The World's Leading Universities — Shanghai Ranking

2026

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University ranking · 2026

ARWU relative score · 0–100 · ShanghaiRanking · ARWU ↗

The World's Leading Universities — Shanghai Ranking — 2026
Rank	University	ARWU relative score · 0–100
1	Harvard University	100.0
2	Stanford University	80.2
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	74.1
4	University of Cambridge	70.5
5	University of California, Berkeley	64.5
6	Princeton University	63.1
7	University of Oxford	62.1
8	Columbia University	58.0
9	University of Chicago	57.2
10	California Institute of Technology	56.8
11	Yale University	55.1
12	Cornell University	51.8
13	Paris-Saclay University	50.8
14	University of California, Los Angeles	50.2
14	University of Pennsylvania	50.2
16	University of Washington	49.6
17	University College London	49.4
18	Tsinghua University	48.3
19	ETH Zurich	48.0
20	University of California, San Diego	46.4
21	University of California, San Francisco	45.8
22	Peking University	45.6
23	Johns Hopkins University	45.3
24	University of Toronto	45.2
24	Zhejiang University	45.2
26	New York University	43.4
27	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	41.8
28	Washington University in St Louis	41.7
29	Imperial College London	41.2
30	The University of Tokyo	39.6
31	Northwestern University	39.0
32	Rockefeller University	38.4
33	PSL University	37.9
34	University of Copenhagen	37.8
35	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	37.4
35	University of Wisconsin, Madison	37.4
37	The University of Melbourne	36.6
38	The University of Edinburgh	36.0
39	University of Science and Technology of China	35.8
40	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	35.5
41	Fudan University	35.4
41	Karolinska Institute	35.4
43	Kyoto University	34.9
43	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	34.9
45	Technical University of Munich	34.8
46	University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign	34.6
47	The University of Texas at Austin	34.5
48	Duke University	34.3
49	LMU Munich	34.0
49	University of Colorado Boulder	34.0
51	The University of Manchester	33.8
52	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	33.4
53	National University of Singapore	33.3
54	University of British Columbia	33.2
55	Sorbonne University	33.1
55	University of Geneva	33.1
57	University of Maryland, College Park	33.0
57	Université Paris Cité	33.0
59	Heidelberg University	32.9
60	Utrecht University	32.8
61	University of California, Santa Barbara	32.3
62	Sun Yat-sen University	32.1
62	The University of Hong Kong	32.1
64	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	31.8
65	University of Zurich	31.6
66	Vanderbilt University	31.4
67	King's College London	31.1
68	University of Southern California	30.7
69	University of Bonn	30.6
70	Nanjing University	30.5
71	Weizmann Institute of Science	30.4
72	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	30.1
73	McGill University	30.0
73	The University of Queensland	30.0
75	University of California, Irvine	29.8
76	Monash University	29.7
77	Sichuan University	29.6
77	Wuhan University	29.6
79	University of Sydney	29.3
79	Xi'an Jiaotong University	29.3
81	Aarhus University	29.1
81	The University of New South Wales	29.1
83	Central South University	29.0
84	Nanyang Technological University	28.7
84	University of Groningen	28.7
86	University of Oslo	28.6
87	KU Leuven	28.3
87	Seoul National University	28.3
89	Southeast University	28.2
89	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	28.2
91	University of Basel	28.1
91	University of Bristol	28.1
93	Ohio State University, Columbus	27.8
94	Uppsala University	27.7
95	City University of Hong Kong	27.5
95	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	27.5
97	Harbin Institute of Technology	27.4
98	Ghent University	27.3
98	Tianjin University	27.3
100	Purdue University, West Lafayette	26.9

Questions and answers

Which university ranking is used?

Only the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), published by ShanghaiRanking, is used. This series does not mix QS or Times Higher Education rankings.

What do the bars represent, and can scores be compared across years?

Bars represent the relative score in each edition, not a university’s rank or an absolute measure of quality comparable across years. Methodology, institutional scope, mergers and names may change between editions.

How are ties and universities outside the top 100 handled?

Published ranks and ties are preserved. The source contains every institution ranked 100 or better, including 101 institutions in 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2011 because of ties. Absence from the top 100 is not a zero score.

Where do the data come from?

ShanghaiRanking · ARWU ↗

Updated Oct 12, 2026. Source validation: 2026-10-12.