THE 2026

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

1,000ranking records

Ranking system

Edition479 Linked to catalog

Ranking order	Universities	Country / region	Policy review	Record type
1	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	Oct 14, 202616/16 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	Oct 10, 202626/26 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
=3	Princeton University	United States	Oct 20, 202619/19 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
=3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	Oct 12, 202619/19 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
=5	Harvard University	United States	Oct 12, 202635/35 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
=5	Stanford University	United States	Oct 12, 202615/15 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
7	California Institute of Technology	United States	Oct 14, 202631/31 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	Oct 11, 202617/17 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
9	University of California, Berkeley	United States	Oct 17, 202644/44 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
10	Yale University	United States	Oct 20, 202631/31 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
11	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	Oct 12, 202615/15 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
12	Tsinghua University	China	Oct 17, 202648/48 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
13	Peking University	China	Oct 15, 202663/63 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
14	University of Pennsylvania	United States	Oct 16, 202635/35 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
15	The University of Chicago	United States	—	No linked policy recordIdentity review pendingOfficial ranking source ↗
16	Johns Hopkins University	United States	Oct 20, 202616/16 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
17	National University of Singapore	Singapore	Oct 12, 202621/21 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
=18	Cornell University	United States	Oct 16, 202647/47 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
=18	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	Oct 23, 202616/16 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
20	Columbia University	United States	Oct 21, 202633/33 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
21	University of Toronto	Canada	Oct 20, 202625/25 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
22	UCL	United Kingdom	Oct 13, 202614/14 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
23	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	Oct 23, 202626/26 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
24	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	Jul 19, 202613/13 Evidence	View policy guide →Compare
25	University of Washington	United States	Jul 19, 202616/16 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: THE 2026 ↗