Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026

Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy: 200 universities ranked, led by Harvard University. The entries on record, movement...

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Harvard is first for the 24th consecutive edition, followed by Stanford and MIT; Princeton moved from 7th to 6th, passing Oxford. Mainland China has 16 universities in the top 100 (up from 13), the United States 37 and the United Kingdom 8. Southeast University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Tianjin University and Purdue University entered the top 100.

The list on record

This page shows the 200 entries on record of 1000 published. Ranks 1 to 200 loaded (100 individually ranked, then bands 101-150 and 151-200) from ShanghaiRanking's public ranking data for 2026. Ranks 201 to 1000 (bands 201-300 through 901-1000) are on shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2026 but were not loaded. Names are as displayed by the publisher; NTNU's name appeared truncated in the source feed. See the original list.

Rank	Name	Location	Since 2025
1	Harvard University	United States	No change
2	Stanford University	United States	No change
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	No change
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	No change
5	University of California, Berkeley	United States	No change
6	Princeton University	United States	Up 1
7	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	Down 1
8	Columbia University	United States	No change
9	University of Chicago	United States	Up 1
10	California Institute of Technology	United States	Down 1
11	Yale University	United States	No change
12	Cornell University	United States	No change
13	Paris-Saclay University	France	No change
=14	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	Up 2
=14	University of Pennsylvania	United States	No change
16	University of Washington	United States	Up 1
17	University College London	United Kingdom	Down 3
18	Tsinghua University	China	No change
19	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	Up 3
20	University of California, San Diego	United States	No change
21	University of California, San Francisco	United States	No change
22	Peking University	China	Up 1
23	Johns Hopkins University	United States	Down 4
=24	University of Toronto	Canada	Up 1
=24	Zhejiang University	China	No change
26	New York University	United States
27	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
28	Washington University in St Louis	United States
29	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
30	The University of Tokyo	Japan
31	Northwestern University	United States
32	Rockefeller University	United States
33	PSL University	France
34	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
=35	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	United States
=35	University of Wisconsin, Madison	United States
37	The University of Melbourne	Australia
38	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
39	University of Science and Technology of China	China
40	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
=41	Fudan University	China
=41	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
=43	Kyoto University	Japan
=43	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	Switzerland
45	Technical University of Munich	Germany
46	University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign	United States
47	The University of Texas at Austin	United States
48	Duke University	United States
=49	LMU Munich	Germany
=49	University of Colorado Boulder	United States
51	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom
52	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	United States
53	National University of Singapore	Singapore
54	University of British Columbia	Canada
=55	Sorbonne University	France
=55	University of Geneva	Switzerland
=57	Université Paris Cité	France
=57	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
59	Heidelberg University	Germany
60	Utrecht University	Netherlands
61	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
=62	Sun Yat-sen University	China
=62	The University of Hong Kong	China-Hong Kong
64	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	United States
65	University of Zurich	Switzerland
66	Vanderbilt University	United States
67	King's College London	United Kingdom
68	University of Southern California	United States
69	University of Bonn	Germany
70	Nanjing University	China
71	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel
72	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China
=73	McGill University	Canada
=73	The University of Queensland	Australia
75	University of California, Irvine	United States
76	Monash University	Australia
=77	Sichuan University	China
=77	Wuhan University	China
=79	University of Sydney	Australia
=79	Xi'an Jiaotong University	China
=81	Aarhus University	Denmark
=81	The University of New South Wales	Australia
83	Central South University	China
=84	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
=84	University of Groningen	Netherlands
86	University of Oslo	Norway
=87	KU Leuven	Belgium
=87	Seoul National University	South Korea
=89	Southeast University	China
=89	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
=91	University of Basel	Switzerland
=91	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
93	Ohio State University, Columbus	United States
94	Uppsala University	Sweden
=95	City University of Hong Kong	China-Hong Kong
=95	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	United States
97	Harbin Institute of Technology	China
=98	Ghent University	Belgium
=98	Tianjin University	China
100	Purdue University, West Lafayette	United States
101-150	Adelaide University	Australia
101-150	Arizona State University	United States
101-150	Beihang University	China
101-150	Beijing Institute of Technology	China
101-150	Beijing Normal University	China
101-150	Boston University	United States
101-150	Brown University	United States
101-150	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
101-150	Emory University	United States
101-150	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
101-150	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	United States
101-150	Jilin University	China
101-150	Leiden University	Netherlands
101-150	Lund University	Sweden
101-150	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science	United States
101-150	McMaster University	Canada
101-150	Nagoya University	Japan
101-150	Nankai University	China
101-150	Osaka University	Japan
101-150	Pennsylvania State University, University Park	United States
101-150	Rice University	United States
101-150	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	United States
101-150	Shandong University	China
101-150	Soochow University (Suzhou)	China
101-150	South China University of Technology	China
101-150	Southern University of Science and Technology	China
101-150	Stockholm University	Sweden
101-150	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
101-150	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
101-150	The Australian National University	Australia
101-150	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	China-Hong Kong
101-150	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	China-Hong Kong
101-150	The London School of Economics	United Kingdom
101-150	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom
101-150	The University of Western Australia	Australia
101-150	Tongji University	China
101-150	Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	Belgium
101-150	University of Alberta	Canada
101-150	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
101-150	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
101-150	University of California, Davis	United States
101-150	University of Freiburg	Germany
101-150	University of Helsinki	Finland
101-150	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
101-150	University of Pittsburgh	United States
101-150	University of Sao Paulo	Brazil
101-150	University of Strasbourg	France
101-150	University of Vienna	Austria
101-150	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands
101-150	Xiamen University	China
151-200	Aix Marseille University	France
151-200	Case Western Reserve University	United States
151-200	China Agricultural University	China
151-200	Chongqing University	China
151-200	Dalian University of Technology	China
151-200	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
151-200	Dresden University of Technology	Germany
151-200	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
151-200	Goethe University Frankfurt	Germany
151-200	Hunan University	China
151-200	Indiana University, Bloomington	United States
151-200	Institute of Science Tokyo	Japan
151-200	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia
151-200	Michigan State University	United States
151-200	Moscow State University	Russia
151-200	Northwestern Polytechnical University	China
151-200	NTNU - Norwegian University of Science	Norway
151-200	Peking Union Medical College	China
151-200	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands
151-200	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy
151-200	Shenzhen University	China
151-200	Stony Brook University	United States
151-200	Tel Aviv University	Israel
151-200	Texas A&M University	United States
151-200	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
151-200	Université Grenoble Alpes	France
151-200	University of Arizona	United States
151-200	University of Barcelona	Spain
151-200	University of Bern	Switzerland
151-200	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States
151-200	University of Cologne	Germany
151-200	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	China
151-200	University of Exeter	United Kingdom
151-200	University of Florida	United States
151-200	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
151-200	University of Goettingen	Germany
151-200	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
151-200	University of Lausanne	Switzerland
151-200	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
151-200	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom
151-200	University of Montpellier	France
151-200	University of Montreal	Canada
151-200	University of Muenster	Germany
151-200	University of Padua	Italy
151-200	University of Tuebingen	Germany
151-200	University of Utah	United States
151-200	University of Waterloo	Canada
151-200	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands
151-200	Yonsei University	South Korea
151-200	Zhengzhou University	China

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ShanghaiRanking Consultancy: Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026