QS World University Ranking 2026: The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British higher-education analytics firm, has released the World University Ranking 2026. As per the rankings released, with an overall score of 100, Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has topped the QS World University Ranking 2026. Likewise, London's Imperial College has secured second place in the rankings. QS ranks over 1500 universities worldwide. QS considers factors like academic reputation, employer reputation, research impact, faculty-student ratio, and internationalisation metrics to tabulate rankings. Check the detailed QS World 2026 University Rankings here.
QS World University Ranking 2026
The Top 10 QS World 2026 University Rankings are listed in the table below.
| Rankings | Universities | Overall Scores Out of 100 |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, United States | 100 |
| 2 | Imperial College London | 99.4 |
| 3 | Stanford University, Untied State of America | 98.9 |
| 4 | University of Oxford, United Kingdom | 97.9 |
| 5 | Harvard University, Cambridge, United States | 97.7 |
| 6 | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom | 97.2 |
| 7 | ETH Zurich, Switzerland | 96.7 |
| 8 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 95.9 |
| 9 | UCL, United Kingdom | 95.8 |
| 10 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Pasadena, United States |
94.3 |
QS World University Ranking 2026: Indian Institutes
The top 10 QS 2026 World University Rankings of Indian Institutes are given below.
| Indian Rankings | World Rankings | Universities | Overall Scores Out of 100 |
| 1 | 123 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) | 65.5 |
| 2 | 129 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) | 64.8 |
| 3 | 180 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) | 58.4 |
| 4 | 215 | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) | 54.5 |
| 5 | 219 | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | 54.2 |
| 6 | 222 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) | 53.7 |
| 7 | 328 | University of Delhi | 42.6 |
| 8 | 334 | Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) | 42.3 |
| 9 | 339 | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR) | 42.2 |
| 10 | 465 | Anna University, Chennai | 33.8 |
The QS World University Ranking 2026 available above were released yesterday, June 19, 2025. Visit the official website of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) for more information.
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