Digital leaders 2026
AI & TECH CAREERS EDITION
Top universities and schools across the full scope of Ai & tech careers.
Institution names have been standardized to ensure a clearer and more consistent presentation of the results. When a school is part of a university, the ranking displays the institution that contributes most significantly to the score, according to the following rules:
If the school is the primary contributor, the school is listed first, followed by the university in parentheses.
If the university is the primary contributor but the school also contributes significantly, the university is listed first, followed by the name of the school in parentheses.
When a university or a school is listed on its own, it indicates that it is the primary contributor to the score.
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Combining the results of the four complementary rankings, it recognises universities and schools whose graduates collectively represent the full architecture of today's AI & Tech economy.
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
(IIT Roorkee)
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Simon Fraser University
University of Hong Kong
University of Amsterdam
Télécom Paris – Institut Polytechnique de Paris
University of St. Gallen
Mines Paris – PSL University
HEC Montréal
American University of Beirut
(AUB)
University of Barcelona
University of Adelaide
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
University of Bath
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
(KIT)
Polytechnic University of Catalonia
(KIT)
Paris-Saclay University
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
(IIIT Bangalore)
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
(KAUST)
University of California, Irvine
(UC Irvine)
Cardiff University
Politehnica University of Bucharest
Swinburne University of Technology
RWTH Aachen University
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
(MBZUAI)
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