TIME World’s Top Universities of 2026

Rank

University

Country

Control

Total Score

1

University of Oxford

United Kingdom

Public

90.20

2

Yale University

United States

Private

88.55

3

Stanford University

United States

Private

88.30

4

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

Private

88.00

5

The University of Chicago

United States

Private

87.66

6

Harvard University

United States

Private

87.06

7

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

Public

86.86

8

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

Public

86.27

9

University of Michigan

United States

Public

84.65

10

University of Pennsylvania

United States

Private

83.93

11

Princeton University

United States

Private

83.73

12

Johns Hopkins University

United States

Private

83.19

13

California Institute of Technology

United States

Private

82.93

14

Duke University

United States

Private

81.72

15

Cornell University

United States

Private

80.57

16

The University of Edinburgh

United Kingdom

Public

80.31

17

The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong SAR China

Public

79.26

18

University of Zurich

Switzerland

Public

77.02

19

University of Wisconsin–Madison

United States

Public

76.98

20

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong SAR China

Public

76.72

21

Emory University

United States

Private

76.17

22

Rice University

United States

Private

75.86

23

Vanderbilt University

United States

Private

75.80

24

University of Toronto

Canada

Public

75.78

25

Case Western Reserve University

United States

Private

74.42

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