Ranking index
QS 2026 indexed university policy records
Public university AI policy records that match the QS World University Rankings 2026 index. Ranking rows are used for discovery, filtering, and reference navigation. They are not university AI policy conclusions.
36
indexed public records
430
source-backed claims
413
reviewed claims
222
official sources
Ranking caveats
Ranking data boundaries for this reference page.
- QS 2026 currently remains the main crawl batching source for tracker coverage expansion.
- Official ordinal ranking rows are used as an index source.
- QS 2026 coverage is a crawl batching and filtering surface here, not a tracker-created policy ranking.
- THE 2026, ARWU 2025, U.S. News 2025-2026, and CWTS Leiden 2025 are supported as ranking, index, and filter sources.
- Different ranking years are not presented as one unified 2026 ranking.
Indexed university records
Linked university records with policy evidence counts and public JSON references.
| Rank row | University record | Claims | Sources | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1QS World University Rankings 2026 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States / Cambridge | 8 total 8 reviewed / 0 candidate | 4 | Checked May 6, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| 2QS World University Rankings 2026 | Imperial College London United Kingdom / London | 10 total 10 reviewed / 0 candidate | 14 | Checked May 6, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| 3QS World University Rankings 2026 | Stanford University United States / Stanford | 9 total 9 reviewed / 0 candidate | 13 | Checked May 6, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| 4QS World University Rankings 2026 | University of Oxford United Kingdom / Oxford | 11 total 11 reviewed / 0 candidate | 6 | Checked May 6, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| 5QS World University Rankings 2026 | Harvard University United States / Cambridge | 12 total 12 reviewed / 0 candidate | 12 | Checked May 6, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| 6QS World University Rankings 2026 | University of Cambridge United Kingdom / Cambridge | 12 total 10 reviewed / 2 candidate | 6 | Checked May 5, 2026 Changed May 5, 2026 |
| 7QS World University Rankings 2026 | ETH Zurich Switzerland / Zürich | 8 total 8 reviewed / 0 candidate | 5 | Checked May 5, 2026 Changed May 5, 2026 |
| 8QS World University Rankings 2026 | National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore / Singapore | 8 total 8 reviewed / 0 candidate | 3 | Checked May 6, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| 9QS World University Rankings 2026 | UCL United Kingdom / London | 5 total 5 reviewed / 0 candidate | 2 | Checked May 5, 2026 Changed May 5, 2026 |
| 10QS World University Rankings 2026 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States / Pasadena | 9 total 9 reviewed / 0 candidate | 2 | Checked May 5, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| 11QS World University Rankings 2026 | The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR / Hong Kong | 6 total 6 reviewed / 0 candidate | 3 | Checked May 5, 2026 Changed May 5, 2026 |
| 12QS World University Rankings 2026 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) Singapore / Singapore | 7 total 7 reviewed / 0 candidate | 3 | Checked May 5, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| 13QS World University Rankings 2026 | University of Chicago United States / Chicago | 14 total 14 reviewed / 0 candidate | 4 | Checked May 5, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| 14QS World University Rankings 2026 | Peking University China (Mainland) / Beijing | 5 total 5 reviewed / 0 candidate | 1 | Checked May 6, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| 15QS World University Rankings 2026 | University of Pennsylvania United States / Philadelphia | 19 total 19 reviewed / 0 candidate | 6 | Checked May 6, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| 16QS World University Rankings 2026 | Cornell University United States / Ithaca | 26 total 26 reviewed / 0 candidate | 6 | Checked May 6, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| =17QS World University Rankings 2026 | Tsinghua University China (Mainland) / Beijing | 11 total 11 reviewed / 0 candidate | 2 | Checked May 6, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| =17QS World University Rankings 2026 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States / Berkeley | 22 total 22 reviewed / 0 candidate | 5 | Checked May 6, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| 19QS World University Rankings 2026 | The University of Melbourne Australia / Parkville | 18 total 18 reviewed / 0 candidate | 5 | Checked May 6, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| 20QS World University Rankings 2026 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) Australia / Sydney | 29 total 29 reviewed / 0 candidate | 7 | Checked May 6, 2026 Changed May 6, 2026 |
| 24QS World University Rankings 2026 | Johns Hopkins University United States / Baltimore | 7 total 0 reviewed / 7 candidate | 7 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| 31QS World University Rankings 2026 | King's College London United Kingdom / London | 12 total 12 reviewed / 0 candidate | 6 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| =32QS World University Rankings 2026 | Australian National University (ANU) Australia / Canberra | 29 total 29 reviewed / 0 candidate | 12 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| =32QS World University Rankings 2026 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Hong Kong SAR / Hong Kong | 12 total 12 reviewed / 0 candidate | 7 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| 34QS World University Rankings 2026 | The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom / Edinburgh | 8 total 8 reviewed / 0 candidate | 6 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| 35QS World University Rankings 2026 | The University of Manchester United Kingdom / Manchester | 12 total 12 reviewed / 0 candidate | 6 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| =36QS World University Rankings 2026 | Monash University Australia / Melbourne | 9 total 9 reviewed / 0 candidate | 9 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| =36QS World University Rankings 2026 | The University of Tokyo Japan / Tokyo | 22 total 21 reviewed / 1 candidate | 6 | Checked May 9, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| =38QS World University Rankings 2026 | Columbia University United States / New York City | 16 total 11 reviewed / 5 candidate | 8 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| =38QS World University Rankings 2026 | Seoul National University South Korea / Seoul | 16 total 15 reviewed / 1 candidate | 7 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| 40QS World University Rankings 2026 | University of British Columbia Canada / Vancouver | 10 total 10 reviewed / 0 candidate | 10 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| 41QS World University Rankings 2026 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris France / Palaiseau Cedex | 4 total 3 reviewed / 1 candidate | 3 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| =42QS World University Rankings 2026 | Northwestern University United States / Evanston | 6 total 6 reviewed / 0 candidate | 6 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| =42QS World University Rankings 2026 | The University of Queensland Australia / Brisbane City | 5 total 5 reviewed / 0 candidate | 5 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| 44QS World University Rankings 2026 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong SAR / Hong Kong | 5 total 5 reviewed / 0 candidate | 7 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
| 45QS World University Rankings 2026 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States / Ann Arbor | 8 total 8 reviewed / 0 candidate | 8 | Checked May 10, 2026 Changed May 10, 2026 |
Data and advice boundaries
Public pages and API records share the same promoted public dataset.
- Public pages and public JSON should remain consistent because both are built from the promoted public release dataset.
- Original-language evidence is canonical. Translations and display summaries are auxiliary.
- Confidence is separate from reviewState; reviewState describes workflow status.
- Tracker metadata is open licensed. Official source documents, page text, PDFs, and other source materials retain their original rights and terms.
- This tracker is not legal advice, not academic integrity advice, and not an official university statement unless a linked source is the university's own official page.
Browse all records at /universities or inspect the dataset at /api/public/v1/universities.json.