Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026 by Times Higher Education: 20 universities ranked, led by University of Oxford. The entries on record...

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Oxford ranked first for the tenth consecutive year, with MIT second and Princeton and Cambridge tied third; Harvard and Stanford tied fifth. The table ranks 2,191 institutions from 115 countries and territories; China has five universities in the top 40 and Hong Kong a record six in the top 200. India has the second-highest number of ranked universities after the US.

The list on record

This page shows the 20 entries on record of 2191 published. Top 20 loaded from Hotcourses Abroad's reproduction of the THE table, consistent with THE's own highlights. The full list is on timeshighereducation.com but is rendered by an interactive table that could not be read. See the original list.

Rank	Name	Location	Since 2025
1	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	No change
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	No change
=3	Princeton University	United States	Up 1
=3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	Up 2
=5	Harvard University	United States	Down 2
=5	Stanford University	United States	Up 1
7	California Institute of Technology	United States	No change
8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	Up 1
9	University of California, Berkeley	United States	Down 1
10	Yale University	United States	No change
11	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	No change
12	Tsinghua University	China	No change
13	Peking University	China	No change
14	University of Pennsylvania	United States	No change
15	University of Chicago	United States	Down 1
16	Johns Hopkins University	United States	No change
17	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore
=18	Cornell University	United States
=18	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
20	Columbia University	United States

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