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Top 100 Universities in the World

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

A past Centumth puzzle. Play it on this page with five guesses, or read the full Top 100 ranking below.

Where the world’s brightest minds go to overachieve. From the QS World University Rankings 2027. Full list of 100. Some universities are tied on the QS table; here they’re listed in QS order so every rank from 1 to 100 is used.

This list was researched and ranked by hand for Centumth. Entries near #1 are the names almost everyone thinks of first. Entries near #100 are true, a little obscure, and still fair if you think sideways. Sources below are the starting point — the final order can include small editorial calls so the daily puzzle stays balanced.

You can play this archive puzzle with five guesses, or reveal the complete ranking if you came here looking for the list. Revealing locks this puzzle — you won’t be able to play it afterward.

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The full Top 100

  1. #1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  2. #2Imperial College London
  3. #3Stanford University
  4. #4University of Oxford
  5. #5Harvard University
  6. #6University of Cambridge
  7. #7California Institute of Technology
  8. #8ETH Zurich
  9. #9University College London
  10. #10National University of Singapore
  11. #11University of Hong Kong
  12. #12Nanyang Technological University
  13. #13Peking University
  14. #14Tsinghua University
  15. #15University of Pennsylvania
  16. #16Cornell University
  17. #17Yale University
  18. #18Chinese University of Hong Kong
  19. #19University of New South Wales
  20. #20Johns Hopkins University
  21. #21University of California, Berkeley
  22. #22University of Melbourne
  23. #23EPFL
  24. #24University of Chicago
  25. #25Technical University of Munich
  26. #26Fudan University
  27. #27Princeton University
  28. #28University of Sydney
  29. #29Australian National University
  30. #30McGill University
  31. #31Monash University
  32. #32University of Toronto
  33. #33Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  34. #34Université PSL
  35. #35University of Edinburgh
  36. #36Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  37. #37King's College London
  38. #38Seoul National University
  39. #39University of Tokyo
  40. #40University of Queensland
  41. #41University of Manchester
  42. #42Yonsei University
  43. #43Columbia University
  44. #44Institut Polytechnique de Paris
  45. #45University of British Columbia
  46. #46Northwestern University
  47. #47Zhejiang University
  48. #48Delft University of Technology
  49. #49University of California, Los Angeles
  50. #50Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  51. #51University of Michigan
  52. #52City University of Hong Kong
  53. #53Korea University
  54. #54National Taiwan University
  55. #55Carnegie Mellon University
  56. #56University of Malaya
  57. #57University of Bristol
  58. #58New York University
  59. #59KU Leuven
  60. #60University of Amsterdam
  61. #61LMU Munich
  62. #62London School of Economics
  63. #63King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
  64. #64Kyoto University
  65. #65KAIST
  66. #66Brown University
  67. #67University of Auckland
  68. #68University of Birmingham
  69. #69University of Warwick
  70. #70Duke University
  71. #71Lund University
  72. #72University of Texas at Austin
  73. #73Sorbonne University
  74. #74University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  75. #75Trinity College Dublin
  76. #76Université Paris-Saclay
  77. #77University of Western Australia
  78. #78University of Leeds
  79. #79University of Adelaide
  80. #80University of Glasgow
  81. #81University of California, San Diego
  82. #82KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  83. #83University of Sheffield
  84. #84University of Buenos Aires
  85. #85Durham University
  86. #86Heidelberg University
  87. #87University of Technology Sydney
  88. #88Politecnico di Milano
  89. #89Uppsala University
  90. #90Nanjing University
  91. #91University of Copenhagen
  92. #92Pennsylvania State University
  93. #93University of Washington
  94. #94Boston University
  95. #95Osaka University
  96. #96University of Alberta
  97. #97Tokyo Institute of Technology
  98. #98University of Nottingham
  99. #99Free University of Berlin
  100. #100University of Zurich

The full ranked list is included on this page. Use Reveal full 100 list to read it, or play the game above.