World University Rankings 2025
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Discover the top universities worldwide with the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025. This year, we have ranked more than 2,000 institutions from 115 countries and territories.
University rankings 2025: key insights
● Oxford holds on to the top spot for the ninth consecutive year, bolstered by significant improvements in industry engagement and teaching. Oxford University Admission Requirements for 2025 here
■ MIT rises to second place, overtaking Stanford, which drops to sixth
● China 🇨🇳 edges closer to the top 10, further boosting its global research influence
■ Australia’s 🇦🇺 top five universities all slip down the rankings, due to declining reputation and international outlook
● Three new countries join the top 200 - Brazil 🇧🇷 , Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 and the United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 - highlighting the rise of emerging markets in higher education
Explore the table below to discover the full rankings and how universities around the world are performing this year.
Recognised as the world's most comprehensive evaluation of university performance, our latest WUR 3.0 methodology includes 18 carefully calibrated indicators to assess institutions across five key areas: ●teaching, ●research environment, ●research quality, ●industry engagement and ●international outlook.
The 2025 rankings includes 2,092 ranked universities. There are 185 new entries when compared with last year.
Overall, we collected 472,694 datapoints from 2,860 institutions that submitted data.
Our detailed methodology, trusted worldwide by students, teachers, academics, governments and industry experts, is based on:
●157 million citations
●18 million research publications
●survey responses from more than 93,000 scholars globally
Our analysis shows that the reputations of the UK and US higher education sectors are declining.
There is more analysis on the results, including tables, charts and interviews with university leaders in our World University Rankings 2025 digital report.
2025
Rank Name
Country/Region
1 University of Oxford
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States 🇺🇲
3 Harvard University
United States 🇺🇸
4 Princeton University
United States 🇺🇸
5 University of Cambridge
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
6 Stanford University
United States 🇺🇸
7 California Institute of Technology
United States 🇺🇸
8 University of California, Berkeley
United States 🇺🇸
9 Imperial College London
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
10 Yale University
United States 🇺🇸
11 ETH Zurich
Switzerland 🇨🇭
12 Tsinghua University 清華大學 Qīng-huá dà-xué
China 🇨🇳
13 Beijing University 北京大學
Běijīng dàxué
China 🇨🇳
(tie)14 The University of Chicago
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)14 University of Pennsylvania
United States 🇺🇸
16 Johns Hopkins University
United States 🇺🇸
17 National University of Singapore
Singapore 🇸🇬
(tie)18 Columbia University
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)18 University of California, Los Angeles
United States 🇺🇸
20 Cornell University
United States 🇺🇸
21 University of Toronto
Canada 🇨🇦
=22 UCL (University College London is a public research university in London, England 🏴) United Kingdom 🇬🇧
=22 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
United States 🇺🇸
24 Carnegie Mellon University
United States 🇺🇸
25 University of Washington
United States 🇺🇸
*[#1 to #25 of 2,857 universities]
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26 Technical University of Munich
Germany 🇩🇪
27 Duke University
United States 🇺🇸
28 The University of Tokyo
東京大学 Tōkyōdaigaku
Japan 🇯🇵
29 University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
30 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Singapore 🇸🇬
31 Northwestern University
United States 🇺🇸
32 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Switzerland 🇨🇭
33 New York University
United States 🇺🇸
34 University of California, San Diego
United States 🇺🇸
35 University of Hong Kong 香港大學
hoeng¹gong² daai⁶hok⁶
Hong Kong 🇭🇰
(tie)36 Fudan University 復旦大學
Fù-dàn dà-xué
China 🇨🇳
(tie)36 King’s College London
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
38 LMU Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Germany 🇩🇪
39 University of Melbourne
Australia 🇦🇺
40 Georgia Institute of Technology
United States 🇺🇸
41 University of British Columbia
Canada 🇨🇦
42 Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris
France 🇫🇷
43 KU Leuven
Belgium 🇧🇪
44 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
香港中文大學 hoeng¹gong² zung¹man⁴ daai⁶hok⁶
Hong Kong 🇭🇰
45 McGill University
Canada 🇨🇦
46 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States 🇺🇸
(toe)47 Universität Heidelberg
Germany 🇩🇪
(tie)47 Zhejiang University 浙江大學 Zhè-jiāng dà-xué
China 🇨🇳
49 Karolinska Institute
Sweden 🇸🇪
(tie)50 London School of Economics and Political Science
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
(#26 to #50 of 2,857 universities)
(tie)50 University of Texas at Austin
United States 🇺🇸
52 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China 🇨🇳
(tie)53 University of Manchester
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
(tie)53 University of Science and Technology of China 中國科學技術大學 Zhōng-guó kē-xué jì-shù dà-xué
China 🇨🇳
55 Kyoto University 京都大学 Kyōtodaigaku
Japan 🇯🇵
(tie)56 Delft University of Technology
Netherlands 🇳🇱
(tie)56 University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)58 Brown University
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)58 Monash University
Australia 🇦🇺
(tie)58 University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
61 The University of Sydney
Australia 🇦🇺
(tie)62 Seoul National University
South Korea 🇰🇷
(tie)62 University of California, Davis
United States 🇺🇸
64 Université Paris-Saclay
France 🇫🇷
65 Nanjing University 南京大學 Nán'-jīng dà-xué
China 🇨🇳
66 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong 🇭🇰
(tie)67 University of California, Santa Barbara
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)67 Wageningen University & Research
Netherlands 🇳🇱
69 Washington University in St Louis
United States 🇺🇸
70 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
United States 🇺🇸
71 Institut Polytechnique de Paris
France 🇫🇷
72 University of Southern California
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)73 Australian National University
Australia 🇦🇺
(tie)73 Leiden University
Netherlands 🇳🇱
75 Boston University
United States 🇺🇸
(#51 to #75 of 2,857 universities)
76 Sorbonne University
France 🇫🇷
77 The University of Queensland
Australia 🇦🇺
78 University of Bristol
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
79 Purdue University West Lafayette
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)80 City University of Hong Kong 香港城市大學 hoeng¹gong² sing⁴si⁵ daai⁶hok⁶
Hong Kong 🇭🇰
(tie)80 University of Groningen
Netherlands 🇳🇱
82 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)한국과학기술원 hanguggwahaggisul-won (한 국 과 학 기 술 원 han gug gwa hag gi sul won)
South Korea 🇰🇷
83 UNSW Sydney
Australia 🇦🇺
(tie)84 Humboldt University of Berlin
Germany 🇩🇪
(tie)84 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 香港理工大學 hoeng¹gong² lei⁵gung¹ daai⁶hok⁶
Hong Kong 🇭🇰
(tie)84 University of Massachusetts
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)87 University of Glasgow
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
(tie)87 University of Minnesota
United States 🇺🇸
89 University of Bonn
Germany 🇩🇪
(tie)90 University of California, Irvine
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)90 Vanderbilt University
United States 🇺🇸
92 RWTH Aachen University
Germany 🇩🇪
(tie)93 Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany 🇩🇪
(tie)93 University of Birmingham
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
(tie)95 KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden 🇸🇪
(tie)95 Lund University
Sweden 🇸🇪
97 University of Copenhagen
Denmark 🇩🇰
(tie)98 Emory University
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)98 University of Sheffield
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
(tie)100 Penn State (Main campus)
United States 🇺🇸
(#76 to #100 of 2,857 universities)
(tie)100 University of Tübingen
Germany 🇩🇪
(tie)102 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) 성균관대학교 seong-gyungwandaehaggyo
South Korea 🇰🇷
(tie)102 Yonsei University (Seoul campus)
South Korea 🇰🇷
(tie)104 Free University of Berlin
Germany 🇩🇪
(tie)104 University of Bern
Switzerland 🇨🇭
106 University of Warwick
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
(tie)107 Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands 🇳🇱
(tie)107 Lomonosov Moscow State University [Московский государственный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова; Moskovskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet imeni M.V. Lomonosova ]
Russian Federation 🇷🇺
(tie)107 University of Helsinki
Finland 🇫🇮
(tie)110 Aarhus University
Denmark 🇩🇰
(tie)110 University of Vienna
Austria 🇦🇹
(tie)112 Ghent University
Belgium 🇧🇪
(tie)112 Rice University
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)112 University of Maryland, College Park
United States 🇺🇸
115 University of Southampton
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
(tie)116 McMaster University
Canada 🇨🇦
(tie)116 Ohio State University (Main campus)
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)116 University of Alberta
Canada 🇨🇦
(tie)116 University of Oslo
Norway 🇳🇴
120 Tohoku University 東北大学 Tōhokudaigaku
Japan 🇯🇵
121 University of Göttingen
Germany 🇩🇪
122 Michigan State University
United States 🇺🇸
123 University of Leeds
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
124 Technical University of Denmark
Denmark 🇩🇰
125 Université de Montréal
Canada 🇨🇦
(#101 to #125 of 2,857 universities)
126 University of Basel
Switzerland 🇨🇭
127 University of Rochester
United States 🇺🇲
(tie)128 University of Adelaide
Australia 🇦🇺
(tie)128 University of Freiburg
Germany 🇩🇪
(tie)130 University of Florida
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)130 Uppsala University
Sweden 🇸🇪
(tie)132 Maastricht University
Netherlands 🇳🇱
(tie)132 University of Hamburg
Germany 🇩🇪
(tie)134 University of Lausanne
Switzerland 🇨🇭
(tie)134 Wuhan University 武漢大學 Wǔhàn dàxué
China 🇨🇳
(tie)136 University of Arizona
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)136 University of Nottingham
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
(tie)136 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Netherlands 🇳🇱
139 Trinity College Dublin
Ireland 🇮🇪
140 Technical University of Berlin
Germany 🇩🇪
(tie)141 Queen Mary University of London
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
(tie)141 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)143 Radboud University Nijmegen
Netherlands 🇳🇱
(tie)43 Texas A&M University
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)143 University of Colorado Boulder
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)146 Beijing Normal University 北京師範大學 Běijīng shīfàn dàxué
China 🇨🇳
(tie)146 University of Bologna
Italy 🇮🇹
(tie)146 University of York
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
(tie)149 The University of Western Australia
Australia 🇦🇺
(tie)149 University of Barcelona
Spain 🇪🇸
(#126 to #150 of 2,857 universities)
151 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
South Korea 🇰🇷
(tie)152 Harbin Institute of Technology
China 🇨🇳
(tie)152 University of Auckland
New Zealand 🇳🇿
(tie)154 Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Italy 🇮🇹
(tie)154 Tongji University
China 🇨🇳
(tie)154 University of Technology Sydney
Australia 🇦🇺
(tie)157 Newcastle University
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
(tie)157 University of Cologne
Germany 🇩🇪
159 Case Western Reserve University
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)160 TU Dresden
Germany 🇩🇪
(tie)160 University of Liverpool
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
162 Osaka University
Japan 🇯🇵
(tie)163 University of Virginia (Main campus)
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)163 University of Waterloo
Canada 🇨🇦
(tie)163 Germany 🇩🇪
(tie)166 Huazhong University of Science and Technology
China 🇨🇳
(tie)166 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Germany 🇩🇪
(tie)168 Dartmouth College
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)168 Lancaster University
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
(tie)168 University of Antwerp
Belgium 🇧🇪
171 University of Geneva
Switzerland 🇨🇭
(tie)172 Durham University
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
(tie)172 National Taiwan University (NTU)
Taiwan 🇹🇼
(tie)172 University of Exeter
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
175 Université Catholique de Louvain
Belgium 🇧🇪
(#151 to #175 of 2,857 universities)
(tie)176 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
(tie)176 Pompeu Fabra University
Spain 🇪🇸
178 Macquarie University
Australia 🇦🇺
179 Tufts University
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)180 University of Cape Town
South Africa 🇿🇦
(tie)180 University of Macau
Macao
(tie)180 University of Twente
Netherlands 🇳🇱
(tie)183 Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
China 🇨🇳
(tie)183 Université Paris Cité
France 🇫🇷
(tie)185 Eindhoven University of Technology
Netherlands 🇳🇱
(tie)185 Sapienza University of Rome
Italy 🇮🇹
(tie)185 University of St Andrews
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
188 University of Münster
Germany 🇩🇪
(tie)189 Indiana University
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)189 Korea University
South Korea 🇰🇷
(tie)191 Abu Dhabi University
United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪
(tie)191 Stockholm University
Sweden 🇸🇪
(tie)191 University of Leicester
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
(tie)191 University of Ottawa
Canada 🇨🇦
195 Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japan 🇯🇵
(tie)196 Aalto University
Finland 🇫🇮
(tie)196 University of California, Santa Cruz
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)196 University of Notre Dame
United States 🇺🇸
(tie)199 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Spain 🇪🇸
(tie)199 Ulm University
Germany 🇩🇪
(#176 to #200 of 2,857 universities)
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