University College London Ranking

UCL sits alongside the top 10 universities in the world as part of the latest rankings given by QS World. The UCL London QS Ranking 2026 is #9 in the world.

QS also puts it among the top 3 universities in Europe. For the 3rd straight year, UCL finds itself among the top 10 universities in the world.

Here is how it performed in QS Rankings in recent years.

Yes, to a great extent the QS rankings are accurate. 

The QS Ranking body releases a yearly report that uses a methodology which takes the factors like academic reputation, employer reputation, research influence, and international presence into account.

Other than the factors given earlier, more factors considered along with the basics by QS for University College London which includes the faculty-student ratio, employer reputation, Employer outcomes, academic reputation, and more.

UCL gets an overall score of 95.8 out of 100 in the QS World rankings 2026.

Yes, there are QS rankings available for University College London. QS is considered as one of the most influential ranking bodies around the world. 

According to what the QS Global rankings say, University College London ranks at #9 in the year 2026. This rank is constant from what it was in the last year.

In the category Europe in 2025, UCL QS World rank is 5 which is also constant from the year 2024.

As per the US World and News rankings for the recent year, the University College London ranks #7. 

The UCL ranking for the year 2024 was #5 and in 2023 it was #12. Seeing this trend, the University College London rankings have improved in comparison to the year 2023 and has remained constant from the last year.

University College London offers a lot of courses for international at the undergraduate and graduate level. The popular course areas at the university include Engineering, Business and Management, Law, Medicine, Health Sciences and Sciences. The course rankings at UCL are mentioned in the table below -

University College London secures a rank #2 among all colleges & universities based in England as per Shiksha Popularity Rankings.

Globally, it ranks #5, as per Shiksha's global rankings.

Another major domestic university ranking publication ranks it #9 among all universities in the country, while also rating its Architecture course the #1 course in England.