For the umpteenth time, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States has emerged as the best university in the world, according to the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings 2025.
QS World University Rankings provides the higher education sector, governments and students a reliable rankings system that identifies the world’s leading universities in a range of performance metrics.
This year’s ranking is the largest – featuring 1,500 universities from 106 countries and territories across the globe.
Notably, Imperial College London has moved up four places – the biggest improvement among the top ten. Their progress is attributed to several factors, including their improvement in the ‘Sustainability’ category, (scoring 99.7 out of 100 overall) and in various research metrics including ‘Citations per faculty’, which they earned 86.5 last year, compared to a total of 93.9 this year, for example.
New entrants
There are 21 newly ranked institutions in the QS World University Rankings 2025, with the highest debutant being the American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) in the United Arab Emirates, with a ranking of 485th – the University scored 100 in indicators ‘International students’ and ‘International faculty’.
Here are the top 10 in the QS World University Rankings 2025.
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US
2. Imperial College London, UK
3. University of Oxford, UK
4. Harvard University, US
5. University of Cambridge, UK
6. Stanford University, US
7. ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
8. National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
9. University College London, UK
10. California Institute of Technology (Caltech), US
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