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FINANCE & ACCOUNTING: 2026 QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKING

2026 Rank	2025 Rank	Institution	Index Score	Academic Reputation	Employer Reputation	Citations Per Paper	H-index Citations
1	1	Harvard University	96.6	100	100	83.5	82.1
2	3	Stanford University	93.6	96.9	95.5	85.4	79.9
3	2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	93	96.9	95.1	79.8	80.4
4	4	University of Oxford	90.5	91.5	96.5	75.9	82.1
5	5	University of Chicago	89.2	96.9	77.8	91.9	82.6
6	9	University of Pennsylvania	88.7	93.7	82.7	87	83.8
7	6	University of Cambridge	88.6	89.7	96	75.2	74
8	8	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	88.1	94.5	83.5	75.4	82.1
9	7	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	86.7	89.9	86.1	80.8	78
10	12	National University of Singapore (NUS)	86.4	88.6	87.1	76	83.4
11	11	New York University (NYU)	86.3	91.7	81	78.7	83
12	12	Columbia University	86.2	89.5	84.1	80.1	82.1
13	10	Yale University	85.8	86.9	89.9	81.7	72.1
14	20	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)	83	84	82.5	83.5	79
15	14	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	82.7	86.3	82.8	72.8	74
15	17	University of Toronto	82.7	85.4	82.5	76.3	75.8
15	21	Imperial College London	82.7	81.8	85.7	82.1	78.5
18	18	London Business School	82.6	91.2	75.3	74.2	70
19	14	Peking University	82.1	81.2	84.2	75.5	87.3
20	19	Bocconi University	81.9	85.9	77.7	79.1	77.5
21	23	The University of Manchester	80.8	81.7	76.6	83.6	86
22	16	Tsinghua University	80.7	78.6	84.2	77.9	83.4
23	24	HEC Paris	80.3	85.7	76.6	73	71.4
24	27	The University of Melbourne	80.2	82.4	78.6	73.1	81.3
25	30	University of Texas at Austin	79.9	83.6	73.7	85.2	74.7

STATISTICS AND OPERATIONAL RESEARCH: 2026 QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKING

2026 Rank	2025 Rank	Institution	Index Score	Academic Reputation	Employer Reputation	Citations Per Paper	H-index Citations
1	2	Stanford University	97.7	99.6	97.9	90.3	100
2	1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	96.8	100	99.3	87.9	96.3
3	3	Harvard University	95.2	96.7	100	88.1	96
4	5	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	94.8	95.1	92	92.5	97.6
5	7	University of Oxford	93.5	95	96.3	87.2	94.6
6	4	University of Cambridge	93.3	94.9	96.4	89.5	91.6
7	8	Georgia Institute of Technology	91.4	96.5	83.9	84.6	89.1
7	10	National University of Singapore (NUS)	91.4	94	97.6	84.3	89.1
9	6	ETH Zurich	91	92.7	92.5	86	91.2
10	11	Imperial College London	90.7	93.9	87.4	85.9	89.1
11	13	Princeton University	89.8	91.9	88.4	87.5	87.3
12	12	Carnegie Mellon University	89.5	91.1	81.9	87	92
13	14	EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne	87.9	88.8	93.3	87.2	83.8
14	15	Columbia University	87.4	87	86.6	85.3	90.8
15	9	Tsinghua University	86.6	82	86.1	89	96
16	17	University of Toronto	86.5	83.8	89.6	87.2	90.8
17	20	Cornell University	86.1	86.7	85.1	84.6	86.8
18	19	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	85.8	87.2	74.2	82.4	91.6
19	18	University of Chicago	85.1	84.7	83.7	84.2	87.7
19	16	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	85.1	83.8	87.9	84.5	87.7
21	28	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)	84.4	81.2	91.4	87.6	85.8
22	41	UCL	83.9	81.4	80.3	86.5	89.5
23	27	Duke University	83.1	84.2	79.1	81.1	84.3
24	38	Université de Montréal	82.9	80.2	74.6	87.6	89.1
25	22	Technical University of Munich	82.4	81.7	78.2	83.8	84.8

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