GURI 2027 Global University Rankings

2,394 universities · 127 countries · GURI 3.1 · Published 2026-11-10

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	Princeton University	United States	96.69	27	3	6
3	3	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	96.68	20	9	5
4	4	Yale University	United States	96.50	16	9	11
5	5	Columbia University	United States	96.35	43	19	8
6	6	Johns Hopkins University	United States	96.26	20	17	23
7	7	California Institute of Technology	United States	96.24	7	7	10
8	8	Harvard University	United States	95.91	5	6	1
9	1	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	95.89	4	1	7
10	1	Technical University of Munich	Germany	95.88	25	25	45
11	2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	95.83	6	5	4
12	1	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	Switzerland	95.82	22	36	43
13	9	University of Washington	United States	95.76	92	26	16
14	1	Peking University	China	95.72	13	13	22
15	10	Stanford University	United States	95.65	2	3	2
16	3	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	95.63	2	8	29
17	11	New York University (NYU)	United States	95.62	58	29	26
18	2	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	95.58	8	12	19
19	12	Northwestern University	United States	95.49	45	29	31
20	13	University of Pennsylvania	United States	95.46	15	14	14
21	14	Cornell University	United States	95.37	16	21	12
22	1	McGill University	Canada	95.33	30	43	73
23	2	Tsinghua University	China	95.32	14	11	18
24	4	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	95.28	37	40	67
25	1	National University of Singapore	Singapore	95.27	10	15	53
26	1	The University of Sydney	Australia	95.22	28	51	79
27	3	Zhejiang University	China	94.97	47	34	24
28	4	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	94.95	36	39	27
29	2	University of Toronto	Canada	94.92	32	22	24
30	2	University of Melbourne	Australia	94.89	22	34	37
31	1	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR, China	94.75	11	33	62
32	3	Adelaide University	Australia	94.73	79	141	101-150
33	5	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	94.69	35	29	38
34	15	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	94.66	131	53	35
35	1	KU Leuven	Belgium	94.64	59	45	87
36	1	The University of Tokyo	Japan	94.63	39	27	30
37	1	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	94.56	90	81	34
38	16	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	94.54	162	66	28
39	17	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	94.39	51	23	35
40	6	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	94.18	57	82	91
41	7	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	94.10	40	60	51
42	1	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	94.08	48	50	151-200
43	2	LMU Munich	Germany	93.90	61	41	49
44	18	Brown University	United States	93.84	66	73	101-150
45	4	The University of Queensland	Australia	93.66	40	73	73
46	19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	93.63	74	48	46
47	8	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	93.60	139	154	17
48	1	Yonsei University	Republic of Korea	93.51	42	80	151-200
49	20	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	93.36	49	20	14
50	1	Lund University	Sweden	93.35	71	104	101-150

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