QS World University Rankings 2026

QS World University Rankings 2026 by QS Quacquarelli Symonds: 24 universities ranked, led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The entries on record...

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MIT ranked first for the 14th consecutive year, followed by Imperial College London, Stanford, Oxford and Harvard. Stanford rose from 6th to 3rd; Caltech was 10th.

The list on record

This page shows the 24 entries on record. Ranks 1 to 24 loaded from Wikipedia's QS historical table (derived as the complete run of ranks shown there); full list on topuniversities.com. See the original list.

Rank	Name	Location	Since 2025
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	No change
2	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	No change
3	Stanford University	United States	Up 3
4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	Down 1
5	Harvard University	United States	Down 1
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	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	No change
11	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Up 6
12	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	Up 3
13	University of Chicago	United States
14	Peking University	China	No change
15	University of Pennsylvania	United States	Down 4
16	Cornell University	United States	No change
=17	Tsinghua University	China	Up 3
=17	University of California, Berkeley	United States	Down 5
19	University of Melbourne	Australia	Down 6
20	University of New South Wales	Australia	Down 1
21	Yale University	United States
=22	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
=22	Technical University of Munich	Germany
24	Johns Hopkins University	United States

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