Global University Rankings 2026
Snapshot 2026-09-14. QS 2027: MIT No. 1 (100), Imperial and Stanford tied No. 2 (99.2). THE 2026 Oxford No. 1. US News Harvard No. 1.

Snapshot 2026-09-14. The main table is the live QS World University Rankings 2027 top 30, published 18 Jun 2026. MIT is No. 1 at 100. Imperial College London and Stanford share No. 2 at 99.2. THE 2026 and US News 2026–2027 sit after the source note. The China-only Soft Science list is in Chinese University Rankings 2026.

QS World University Rankings 2027
MIT holds No. 1. Imperial and Stanford are tied. Oxford is 4, Harvard 5, Cambridge 6. Caltech is 7. ETH Zurich and UCL share 8. NUS is 10. HKU is 11. Peking is 13, Tsinghua 14, Fudan 26.
| # | University | Location | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MIT | United States | 100 |
| =2 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 99.2 |
| =2 | Stanford University | United States | 99.2 |
| 4 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 98.6 |
| 5 | Harvard University | United States | 97.4 |
| 6 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 97.1 |
| 7 | Caltech | United States | 96.6 |
| =8 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | 96.3 |
| =8 | UCL | United Kingdom | 96.3 |
| 10 | NUS | Singapore | 96.2 |
| 11 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR | 95.9 |
| 12 | NTU Singapore | Singapore | 93.6 |
| 13 | Peking University | China (Mainland) | 92.6 |
| 14 | Tsinghua University | China (Mainland) | 92.1 |
| 15 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 91.7 |
| =16 | Cornell University | United States | 91.5 |
| =16 | Yale University | United States | 91.5 |
| 18 | CUHK | Hong Kong SAR | 89.9 |
| 19 | UNSW Sydney | Australia | 89.8 |
| =20 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 89.7 |
| =20 | UC Berkeley | United States | 89.7 |
| =22 | EPFL | Switzerland | 89.6 |
| =22 | University of Melbourne | Australia | 89.6 |
| 24 | University of Chicago | United States | 89.2 |
| 25 | Technical University of Munich | Germany | 89.1 |
| 26 | Fudan University | China (Mainland) | 89 |
| 27 | Princeton University | United States | 88.9 |
| 28 | University of Sydney | Australia | 88.4 |
| 29 | Australian National University | Australia | 87.6 |
| 30 | McGill University | Canada | 87.5 |
McGill closes the official first page at 30, overall 87.5. The site loads thirty rows at a time, so the table stops there.
How this list is ranked
Snapshot 2026-09-14. The main table is the live QS World University Rankings 2027 top 30, including the published overall scores. That edition landed on 18 Jun 2026. The 2026 table is still on /2026 and sits after this note. THE uses World University Rankings 2026. US News uses Best Global Universities 2026–2027. Three rulers, no blended score. The China-only Soft Science list is in Chinese University Rankings 2026. Names: docs/glossaries/universities-global-glossary.md.
| Source | Snapshot | Basis | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| QS live table (2027) | 2026-09-14 | Overall rank + score; MIT 100; Imperial and Stanford tied at 99.2 | Primary |
| QS 2026 page | 2026-09-14 | Published 19 Jun 2025; about 1,504 institutions; MIT still No. 1 | Support |
| Wikipedia QS chronology | 2026-09-14 | Cross-check of the official 2026 / 2027 top 25 | Support |
| THE WUR 2026 | 2026-09-14 | Oxford No. 1 at 98.2; 2,191 institutions, 115 countries/territories | Support |
| THE 2026 results piece | 9 Oct 2025 | Oxford No. 1 for a tenth year; Tsinghua 12; Peking 13 | Support |
| US News Best Global Universities | 2026-09-14 | 2026–2027 edition; Harvard 1, MIT 2, Stanford 3, Tsinghua 6 | Support |
THE World University Rankings 2026
Oxford leads THE 2026 at 98.2, a tenth straight year at No. 1. MIT is 2. Princeton and Cambridge share 3 at 97.2. Harvard and Stanford share 5. Tsinghua is 12, Peking 13. Tokyo is 26.
| # | University | Overall |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Oxford | 98.2 |
| 2 | MIT | 97.7 |
| =3 | Princeton University | 97.2 |
| =3 | University of Cambridge | 97.2 |
| =5 | Harvard University | 97.1 |
| =5 | Stanford University | 97.1 |
| 7 | Caltech | 96.3 |
| 8 | Imperial College London | 94.7 |
| 9 | UC Berkeley | 94.4 |
| 10 | Yale University | 94.1 |
| 11 | ETH Zurich | 93.1 |
| 12 | Tsinghua University | 93.0 |
| 13 | Peking University | 92.3 |
| 14 | University of Pennsylvania | 90.8 |
| 15 | University of Chicago | 90.6 |
| 16 | Johns Hopkins University | 90.1 |
| 17 | NUS | 89.7 |
| =18 | Cornell University | 89.5 |
| =18 | UCLA | 89.5 |
| 20 | Columbia University | 89.4 |
| 21 | University of Toronto | 88.5 |
| 22 | UCL | 87.5 |
| 23 | University of Michigan | 86.9 |
| 24 | Carnegie Mellon | 85.0 |
| 25 | University of Washington | 83.7 |
| 26 | University of Tokyo | 83.5 |
| 27 | Technical University of Munich | 83.4 |
| 28 | Duke University | 82.9 |
| 29 | University of Edinburgh | 82.5 |
| 30 | Northwestern University | 81.9 |
US News Best Global Universities 2026–2027
On the snapshot day Harvard is 1, MIT 2, Stanford 3, Oxford 4, Cambridge 5. Tsinghua is 6. Imperial and Princeton share 14. Johns Hopkins and Penn share 17.
| # | University |
|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University |
| 2 | MIT |
| 3 | Stanford University |
| 4 | University of Oxford |
| 5 | University of Cambridge |
| 6 | Tsinghua University |
| 7 | UC Berkeley |
| 8 | Yale University |
| 9 | UCL |
| 10 | Columbia University |
| 11 | UCLA |
| 12 | University of Washington |
| 13 | Cornell University |
| =14 | Imperial College London |
| =14 | Princeton University |
| 16 | NUS |
| =17 | Johns Hopkins University |
| =17 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 19 | Peking University |
| 20 | University of Toronto |
QS 2026 top 30
The 2026 page is dated 19 Jun 2025 and lists about 1,504 universities. MIT is still No. 1 at 100. Imperial is 2 (99.4), Stanford 3 (98.9). Tsinghua and Berkeley share 17. Université PSL is 28, Toronto 29, Fudan 30.
| # | University | Overall |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MIT | 100 |
| 2 | Imperial College London | 99.4 |
| 3 | Stanford University | 98.9 |
| 4 | University of Oxford | 97.9 |
| 5 | Harvard University | 97.7 |
| 6 | University of Cambridge | 97.2 |
| 7 | ETH Zurich | 96.7 |
| 8 | NUS | 95.9 |
| 9 | UCL | 95.8 |
| 10 | Caltech | 94.3 |
| 11 | University of Hong Kong | 94.2 |
| 12 | NTU Singapore | 93.7 |
| 13 | University of Chicago | 93 |
| 14 | Peking University | 92.6 |
| 15 | University of Pennsylvania | 92.5 |
| 16 | Cornell University | 91.6 |
| =17 | Tsinghua University | 91.2 |
| =17 | UC Berkeley | 91.2 |
| 19 | University of Melbourne | 90.8 |
| 20 | UNSW Sydney | 90.7 |
| 21 | Yale University | 90.4 |
| =22 | EPFL | 90.2 |
| =22 | Technical University of Munich | 90.2 |
| 24 | Johns Hopkins University | 89.7 |
| =25 | Princeton University | 89.4 |
| =25 | University of Sydney | 89.4 |
| 27 | McGill University | 88.9 |
| 28 | Université PSL | 88.6 |
| 29 | University of Toronto | 88.5 |
| 30 | Fudan University | 88.4 |
Chinese mainland in the QS 2027 top 30
Peking, Tsinghua and Fudan are the mainland names on that first page.
| QS 2027 | University | Overall |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | Peking University | 92.6 |
| 14 | Tsinghua University | 92.1 |
| 26 | Fudan University | 89 |
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