GURI 2026 Global University Rankings

2,355 universities · 124 countries · GURI 3.1 — captured current published display; stored config: GURI 2.0

GURI Edition

Global Rank	Country Rank	University	Country	GURI Score	QS	THE	ARWU
1	1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	96.97	1	2	3
2	2	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	96.68	17	9	5
3	3	Princeton University	United States	96.67	25	3	7
4	1	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	96.57	7	11	22
5	1	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	96.43	9	22	14
6	4	California Institute of Technology	United States	96.17	10	7	9
7	5	Harvard University	United States	95.92	5	5	1
8	2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	95.90	4	1	6
9	1	Technical University of Munich	Germany	95.86	22	27	45
10	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	95.85	6	3	4
11	6	University of Washington	United States	95.76	81	25	17
12	2	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	Switzerland	95.76	22	35	44
13	1	Peking University	China	95.66	14	13	23
14	4	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	95.65	2	8	26
15	2	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	Germany	95.64	207	92	68
16	7	Stanford University	United States	95.62	3	5	2
17	8	Northwestern University	United States	95.51	42	30	31
18	9	Yale University	United States	95.46	21	10	11
19	10	University of Pennsylvania	United States	95.44	15	14	14
20	5	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	95.40	31	38	61
21	11	Cornell University	United States	95.37	16	18	12
22	12	Columbia University	United States	95.32	38	20	8
23	1	McGill University	Canada	95.32	27	41	76
24	2	Tsinghua University	China	95.23	17	12	18
25	1	National University of Singapore	Singapore	95.23	8	17	56
26	13	Johns Hopkins University	United States	95.17	24	16	19
27	14	University of Chicago	United States	95.03	13	15	10
28	2	University of Toronto	Canada	94.96	29	21	25
29	1	University of Melbourne	Australia	94.83	19	37	38
30	1	The University of Tokyo	Japan	94.67	36	26	31
31	6	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	94.67	34	29	37
32	3	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	94.65	47	40	30
33	15	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	94.65	110	53	36
34	1	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR, China	94.65	11	33	67
35	1	KU Leuven	Belgium	94.61	60	46	76
36	4	Nanjing University	China	94.56	103	62	75
37	16	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	94.51	45	23	33
38	17	New York University (NYU)	United States	94.48	55	31	28
39	2	The University of Sydney	Australia	94.21	25	53	72
40	1	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	94.19	101	90	35
41	7	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	94.18	35	56	46
42	3	Adelaide University	Australia	94.12	82	133	151-200
43	8	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	94.11	51	80	98
44	3	LMU Munich	Germany	94.02	58	34	42
45	18	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	93.88	52	24	101-150
46	19	Brown University	United States	93.76	69	65	101-150
47	5	University of Science and Technology of China	China	93.71	132	51	40
48	20	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	93.59	70	41	53
49	9	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	93.49	147	143	14
50	21	Duke University	United States	93.44	62	28	46

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