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 Courses169 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	£42,754	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	National University of Singapore	N/A	N/A	140	—
8	University College London	£32,962	91%	452	—
9	California Institute of Technology	N/A	N/A	88	—
10	University of Pennsylvania	N/A	N/A	355	—
11	University of California-Berkeley	N/A	N/A	314	—
12	Peking University	N/A	N/A	0	—
13	Nanyang Technological University	N/A	N/A	116	—
14	Cornell University	N/A	N/A	343	—
15	Tsinghua University	N/A	N/A	0	—
16	University of Chicago	N/A	N/A	199	—
17	Princeton University	N/A	N/A	128	—
18	Yale University	N/A	N/A	242	—
19	University of Edinburgh	£29,819	91%	375	—
20	Johns Hopkins University	N/A	N/A	295	—
21	Teachers College at Columbia University	N/A	N/A	105	—
22	The University of Manchester	£28,256	93%	359	—
23	Fudan University	N/A	N/A	0	—
24	King's College London	£31,644	92%	134	—
25	University of California-Los Angeles	N/A	N/A	334	—
26	New York University	N/A	N/A	393	—
27	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	N/A	N/A	408	—
28	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	N/A	N/A	0	—
29	Zhejiang University	N/A	N/A	0	—
30	Northwestern University	N/A	N/A	362	—
31	The London School of Economics and Political Science	£38,158	92%	43	—
32	University of Bristol	£30,052	92%	217	—
33	Carnegie Mellon University	N/A	N/A	340	—
34	Duke University	N/A	N/A	213	—
35	The University of Texas at Austin	N/A	N/A	336	—
36	The University of Warwick	£31,099	95%	188	—
37	University of California-San Diego	N/A	N/A	268	—
38	University of Washington-Bothell Campus	N/A	N/A	56	—
39	University of Glasgow	£27,077	92%	955	—
40	Brown University	N/A	N/A	218	—
41	University of Southampton	£31,188	93%	354	—
42	University of Birmingham	N/A	N/A	0	—
43	The University of Leeds	£29,297	92%	301	—
44	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Great Valley	N/A	N/A	9	—
45	University of Durham	£31,131	95%	133	—
46	Purdue University-Main Campus	N/A	N/A	316	—
47	University of St Andrews	£30,858	N/A	1004	—
48	The University of Sheffield	£28,143	95%	165	—
49	Boston University	N/A	N/A	410	—
50	University of Nottingham, the	£30,527	93%	214	—

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