QS World University Rankings 2025

QS World University Rankings 2025 by QS Quacquarelli Symonds: 20 universities ranked, led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The entries on record...

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MIT ranked first for the 13th consecutive year; Imperial College London was second and Oxford third. Stanford fell from 5th to 6th.

The list on record

This page shows the 20 entries on record. Top 20 loaded from a Cambridge International factsheet, consistent with Wikipedia's QS table; full list on topuniversities.com. See the original list.

Rank	Name	Location	Since 2024
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	No change
2	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	Up 4
3	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	No change
4	Harvard University	United States	No change
5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	Down 3
6	Stanford University	United States	Down 1
7	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	No change
8	National University of Singapore	Singapore	No change
9	University College London	United Kingdom	No change
10	California Institute of Technology	United States	Up 5
11	University of Pennsylvania	United States	Up 1
12	University of California, Berkeley	United States	Down 2
13	University of Melbourne	Australia	Up 1
14	Peking University	China	Up 3
15	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
16	Cornell University	United States	Down 3
17	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
18	University of Sydney	Australia
19	University of New South Wales	Australia
20	Tsinghua University	China

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