QS World University Rankings 2025

World's Top Universities 2025

The definitive global leaderboard of higher education institutions, ranked by academic reputation, research impact, and employer outcomes.

Last updated: 2025

Top 3 Universities

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Imperial College London
Imperial College London
London, United Kingdom
98.3
Website
#1 in the World 2025
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA, United States
100
Website
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University of Oxford
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
96.7
Website

Ranks 4–25 · QS 2025

2025
#4
Harvard University
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, United States
#5
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
#6
Stanford University
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, United States
#7
EZ
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
#8
NU
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore, Singapore
#9
U
UCL (University College London)
London, United Kingdom
#10
CI
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Pasadena, CA, United States
#11
UP
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, United States
#12
UE
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
#13
DU
Duke University
Durham, NC, United States
#14
PU
Peking University
Beijing, China
#15
YU
Yale University
New Haven, CT, United States
#16
TU
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
#17
PU
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, United States
#18
NT
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore, Singapore
#19
CU
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, United States
#20
UC
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States
#21
JH
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, United States
#22
UT
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
#23
E
EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne)
Lausanne, Switzerland
#24
UM
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
#25
UM
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Rankings by Country · 2025

Top universities in each country, individually ranked for 2025.

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