Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities (ARTU)
ARTU is produced by UNSW Sydney and published annually since 2019, with retrospective rankings available for 2012-2018. Universities are ordered by the Total Score, which is calculated by their aggregate rank (=THE+ARWU+QS).
The 2025 release marks the seventh edition of ARTU. In this edition, we ranked over 2,600 universities and featured the Top 400 for publication, with MIT securing first place, followed by Stanford and Harvard in second and third place, respectively.
ARTU results
The table below shows the ARTU Top 400 ranked global universities in 2025 with data from the previous years available (Top 400 for 2020-2025, Top 200 2012-2019). Click the ARTU Rank column to sort accordingly. Rankings data can be filtered by country and year.