ARWU 2025

University ranking is a navigation aid, not an AI policy score.

1,000ranking records

Ranking system

Edition425 Linked to catalog

Ranking order	Universities	Country / region	Policy review	Record type
1	Harvard University	United States	Oct 12, 202635/35 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
2	Stanford University	United States	Oct 12, 202615/15 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	Oct 10, 202626/26 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	Oct 12, 202619/19 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
5	University of California, Berkeley	United States	Oct 17, 202644/44 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	Oct 14, 202616/16 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
7	Princeton University	United States	Oct 20, 202619/19 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
8	Columbia University	United States	Oct 21, 202633/33 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
9	California Institute of Technology	United States	Oct 14, 202631/31 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
10	University of Chicago	United States	Oct 15, 2026101/101 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
11	Yale University	United States	Oct 20, 202631/31 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
12	Cornell University	United States	Oct 16, 202647/47 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
13	Paris-Saclay University	France	—	No linked policy recordIdentity review pendingOfficial ranking source ↗
14	University College London	United Kingdom	Oct 13, 202614/14 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
14	University of Pennsylvania	United States	Oct 16, 202635/35 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
16	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	Oct 23, 202616/16 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
17	University of Washington	United States	Jul 19, 202616/16 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
18	Tsinghua University	China	Oct 17, 202648/48 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
19	Johns Hopkins University	United States	Oct 20, 202616/16 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
20	University of California, San Diego	United States	Jul 19, 202615/15 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
21	University of California, San Francisco	United States	—	No linked policy recordIdentity review pendingOfficial ranking source ↗
22	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	Oct 12, 202615/15 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
23	Peking University	China	Oct 15, 202663/63 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
24	Zhejiang University	China	Oct 23, 20268/8 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
25	University of Toronto	Canada	Oct 20, 202625/25 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare

Coverage and sources

Bands retain their official bounds; ties keep the publisher’s rank.

Directory includes every policy catalog identity plus unlinked source records from the selected edition. Source records are not a global distinct-university count.

Official ranking source: ARWU 2025 ↗