2025Times Higher Education World University Rankings

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual global university ranking published by Times Higher Education. From 2004 to 2009, THE collaborated with QS to collect data and jointly release the rankings each autumn. Since 2010, THE has published its own rankings in partnership with Clarivate (formerly Thomson Reuters). The ranking evaluates universities across five main categories: Teaching (30%), Research (30%), Citations (30%), Industry Income (2.5%), and International Outlook (7.5%), which are further divided into 13 specific performance indicators.

NO.	Institution	Ranking Year	Global Ranking	Overall Score	Research Environment	Research Quality	Teaching	Industry Income	International Outlook	Location
1	University of Oxford	2026	1	98.2	100.0	97.7	97.2	99.9	96.4	United Kingdom
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2026	2	97.7	95.3	99.6	99.2	100.0	91.9	United States
3	Princeton University	2026	3	97.2	97.3	99.0	98.2	98.0	85.4	United States
4	University of Cambridge	2026	3	97.2	99.9	97.1	96.2	87.6	96.3	United Kingdom
5	Harvard University	2026	5	97.1	100.0	98.9	95.9	86.7	88.3	United States
6	Stanford University	2026	5	97.1	97.4	99.5	97.5	100.0	83.9	United States
7	California Institute of Technology	2026	7	96.3	97.4	96.8	96.4	100.0	87.9	United States
8	Imperial College London	2026	8	94.7	94.9	98.0	90.6	91.9	98.2	United Kingdom
9	University of California, Berkeley	2026	9	94.4	99.0	98.9	87.3	99.5	83.9	United States
10	Yale University	2026	10	94.1	94.5	97.2	94.6	87.6	81.4	United States
11	ETH Zurich	2026	11	93.1	97.2	94.5	88.5	83.7	95.1	Switzerland
12	Tsinghua University	2026	12	93.0	98.5	93.9	95.9	100.0	53.4	China (Mainland)
13	Peking University	2026	13	92.3	97.9	89.0	95.4	100.0	67.3	China (Mainland)
14	University of Pennsylvania	2026	14	90.8	90.3	96.1	88.1	97.9	78.4	United States
15	The University of Chicago	2026	15	90.6	90.1	96.8	89.6	76.4	79.7	United States
16	Johns Hopkins University	2026	16	90.1	89.9	96.3	84.6	100.0	81.9	United States
17	National University of Singapore	2026	17	89.7	93.1	95.1	78.6	99.9	92.8	Singapore
18	Cornell University	2026	18	89.5	90.6	95.9	85.9	70.3	83.5	United States
19	University of California, Los Angeles	2026	18	89.5	91.4	95.6	86.0	93.5	69.2	United States
20	Columbia University	2026	20	89.4	87.8	95.9	87.8	74.8	83.7	United States
21	University of Toronto	2026	21	88.5	92.9	92.3	78.2	95.8	92.3	Canada
22	UCL	2026	22	87.5	85.9	97.6	77.8	74.7	97.5	United Kingdom
23	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	2026	23	86.9	87.3	93.8	85.7	81.4	65.8	United States
24	Carnegie Mellon University	2026	24	85.0	83.0	99.0	72.7	85.5	84.3	United States
25	University of Washington	2026	25	83.7	80.0	97.6	77.0	81.6	70.1	United States
26	The University of Tokyo	2026	26	83.5	94.2	68.2	94.7	100.0	50.8	Japan
27	Technical University of Munich	2026	27	83.4	84.8	91.3	71.9	100.0	83.4	Germany
28	Duke University	2026	28	82.9	74.2	95.4	78.7	100.0	74.2	United States
29	University of Edinburgh	2026	29	82.5	74.7	94.8	75.7	71.0	96.2	United Kingdom
30	Northwestern University	2026	30	81.9	76.0	96.9	73.2	96.0	71.0	United States
31	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	2026	31	81.6	78.1	95.2	65.8	100.0	93.6	Singapore
32	New York University	2026	31	81.6	78.5	94.3	74.6	74.8	74.1	United States
33	University of Hong Kong	2026	33	80.5	70.8	95.6	68.3	96.5	96.6	Hong Kong SAR, China
34	LMU Munich	2026	34	79.7	75.4	92.4	68.4	100.0	78.7	Germany
35	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	2026	35	79.6	70.8	87.5	73.5	99.9	95.4	Switzerland
36	Fudan University	2026	36	79.3	77.1	84.8	79.5	99.8	53.8	China (Mainland)
37	University of Melbourne	2026	37	79.0	75.5	87.8	67.7	99.3	91.6	Australia
38	King’s College London	2026	38	78.7	72.1	95.5	64.2	72.3	96.9	United Kingdom
39	Zhejiang University	2026	39	78.3	78.4	84.3	75.0	100.0	55.5	China (Mainland)
40	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	2026	40	77.6	79.1	80.2	75.4	100.0	57.7	China (Mainland)

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