QS World University Rankings For International Research Network January 2023

The International Research Network category of the QS World University Rankings evaluates universities based on the breadth and quality of their international research collaborations. This category measures an institution's global impact and its commitment to advancing knowledge through international cooperation.

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

Harvard University UCL (University College London) University of Oxford These universities have established strong research networks across international borders, fostering collaborations with institutions worldwide and contributing to global research initiatives.

The QS World University Rankings on International Research Network recognize universities that actively engage in international research partnerships, facilitating the exchange of ideas and expertise on a global scale.

QS World University Rankings For International Research Network January 2023 (Index, January 2023)

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Rank	University	Country	Index
1	Harvard University	United States	100
1	UCL	United Kingdom	100
2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	99.9
3	Université PSL	France	99.7
4	Sorbonne University	France	99.6
5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	99.5
6	Université Paris Cité	France	99.4
7	King's College London	United Kingdom	99.3
8	KU Leuven	Belgium	99.1
8	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	99.1
8	Ghent University	Belgium	99.1
9	Columbia University	United States	98.9
9	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	98.9
10	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	98.7
11	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Australia	98.2
11	The University of Western Australia	Australia	98.2
12	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	98.1
12	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	98.1
12	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	98.1
13	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	98
13	University of Florida	United States	98
14	University of British Columbia	Canada	97.9
14	University of Oslo	Norway	97.9
15	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	97.8
16	Johns Hopkins University	United States	97.7
17	The University of Melbourne	Australia	97.6
17	University of Washington	United States	97.6
17	Lund University	Sweden	97.6
17	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	United States	97.6
18	The University of Sydney	Australia	97.3
18	Stockholm University	Sweden	97.3
19	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	97.2
20	Université Paris-Saclay	France	97.1
20	Uppsala University	Sweden	97.1
21	The University of Arizona	United States	97
22	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	96.9
22	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	96.9
22	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands	96.9
22	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain	96.9
22	University of Porto	Portugal	96.9
23	Pennsylvania State University	United States	96.8
24	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	96.7
24	University of Toronto	Canada	96.7
24	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	96.7
25	University of Vienna	Austria	96.6
26	The Ohio State University	United States	96.5
26	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	96.5
27	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain	96.4
28	Stanford University	United States	96.3
28	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	96.3
28	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	96.3
28	University of Groningen	Netherlands	96.3
29	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland	96.2
30	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	96.1
30	University of Alberta	Canada	96.1
31	Charles University	Czech Republic	96
32	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	95.9
33	Duke University	United States	95.5
33	University of Cape Town	South Africa	95.5
34	Aarhus University	Denmark	95.4
35	University of Bern	Switzerland	95.3
36	McGill University	Canada	95.2
36	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	95.2
36	University of Helsinki	Finland	95.2
37	Monash University	Australia	95.1
37	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	95.1
37	Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna	Italy	95.1
37	Queen's University Belfast	United Kingdom	95.1
38	University of Gothenburg	Sweden	94.9
39	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	France	94.8
39	The University of Exeter	United Kingdom	94.8
40	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	94.7
40	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	94.7
40	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	94.7
40	Utrecht University	Netherlands	94.7
40	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	94.7
40	Leiden University	Netherlands	94.7
41	The Australian National University	Australia	94.6
41	The University of Queensland	Australia	94.6
42	Technische Universität Dresden	Germany	94.2
43	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain	94.1
44	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	93.9
45	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom	93.7
45	Curtin University	Australia	93.7
46	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	93.6
47	University of Zurich	Switzerland	93.5
48	King Abdulaziz University (KAU)	Saudi Arabia	93.4
48	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia	93.4
48	Università di Padova	Italy	93.4
48	University of Antwerp	Belgium	93.4
49	University of Pennsylvania	United States	93.3
50	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	93.2
50	Michigan State University	United States	93.2
50	Universität Hamburg	Germany	93.2
51	The University of Adelaide	Australia	93.1
52	University of Geneva	Switzerland	92.8
53	University of Göttingen	Germany	92.7
54	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	92.6
55	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	Germany	92.4
56	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	92.2
56	Purdue University	United States	92.2
57	Yale University	United States	92
57	New York University (NYU)	United States	92
58	Freie Universitaet Berlin	Germany	91.9
59	Technical University of Munich	Germany	91.8
59	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	91.8
60	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	91.4
60	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	91.4
60	University of Wollongong	Australia	91.4
61	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	91.3
62	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	91.2
63	Texas A&M University	United States	91.1
64	University of Texas at Austin	United States	90.9
64	Radboud University	Netherlands	90.9
65	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)	Belgium	90.8
65	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	United States	90.8
66	University of Ottawa	Canada	90.7
67	University of Reading	United Kingdom	90.4
68	Aalto University	Finland	90.3
68	University of Pittsburgh	United States	90.3
69	University of California, Davis	United States	90.2
69	Arizona State University	United States	90.2
70	University of Basel	Switzerland	90.1
70	Qatar University	Qatar	90.1
71	Cornell University	United States	90
71	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	90
71	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	Australia	90
72	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	89.9
72	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	89.9
73	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands	89.8
74	University of Chicago	United States	89.6
74	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore	89.6
74	KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	89.6
74	Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)	Belgium	89.6
75	The University of Tokyo	Japan	89.5
75	University of Technology Sydney	Australia	89.5
76	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	89.3
77	University of Southern California	United States	89.2
78	Durham University	United Kingdom	89.1
79	Northwestern University	United States	89
79	Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg	Germany	89
80	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	88.9
80	University of York	United Kingdom	88.9
81	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	88.7
82	University of Turku	Finland	88.4
83	Macquarie University	Australia	88.3
84	Loughborough University	United Kingdom	88.2
85	University of Tartu	Estonia	88
86	University of Bergen	Norway	87.9
87	Politecnico di Milano	Italy	87.8
88	Emory University	United States	87.7
89	University College Dublin	Ireland	87.6
90	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	87.5
91	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	87.4
92	EPFL	Switzerland	87.3
92	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	Ireland	87.3
93	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	87.2
94	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	87.1
95	Boston University	United States	86.9
96	Université de Montréal	Canada	86
96	Western University	Canada	86
97	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	85.9
98	RMIT University	Australia	85.8
98	University of California, Irvine	United States	85.8
99	University of Leicester	United Kingdom	85.7
100	Kyoto University	Japan	85.5
100	University of Tasmania	Australia	85.5
101	Deakin University	Australia	85.3
102	University of Calgary	Canada	85.2
103	Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)	Malaysia	85
104	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	84.9
104	University of Virginia	United States	84.9
105	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden	84.1
105	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	84.1
105	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	Brazil	84.1
105	Massey University	New Zealand	84.1
106	University of Waterloo	Canada	83.6
107	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	83.4
108	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)	Germany	83.2
109	Vanderbilt University	United States	83
110	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia	Malaysia	82.9
111	Jagiellonian University	Poland	82.8
112	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)	Chile	82.7
113	University of Twente	Netherlands	82.5
114	Universite libre de Bruxelles	Belgium	82.2
114	Technical University of Darmstadt	Germany	82.2
115	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	82
116	Tel Aviv University	Israel	81.9
117	University of Miami	United States	81.7
118	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	81.1
118	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States	81.1
119	Zhejiang University	China	80.8
119	Maastricht University	Netherlands	80.8
120	Saint Petersburg State University	Russia	80.7
121	McMaster University	Canada	79.8
122	Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)	Malaysia	79.6
123	Seoul National University	South Korea	79.3
124	RUDN University	Russia	79.1
125	The University of Newcastle, Australia (UON)	Australia	78.6
126	Princeton University	United States	78.5
126	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	78.5
127	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	78.4
127	Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)	Spain	78.4
128	University of Bath	United Kingdom	78.2
129	University of Warsaw	Poland	78
130	Queen's University at Kingston	Canada	77.6
131	Peking University	China	77.5
132	Universidad de Chile	Chile	77.4
133	University of Otago	New Zealand	77
134	Technische Universität Wien	Austria	76.7
135	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia	76.6
136	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)	Malaysia	76.5
137	Sun Yat-sen University	China	75.7
137	National University of Ireland Galway	Ireland	75.7
138	Tsinghua University	China	75.5
139	Osaka University	Japan	75.2
140	University of Rochester	United States	75.1
140	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand	75.1
141	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	75
142	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	74.9
142	Nanjing University	China	74.9
143	University of Notre Dame	United States	74.8
144	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	74.6
144	University of Navarra	Spain	74.6
145	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	74.2
146	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	73.9
147	American University of Beirut (AUB)	Lebanon	73.8
148	Brown University	United States	73.6
149	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	73
150	Hokkaido University	Japan	72.8
150	Khalifa University of Science and Technology	United Arab Emirates	72.8
150	Wuhan University	China	72.8
151	Case Western Reserve University	United States	72.5
152	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	72.3
153	Tongji University	China	71
154	United Arab Emirates University	United Arab Emirates	70.8
155	Fudan University	China	70.6
156	King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals	Saudi Arabia	70.2
157	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France	70.1
158	Beijing Normal University	China	69.8
159	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand	69.7
160	Tomsk State University	Russia	68.6
161	Hanyang University	South Korea	68
162	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	67.6
162	University of Canterbury \| Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha	New Zealand	67.6
163	University of Science and Technology of China	China	67
164	Tohoku University	Japan	66.8
165	Nagoya University	Japan	66.5
166	Kyushu University	Japan	66.1
167	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea	65.2
168	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Mexico	65.1
169	Harbin Institute of Technology	China	64.7
170	Heriot-Watt University	United Kingdom	64.3
171	Yonsei University	South Korea	63.5
171	Waseda University	Japan	63.5
172	Korea University	South Korea	63.1
172	Kyung Hee University	South Korea	63.1
173	Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)	Argentina	63
174	Graz University of Technology	Austria	59.7
175	Mahidol University	Thailand	59.2
176	Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU)	South Korea	58.8
177	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Colombia	58.6
178	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India	58
179	Georgetown University	United States	57.9
180	Rice University	United States	57.2
181	Universidad de los Andes	Colombia	56.9
181	Southern University of Science and Technology	China	56.9
182	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	56.2
183	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)	Japan	55.8
184	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	55.1
185	Dartmouth College	United States	53.7
186	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP)	India	52.4
187	Novosibirsk State University	Russia	52.3
188	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)	Taiwan	51.4
189	Belarusian State University	Belarus	46.2
190	Keio University	Japan	46
190	Indian Institute of Science	India	46
191	Ecole des Ponts ParisTech	France	43.8
192	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT / Moscow Phystech)	Russia	43.1
193	National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University	Taiwan	42.8
194	Yeshiva University	United States	42.2
194	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	India	42.2
195	Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)	India	41.4
196	Universitas Indonesia	Indonesia	40.3
197	USI - Università della Svizzera italiana	Switzerland	38.5
198	Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD)	Brunei	36.4
199	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	35.8
200	Al-Farabi Kazakh National University	Kazakhstan	35.3
201	Taylor's University	Malaysia	34.9
202	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)	South Korea	34.5
203	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)	South Korea	31.7
204	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea	30.9
205	Hong Kong Baptist University	Hong Kong	30.4
206	Gadjah Mada University	Indonesia	28.8
207	Sciences Po	France	26.3
208	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)	India	25.9
209	Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)	Indonesia	21.5
210	UCSI University	Malaysia	21.4
211	L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU)	Kazakhstan	14.3
212	Bauman Moscow State Technical University	Russia	8.6