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TOP-100 best universities in the world 2026 Rankings

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TOP-100 best universities in the world 2026 Rankings

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS rankings

Check out the ranking of the best universities in the world, which presents the world's leading universities for schoolchildren and students interested in education abroad.

The ranking will tell about the best universities in the world this year: which universities have made the greatest contribution to the development of science, have the best academic training programs and offer excellent conditions for realizing the potential. Universities included in the top hundred closely cooperate with international companies and organizations and provide places for internships. All this makes them the leading universities in the world.

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS rankings

#	University	Ranking
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	100
2	Imperial College London	98.4
3	University of Oxford	97.9
4	Harvard University	97
5	University of Cambridge	96.7
6	Stanford University	95
7	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	94.3
8	National University of Singapore (NUS)	93.6
9	UCL	93.1
10	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	92.9
11	University of Pennsylvania	91.5
12	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	91
13	The University of Melbourne	89.9
14	Peking University	89.6
15	Nanyang Technological University	89.2
16	Cornell University	88.6
17	The University of Hong Kong	88
18	The University of Sydney	87.6
19	The University of New South Wales	86.5
20	Tsinghua University	85.8
21	University of Chicago	84.6
22	Princeton University	83.7
23	Yale University	83.5
24	Université PSL	83.2
25	University of Toronto	82.7
25	EPFL	82.7
27	The University of Edinburgh	82.1
27	Technical University of Munich	82.1
29	McGill University	81.5
30	The Australian National University	80.8
31	Seoul National University	80
32	Johns Hopkins University	80
32	The University of Tokyo	80
34	Columbia University	80
34	The University of Manchester	79.9
36	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	79.2
37	Monash University	79
38	University of British Columbia	78.9
39	Fudan University	78.6
40	King's College London	77.1
40	The University of Queensland	76.5
42	University of California	76.4
43	New York University	75.8
44	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	75.4
45	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	74.8
46	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	74.5
47	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	74.4
47	Zhejiang University	74.3
49	Delft University of Technology	73.9
50	Kyoto University	73.6
50	Northwestern University	73.4
50	The London School of Economics and Political	73.3
53	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	71.9
54	University of Bristol	71.2
55	University of Amsterdam	70.9
56	Yonsei University	70.8
57	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	70.7
58	Carnegie Mellon University	70.6
59	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	70.1
60	Universiti Malaya (UM)	70
61	Duke University	69.9
61	City University of Hong Kong	69.9
62	KU Leuven	69
63	Sorbonne University	68.9
64	The University of Auckland	68.6
65	University of Texas at Austin	68.2
66	Korea University	67.5
66	National Taiwan University (NTU)	67.5
69	The University of Warwick	67.1
69	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	67.1
71	Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)	66.7
72	University of California, San Diego	66.1
72	Université Paris-Saclay	66.1
74	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	65.9
75	Lund University	65.8
76	University of Washington	65.5
77	The University of Western Australia	64.6
77	University of Glasgow	64.6
79	Brown University	64.3
80	University of Birmingham	64.1
81	University of Southampton	64
82	The University of Adelaide	63.4
83	University of Leeds	63.3
84	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	63
85	Tokyo Institute of Technology	62.5
86	Osaka University	62.2
87	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	62
88	University of Technology Sydney	61.5
89	Durham University	61.4
89	Pennsylvania State University	61.3
89	Purdue University	61.2
92	Universidade Federal de São Paulo	61
93	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	60.8
93	Lomonosov Moscow State University	60.8
95	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	60.6
96	University of Alberta	60.3
97	Freie Universitaet Berlin	60.2
98	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	59.5
99	RWTH Aachen University	59
100	University of Copenhagen	58.8

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