QS World University Rankings For Academic Reputation January 2023

The Academic Reputation category of the QS World University Rankings evaluates universities based on their academic standing and reputation among academic peers. This category also considers their recognition for producing high-quality research.

According to the rankings data as of January 31, 2023, three universities secured the top position with an index score of 100 in the Academic Reputation category:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) University of Cambridge Stanford University These universities are globally renowned for their academic excellence and have established themselves as leaders in various fields of study.

The QS World University Rankings on Academic Reputation recognize universities that have earned high respect and recognition from the academic community, highlighting their exceptional contributions to research and scholarship.

QS World University Rankings For Academic Reputation January 2023 (Index, January 2023)

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Rank	University	Country	Index
1	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	100
1	Harvard University	United States	100
1	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	100
1	Stanford University	United States	100
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100
1	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	100
1	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	100
1	The University of Tokyo	Japan	100
2	Yale University	United States	99.9
2	Princeton University	United States	99.9
3	Columbia University	United States	99.7
4	University of Toronto	Canada	99.6
5	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	99.5
6	UCL	United Kingdom	99.4
7	Peking University	China	99.3
8	University of Chicago	United States	99.2
9	Tsinghua University	China	98.9
10	Seoul National University	South Korea	98.6
10	Kyoto University	Japan	98.6
10	The University of Melbourne	Australia	98.6
10	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland	98.6
11	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	98.5
12	Cornell University	United States	98.3
12	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	98.3
13	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	98
13	University of British Columbia	Canada	98
14	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	97.4
15	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	96.5
15	University of Pennsylvania	United States	96.5
16	The University of Sydney	Australia	96.2
17	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	96
18	New York University (NYU)	United States	95.9
19	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	95.1
20	University of Texas at Austin	United States	93.7
21	The Australian National University	Australia	93.6
22	McGill University	Canada	93.3
23	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	92.6
24	Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)	Argentina	92.3
24	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	92.3
25	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)	Chile	91.8
25	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	91.8
26	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore	90.4
27	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	90.1
28	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	90
28	Sorbonne University	France	90
29	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Australia	89
30	King's College London	United Kingdom	88.8
31	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea	88.1
32	Johns Hopkins University	United States	87.9
33	Monash University	Australia	87.6
34	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	87.3
35	The University of Queensland	Australia	86.6
36	Duke University	United States	86.1
37	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	85.6
38	University of Washington	United States	84.8
39	Northwestern University	United States	84.4
40	Technical University of Munich	Germany	84
41	KU Leuven	Belgium	83.8
42	EPFL	Switzerland	83.7
43	Fudan University	China	83.6
44	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	82.7
44	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	82.7
45	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	82.4
46	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	82
47	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	81.5
48	Freie Universitaet Berlin	Germany	80.7
49	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	80.5
50	Osaka University	Japan	80.2
51	Universidad de Chile	Chile	80
52	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	79.6
53	Korea University	South Korea	79.3
54	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	78.7
55	Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna	Italy	78.5
56	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	78
57	Pennsylvania State University	United States	76.7
58	Yonsei University	South Korea	75.5
59	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	75.1
60	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	74.4
60	Université PSL	France	74.4
61	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)	Japan	74.1
62	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	72.8
63	Zhejiang University	China	72.2
64	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	72.1
65	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain	71.9
66	Tohoku University	Japan	71.8
66	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	71.8
67	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	71.6
68	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	70.2
69	University of Vienna	Austria	69.4
70	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain	69.2
71	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	69
72	Lund University	Sweden	68.8
73	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	Brazil	68.7
74	Leiden University	Netherlands	68.1
75	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	Ireland	67.9
76	Politecnico di Milano	Italy	67.8
77	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	67.7
78	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Colombia	67.5
79	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	66.1
80	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	66
81	Utrecht University	Netherlands	65.8
82	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	65.5
83	University of Helsinki	Finland	65.3
84	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand	65.1
85	University of California, Davis	United States	64.8
86	Uppsala University	Sweden	63.6
87	Universidad de los Andes	Colombia	62.9
88	Purdue University	United States	62.7
89	Boston University	United States	62.3
90	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain	62.2
91	Texas A&M University	United States	61.5
92	The Ohio State University	United States	61.1
93	Michigan State University	United States	60.5
94	Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU)	South Korea	60.2
95	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	United States	60.1
96	Nagoya University	Japan	59.8
97	Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)	Malaysia	59.7
98	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	59
98	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	59
99	Waseda University	Japan	58.7
99	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	58.7
100	University of Zurich	Switzerland	58
101	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)	Malaysia	57.9
101	Durham University	United Kingdom	57.9
102	Nanjing University	China	57.7
103	Brown University	United States	57.6
104	Université de Montréal	Canada	57.4
105	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	57.3
106	Université Paris-Saclay	France	57.2
107	Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)	Malaysia	56.8
108	Kyushu University	Japan	56.6
109	Università di Padova	Italy	56.2
110	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	55.9
111	The University of Western Australia	Australia	55.6
111	Hokkaido University	Japan	55.6
111	Aarhus University	Denmark	55.6
112	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)	Germany	55.1
112	University of Alberta	Canada	55.1
113	University of Oslo	Norway	54.9
114	University of Southern California	United States	54.6
115	Stockholm University	Sweden	54.5
116	Ghent University	Belgium	54
117	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India	53.3
118	The University of Adelaide	Australia	52.3
119	University of Science and Technology of China	China	51.6
119	University of Groningen	Netherlands	51.6
120	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	Germany	51.3
120	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	51.3
121	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	51.2
122	Universität Hamburg	Germany	50.8
123	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	50.7
124	Keio University	Japan	50.3
125	Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)	Belgium	49.7
126	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	49.5
127	University of Göttingen	Germany	49.3
128	Gadjah Mada University	Indonesia	49.1
128	Al-Farabi Kazakh National University	Kazakhstan	49.1
129	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	India	49
130	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom	48.9
130	University of Warsaw	Poland	48.9
131	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Mexico	48.8
132	University College Dublin	Ireland	48.7
133	University of Florida	United States	48.5
134	King Abdulaziz University (KAU)	Saudi Arabia	48.4
135	Universitas Indonesia	Indonesia	47.5
136	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea	47.4
136	Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg	Germany	47.4
137	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)	Taiwan	47.2
138	University of Otago	New Zealand	47.1
139	Arizona State University	United States	46.7
140	University of Geneva	Switzerland	46.5
141	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	46.2
141	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	46.2
142	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	46
143	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	45.8
144	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	France	45.3
144	Charles University	Czech Republic	45.3
145	Hanyang University	South Korea	45
146	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand	44.8
147	KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	44.7
147	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	44.7
148	Aalto University	Finland	44.5
148	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia	Malaysia	44.5
149	Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)	Indonesia	43.7
150	University of Cape Town	South Africa	43.6
151	University of York	United Kingdom	43.3
152	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands	42.8
153	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	42.7
154	University of Technology Sydney	Australia	41.8
154	Saint Petersburg State University	Russia	41.8
155	The University of Exeter	United Kingdom	41.1
156	University of Porto	Portugal	40.7
156	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States	40.7
157	Mahidol University	Thailand	40.5
158	University of Waterloo	Canada	40.2
159	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	40.1
160	McMaster University	Canada	39.9
160	University of Pittsburgh	United States	39.9
161	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands	39.7
161	University of California, Irvine	United States	39.7
162	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	39.6
162	The University of Arizona	United States	39.6
163	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	Australia	39.5
164	University of Canterbury \| Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha	New Zealand	38.9
165	Rice University	United States	38.8
165	Wuhan University	China	38.8
166	Queen's University at Kingston	Canada	38.6
167	Jagiellonian University	Poland	38
167	Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)	India	38
168	Indian Institute of Science	India	37.6
168	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	United States	37.6
169	Technische Universität Dresden	Germany	37.4
169	University of Gothenburg	Sweden	37.4
170	RMIT University	Australia	36.6
171	Beijing Normal University	China	36.3
172	University of Calgary	Canada	36.1
173	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	35.6
174	University of Virginia	United States	35.2
175	National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University	Taiwan	34.8
175	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	34.8
176	Université Paris Cité	France	34.7
177	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia	34.5
178	University of Bath	United Kingdom	34.4
178	Sun Yat-sen University	China	34.4
179	Universite libre de Bruxelles	Belgium	34.3
180	University of Bergen	Norway	33.8
181	University of Reading	United Kingdom	33.2
181	Tongji University	China	33.2
182	Tel Aviv University	Israel	32.7
183	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)	India	32.6
184	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France	31.8
185	Queen's University Belfast	United Kingdom	31.7
186	Georgetown University	United States	31.2
187	Macquarie University	Australia	30.9
187	Technische Universität Wien	Austria	30.9
187	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	30.9
188	Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)	Spain	30.8
189	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	30.6
189	Western University	Canada	30.6
190	Curtin University	Australia	30.5
191	University of Bern	Switzerland	30.3
191	King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals	Saudi Arabia	30.3
192	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP)	India	30.2
193	Loughborough University	United Kingdom	29.9
193	Radboud University	Netherlands	29.9
194	University of Navarra	Spain	29.4
194	University of Wollongong	Australia	29.4
195	Massey University	New Zealand	29.3
196	The University of Newcastle, Australia (UON)	Australia	29.1
197	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	28.9
198	University of Turku	Finland	28.8
199	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	28.3
200	University of Basel	Switzerland	28
201	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden	27.9
202	Deakin University	Australia	27.6
203	Novosibirsk State University	Russia	27.3
204	Bauman Moscow State Technical University	Russia	27.2
204	American University of Beirut (AUB)	Lebanon	27.2
205	Harbin Institute of Technology	China	26.6
205	University of Notre Dame	United States	26.6
206	National University of Ireland Galway	Ireland	26.4
207	United Arab Emirates University	United Arab Emirates	26.3
208	Vanderbilt University	United States	25.9
208	University of Ottawa	Canada	25.9
209	University of Tartu	Estonia	25.8
210	Emory University	United States	25.2
211	L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU)	Kazakhstan	25.1
212	Kyung Hee University	South Korea	24.9
213	Qatar University	Qatar	24.4
214	Belarusian State University	Belarus	24.2
215	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	23.9
216	University of Rochester	United States	23.8
217	Tomsk State University	Russia	22.9
218	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)	Belgium	22.7
218	University of Miami	United States	22.7
218	University of Antwerp	Belgium	22.7
219	University of Leicester	United Kingdom	22.2
220	Maastricht University	Netherlands	21.8
221	Taylor's University	Malaysia	21.5
222	Technical University of Darmstadt	Germany	20.8
223	UCSI University	Malaysia	20.5
224	University of Twente	Netherlands	20.2
225	RUDN University	Russia	19.7
225	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT / Moscow Phystech)	Russia	19.7
226	Dartmouth College	United States	19.2
227	Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD)	Brunei	19.1
228	Sciences Po	France	18.7
229	Case Western Reserve University	United States	18.3
230	Hong Kong Baptist University	Hong Kong	17
231	Khalifa University of Science and Technology	United Arab Emirates	16.6
232	University of Tasmania	Australia	16.5
233	Heriot-Watt University	United Kingdom	14.9
234	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)	South Korea	14.5
235	Graz University of Technology	Austria	13.5
236	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia	13
237	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)	South Korea	11.8
238	Ecole des Ponts ParisTech	France	8.4
239	Southern University of Science and Technology	China	7.8
240	USI - Università della Svizzera italiana	Switzerland	5.3
241	Yeshiva University	United States	2.6