QS World University Rankings 2026, Check Top 500 Institutes of World

QS World University Rankings 2026: The QS World University Rankings 2026 has released its latest edition of the ranking of higher education institutions around the world. As per the trend for the last 14 years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) of the United States of America has retained the title of ‘world’s best institute’ this year as well.

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Imperial College London has secured the second position in this latest edition of QS World University Rankings, followed by Stanford University, Oxford University, Harvard University, Cambridge University, ETH Zurich, and the National University of Singapore (NUS). Check out the Top 500 QS World University Rankings 2026 on this page.

Those readers who want to know the detailed information and latest updates regarding the QS World University Rankings 2026 then read this blog post till the end. In this blog post, readers can get complete information regarding the Top 500 Universities/Colleges/Institutes of the World as per the Latest QS World University Ranking 2026.

Top 500 University in the World QS World University Rankings 2026

More than 1,500 of the world’s top universities have been included in the 2026 edition of the QS World University Rankings, representing more than 100 locations around the globe.

Once again, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) of the USA has been ranked as the world’s best university, while nearly 500 universities have improved their performance in QS University Rankings 2026 since last year.

The biggest jump among them is at Sunway University in Malaysia, which has climbed more than 120 places.

Discover the top 500 universities around the world with the QS World University Rankings 2026

After the release of QS World University Rankings 2026, many students now want to know which colleges got the best rank in the World University Rankings. In this blog post, students from all countries are going to learn which are the top 500 universities of the QS World University Rankings 2026.

Institutions	Overall Rank in 2026	Overall Rank in 2025
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	1	1
Imperial College London	2	2
Stanford University	3	6
University of Oxford	4	3
Harvard University	5	4
University of Cambridge	6	5
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	7	7
National University of Singapore (NUS)	8	8
UCL (University College London)	9	9
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	10	10
The University of Hong Kong	11	17
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)	12	15
University of Chicago	13	21
Peking University	14	14
University of Pennsylvania	15	11
Cornell University	16	16
Tsinghua University	17	20
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	17	12
The University of Melbourne	19	13
The University of New South Wales	20	19
Yale University	21	23
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	22	26
Technical University of Munich	22	28
Johns Hopkins University	24	32
Princeton University	25	22
The University of Sydney	25	18
McGill University	27	29
PSL University	28	24
University of Toronto	29	25
Fudan University	30	39
King’s College London (KCL)	31	40
Australian National University	32	30
The Chinese University of Hong Kong	32	36
University of Edinburgh	34	27
The University of Manchester	35	34
Monash University	36	37
The University of Tokyo	36	32
Columbia University	38	34
Seoul National University	38	31
University of British Columbia	40	38
Institut Polytechnique de Paris	41	46
Northwestern University	42	50
The University of Queensland	42	40
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	44	47
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	45	44
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	46	42
Delft University of Technology	47	49
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	47	45
Zhejiang University	49	47
Yonsei University	50	56
University of Bristol	51	54
Carnegie Mellon University	52	58
The University of Amsterdam	53	55
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	54	57
New York University (NYU)	55	43
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	56	50
Kyoto University	57	50
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	58	59
Universiti Malaya (UM)	58	60
KU Leuven	60	63
Korea University	61	67
Duke University	62	61
City University of Hong Kong	63	62
National Taiwan University (NTU)	63	68
The University of Auckland	65	65
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	66	72
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals	67	101
University of Texas at Austin	68	66
Brown University	69	79
Université Paris-Saclay	70	73
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	70	69
Lund University	72	75
Sorbonne University (merged from Paris IV & UPMC)	72	63
The University of Warwick	74	69
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	75	87
University of Birmingham	76	80
The University of Western Australia	77	77
KTH Royal Institute of Technology	78	74
University of Glasgow	79	78
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	80	84
University of Washington	81	76
Adelaide University	82
Pennsylvania State University	82	89
Universidad de Buenos Aires	84	71
Tokyo Institute of Technology	85	84
University of Leeds	86	82
University of Southampton	87	80
Boston University	88	108
Freie Universität Berlin	88	97
Purdue University	88	89
The University of Osaka	91	86
The University of Sheffield	92	105
Uppsala University	93	103
Durham University	94	89
University of Alberta	94	96
University of Technology Sydney	96	88
The University of Nottingham	97	108
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	98	102
Politecnico di Milano	98	111
University of Zurich (UZH)	100	109
University of Copenhagen	101	100
Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	102	98
Nanjing University	103	145
Utrecht University	103	105
Lomonosov Moscow State University	105	94
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	105	99
Technical University of Denmark	107	109
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)	108	92
Tohoku University	109	107
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)	110	120
University of Wisconsin-Madison	110	116
Qatar University	112	122
University of St Andrews	113	104
Aalto University	114	113
University of California, Davis	114	130
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	116	93
University of Helsinki	116	117
University College Dublin	118	126
Leiden University	119	141
Rice University	119	141
University of Oslo	119	119
University of Waterloo	119	115
Georgia Institute of Technology	123	114
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	123	150
RMIT University	125	123
Sungkyunkwan University	126	123
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)	126	138
Sapienza University of Rome	128	132
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	129	118
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	130	126
Aarhus University	131	144
University of Bath	132	150
University of Science and Technology of China	132	133
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)	134	148
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)	134	146
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	136	94
Newcastle University	137	129
Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna	138	133
Macquarie University	138	133
Eindhoven University of Technology	140	136
Erasmus University Rotterdam	140	158
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	140	155
King Saud University	143	200
Texas A&M University	144	154
Technische Universität Berlin	145	147
University of Southern California	146	125
Stockholm University	147	128
University of Groningen	147	159
University of Liverpool	147	165
University of Cape Town	150	171
Western University	151	120
University of Vienna	152	137
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)	153	181
Wageningen University & Research	153	155
University of Exeter	155	169
University of Geneva	155	155
Lancaster University	157	141
University of Basel	158	131
Hanyang University	159	162
University of Barcelona	160	165
Michigan State University	161	152
Ghent University	162	169
King Abdul Aziz University (KAU)	163	149
Nagoya University	164	152
Chalmers University of Technology	165	139
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University	166	163
Washington University in St. Louis	167	171
University of Montreal	168	159
University of York	169	184
Hokkaido University	170	173
Kyushu University	170	167
Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona	172	175
Arizona State University	173	200
McMaster University	173	176
Universidad de Chile	173	139
National Tsing Hua University	176	210
Khalifa University of Science and Technology	177	202
Tongji University	177	192
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	179	178
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)	180	227
Cardiff University	181	186
Emory University	182	196
Curtin University	183	174
University of Bern	184	161
University of Wollongong	184	167
Wuhan University	186	194
Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM)	187	185
University Complutense Madrid	187	164
UNIVERSITAS INDONESIA	189	206
Ohio State University	190	208
Queen’s University, Ontario	191	193
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	191	203
Universität Hamburg	193	191
University of Reading	194	172
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	194	221
Waseda University	196	181
University of Otago	197	214
Vienna University of Technology	197	190
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University	199	219
Queen’s University Belfast	199	206
Universität Freiburg	201	212
University of Gothenburg	202	194
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)	203	215
University of Twente	203	233
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon	205	187
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	206	198
Deakin University	207	197
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	207	227
University of Maryland, College Park	207	218
University of Minnesota (System)	210	203
University of Calgary	211	198
Universidad de Los Andes Colombia	212	179
University of Florida	212	215
University of Lausanne	212	224
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	215	222
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP)	215	222
Keio University	215	188
Technische Universität Dresden	218	234
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore	219	211
University of Ottawa	219	189
Chulalongkorn University	221	229
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)	222	263
Tel Aviv University	223	209
Universitas Gadjah Mada	224	239
Loughborough University	225	224
Queensland University of Technology	226	213
The University of Newcastle	227	179
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	227	230
United Arab Emirates University	229	261
Massey University	230	239
University of Lisbon	230	260
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	232	224
La Trobe University	233	217
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	233	232
University of Padova	233	236
University of Rochester	236	236
American University of Beirut (AUB)	237	250
University of Porto	237	278
Maastricht University	239	230
Hebrew University of Jerusalem	240	281
Victoria University of Wellington	240	244
Politecnico di Torino	242	241
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	243	252
Hamad Bin Khalifa University	244	183
Hong Kong Baptist University	244	252
University College Cork	246	273
Beijing Normal University	247	271
Dartmouth College	247	243
University of Massachusetts, Amherst	247	275
Vanderbilt University	250	248
Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP)	251	269
University of Strathclyde	251	281
Taylor’s University (Malaysia)	253	251
Technische Universität Darmstadt	253	241
Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)	255	256
Harbin Institute of Technology	256	252
Tianjin University	257	269
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	257	283
Beijing Institute of Technology	259	302
Universidad Nacional de Colombia	259	219
University of Canterbury	261	261
University of Aberdeen	262	236
University of Navarra	262	249
University of Surrey	262	285
Charles University	265	246
Universitat Pompeu Fabra	265	265
Norwegian University of Science And Technology	267	264
Griffith University	268	255
Middle East Technical University	269	285
UCSI University	269	265
University of Warsaw	271	258
American University of Sharjah (AUS)	272	332
North Carolina State University	272	311
Universität zu Köln	272	285
University of Virginia	275	297
Sun Yat-sen University	276	331
University of Milan	276	285
University of Sussex	278	246
Radboud University Nijmegen	279	272
University of Antwerp	280	267
University of Pittsburgh	281	275
University of Waikato	281	235
Dalhousie University	283	275
University of Galway / Ollscoil na Gaillimhe	284	273
Georgetown University	285	301
University of Macau	285	245
Heriot-Watt University	287	256
Universitas Airlangga	287	308
University of Arizona	287	293
University of Bergen	287	291
University of The Witwatersrand	291	267
Swansea University	292	298
University of California, Irvine	293	307
Case Western Reserve University	294	259
Swinburne University of Technology	294	291
University of Notre Dame	294	316
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)	294	278
Istanbul Technical University	298	326
University of Colorado Boulder	299	320
Université Paris Cité	300	302
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	301	285
Stellenbosch University	302	296
Jagiellonian University	303	312
University of Southern Denmark	303	324
Xi’an Jiaotong University	305	295
Aalborg University	306	306
Indiana University Bloomington	306	355
Simon Fraser University	308	319
University of Johannesburg	308	312
City St George’s, University of London	310
Linköping University	310	304
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology	310	280
Universität Stuttgart	310	314
University of Miami	314	324
University of Tasmania	314	293
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main	316	309
L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University	317	321
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	317	304
Huazhong University of Science and Technology	319	300
Bauman Moscow State Technical University	320	298
Université Grenoble Alpes	321	334
University of Tehran	322	368
Koc University	323	401
Sichuan University	324	336
University of Jordan	324	368
University of Leicester	326	285
Universidade Nova de Lisboa	327	388
Rutgers University – New Brunswick	328	328
University of Delhi	328	328
University of Sharjah	328	434
Kyung Hee University	331	328
Satbayev University (previously Kazakh Technical University named after K.I. Satpaev)	331	405
York University	333	362
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG)	334	344
Sultan Qaboos University	334	362
Tufts University	334	344
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid	334	321
University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)	334	365
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR)	339	335
Shandong University	339	316
Xiamen University	341	362
University of Oulu	342	344
Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)	343	284
University of Pisa	343	382
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)	345	392
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)	345	359
Cairo University	347	350
Tilburg University	347	347
University of Coimbra	347	355
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology	350	416
Universität Innsbruck	350	309
University of Münster	350	367
University of Tsukuba	350	377
Quaid-i-azam University	354	315
Nankai University	355	377
National Technical University of Athens	355	321
Università degli Studi di Roma – Tor Vergata	355	393
George Washington University	358	371
Mahidol University	358	368
University of Victoria	358	349
Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech)	358	389
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)	362
University of Pretoria	362	354
University of Tartu	362	358
University of the Philippines	362	336
University of Turku	366	375
RUDN University	367	316
Sciences Po Paris	367	350
Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD)	367	385
Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)	370	326
Bogazici University	371	418
National University of Sciences And Technology (NUST) Islamabad	371	353
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	371	377
Oxford Brookes University	374	416
Saint Petersburg State University	375	365
Sharif University of Technology	375	342
South China University of Technology	377	385
University of Saskatchewan	378	340
University of Liege	379	396
University of Naples – Federico II	379	347
The American University in Cairo	381	410
University of East Anglia (UEA)	381	332
University of Luxembourg	381	355
Northeastern University	384	396
Brunel University of London	385	342
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)	385	359
Flinders University	387	336
Beihang University (former BUAA)	388	452
Birkbeck College, University of London	388	408
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	390	393
Abu Dhabi University	391	501
Sejong University	392	396
Southeast University, China	392	428
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya	392	371
Aston University	395	423
Ruhr-Universität Bochum	395	396
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT	397	336
University of Kent	397	380
IPB University (aka Bogor Agricultural University)	399	426
Western Sydney University	400	384
Umeå University	401	456
University of Granada	401	431
University of Limerick	401	421
Sabanci University	404	516
University of Florence	404	375
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA)	406	405
Lincoln University	407	371
University of Turin	408	371
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore	409	442
Auckland University of Technology	410	412
Dublin City University	410	421
Sunway University	410	539
University at Buffalo SUNY	410	466
University of Southern Queensland	410	396
Bilkent University	415	477
Czech Technical University In Prague	416	420
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg	416	428
Universität Mannheim	416	487
University of Aveiro	419	359
National Taipei University of Technology	420	425
Université de Strasbourg	420	456
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia	422	436
Murdoch University	423	436
Tampere University	423	462
Università degli Studi di Pavia	423	440
Washington State University	423	466
Graz University of Technology	427	413
Aix-Marseille University	428	481
University of Dundee	428	418
Masaryk University	430	408
Universitat de Valencia	430	445
Université de Montpellier	430	448
East China Normal University	433	501
Leibniz Universität Hannover	433	426
National Taiwan Normal University	435	452
Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University	436	513
Universitat Ramon Llull	436	466
IE University	438	435
National Sun Yat-sen University	439	485
Ajman University	440	477
James Cook University	440	445
Macau University of Science and Technology	440	464
National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE, Moscow)	440	410
Universität Konstanz	440	466
University of California, Riverside	440	497
Vilnius University	446	439
Belarusian State University	447	387
Universität Bayreuth	448	527
Iowa State University	449	470
Kazan Federal University	450	401
Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP)	450	489
Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz	452	501
Shenzhen University	452	508
Stony Brook University	452	460
University of Cyprus	452	389
Amirkabir University of Technology	456	403
University of Essex	456	472
Colorado State University	458	442
Universidad Nacional de La Plata	458	534
University of California, Santa Cruz	458	393
Jordan University of Science & Technology	461	554
Novosibirsk State University	461	442
Royal Holloway University of London	461	477
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele	461	389
Anna University	465	383
Concordia University	465	415
Shanghai University	465	489
University of Kansas	465	452
Ben Gurion University of The Negev	469	471
Laval University	469	423
Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers – National Research University (TIIAME-NRU)	469	547
Universidad de Sevilla	469	462
Jilin University	473	497
Johannes Kepler University Linz	473	472
Pusan National University	473	524
Università della Svizzera Italiana	473	405
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology State University	477	456
Universität Potsdam	477	474
Chung-Ang University	479	489
Hiroshima University	480	474
University of Science and Technology Beijing	480	430
Dalian University of Technology	482	448
Duy Tan University	482	495
Kobe University	482	465
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	485	508
University of Trento	485	506
Edith Cowan University	487	516
Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg	487	380
Warsaw University of Technology	487	527
Universidad de Santiago de Chile – USACH	490	461
Central South University	491	431
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (formerly University of Dammam)	491	513
Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)	491	554
Université de Bordeaux	494	535
University of Canberra	494	403
Iran University of Science and Technology	496	436
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen	496	445
University of Jyväskylä	498	489
Central Queensland University Australia (CQUniversity)	499	495
Northwestern Polytechnical University	499	547
Tomsk State University	499	431
Universidad de Costa Rica	499	497
Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences	503	587

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