The QS World University Rankings 2026 were released on June 18/19, 2025. Here are the top 20 universities:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US
2. Imperial College London, UK
3. Stanford University, US
4. University of Oxford, UK
5. Harvard University, US
6. University of Cambridge, UK
7. ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland
8. National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
9. UCL (University College London), UK
10. California Institute of Technology (Caltech), US
11. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
12. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Singapore
13. University of Chicago, US
14. Peking University, China (Mainland)
15. University of Pennsylvania, US
16. Cornell University, US
17. Tsinghua University, China (Mainland)
18. University of California, Berkeley (UCB), US
19. The University of Melbourne, Australia
20. The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia

https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings?sort_by=rank&order_by=asc