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Global Consensus University Ranking 2027

The four major world rankings — QS, Times Higher Education, ARWU (Shanghai) and U.S. News — each tell a different story. This table puts them side by side and aggregates them into one transparent consensus rank, so you can see where the systems agree and where they diverge.

Last verified: 17 June 2026 · Covers the latest published edition of each ranking · Sources & citation ↓
How the consensus rank works: each university's position in the available rankings is converted to a percentile, the percentiles are averaged with equal weight, and universities are re-ordered by that average. No survey, no opinion, no weighting of ours — just a transparent arithmetic aggregation. Universities missing from a ranking are averaged across the rankings that list them. Full details on the methodology page.
All countries United States United Kingdom Australia Europe Asia
#
University
QS 2027
THE 2026
ARWU 2025
U.S. News 2026/2027
Consensus score
1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · US
1
2
3
2
99.9
2
Harvard University · US
5
3
1
1
99.9
3
Stanford University · US
2
6
2
3
99.8
4
University of Oxford · UK
4
1
6
4
99.7
5
University of Cambridge · UK
6
5
4
5
99.7
6
University of California, Berkeley · US
20
9
5
6
99.4
7
California Institute of Technology · US
7
7
9
23
99.3
8
Yale University · US
16
10
11
9
99.3
9
Princeton University · US
27
4
7
16
99.2
10
University College London · UK
8
17
14
7
99.2
11
University of Pennsylvania · US
15
14
14
15
99.1
12
Imperial College London · UK
2
8
26
11
99.1
13
Tsinghua University · CN
14
12
18
11
99.1
14
Cornell University · US
16
20
12
16
99
15
University of Chicago · US
24
15
10
26
98.9
16
Columbia University · US
43
20
8
10
98.9
17
Johns Hopkins University · US
20
16
19
14
98.9
18
Peking University · CN
13
13
23
25
98.8
19
ETH Zurich · CH
8
11
22
35
98.8
20
University of California, Los Angeles · US
49
19
16
13
98.6
21
University of Toronto · CA
32
21
25
16
98.5
22
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor · US
51
23
·
21
98.4
23
Northwestern University · US
45
30
31
24
98
24
National University of Singapore · SG
10
17
56
20
98
25
University of Melbourne · AU
22
37
38
30
97.9
26
New York University · US
58
26
28
32
97.8
27
University of Edinburgh · UK
35
29
37
39
97.8
28
Zhejiang University · CN
47
39
24
45
97.8
29
University of Washington · US
92
25
17
31
97.7
30
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · CN
36
40
30
46
97.7
31
University of California, San Diego · US
81
47
20
21
97.6
32
LMU Munich · DE
61
34
·
·
97.6
33
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CH
22
35
·
86
97.6
34
Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris · FR
·
48
·
·
97.6
35
The University of Tokyo · JP
39
26
31
84
97.4
36
Duke University · US
70
28
46
27
97.3
37
Fudan University · CN
26
36
41
70
97.3
38
Technical University of Munich · DE
25
27
45
79
97.2
39
King's College London · UK
37
38
61
36
97.1
40
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · US
51
·
33
·
97.1
41
University of British Columbia · CA
45
45
53
41
97
42
Paris-Saclay University · FR
76
·
13
78
97
43
University of Sydney · AU
28
40
72
29
97
44
The University of Hong Kong · HK
11
·
67
44
96.9
45
Nanyang Technological University · SG
12
32
88
28
96.9
46
City University of Hong Kong · HK
52
73
·
·
96.9
47
Universität Heidelberg · DE
86
49
·
59
96.8
48
University of Manchester · UK
40
56
46
68
96.8
49
Yonsei University (Seoul campus) · KR
42
86
·
·
96.8
50
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · HK
50
80
·
·
96.8
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Data sources & verification

Positions are reproduced unmodified from the official publisher of each ranking. Only the consensus score is computed by EduRank.
QS World University Rankings 2027QS Quacquarelli Symonds · 18 Jun 2026 · official release
THE World University Rankings 2026Times Higher Education · 9 Oct 2025 · official release
ARWU 2025ShanghaiRanking Consultancy · 15 Aug 2025 · official release
U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026/2027U.S. News & World Report · 16 Jun 2026 · official release
Cite this page:
EduRank (2027). Global Consensus University Ranking 2027. Retrieved 19 June 2026, from https://edurank.co/rankings/consensus-2027/
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