Independent world university ranking 2027

A ranking with no paid placements: graduate careers, research, teaching quality and reputation — with tuition and admission chances.

1. Harvard University — United States · Index 95 · $62 226 / year
2. Stanford University — United States · Index 83 · $67 731 / year
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology — United States · Index 81 · $66 720 / year
4. University of Cambridge — United Kingdom · Index 72 · £30 798 – £70 554 / year
5. University of Oxford — United Kingdom · Index 71 · £39 620 – £66 580 / year
6. University of Pennsylvania — United States · Index 66 · $65 670 / year
7. Yale University — United States · Index 62 · $72 500 / year
8. Princeton University — United States · Index 62 · $68 140 / year
9. Columbia University — United States · Index 62 · $72 800 / year
10. California Institute of Technology — United States · Index 61 · $65 622 / year
11. University of Chicago — United States · Index 61 · $79 395 / year
12. University of California, Berkeley — United States · Index 60 · $57 484 / year
13. Cornell University — United States · Index 60 · $73 946 / year
14. Imperial College London — United Kingdom · Index 58 · £45 500 / year
15. University of Tokyo — Japan · Index 57 · ¥642 960 / year
16. Northwestern University — United States · Index 53 · $71 802 / year
17. University of Michigan — United States · Index 53 · $67 096 / year
18. ETH Zurich — Switzerland · Index 53 · CHF 2 190 / semester
19. Johns Hopkins University — United States · Index 52 · $66 000 / year
20. University of California, Los Angeles — United States · Index 52 · $55 700 / year
21. University College London — United Kingdom · Index 52 · £35 400 – £42 700 / year
22. Université PSL — France · Index 51 · €178 – €2 902 / year
23. University of Toronto — Canada · Index 50 · CA$50 490 – CA$72 860 / year
24. New York University — United States · Index 50 · $68 576 – $75 326 / year
25. Institut Polytechnique de Paris — France · Index 49 · €15 000 / year
26. Kyoto University — Japan · Index 49 · ¥535 800 / year
27. University of Texas at Austin — United States · Index 48 · $42 554 – $51 106 / year
28. McGill University — Canada · Index 48 · CA$31 837 – CA$74 678 / year
29. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — United States · Index 48 · $36 328 – $44 340 / year
30. Seoul National University — South Korea · Index 46 · ₩2 500 000 – ₩3 500 000 / semester
31. UNSW Sydney — Australia · Index 45 · A$49 680 – A$63 840 / year
32. University of Washington — United States · Index 45 · $44 580 / year
33. Université Paris-Saclay — France · Index 43 · €178 / year
34. Carnegie Mellon University — United States · Index 42 · $69 702 / year
35. Brown University — United States · Index 42 · $74 568 / year
36. King's College London — United Kingdom · Index 40 · £27 000 – £38 000 / year
37. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich — Germany · Index 40 · Free
38. University of Edinburgh — United Kingdom · Index 40 · £26 000 – £40 000 / year
39. National University of Singapore — Singapore · Index 40 · S$33 400 – S$39 700 / year
40. University of Melbourne — Australia · Index 39 · A$44 356 – A$65 288 / year
41. Purdue University — United States · Index 39 · $32 104 – $36 154 / year
42. Sorbonne University — France · Index 39 · €178 – €2 902 / year
43. University of Manchester — United Kingdom · Index 39 · £28 000 – £38 000 / year
44. Australian National University — Australia · Index 39 · A$48 000 – A$56 000 / year
45. EPFL — Switzerland · Index 39 · CHF 2 190 / semester
46. University of British Columbia — Canada · Index 39 · CA$48 780 – CA$67 237 / year
47. POSTECH — South Korea · Index 39 · ₩2 500 000 – ₩3 000 000 / semester
48. Technical University of Munich — Germany · Index 38 · €2 000 – €3 000 / semester
49. University of Osaka — Japan · Index 38 · ¥535 800 / year
50. Georgia Institute of Technology — United States · Index 36 · $35 610 – $37 326 / year
51. Institute of Science Tokyo — Japan · Index 35 · ¥635 400 / year
52. Nagoya University — Japan · Index 35 · ¥535 800 / year
53. Tohoku University — Japan · Index 35 · ¥535 800 / year
54. Boston University — United States · Index 35 · $73 024 / year
55. University of Basel — Switzerland · Index 34 · CHF 850 / semester
56. London School of Economics and Political Science — United Kingdom · Index 34 · £28 900 – £39 900 / year
57. Keio University — Japan · Index 34 · ¥1 230 000 – ¥2 490 000 / year
58. University of Zurich — Switzerland · Index 34 · CHF 1 220 / semester
59. University of Birmingham — United Kingdom · Index 34 · £24 000 – £32 000 / year
60. Eindhoven University of Technology — Netherlands · Index 34 · €18 600 / year
61. University of Leeds — United Kingdom · Index 34 · £25 000 – £33 000 / year
62. Yonsei University — South Korea · Index 34 · ₩4 556 000 – ₩9 221 000 / semester
63. Erasmus University Rotterdam — Netherlands · Index 34 · €13 500 – €32 200 / year
64. University of Bristol — United Kingdom · Index 34 · £25 500 – £49 700 / year
65. Korea University — South Korea · Index 33 · ₩5 800 000 – ₩7 800 000 / semester
66. University of Warwick — United Kingdom · Index 33 · £27 870 – £35 530 / year
67. University of Queensland — Australia · Index 32 · A$42 000 – A$58 000 / year
68. University of Sydney — Australia · Index 32 · A$51 700 – A$69 200 / year
69. Freie Universität Berlin — Germany · Index 32 · €377 / semester
70. University of Glasgow — United Kingdom · Index 32 · £27 720 – £33 210 / year
71. Waseda University — Japan · Index 32 · ¥1 051 000 – ¥1 584 000 / year
72. University of Freiburg — Germany · Index 32 · €1 500 / semester
73. University of Alberta — Canada · Index 32 · CA$33 000 – CA$48 000 / year
74. University of Amsterdam — Netherlands · Index 31 · €15 730 – €34 500 / year
75. Technische Universität Berlin — Germany · Index 31 · Free
76. Utrecht University — Netherlands · Index 31 · €13 415 – €17 073 / year
77. Heidelberg University — Germany · Index 31 · €1 500 / semester
78. TU Wien — Austria · Index 31 · €727 / semester
79. University of Bonn — Germany · Index 31 · €363 / semester
80. University of Geneva — Switzerland · Index 31 · CHF 500 / semester
81. University of Göttingen — Germany · Index 31 · €252 / semester
82. Western University — Canada · Index 31 · CA$48 000 – CA$64 400 / year
83. University of Southampton — United Kingdom · Index 31 · £23 000 – £30 000 / year
84. Université Paris Cité — France · Index 30 · €178 – €2 902 / year
85. University of Western Australia — Australia · Index 30 · A$38 000 – A$50 000 / year
86. University of Nottingham — United Kingdom · Index 30 · £20 000 – £47 000 / year
87. Humboldt University of Berlin — Germany · Index 30 · Free
88. Politecnico di Torino — Italy · Index 30 · €600 – €3 600 / year
89. Nanyang Technological University — Singapore · Index 30 · S$21 400 – S$45 600 / year
90. Leiden University — Netherlands · Index 29 · €14 000 – €26 000 / year
91. Complutense University of Madrid — Spain · Index 29 · €6 823 – €8 186 / year
92. Sapienza University of Rome — Italy · Index 29 · €300 – €1 500 / year
93. University of Sheffield — United Kingdom · Index 29 · £25 000 – £32 100 / year
94. Monash University — Australia · Index 29 · A$39 500 – A$64 200 / year
95. University of Vienna — Austria · Index 29 · €727 / semester
96. KAIST — South Korea · Index 29 · ₩3 433 000 / semester
97. University of Groningen — Netherlands · Index 28 · €14 000 – €19 800 / year
98. University of Waterloo — Canada · Index 28 · CA$51 000 – CA$75 000 / year
99. RWTH Aachen University — Germany · Index 28 · Free
100. Delft University of Technology — Netherlands · Index 28 · €19 906 / year
101. Université de Montréal — Canada · Index 27 · CA$30 773 / year
102. Politecnico di Milano — Italy · Index 27 · €157 – €3 943 / year
103. Pompeu Fabra University — Spain · Index 27 · €2 500 – €6 000 / year
104. Autonomous University of Barcelona — Spain · Index 26 · €1 800 – €5 000 / year
105. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology — Germany · Index 26 · €1 500 / semester
106. University of Navarra — Spain · Index 26 · €11 000 – €20 000 / year
107. University of Bern — Switzerland · Index 26 · CHF 2 550 / semester
108. Durham University — United Kingdom · Index 26 · £27 000 – £36 000 / year
109. University of Warsaw — Poland · Index 25 · €2 000 – €4 000 / year
110. Sungkyunkwan University — South Korea · Index 25 · ₩5 200 000 – ₩8 100 000 / semester
111. Wageningen University & Research — Netherlands · Index 25 · €18 300 / year
112. Queen's University — Canada · Index 25 · CA$33 775 – CA$60 839 / year
113. University of Barcelona — Spain · Index 25 · €1 201 / year
114. University of Lausanne — Switzerland · Index 25 · CHF 580 / semester
115. McMaster University — Canada · Index 24 · CA$45 000 – CA$60 000 / year
116. Adelaide University — Australia · Index 24 · A$38 000 – A$52 000 / year
117. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid — Spain · Index 24 · €6 823 – €8 186 / year
118. Jagiellonian University — Poland · Index 24 · €2 500 – €5 000 / year
119. Hanyang University — South Korea · Index 24 · ₩3 500 000 – ₩5 000 000 / semester
120. University of Innsbruck — Austria · Index 24 · €727 / semester
121. University of Strasbourg — France · Index 23 · €178 – €2 902 / year
122. University of Hamburg — Germany · Index 23 · €402 / semester
123. Sciences Po — France · Index 23 · €14 900 / year
124. University of Calgary — Canada · Index 22 · CA$30 782 – CA$41 487 / year
125. Université Grenoble Alpes — France · Index 21 · €178 – €2 902 / year
126. University of Milan — Italy · Index 21 · €346 – €4 247 / year
127. Graz University of Technology — Austria · Index 21 · €727 / semester
128. Czech Technical University in Prague — Czechia · Index 21 · 0 – €6 000 / year
129. University of Technology Sydney — Australia · Index 21 · A$43 290 – A$57 240 / year
130. University of Bologna — Italy · Index 21 · 0 – €3 000 / year
131. University of Ottawa — Canada · Index 20 · CA$40 000 – CA$55 000 / year
132. Masaryk University — Czechia · Index 20 · €3 000 – €7 500 / year
133. University of Padua — Italy · Index 18 · €930 – €2 990 / year
134. Warsaw University of Technology — Poland · Index 18 · €2 340 – €6 830 / year
135. Charles University — Czechia · Index 18 · 0 – €12 000 / year
136. University of Pisa — Italy · Index 17 · €290 – €2 900 / year
137. TU Dresden — Germany · Index 16 · €350 – €400 / semester
138. Autonomous University of Madrid — Spain · Index 16 · €6 823 – €8 186 / year
139. Maastricht University — Netherlands · Index 16 · €10 600 – €16 309 / year
140. AGH University of Krakow — Poland · Index 13 · €2 500 – €6 000 / year