopkins University	United States	Private	83.19	72.21
13	California Institute of Technology	United States	Private	82.93	75.03
14	Duke University	United States	Private	81.72	59.76
15	Cornell University	United States	Private	80.57	69.79
16	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	Public	80.31	95.96
17	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR China	Public	79.26	65.17
18	University of Zurich	Switzerland	Public	77.02	88.24
19	University of Wisconsin–Madison	United States	Public	76.98	56.30
20	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR China	Public	76.72	58.67
21	Emory University	United States	Private	76.17	52.78
22	Rice University	United States	Private	75.86	72.11
23	Vanderbilt University	United States	Private	75.80	44.75
24	University of Toronto	Canada	Public	75.78	64.49
25	Case Western Reserve University	United States	Private	74.42	59.05
26	University of California, Berkeley	United States	Public	74.35	61.24
27	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	Public	73.28	47.71
28	The University of Queensland	Australia	Public	73.06	66.98
29	University College London	United Kingdom	Public	72.21	97.39
30	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	Public	71.89	23.80
31	University of Bern	Switzerland	Public	71.64	81.26
32	Ohio State University	United States	Public	71.57	36.28
33	The University of British Columbia	Canada	Public	71.56	63.44
34	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	Public	71.24	90.39
35	LMU Munich	Germany	Public	70.95	66.51
36	University of Texas at Austin	United States	Public	70.77	45.32
37	University of Geneva	Switzerland	Public	70.66	43.99
38	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	Private	70.49	90.85
39	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	Public	70.39	94.69
40	Boston University	United States	Private	70.14	75.51
41	The University of Melbourne	Australia	Public	70.14	68.10
42	Brown University	United States	Private	70.08	68.09
43	Dartmouth College	United States	Private	70.07	65.78
44	Tsinghua University	China	Public	70.07	24.43
45	University of Southern California	United States	Private	69.88	63.44
46	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	Public	69.81	90.49
47	University of Basel	Switzerland	Public	69.81	94.33
48	University of California, Davis	United States	Public	69.79	49.75
49	University of Virginia	United States	Public	69.76	31.28
50	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong SAR China	Public	69.18	77.03
51	University of Tokyo	Japan	Public	69.11	55.33
52	King’s College London	United Kingdom	Public	68.61	93.19
53	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	Public	68.55	89.42
54	Columbia University	United States	Private	68.25	46.67
55	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	Public	68.07	88.43
56	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	Public	68.04	91.70
57	Tufts University	United States	Private	67.90	59.16
58	The University of Sydney	Australia	Public	67.45	68.15
59	Kyoto University	Japan	Public	67.33	3.90
60	The University of Western Australia	Australia	Public	67.16	56.28
61	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	Public	67.02	71.79
62	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	Public	66.96	87.54
63	University of California, Irvine	United States	Public	66.80	57.17
64	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	Public	66.71	83.68
65	University of New South Wales	Australia	Public	66.68	65.08
66	Seoul National University	South Korea	Public	66.67	13.18
67	The Australian National University	Australia	Public	66.53	68.51
68	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	Public	66.50	92.33
69	Technical University of Munich	Germany	Public	66.25	82.55
70	The University of Adelaide	Australia	Public	66.24	63.17
71	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	Public	66.21	18.94
72	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	Public	65.90	10.96
73	University of Alberta	Canada	Public	65.76	53.57
74	University of California, San Diego	United States	Public	65.63	56.54
75	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	Public	65.59	89.76
76	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	Public	65.30	75.75
77	National University of Singapore	Singapore	Public	65.17	11.24
78	University of Washington	United States	Public	64.93	17.63
79	Pennsylvania State University	United States	Public	64.63	64.52
80	University of Göttingen	Germany	Public	64.56	57.51
81	University of Warwick	United Kingdom	Public	64.54	93.01
82	Lund University	Sweden	Public	64.33	74.75
83	New York University	United States	Private	64.31	81.66
84	Michigan State University	United States	Public	64.27	39.07
85	The University of Utah	United States	Public	63.99	38.11
86	University of Auckland	New Zealand	Public	63.73	57.40
87	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	Public	63.48	82.51
88	Monash University	Australia	Public	63.34	73.03
89	Arizona State University	United States	Public	63.10	49.40
90	McMaster University	Canada	Public	63.04	48.31
91	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	Ireland	Public	63.02	72.83
92	Delft University of Technology	The Netherlands	Public	62.84	55.21
93	University of Maryland	United States	Public	62.62	40.64
94	University of Vienna	Austria	Public	62.42	73.75
95	University of Calgary	Canada	Public	62.30	51.23
96	Northwestern University	United States	Private	62.21	64.02
97	Yonsei University	South Korea	Private	62.07	34.88
98	University of Miami	United States	Private	62.02	46.76
99	Durham University	United Kingdom	Public	61.96	90.49
100	University of Leicester	United Kingdom	Public	61.94	74.31

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