The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States has once again earned the title of the world’s best university. On Thursday (June 19), the UK-based education and research organization Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) released its latest rankings, placing MIT at the top. This information was published on the official QS website.According to the list titled “QS World University Rankings 2026: Top Global Universities,” Imperial College London from the United Kingdom secured the second position.Among the top ten universities in the world, four are from the United States and four are from the United Kingdom. Additionally, a university from Singapore holds the eighth position, and one from Switzerland is ranked seventh.Stanford University (USA), Oxford University (UK), Harvard University (USA), and Cambridge University (UK) are ranked third, fourth, fifth, and sixth respectively.University College London (UCL) is placed ninth, while the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) ranks tenth.Only three universities from Bangladesh have made it into the top 1,000 global universities. Leading the country is the University of Dhaka—often referred to as the “Oxford of the East”—which, after dropping 30 positions over the past year, now ranks 584th.Following that, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) is the country’s second-highest ranked institution, placed somewhere beyond the 750th mark. North South University ranks third among Bangladeshi universities, but has fallen from the 901–950 bracket last year to the 951–1000 bracket this year.
