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Princeton University leads the 2026 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) for mathematics, followed by France's Paris-Saclay University and the University of Oxford in the U.K.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ranks fourth, making it the second U.S. institution in the top five.
The University of Cambridge in the U.K. ranks fifth, followed by France's Sorbonne University in sixth and Stanford University in seventh.
Switzerland takes the next two spots, with ETH Zurich eighth and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, also known as EPFL, ninth. New York University completes the top 10, giving the U.S. four universities in the group.
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Aerial view of the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. Photo from Princeton's website |
ShanghaiRanking 2026: World's top 10 universities for mathematics
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World rank |
University |
Country |
|
1 |
Princeton University |
United States |
|
2 |
Paris-Saclay University |
France |
|
3 |
University of Oxford |
United Kingdom |
|
4 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
United States |
|
5 |
University of Cambridge |
United Kingdom |
|
6 |
Sorbonne University |
France |
|
7 |
Stanford University |
United States |
|
8 |
ETH Zurich |
Switzerland |
|
9 |
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) |
Switzerland |
|
10 |
New York University |
United States |
ShanghaiRanking, a higher education data and analytics organization that publishes global university rankings, released its 2026 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects on Sept. 15.
The mathematics ranking covers 500 universities that published at least 100 papers in the field between 2021 and 2025. Universities are assessed on factors including faculty honors, research output and impact, citations and international collaboration.
The U.S. takes six of the next 10 places, including the University of Chicago at eleventh, Harvard University at fourteenth and Columbia University at twentieth.
Japan's Kyoto University ranks sixteenth, making it the highest-ranked Asian institution. Imperial College London in the U.K., Université Paris Cité in France and the University of Toronto in Canada rank seventeenth through nineteenth.
