Top Universities in Colombia

86 universities in Colombia with a measured position, 2 of them ranked worldwide.

#UniversityCityWorld rankIn-countryCitations
1 Universidad Nacional de Colombia #259 (2026) #2 1,480,333
2 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana #377 (2025) #3 561,405
3 Antonio Nariño University not ranked #6 346,983
4 Universidad de Antioquía not ranked #4 1,329,201
5 Universidad del Valle del Cauca not ranked #5 537,089
6 Universidad Antonio Nariño not ranked #7 346,983
7 Universidad del Rosario not ranked #8 337,384
8 Universidad Industrial de Santander not ranked #9 313,472
9 Universidad de Cartagena not ranked #10 261,690
10 Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana not ranked #12 169,546
11 Universidad El Bosque not ranked #13 165,475
12 Universidad de La Sabana not ranked #14 157,282
13 Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira not ranked #15 138,938
14 Corporación Universitaria de la Costa (UNICOSTA) not ranked #16 129,312
15 Universidad EAFIT not ranked #17 98,170
16 Universidad ICESI not ranked #18 95,051
17 Corporación Universitaria de Santander (UDES) not ranked #20 92,678
18 Universidad de Caldas not ranked #19 91,398
19 Universidad del Cauca not ranked #21 90,274
20 Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia not ranked #22 87,169
21 Universidad de Medellín not ranked #23 85,051
22 Universidad Distrital "Francisco José de Caldas" not ranked #24 81,985
23 Universidad del Tolima not ranked #25 74,314
24 Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga not ranked #26 71,150
25 Universidad del Atlántico not ranked #27 67,619
26 Universidad Militar Nueva Granada not ranked #28 65,060
27 Universidad CES not ranked #31 54,747
28 Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano not ranked #32 54,194
29 Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia not ranked #30 53,353
30 Universidad del Quindío not ranked #33 52,405
31 Universidad Autónoma de Occidente not ranked #35 50,328
32 Universidad de Pamplona not ranked #34 50,169
33 Universidad del Magdalena not ranked #37 40,305
34 Universidad Autónoma de Las Américas not ranked #39 39,126
35 Universidad de Bogotá "Jorge Tadeo Lozano" not ranked #41 38,539
36 Universidad de Nariño not ranked #40 36,211
37 Universidad Santiago de Cali not ranked #43 35,352
38 Universidad Autónoma de Manizales not ranked #44 34,307
39 Universidad Libre de Colombia not ranked #42 33,304
40 Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander not ranked #45 32,161
41 Universidad Surcolombiana not ranked #46 30,939
42 Universidad de La Amazonia not ranked #47 26,080
43 Escuela de Ingeniería de Antioquia not ranked #49 25,907
44 Universidad de Manizales not ranked #38 24,603
45 Universidad Sergio Arboleda not ranked #52 24,161
46 Universidad de América Bogotá not ranked #51 23,806
47 Universidad de Sucre not ranked #50 23,523
48 Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia not ranked #54 21,582
49 Universidad Autónoma del Caribe not ranked #53 20,708
50 Universidad de Los Llanos not ranked #55 19,384
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What the two columns mean

In-country is the position the ranking record gives the university among those in its own country, and it is often the more useful number: a university ranked 480th in the world may still be third at home. It is carried over as published, so it does not always follow the order of the other two columns. World rank is the university's QS World University Rankings position. Citations are the number of times work published by the university has been cited, as recorded in OpenAlex; it is the measure used to order universities that QS does not rank at all.

The two do not always agree. A large research university can out-cite a smaller one that sits above it in QS, because QS weighs reputation surveys and staff ratios as well as research.

Rankings in other countries

USA 138 ranked UK 55 ranked Germany 40 ranked China 37 ranked Australia 31 ranked Canada 26 ranked France 19 ranked Italy 18 ranked South Korea 17 ranked Japan 16 ranked Spain 15 ranked Switzerland 13 ranked