U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities 2025-2026
U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities 2025-2026 by U.S. News & World Report: 20 universities ranked, led by Harvard University. The entries on...
- Publisher
- U.S. News & World Report
- Published
- 2025
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- 20 ranked
- Method
- Mixed
- Reliability
- Grade B
Harvard, MIT and Stanford took the top three places, followed by Oxford and Cambridge. Tsinghua and Imperial College London shared 11th.
The list on record
This page shows the 20 entries on record. Top 20 with global scores. Loaded from xuanxiao.org's archive of U.S. News data (third-party mirror; U.S. News pages return 403 to automated fetches). The mirror labels this edition '2026'. See the original list.
| Rank | Name | Location | Score | Since 2024-2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | United States | 100 | No change |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | 97.2 | New |
| 3 | Stanford University | United States | 94.5 | No change |
| 4 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 88.3 | No change |
| 5 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 86.8 | Up 1 |
| 6 | University of California, Berkeley | United States | 86.4 | Down 1 |
| 7 | University College London | United Kingdom | 86.2 | No change |
| 8 | University of Washington | United States | 86.1 | Down 1 |
| 9 | Yale University | United States | 86 | Up 1 |
| 10 | Columbia University | United States | 85.8 | Down 1 |
| =11 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 85.2 | Up 1 |
| =11 | Tsinghua University | China | 85.2 | Up 5 |
| 13 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States | 84.9 | Down 2 |
| 14 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 84.4 | Down 1 |
| 15 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 84 | Down 1 |
| =16 | Cornell University | United States | 83.6 | Up 3 |
| =16 | Princeton University | United States | 83.6 | Up 2 |
| =16 | University of Toronto | Canada | 83.6 | Up 1 |
| =16 | University of California, San Francisco | United States | 83.6 | Down 1 |
| 20 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 83.4 | New |
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