Discover world top 100 universities leading globally in the 2026 World University Rankings, including notable institutions like MIT and Imperial College London.
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Top 100 Universities for 2026
About half of the top 100 universities in the world are based in the United States or the United Kingdom. This statistics is according to QS World University Rankings, 2026 edition.
You can see Top 100 universities in the world beside their ranks and countries in table below. For a expanded article on Malaysia Universities, see Malaysia university ranking 2026.
| Rank | University | Country |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | USA |
| 2 | Imperial College London | UK |
| 3 | Stanford University | USA |
| 4 | University of Oxford | UK |
| 5 | Harvard University | USA |
| 6 | University of Cambridge | UK |
| 7 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
| 8 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| 9 | UCL (University College London) | UK |
| 10 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | USA |
| 11 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 12 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore |
| 13 | University of Chicago | USA |
| 14 | Peking University | China |
| 15 | University of Pennsylvania | USA |
| 16 | Cornell University | USA |
| 17 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 17 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | USA |
| 19 | The University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 20 | The University of New South Wales | Australia |
| 21 | Yale University | USA |
| 22 | EPFL | Switzerland |
| 22 | Technical University of Munich (TUM) | Germany |
| 24 | Johns Hopkins University | USA |
| 25 | Princeton University | USA |
| 25 | The University of Sydney | Australia |
| 27 | McGill University | Canada |
| 28 | PSL University | France |
| 29 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 30 | Fudan University | China |
| 31 | King’s College London (KCL) | UK |
| 32 | Australian National University (ANU) | Australia |
| 32 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong |
| 34 | University of Edinburgh | UK |
| 35 | The University of Manchester | UK |
| 36 | Monash University | Australia |
| 36 | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 38 | Columbia University | USA |
| 38 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 40 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 41 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris | France |
| 42 | Northwestern University | USA |
| 42 | The University of Queensland | Australia |
| 44 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
| 45 | University of Michigan–Ann Arbor | USA |
| 46 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | USA |
| 47 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 47 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
| 49 | Zhejiang University | China |
| 50 | Yonsei University | South Korea |
| 51 | University of Bristol | UK |
| 52 | Carnegie Mellon University | USA |
| 53 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 54 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong |
| 55 | New York University (NYU) | USA |
| 56 | London School of Economics (LSE) | UK |
| 57 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 58 | LMU Munich | Germany |
| 58 | Universiti Malaya (UM) | Malaysia |
| 60 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 61 | Korea University | South Korea |
| 62 | Duke University | USA |
| 63 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 63 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan |
| 65 | University of Auckland | New Zealand |
| 66 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | USA |
| 67 | King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals | Saudi Arabia |
| 68 | University of Texas at Austin | USA |
| 69 | Brown University | USA |
| 70 | Université Paris-Saclay | France |
| 70 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | USA |
| 72 | Lund University | Sweden |
| 72 | Sorbonne University | France |
| 74 | University of Warwick | UK |
| 75 | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland |
| 76 | University of Birmingham | UK |
| 77 | The University of Western Australia | Australia |
| 78 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden |
| 79 | University of Glasgow | UK |
| 80 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 81 | University of Washington | USA |
| 82 | Adelaide University | Australia |
| 82 | Pennsylvania State University | USA |
| 84 | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Argentina |
| 85 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan |
| 86 | University of Leeds | UK |
| 87 | University of Southampton | UK |
| 88 | Boston University | USA |
| 88 | Freie Universität Berlin | Germany |
| 88 | Purdue University | USA |
| 91 | The University of Osaka | Japan |
| 92 | University of Sheffield | UK |
| 93 | Uppsala University | Sweden |
| 94 | Durham University | UK |
| 94 | University of Alberta | Canada |
| 96 | University of Technology Sydney (UTS) | Australia |
| 97 | University of Nottingham | UK |
| 98 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | Germany |
| 98 | Politecnico di Milano | Italy |
| 100 | University of Zurich (UZH) | Switzerland |
