Academic Powerhouses: QS World University Rankings on Academic Reputation - Jan. 31, 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.

Jan 31, 2023 Index
1st
  University of Cambridge
100
1st
  Harvard University
100
1st
  University of Oxford
100
1st
  Stanford University
100
1st
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
100
1st
  University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
100
1st
  University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
100
1st
  The University of Tokyo
100
2nd
  Yale University
99.9
2nd
  Princeton University
99.9
3rd
  Columbia University
99.7
4th
  University of Toronto
99.6
5th
  National University of Singapore (NUS)
99.5
6th
  UCL
99.4
7th
  Peking University
99.3
8th
  University of Chicago
99.2
9th
  Tsinghua University
98.9
10th
  Seoul National University
98.6
10th
  Kyoto University
98.6
10th
  The University of Melbourne
98.6
10th
  ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
98.6
11th
  University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
98.5
12th
  Cornell University
98.3
12th
  Imperial College London
98.3
13th
  The University of Edinburgh
98
13th
  University of British Columbia
98
14th
  The University of Hong Kong
97.4
15th
  California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
96.5
15th
  University of Pennsylvania
96.5
16th
  The University of Sydney
96.2
17th
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
96
18th
  New York University (NYU)
95.9
19th
  The University of Manchester
95.1
20th
  University of Texas at Austin
93.7
21st
  The Australian National University
93.6
22nd
  McGill University
93.3
23rd
  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
92.6
24th
  Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
92.3
24th
  National Taiwan University (NTU)
92.3
25th
  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)
91.8
25th
  Universidade de São Paulo
91.8
26th
  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)
90.4
27th
  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
90.1
28th
  University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
90
28th
  Sorbonne University
90
29th
  The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
89
30th
  King's College London
88.8
31st
  KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
88.1
32nd
  Johns Hopkins University
87.9
33rd
  Monash University
87.6
34th
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
87.3
35th
  The University of Queensland
86.6
36th
  Duke University
86.1
37th
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
85.6
38th
  University of Washington
84.8
39th
  Northwestern University
84.4
40th
  Technical University of Munich
84
41st
  KU Leuven
83.8
42nd
  EPFL
83.7
43rd
  Fudan University
83.6
44th
  University of Amsterdam
82.7
44th
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University
82.7
45th
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
82.4
46th
  The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
82
47th
  The University of Auckland
81.5
48th
  Freie Universitaet Berlin
80.7
49th
  Lomonosov Moscow State University
80.5
50th
  Osaka University
80.2
51st
  Universidad de Chile
80
52nd
  Universiti Malaya (UM)
79.6
53rd
  Korea University
79.3
54th
  Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
78.7
55th
  Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
78.5
56th
  Sapienza University of Rome
78
57th
  Pennsylvania State University
76.7
58th
  Yonsei University
75.5
59th
  University of Glasgow
75.1
60th
  University of Bristol
74.4
60th
  Université PSL
74.4
61st
  Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)
74.1
62nd
  University of Copenhagen
72.8
63rd
  Zhejiang University
72.2
64th
  Carnegie Mellon University
72.1
65th
  Universitat de Barcelona
71.9
66th
  Tohoku University
71.8
66th
  The University of Warwick
71.8
67th
  Delft University of Technology
71.6
68th
  University of Leeds
70.2
69th
  University of Vienna
69.4
70th
  Complutense University of Madrid
69.2
71st
  The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
69
72nd
  Lund University
68.8
73rd
  Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
68.7
74th
  Leiden University
68.1
75th
  Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
67.9
76th
  Politecnico di Milano
67.8
77th
  Georgia Institute of Technology
67.7
78th
  Universidad Nacional de Colombia
67.5
79th
  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
66.1
80th
  University of Birmingham
66
81st
  Utrecht University
65.8
82nd
  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
65.5
83rd
  University of Helsinki
65.3
84th
  Chulalongkorn University
65.1
85th
  University of California, Davis
64.8
86th
  Uppsala University
63.6
87th
  Universidad de los Andes
62.9
88th
  Purdue University
62.7
89th
  Boston University
62.3
90th
  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
62.2
91st
  Texas A&M University
61.5
92nd
  The Ohio State University
61.1
93rd
  Michigan State University
60.5
94th
  Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU)
60.2
95th
  University of Minnesota Twin Cities
60.1
96th
  Nagoya University
59.8
97th
  Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
59.7
98th
  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
59
98th
  University of Nottingham
59
99th
  Waseda University
58.7
99th
  The University of Sheffield
58.7
100th
  University of Zurich
58
101st
  Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
57.9
101st
  Durham University
57.9
102nd
  Nanjing University
57.7
103rd
  Brown University
57.6
104th
  Université de Montréal
57.4
105th
  City University of Hong Kong
57.3
106th
  Université Paris-Saclay
57.2
107th
  Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
56.8
108th
  Kyushu University
56.6
109th
  Università di Padova
56.2
110th
  University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
55.9
111th
  The University of Western Australia
55.6
111th
  Hokkaido University
55.6
111th
  Aarhus University
55.6
112th
  Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
55.1
112th
  University of Alberta
55.1
113th
  University of Oslo
54.9
114th
  University of Southern California
54.6
115th
  Stockholm University
54.5
116th
  Ghent University
54
117th
  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
53.3
118th
  The University of Adelaide
52.3
119th
  University of Science and Technology of China
51.6
119th
  University of Groningen
51.6
120th
  Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
51.3
120th
  National Tsing Hua University
51.3
121st
  University of Maryland, College Park
51.2
122nd
  Universität Hamburg
50.8
123rd
  University of Southampton
50.7
124th
  Keio University
50.3
125th
  Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
49.7
126th
  RWTH Aachen University
49.5
127th
  University of Göttingen
49.3
128th
  Gadjah Mada University
49.1
128th
  Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
49.1
129th
  Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
49
130th
  Queen Mary University of London
48.9
130th
  University of Warsaw
48.9
131st
  Tecnológico de Monterrey
48.8
132nd
  University College Dublin
48.7
133rd
  University of Florida
48.5
134th
  King Abdulaziz University (KAU)
48.4
135th
  Universitas Indonesia
47.5
136th
  Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)
47.4
136th
  Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
47.4
137th
  National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)
47.2
138th
  University of Otago
47.1
139th
  Arizona State University
46.7
140th
  University of Geneva
46.5
141st
  University of St Andrews
46.2
141st
  Newcastle University
46.2
142nd
  Cardiff University
46
143rd
  KTH Royal Institute of Technology
45.8
144th
  Institut Polytechnique de Paris
45.3
144th
  Charles University
45.3
145th
  Hanyang University
45
146th
  Victoria University of Wellington
44.8
147th
  KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
44.7
147th
  Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
44.7
148th
  Aalto University
44.5
148th
  Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
44.5
149th
  Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)
43.7
150th
  University of Cape Town
43.6
151st
  University of York
43.3
152nd
  Wageningen University & Research
42.8
153rd
  University of Liverpool
42.7
154th
  University of Technology Sydney
41.8
154th
  Saint Petersburg State University
41.8
155th
  The University of Exeter
41.1
156th
  University of Porto
40.7
156th
  University of Massachusetts Amherst
40.7
157th
  Mahidol University
40.5
158th
  University of Waterloo
40.2
159th
  Washington University in St. Louis
40.1
160th
  McMaster University
39.9
160th
  University of Pittsburgh
39.9
161st
  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
39.7
161st
  University of California, Irvine
39.7
162nd
  Lancaster University
39.6
162nd
  The University of Arizona
39.6
163rd
  Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
39.5
164th
  University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
38.9
165th
  Rice University
38.8
165th
  Wuhan University
38.8
166th
  Queen's University at Kingston
38.6
167th
  Jagiellonian University
38
167th
  Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
38
168th
  Indian Institute of Science
37.6
168th
  Rutgers University–New Brunswick
37.6
169th
  Technische Universität Dresden
37.4
169th
  University of Gothenburg
37.4
170th
  RMIT University
36.6
171st
  Beijing Normal University
36.3
172nd
  University of Calgary
36.1
173rd
  Erasmus University Rotterdam
35.6
174th
  University of Virginia
35.2
175th
  National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
34.8
175th
  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
34.8
176th
  Université Paris Cité
34.7
177th
  King Saud University
34.5
178th
  University of Bath
34.4
178th
  Sun Yat-sen University
34.4
179th
  Universite libre de Bruxelles
34.3
180th
  University of Bergen
33.8
181st
  University of Reading
33.2
181st
  Tongji University
33.2
182nd
  Tel Aviv University
32.7
183rd
  Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)
32.6
184th
  École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
31.8
185th
  Queen's University Belfast
31.7
186th
  Georgetown University
31.2
187th
  Macquarie University
30.9
187th
  Technische Universität Wien
30.9
187th
  Technical University of Denmark
30.9
188th
  Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
30.8
189th
  University of Lausanne
30.6
189th
  Western University
30.6
190th
  Curtin University
30.5
191st
  University of Bern
30.3
191st
  King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
30.3
192nd
  Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP)
30.2
193rd
  Loughborough University
29.9
193rd
  Radboud University
29.9
194th
  University of Navarra
29.4
194th
  University of Wollongong
29.4
195th
  Massey University
29.3
196th
  The University of Newcastle, Australia (UON)
29.1
197th
  Eindhoven University of Technology
28.9
198th
  University of Turku
28.8
199th
  University of Aberdeen
28.3
200th
  University of Basel
28
201st
  Chalmers University of Technology
27.9
202nd
  Deakin University
27.6
203rd
  Novosibirsk State University
27.3
204th
  Bauman Moscow State Technical University
27.2
204th
  American University of Beirut (AUB)
27.2
205th
  Harbin Institute of Technology
26.6
205th
  University of Notre Dame
26.6
206th
  National University of Ireland Galway
26.4
207th
  United Arab Emirates University
26.3
208th
  Vanderbilt University
25.9
208th
  University of Ottawa
25.9
209th
  University of Tartu
25.8
210th
  Emory University
25.2
211th
  L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU)
25.1
212th
  Kyung Hee University
24.9
213th
  Qatar University
24.4
214th
  Belarusian State University
24.2
215th
  University of Sussex
23.9
216th
  University of Rochester
23.8
217th
  Tomsk State University
22.9
218th
  Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
22.7
218th
  University of Miami
22.7
218th
  University of Antwerp
22.7
219th
  University of Leicester
22.2
220th
  Maastricht University
21.8
221st
  Taylor's University
21.5
222nd
  Technical University of Darmstadt
20.8
223rd
  UCSI University
20.5
224th
  University of Twente
20.2
225th
  RUDN University
19.7
225th
  Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT / Moscow Phystech)
19.7
226th
  Dartmouth College
19.2
227th
  Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD)
19.1
228th
  Sciences Po
18.7
229th
  Case Western Reserve University
18.3
230th
  Hong Kong Baptist University
17
231st
  Khalifa University of Science and Technology
16.6
232nd
  University of Tasmania
16.5
233rd
  Heriot-Watt University
14.9
234th
  Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
14.5
235th
  Graz University of Technology
13.5
236th
  Swinburne University of Technology
13
237th
  Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
11.8
238th
  Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
8.4
239th
  Southern University of Science and Technology
7.8
240th
  USI - Università della Svizzera italiana
5.3
241st
  Yeshiva University
2.6