Northwestern University Ranking January 2026 – Webometrics Global Position

Explore Northwestern University’s January 2026 Webometrics ranking across global visibility, research excellence, openness, and academic performance. See how it compares worldwide.

Year	Edition	World Rank	Continent Rank	Country Rank	Impact Rank	Openness Rank	Excellence Rank
2026	jan	20	16	15	36	19	50
2025	july	24	19	18	36	19	50
2025	jan	24	19	18	35	18	49
2024	jan	24	19	19	35	18	51
2023	jan	22	17	17	28	19	47
2022	jan	22	19	18	31	19	37
2021	jan	22	19	18	29	17	31
2020	jan	26	22	21	33	16	32
2019	jan	25	22	21	35	17	32
2018	jan	39	33	31	53	44	28
2017	jan	36	32	30	49	37	28
2016	jan	39	33	31	53	44	28
2015	jan	44	38	36	65	239	27

World Rank	University	Country
10	Cornell University
11	UCL University College London
12	University of Toronto
13	University of California Los Angeles UCLA
14	University of Washington
15	University of California Berkeley
16	University of California San Diego
17	Yale University
18	Duke University
19	Imperial College London

World Rank	University	Country
21	Tsinghua University / 清华大学
22	University of British Columbia
23	New York University
24	Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich / Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
25	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
26	National University of Singapore
27	Peking University / 北京大学
28	University of New South Wales
29	University of California San Francisco
30	University of Melbourne