World University Rankings 2026

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Anonymous wrote:Rank Name Overall info

1 University of Oxford United Kingdom

2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States

=3 Princeton University United States

=3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom

=5 Harvard University United States

=5 Stanford University United States

7 California Institute of Technology United States

8 Imperial College London United Kingdom

9 University of California, Berkeley United States

10 Yale University United States

11 ETH Zurich Switzerland

12 Tsinghua University China

13 Peking University China

14 University of Pennsylvania United States

15 The University of Chicago United States

16 Johns Hopkins University United States

17 National University of Singapore Singapore

=18 Cornell University United States

=18 University of California, Los Angeles United States

20 Columbia University United States

21 University of Toronto Canada

22 UCL United Kingdom

23 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States

24 Carnegie Mellon University United States

25 University of Washington United States

26 The University of Tokyo Japan

27 Technical University of Munich Germany

28 Duke University United States

29 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom

30 Northwestern University United States

31 New York University United States

=41 Georgia Institute of Technology United States

=41 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States

47 University of California, San Diego United States

50 University of Texas at Austin United States

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/latest/world-ranking

Notre Dame is $294. What a joke
Clearly this is a very specific ranking based on REsearch productivity. ZERO impact to udnergraduate education…..Unless of course you select U of Arizona ahead of Notre Dame

For most of the world, that’s what makes your college elite. It’s only in the US where we base it off young men’s ability to throw a ball.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:This is heavily STEM focused. Doesn’t mean much to me.

STEM means a lot to the world.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting to see how well the University of Washington does on these global research university rankings.

Also noted that the top-3 US public universities are the same on both the US News "2026 Best Colleges" list and the Times Higher Education "2026 World University Rankings" list:

1. University of California, Berkeley
2. University of California, Los Angeles
3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Top 4 on Times
1. University of California, Berkeley
2. University of California, Los Angeles
3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
4. Georgia Institute of Technology

I thought UVA was the 4th Public?

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Top American colleges from other rankings:

From Pipeline Quarterly:

1. Bucknell

From Plagiarismo del Mundo:

2. Harvard Universidad

From Reportisch der Bullhornen

5. Universität Coumbia

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Anonymous wrote:It’s basically us news T20 minus a few ivies. In a slightly different order.

Not exactly


US only Top 20

US World
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Princeton University
3 Harvard University
3 Stanford University
5 California Institute of Technology
6 University of California, Berkeley
7 Yale University
8 University of Pennsylvania
9 The University of Chicago
10 Johns Hopkins University
11 Cornell University
11 University of California, Los Angeles
13 Columbia University
14 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
15 Carnegie Mellon University
16 University of Washington
17 Duke University
18 Northwestern University
19 New York University
20 Georgia Institute of Technology

If you read what I wrote: "minus a few ivies". It's pretty close!

I agree it’s pretty darn close. We all know rankings aren’t precise or totally objective anyway, but the gist is the same and usually aligns with academics’ views of these schools.

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Notre Dame is $294. What a joke
Clearly this is a very specific ranking based on REsearch productivity. ZERO impact to udnergraduate education…..Unless of course you select U of Arizona ahead of Notre Dame

For most of the world, that’s what makes your college elite. It’s only in the US where we base it off young men’s ability to throw a ball.

I'm no apologist for the University of Notre Dame, but that last comment is pretty harsh. Sure, Notre Dame is a football school, but it's a very well regarded academic institution with an emphasis on undergraduate education. To imply that the school is not elite because it's not a behemoth research giant like UMich, Berkeley, or MIT seems misguided, especially since the Times Higher Ed's rankings are precisely that -- a research university-centric ranking.

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For these idiots…U of Arizona is a better Institution than Notre Dame. For those looking at Notre Dame, why waster your time? just go to Arizona…. Please

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Notre Dame is $294. What a joke
Clearly this is a very specific ranking based on REsearch productivity. ZERO impact to udnergraduate education…..Unless of course you select U of Arizona ahead of Notre Dame

For most of the world, that’s what makes your college elite. It’s only in the US where we base it off young men’s ability to throw a ball.

I'm no apologist for the University of Notre Dame, but that last comment is pretty harsh. Sure, Notre Dame is a football school, but it's a very well regarded academic institution with an emphasis on undergraduate education. To imply that the school is not elite because it's not a behemoth research giant like UMich, Berkeley, or MIT seems misguided, especially since the Times Higher Ed's rankings are precisely that -- a research university-centric ranking.

I understand what you are saying...BUT the fact that Notre Dame is not up there with the Top Stem schools for research made it a less attractive option for my Engineering focused kid . But we truly did like everything else about the school. I would say they do sell the football program quite a bit there and there is nothing wrong with that.

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I understand what you are saying...BUT the fact that Notre Dame is not up there with the Top Stem schools for research made it a less attractive option for my Engineering focused kid . But we truly did like everything else about the school. I would say they do sell the football program quite a bit there and there is nothing wrong with that.

Kudos to your student for knowing themselves well enough to gravitate more towards research-heavy STEM schools.

As for football, I think there are just some schools that are in position to leverage their respective combination of academics and athletics, places like Stanford, Michigan, Notre Dame, UCLA. I mean, if you've got the pedigree, use it. Today's SEC schools are also using their football teams and overall athletics program as a sort of "welcome mat" to get kids interested in the institution. If ya got it, flaunt it, baby!

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It’s grad schools and research that bring a university world wide fame.

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Y’all send your kids to U of Arizona…I will keep ND.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s grad schools and research that bring a university world wide fame.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:It’s grad schools and research that bring a university world wide fame.

Quality of undergrad is more important if you are shopping for undergrad school. Harvey Mudd is not even on this list because no grad programs. But Mudd is GREAT at undergrad STEM.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s grad schools and research that bring a university world wide fame.

Quality of undergrad is more important if you are shopping for undergrad school. Harvey Mudd is not even on this list because no grad programs. But Mudd is GREAT at undergrad STEM.

omg not this again...this is getting so old. It's not just these schools have graduate schools but it is also the undergraduate research opportunities at these at these schools which are created by the graduate work. They go hand in hand. Harvey Mudd cannot compete with the Top Stem schools for research opportunities for undergrads. They are fine in their lane but they are in a different lane and it's not close.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s grad schools and research that bring a university world wide fame.

Quality of undergrad is more important if you are shopping for undergrad school. Harvey Mudd is not even on this list because no grad programs. But Mudd is GREAT at undergrad STEM.

omg not this again...this is getting so old. It's not just these schools have graduate schools but it is also the undergraduate research opportunities at these at these schools which are created by the graduate work. They go hand in hand. Harvey Mudd cannot compete with the Top Stem schools for research opportunities for undergrads. They are fine in their lane but they are in a different lane and it's not close.

Again, send your kids to U of Arizona then…..spare me the bullshit