2026-27 Global University Aura Tier List

Tier S: Harvard, Oxford

Tier A: MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, Yale, Princeton

Tier B: LSE, ETH Zurich, Columbia, UPenn, UC Berkeley, Caltech

Tier C: UCL, NUS, Sciences Po, Tsinghua, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth

Tier D: Northwestern, Duke, KCL, Warwick, McGill, UToronto, Sorbonne, Sciences Po

Tier F: Rest

For a top tier finance job globally it is best to be at Harvard/Wharton for the US and Oxford for Europe.

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I think so too. If your uni is even on this list then that is great. I was ranking the tiers within the world’s most prestigious unis based on their prestige, fame, pedigree, history, and quality.

 

Harvard & Oxford are the most well known names right now. Stanford (maybe MIT as well) will dominate the future.

 

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