NTU Singapore Climbs to 12th in QS World Rankings 2027

NTU Singapore is ranked 12th in this year's QS World University Rankings, maintaining its hold in the global top 15 for the second year running.

As the youngest university in the top tier of the rankings, NTU has nevertheless built a strong and growing international reputation, reflected in improvements in both academic and employer reputation indicators.

The university also performed well in the international student indicator, reflecting its continued ability to attract a diverse and global student body.

NTU Deputy President and Provost Professor Christian Wolfrum said: "This result arrives as NTU begins implementing its NTU2030 plan. The plan is designed around a simple premise: that a university's value is measured by the quality of the minds it attracts and what those minds go on to do. We are actively recruiting researchers working at the frontier of their fields, people who bring energy and originality and are willing to rethink how they teach in an AI-enabled world."

A key pillar of this effort is the university's continued focus on attracting and nurturing outstanding talent. Through initiatives such as the Nanyang Assistant Professorship programme, NTU recruits promising early-career researchers working on complex, high-impact problems across their fields.

Research is the engine of knowledge creation at NTU, where researchers pursue bold, interdisciplinary ideas that lead to breakthrough discoveries, drive innovation and address real-world challenges.

The university continues to attract high-potential academic talent who bring energy and originality to their research, and who are open to experimenting with how they teach and engage students in an AI-enabled world.

This focus on talent is closely aligned with NTU's broader transformation of education. Building on its strong reputation in AI, where it was ranked first in the world for AI courses in ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, NTU aims to embed AI into 40 per cent of its undergraduate course offerings by 2030, making it the first university in Singapore to adopt AI in education at this scale.

QS Senior Vice President Ben Sowter said: "The QS World University Rankings remain an important tool for benchmarking academic excellence, helping guide students, scholars and institutions in their decision-making. We congratulate all ranked universities for driving global innovation, collaboration and societal transformation."

Professor Wolfrum said: "Rankings capture a moment. What matters more is trajectory. NTU is investing in the foundations, research excellence, exceptional teaching and international openness that will define where we stand five and ten years from now."

In a separate ranking released on 16 June, NTU climbed one place to 27th globally in the US News & World Report Best Global Universities Rankings 2026-2027, making it the fourth-highest ranked university in Asia.

NTU has consistently placed among the world's top 30 universities in this ranking for the past four years.

This year's rankings assessed more than 2,250 institutions worldwide based on their academic research performance and global and regional reputation.