League tables and rankings
Use this page to access our rankings and league table data from the previous two years. If you would like to access data that goes further back than that, please contact content@qmul.ac.uk.
We are proud of our academic achievements and outcomes, many of which are reflected in our rankings. As well as our subject-level strengths in education and research, our rankings also pay testament to other areas in which Queen Mary excels, and which make it unique.
In the 2024 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), we maintained our Silver award. Within the overall rating, the TEF panel assessed student experience as Bronze, and student outcomes as Silver.
A rare institution that excels in both academic league tables and social inclusion"— The Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026
- Queen Mary has climbed 35 places in two years in the QS World University Rankings and is now ranked 110 in the world - firmly establishing its recognition as one of the top universities in the world.
- In the Times Higher Education rankings 2026 we strengthened our excellent global top 10 per cent position, climbing from 141 to 134. For research outputs, we rank at 31st in the world.
- Queen Mary is a top 100 global university and top 10 UK university for the second year running in the 2025-26 edition of the influential US News and World Report Best Global Universities rankings.
- Queen Mary ranks at 41 in the Complete University Guide 2026, having climbed nine places from the previous year and maintaining its position in the top 50.
- In the 2025 Daily Mail rankings, we came 15th overall in UK, 16th for research and =12th for graduate salaries. Subject areas we scored highly in are Linguistics (1st), Law (16th) and Creative Writing (7th).
- Described as the "elite Eastender" and "a rare institution that excels in both academic league tables and social inclusion", we rank at 35 in the Times Good University Guide - up four places from the year before.
- Queen Mary has climbed 25 places in the 2025 QS World University Rankings (from 145 to 120), confirming its position as one of the world’s top universities.
- In the 2025 Times Good University Guide, Queen Mary climbed three places, from number nine to six in London, and seven places nationally, from 46 to 39.
- In our profile, The Times wrote: “Queen Mary continues its founding mission to improve lives through education. This Russell Group outlier in Tower Hamlets, east London, continues to do as well in our academic league (39th) as in our social inclusion table (41st). Since 1785, the university has grown from its roots in four historic colleges in the East End with a focus on social justice.”
- Queen Mary is ranked at 50 in the Complete University Guide 2025 (published 14 May 2024), climbing three places to be in the top 50.
- Queen Mary has been ranked 92nd in the world and 9th in the UK in the 2024-25 edition of the influential US News and World Report Best Global Universities rankings.
- In the Guardian 2025 league table, we moved down one place from 73 to 74.
- The Daily Mail University Guide placed us at =16 in their 2025 rankings, up one place from last year. Described as “the most socially inclusive of the research-intensive Russell Group universities by some distance”, we scored highly across research income, graduate salaries and research quality. Our subject-level strengths include English Language (first in the UK), Linguistics (third in the UK) and Law (16th in the UK).
Of all the elite Russell Group universities, Queen Mary both walks the walk and talks the talk when it comes to social inclusion, creating a diverse student body while demanding high entry grades.”— Daily Mail University Guide 2026
Page last updated on 22/10/25.
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