Thailand’s Chulalongkorn U at 229 in QS World University Rankings

MIT retains the top spot for 13th consecutive year

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) tops the QS World University Rankings 2025 for the 13th consecutive year, while Thailand’s top university, Chulalongkorn University, is in 229th place globally.

The QS World University Rankings is a portfolio of comparative college and university rankings compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds, a higher education analytics firm.

The publisher said this year’s rankings are the largest ever, featuring over 1,500 universities across 105 higher education systems. The United States is the most represented country or territory, with 197 ranked institutions, followed by the United Kingdom with 90 and mainland China with 71, it said.

For the 13th consecutive year, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) maintains its reign at the top. Imperial College London jumps four places to take second and the University of Oxford and Harvard University are in third and fourth place respectively. The University of Cambridge rounds out the top five.

The top 10 global universities according to the rankings are:

1.    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
2.    Imperial College London, United Kingdom
3.    University of Oxford, UK
4.    Harvard University, US
5.    University of Cambridge, UK
6.    Stanford University, US
7.    ETH Zurich, Switzerland
8.    National University of Singapore, Singapore
9.    University College London, UK
10.    California Institute of Technology (Caltech), US

Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University was in 229th place globally. Other Thai universities that made the list are Mahidol University, 368, Chiang Mai University 567, and Thammasat University 596.

(2025/02/01-00:00)