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 Courses126 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	£42,021	89%	67	-
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	ETH Zurich	N/A	N/A	104	-
8	University College London	£32,768	93%	392	-
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	Cornell University	N/A	N/A	343	-
13	University of Chicago	N/A	N/A	199	-
14	Princeton University	N/A	N/A	128	-
15	Yale University	N/A	N/A	242	-
16	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne	N/A	N/A	81	-
17	University of Edinburgh	£29,645	91%	343	-
18	Johns Hopkins University	N/A	N/A	295	-
19	Teachers College at Columbia University	N/A	N/A	105	-
20	The University of Manchester	£27,598	94%	274	-
21	King's College London	£31,360	93%	118	-
22	University of California-Los Angeles	N/A	N/A	334	-
23	New York University	N/A	N/A	393	-
24	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	N/A	N/A	408	-
25	Northwestern University	N/A	N/A	362	-
26	The London School of Economics and Political Science	£38,297	91%	42	-
27	University of Bristol	£30,038	93%	177	-
28	Carnegie Mellon University	N/A	N/A	340	-
29	Duke University	N/A	N/A	213	-
30	The University of Texas at Austin	N/A	N/A	336	-
31	The University of Warwick	£30,504	95%	164	-
32	University of California-San Diego	N/A	N/A	268	-
33	University of Washington-Bothell Campus	N/A	N/A	56	-
34	University of Glasgow	£26,721	93%	897	-
35	Brown University	N/A	N/A	218	-
36	University of Southampton	£30,707	93%	292	-
37	University of Birmingham	N/A	N/A	0	-
38	The University of Leeds	£28,942	92%	238	-
39	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Great Valley	N/A	N/A	9	-
40	University of Durham	£31,014	96%	92	-
41	Purdue University-Main Campus	N/A	N/A	316	-
42	University of St Andrews	£30,657	98%	660	-
43	The University of Sheffield	£27,873	96%	89	-
44	Boston University	N/A	N/A	410	-
45	University of Nottingham, the	£30,375	94%	161	-
46	University of Zurich	N/A	N/A	115	-
47	Institute of Technology	N/A	N/A	2	-
48	University of Wisconsin-Madison	N/A	N/A	377	-
49	Queen Mary University of London	£30,939	92%	131	-
50	University of Southern California	N/A	N/A	386	-

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