QS World University Rankings 2027

QS World University Rankings 2027 by QS Quacquarelli Symonds: 25 universities ranked, led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The entries on record...

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MIT ranked first for the 15th consecutive year. Stanford rose to share second place with Imperial College London; Caltech rose three places to 7th and the Chinese University of Hong Kong rose 14 places to 18th. The edition ranked 1,504 institutions, including 98 new entrants.

QS reported no change to the method versus the 2026 edition (per Collegedunia's coverage).

The list on record

This page shows the 25 entries on record of 1504 published. Top 25 loaded (QS results page for ranks 1 to 20, Wikipedia's QS table for ranks 21 to 25). The full list of 1,504 is on topuniversities.com but is rendered by an interactive table that could not be read. See the original list.

Rank	Name	Location	Since 2026
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	No change
=2	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	No change
=2	Stanford University	United States	Up 1
4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	No change
5	Harvard University	United States	No change
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	No change
7	California Institute of Technology	United States	Up 3
=8	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	Down 1
=8	University College London	United Kingdom	Up 1
10	National University of Singapore	Singapore	Down 2
11	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	No change
12	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	No change
13	Peking University	China	Up 1
14	Tsinghua University	China	Up 3
15	University of Pennsylvania	United States	No change
=16	Cornell University	United States	No change
=16	Yale University	United States	Up 5
18	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
19	University of New South Wales	Australia	Up 1
=20	Johns Hopkins University	United States	Up 4
=20	University of California, Berkeley	United States	Down 3
=22	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	No change
=22	University of Melbourne	Australia	Down 3
24	University of Chicago	United States	Down 11
25	Technical University of Munich	Germany	Down 3

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