London/Zurich – The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) has once again been ranked eleventh in the “Times Higher Education” (THE) magazine rankings. EPFL is in 35th place, with the top-ranked Swiss universities also including those in Bern, Basel, Lausanne, Geneva and Lugano.
(CONNECT) ETH has been ranked 11th in the World University Rankings 2026 by "Times Higher Education" for the fourth time in a row. The London-based magazine on higher education awarded ETH an overall score of 93.1 out of a possible 100 points this year, the same as in 2023 and practically the same result as last year (93.0 points). According to a statement from ETH, this means that it remains the best-ranked university outside the English-speaking world.
As in 2025, the University of Oxford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lead the ranking. Third place is now shared by Princeton University and Cambridge University, pushing Harvard University down to fifth place.
The overall ranking is based on five aspects: teaching, research conditions, research quality, knowledge transfer to industry and internationality. ETH achieved the best results with 10th place for research conditions (97.2 points) and 14th place for teaching (88.5 points). It received 94.5 points for its research quality and 95.1 points for its internationality.
In terms of knowledge transfer to industry, the four Swiss universities ranked behind the ETH (83.7 points), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne(EPFL, 35th place) and the Universities of Bern (108th place), Basel (120th place), Lausanne (125th place), Geneva (166th place) and the University of Italian-speaking Switzerland (251st to 300th place) have significantly higher scores of close to 100, with Geneva still coming in at 85.7 points. In addition to knowledge transfer (99.9 points), EPFL achieved its best ratings for research quality (87.5 points) and internationality (95.4 points).
A further five Swiss universities are included in the 2026 THE ranking: the University of St.Gallen (351-400th place), the University of Fribourg (401-500th place), the University of Neuchâtel (601-800th place), the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (1001-1200th place) and the HES-SO University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (1201-1500th place). ce/mm
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