New York University rankings for the 2025 year is #43 in QS World University Rankings and #33 in Times Higher Education. NYU rankings has reportedly been in the top 50 since the last 7 years as per QS WUR Rankings. Meanwhile, in THE, New York University rankings remained in the top 35 universities in the world for the last 10 years. As per U.S. News Rankings, the university ranks #32 among the Best Global Universities in 2024. Let's have look at factors that majorly NYU's global in QS and THE with their respective scores:

QS Ranking Indicators Scores THE Ranking Indicators Scores
Employer Reputation 98.8 Research Quality 94.3
Employment Outcomes 98.4 Research Environment 76.8
International Student Ratio 98.1 International Outlook 75.3
Academic Reputation 96.3 Teaching 73
Sustainability 95.4 Industry 71.7
International Research Network 92.6 - -
Faculty Student Ratio 90.5 - -

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New York University Rankings: Worldwide

The below table displays 5-year trends for New York University rankings between 2021 to 2025:

Ranking Agencies 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
QS World University Rankings #43 #=38 #39 #42 #35
U.S. News and World Report - #32 31 - -
Times Higher Education #33 #27 #24 #26 #26

New York University Rankings: Nationwide

Check out how New York University ranks in USA across different categories by U.S. News and Forbes:

Ranking Agency Category Rankings
U.S. News and World Report Most Innovative Schools #29
National Universities #30
Top Performers on Social Mobility #62
Best Value Schools #68
Best Colleges for Veterans #103
Forbes In Northeast #19
Private Colleges #34
Research Universities #39
Top Colleges #49

New York University Rankings: Subject-Wise

New York University ranks for 11 Subjects in THE, 54 subjects in QS and 33 subjects for the 2025 Rankings. All of the ranked courses of New York University are listed among the top 500 subjects worldwide in both QS and THE. Let's check out the Rankings for how the most popular of NYU ranks various agencies, including their previous year's rankings.

New York University Engineering Rankings

NYU has shown improvement in its Engineering rankings compared to the previous year. It's slightly increased from #92 in 2024 to #84 in 2025 for Electrical and Electronic Engineering by QS. While in THE, it is improved from #101-125 in 2024 to #99 in 2025 for Engineering.

Agency/Subject 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
QS Electrical and Electronic Engineering #84 #92 #83 #=76 #78
Engineering and Technology #=124 #=100 #137 #=129 #=94
Chemical Engineering #151-200 #151-200 #201-250 #201-250 #251-300
Mechanical Engineering #151-200 #151-200 #201-250 #151-200 #151-200
Engineering - Civil and Structural #151-200 #151-200 #151-200 #151-200 -
THE Engineering #99 #101-125 #101-125 #87 #79

New York University Business Rankings

New York University ranks among the top 20 colleges in business courses as per QS and THE subject Rankings 2025. It ranks the highest for Accounting & Finance as well as Masters in Finance program by occupying #11 position in QS. The NYU MBA ranks #17 as per the QS Global MBA Rankings 2025.

Agency/Subject 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
QS Accounting and Finance #11 #10 #10 #10 #10
QS Business and Management Studies #=17 #15 #16 #18 #17
QS Full-time MBA #17 #17 #19 #19 -
QS Masters in Finance #11 #11 #11 #11 -
THE Business and Economics #17 #17 #18 #17 #15

New York University Computer Science Rankings

This year, New York University has shown improvement for computer science rankings in both THE and QS. It increased from #23 in 2024 to #17 in 2025 for QS Computer Science and Information Systems Rankings and #29 in 2024 to #27 in 2025 for THE Computer Science Rankings.

Agency/Subject 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
QS Computer Science and Information Systems #17 #=23 #26 #19 #21
THE Computer Science #27 #29 #25 #32 #36

New York University Medical Science Rankings

NYU Medical Science courses slightly dropped in the 2025 subject rankings by QS and THE. However, it still ranks among the 50 Medical Science Schools for life sciences, medical & health and medicine.

Agency/Subject 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
QS Medicine #35 #=34 #34 #33 #=33
QS Life Sciences and Medicine #50 #=46 #39 #41 #=36
THE Life Sciences #41 #39 #40 #36 #34
THE Medical and Health #49 #31 #=35 #41 #=46

New York University U.S. News Rankings: Subject-Wise

The U.S News and World Report has included 33 New York University courses in its Subject Rankings for 2024. 20 of these courses are ranked among the top 100 subjects in the world and overall among the top 500 subjects globally. Given below is the ranking data for some of the popular courses of New York University by U.S. News:

Subjects Rankings 2025
Arts and Humanities #7
Economics and Business #10
Cell Biology #21
Biology and Biochemistry #29
Clinical Medicine #39
Education and Educational Research #58
Computer Science #62
Artificial Intelligence #102
Electrical and Electronic Engineering #150
Engineering #258

New York University is one of the top 50 universities according to major ranking bodies. Considering the latest rankings for NYU, it has not witnessed any major drop in the global. This shows how NYU maintains its reputation for offering high quality teaching, top-notch research, global network and employment outcomes.