Academic Ranking of World Universities 2025

Academic Ranking of World Universities 2025 by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy: 25 universities ranked, led by Harvard University. The entries on record, movement...

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Harvard first for the 23rd year, followed by Stanford and MIT. Tsinghua rose four places to 18th; City University of Hong Kong (99th) and Stockholm University (100th) entered the top 100. Mainland China had 222 universities in the published 1,000 versus 183 for the United States; the United States held 37 of the top 100.

The list on record

This page shows the 25 entries on record of 1000 published. Top 25 loaded from ShanghaiRanking's public ranking data; full list of 1,000 on the publisher page. See the original list.

Rank	Name	Location	Since 2024
1	Harvard University	United States	No change
2	Stanford University	United States	No change
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	No change
5	University of California, Berkeley	United States	No change
6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	No change
7	Princeton University	United States	No change
8	Columbia University	United States	No change
9	California Institute of Technology	United States	Down 1
10	University of Chicago	United States	No change
11	Yale University	United States	No change
12	Cornell University	United States	No change
13	Paris-Saclay University	France	Down 1
=14	University College London	United Kingdom	Up 2
=14	University of Pennsylvania	United States	No change
16	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	Down 1
17	University of Washington	United States	Up 1
18	Tsinghua University	China
19	Johns Hopkins University	United States	Down 2
20	University of California, San Diego	United States	Down 2
21	University of California, San Francisco	United States	Down 1
22	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
23	Peking University	China
24	Zhejiang University	China
25	University of Toronto	Canada

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ShanghaiRanking Consultancy: Academic Ranking of World Universities 2025