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 Courses133 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	University College London	£32,768	93%	392	-
8	California Institute of Technology	N/A	N/A	88	-
9	University of Pennsylvania	N/A	N/A	355	-
10	University of California-Berkeley	N/A	N/A	314	-
11	Cornell University	N/A	N/A	343	-
12	University of Chicago	N/A	N/A	199	-
13	Princeton University	N/A	N/A	128	-
14	Yale University	N/A	N/A	242	-
15	University of Edinburgh	£29,645	91%	343	-
16	Johns Hopkins University	N/A	N/A	295	-
17	Teachers College at Columbia University	N/A	N/A	105	-
18	The University of Manchester	£27,598	94%	274	-
19	King's College London	£31,360	93%	118	-
20	University of California-Los Angeles	N/A	N/A	334	-
21	New York University	N/A	N/A	393	-
22	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	N/A	N/A	408	-
23	Northwestern University	N/A	N/A	362	-
24	The London School of Economics and Political Science	£38,297	91%	42	-
25	University of Bristol	£30,038	93%	177	-
26	Carnegie Mellon University	N/A	N/A	340	-
27	Duke University	N/A	N/A	213	-
28	The University of Texas at Austin	N/A	N/A	336	-
29	The University of Warwick	£30,504	95%	164	-
30	University of California-San Diego	N/A	N/A	268	-
31	University of Washington-Bothell Campus	N/A	N/A	56	-
32	University of Glasgow	£26,721	93%	897	-
33	Brown University	N/A	N/A	218	-
34	University of Southampton	£30,707	93%	292	-
35	University of Birmingham	N/A	N/A	0	-
36	The University of Leeds	£28,942	92%	238	-
37	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Great Valley	N/A	N/A	9	-
38	University of Durham	£31,014	96%	92	-
39	Purdue University-Main Campus	N/A	N/A	316	-
40	University of St Andrews	£30,657	98%	660	-
41	The University of Sheffield	£27,873	96%	89	-
42	Boston University	N/A	N/A	410	-
43	University of Nottingham, the	£30,375	94%	161	-
44	Institute of Technology	N/A	N/A	2	-
45	University of Wisconsin-Madison	N/A	N/A	377	-
46	Queen Mary University of London	£30,939	92%	131	-
47	University of Southern California	N/A	N/A	386	-
48	University of Newcastle Upon Tyne	£27,921	91%	125	-
49	University of California-Davis	N/A	N/A	313	-
50	Rice University	N/A	N/A	163	-

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