2026Times 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	2027	1	97.9	100.0	96.8	97.1	99.9	95.8	United Kingdom
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2027	2	97.8	96.5	99.4	99.1	100.0	90.9	United States
3	Princeton University	2027	3	97.0	98.1	98.4	97.4	97.2	85.3	United States
4	Stanford University	2027	3	97.0	98.3	99.3	96.4	100.0	83.4	United States
5	University of Cambridge	2027	5	96.9	99.9	96.0	96.5	87.1	95.8	United Kingdom
6	Harvard University	2027	6	96.7	100.0	98.5	95.3	84.0	88.5	United States
7	California Institute of Technology	2027	7	96.5	98.2	95.9	96.9	100.0	88.8	United States
8	Imperial College London	2027	8	95.2	96.1	97.1	92.0	92.0	97.7	United Kingdom
9	Yale University	2027	9	94.3	96.3	96.7	93.5	90.0	81.9	United States
10	University of California, Berkeley	2027	9	94.3	99.4	98.3	87.4	99.2	83.2	United States
11	Tsinghua University	2027	11	93.9	99.3	94.1	96.0	100.0	60.6	China (Mainland)
12	ETH Zurich	2027	12	93.6	98.3	94.4	89.3	85.0	94.2	Switzerland
13	Peking University	2027	13	92.8	98.8	89.7	95.3	100.0	67.8	China (Mainland)
14	University of Pennsylvania	2027	14	91.5	92.2	95.5	89.7	94.6	78.1	United States
15	National University of Singapore	2027	15	91.1	95.3	95.4	80.9	100.0	93.3	Singapore
16	The University of Chicago	2027	16	90.7	92.4	95.9	88.3	75.9	79.9	United States
17	UCL	2027	17	90.3	89.9	97.7	83.6	75.2	96.8	United Kingdom
18	Johns Hopkins University	2027	17	90.3	92.0	95.1	84.7	100.0	81.4	United States
19	Columbia University	2027	19	90.0	90.5	94.9	88.2	76.5	83.4	United States
20	University of California, Los Angeles	2027	20	89.9	93.7	95.0	86.1	91.6	68.1	United States
21	Cornell University	2027	21	89.5	91.7	94.7	86.1	70.6	83.7	United States
22	University of Toronto	2027	22	89.1	94.8	91.3	79.6	97.5	91.3	Canada
23	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	2027	23	87.1	89.0	92.9	85.8	79.2	66.2	United States
24	Carnegie Mellon University	2027	24	85.9	84.1	99.1	73.9	90.4	84.7	United States
25	Technical University of Munich	2027	25	85.1	86.7	92.6	73.3	100.0	86.4	Germany
26	University of Washington	2027	26	84.6	83.0	96.1	79.0	78.0	69.8	United States
27	The University of Tokyo	2027	27	84.3	96.1	68.8	94.5	100.0	51.6	Japan
28	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	2027	28	84.0	82.2	95.6	69.4	100.0	93.9	Singapore
29	University of Edinburgh	2027	29	83.5	78.4	94.8	75.6	72.2	95.2	United Kingdom
30	Northwestern University	2027	29	83.5	79.5	96.5	74.3	98.8	74.5	United States
31	New York University (NYU)	2027	29	83.5	82.7	92.4	76.6	75.7	81.3	United States
32	Duke University	2027	32	83.4	77.5	94.9	77.6	100.0	74.8	United States
33	University of Hong Kong	2027	33	82.6	75.4	94.2	72.4	97.8	95.6	Hong Kong SAR, China
34	University of Melbourne	2027	34	80.9	78.9	87.9	70.9	99.5	90.6	Australia
35	Zhejiang University	2027	34	80.9	82.7	85.7	78.7	100.0	53.6	China (Mainland)
36	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	2027	36	80.5	75.0	86.3	73.6	99.9	94.7	Switzerland
37	University of California, San Diego	2027	37	80.3	76.7	96.3	67.5	100.0	70.3	United States
38	Fudan University	2027	38	80.2	78.5	86.7	78.7	99.9	56.6	China (Mainland)
39	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	2027	39	80.0	82.0	83.2	77.6	100.0	58.4	China (Mainland)
40	King’s College London	2027	40	79.3	73.4	95.3	65.4	74.3	95.7	United Kingdom

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