TEXAS — Time Magazine has published their list of the best universities in the world for 2026, and two Texas universities have made the list.
The list includes 100 universities from all over the world, with Rice University at No. 24 and the University of Texas at No. 37. Time explained their rationale at the beginning of the list.
“The ranking places emphasis on the extent to which students achieve extraordinary success, for instance in patenting new inventions or rising to leadership roles in business. These lists help us understand where students are likely to achieve the greatest success and contribute most to society as the world order shifts; U.S. and U.K. universities continue to lead in academic performance, while China’s universities are catching up in innovation and economic impact,” the list stated.
The list ranked the universities in three separate categories, with academic capacity and performance, innovation and economic impact and global engagement being their standards for measurement.
Rice University had a 75.78 overall, with their highest category being innovation and economic impact. The University of Texas has a 70.72 overall, with the same high category. However, UT’s score was significantly brought down by the global engagement category, where the school only scored 44.85.
The highest ranking went to the University of Oxford in England and the highest in the United States was Stanford University in third place overall. The full list can be found here.