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World university rankings (QS)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is No. 1 in the QS world university rankings, ahead of Imperial College London.

The top of the QS World University Rankings, the most-searched university league table, published every June, from Wikipedia’s summary table.

Source: Wikipedia, QS World University Rankings · CC BY-SA 4.0 · exact version used Wikipedia lists the top 25 or so; QS’s own site is behind a bot challenge.

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World university rankings (QS), current order
No.	Move	University
1		Massachusetts Institute of Technology2026 edition: 1
2		Imperial College London2026 edition: 2
2		Stanford University2026 edition: 3
4		University of Oxford2026 edition: 4
5		Harvard University2026 edition: 5
6		University of Cambridge2026 edition: 6
7		California Institute of Technology2026 edition: 10
8		ETH Zurich2026 edition: 7
8		University College London2026 edition: 9
10		National University of Singapore2026 edition: 8
11		University of Hong Kong2026 edition: 11
12		Nanyang Technological University2026 edition: 12
13		Peking University2026 edition: 14
14		Tsinghua University2026 edition: =17
15		University of Pennsylvania2026 edition: 15
16		Cornell University2026 edition: 16
16		Yale University2026 edition: 21
18		Chinese University of Hong Kong2026 edition: 32
19		University of New South Wales2026 edition: 20
20		Johns Hopkins University2026 edition: 24
20		University of California, Berkeley2026 edition: =17
22		University of Melbourne2026 edition: 19
22		École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne2026 edition: =22
24		University of Chicago2026 edition: 13
25		Technical University of Munich2026 edition: =22

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