Rankings

University rankings

World universities ranked by QS 2025, graduate salary, satisfaction, and course breadth - across 36 countries.

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Rank by:QS World Ranking 2025 Average Salary Student Satisfaction Number of Courses133 universities

#	University	Avg Salary	Satisfaction	Courses	TEF
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	N/A	N/A	123	-
2	Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	£42,439	89%	81	-
3	University of Oxford	£31,683	94%	229	-
4	Harvard University	N/A	N/A	395	-
5	University of Cambridge	£32,946	95%	32	-
6	Stanford University	N/A	N/A	236	-
7	University College London	£32,951	92%	452	-
8	California Institute of Technology	N/A	N/A	88	-
9	University of Pennsylvania	N/A	N/A	355	-
10	University of California-Berkeley	N/A	N/A	314	-
11	Cornell University	N/A	N/A	343	-
12	University of Chicago	N/A	N/A	199	-
13	Princeton University	N/A	N/A	128	-
14	Yale University	N/A	N/A	242	-
15	University of Edinburgh	£29,805	91%	375	-
16	Johns Hopkins University	N/A	N/A	295	-
17	Teachers College at Columbia University	N/A	N/A	105	-
18	The University of Manchester	£28,274	93%	361	-
19	King's College London	£31,601	92%	134	-
20	University of California-Los Angeles	N/A	N/A	334	-
21	New York University	N/A	N/A	393	-
22	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	N/A	N/A	408	-
23	Northwestern University	N/A	N/A	362	-
24	The London School of Economics and Political Science	£38,158	91%	43	-
25	University of Bristol	£29,981	92%	217	-
26	Carnegie Mellon University	N/A	N/A	340	-
27	Duke University	N/A	N/A	213	-
28	The University of Texas at Austin	N/A	N/A	336	-
29	The University of Warwick	£31,003	95%	188	-
30	University of California-San Diego	N/A	N/A	268	-
31	University of Washington-Bothell Campus	N/A	N/A	56	-
32	University of Glasgow	£27,167	92%	955	-
33	Brown University	N/A	N/A	218	-
34	University of Southampton	£31,188	93%	354	-
35	University of Birmingham	N/A	N/A	0	-
36	The University of Leeds	£29,297	92%	301	-
37	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Great Valley	N/A	N/A	9	-
38	Purdue University-Main Campus	N/A	N/A	316	-
39	University of Durham	£31,131	96%	133	-
40	University of St Andrews	£31,113	98%	1004	-
41	The University of Sheffield	£28,082	95%	179	-
42	Boston University	N/A	N/A	410	-
43	University of Nottingham, the	£30,527	94%	214	-
44	Institute of Technology	N/A	N/A	2	-
45	University of Wisconsin-Madison	N/A	N/A	377	-
46	Queen Mary University of London	£30,342	91%	296	-
47	University of Southern California	N/A	N/A	386	-
48	University of Newcastle Upon Tyne	£27,936	91%	143	-
49	University of California-Davis	N/A	N/A	313	-
50	Rice University	N/A	N/A	163	-

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