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We present a list of the best universities in the field of modern languages according to the QS World University Rankings.
These universities have won international recognition in this area due to the quality of programs, developed infrastructure and experienced teaching staff.
Agencies compile rankings of higher education institutions, taking into account many quantitative and qualitative parameters. For example, they analyze the number of foreign students, the ratio of students per teacher, the citation index. All this makes the agency one of the most authoritative publications and becomes a reliable assistant to students who are puzzled by the search for a suitable university.
Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Modern Languages
| 1 | University of Oxford |
| 2 | University of Cambridge |
| 3 | Harvard University |
| 4 | Yale University |
| 5 | Stanford University |
| 6 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 7 | Columbia University |
| 8 | Princeton University |
| 9 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 10 | Peking University |
| 11 | The University of Tokyo |
| 12 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 13 | UCL |
| 14 | Seoul National University |
| 15 | New York University (NYU) |
| 16 | University of Chicago |
| 17 | Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico (UNAM) |
| 18 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 19 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 20 | University of Toronto |
| 21 | King's College London |
| 22 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) |
| 23 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 24 | Cornell University |
| 25 | Kyoto University |
| 26 | Yonsei University |
| 27 | Sorbonne University |
| 28 | The University of Manchester |
| 29 | Korea University |
| 30 | University of British Columbia |
| 31 | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| 32 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 33 | The University of Melbourne |
| 34 | National Taiwan University (NTU) |
| 35 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 36 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Universit脿 di Bologna |
| 37 | Waseda University |
| 38 | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| 39 | Humboldt-Universit盲t zu Berlin |
| 40 | Durham University |
| 41 | McGill University |
| 42 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit盲t M眉nchen |
| 43 | Sapienza University of Rome |
| 44 | Tsinghua University |
| 45 | Universit茅 Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne |
| 46 | HUFS - Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies |
| 47 | Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica de Chile (UC) |
| 48 | Fudan University |
| 49 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 50 | University of Texas at Austin |
