| # | University | City | World rank | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aalborg University | #0 | 4,655,867 | |
| 2 | Copenhagen Business School | #0 | 898,319 | |
| 3 | Roskilde University | #0 | 627,588 | |
| 4 | IT University of Copenhagen | #0 | 460,177 | |
| 5 | Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Art | #0 | 231,809 | |
| 6 | Royal Academy of Music | #0 | 46,825 | |
| 7 | Aarhus School of Architecture | #0 | 39,476 | |
| 8 | VIA University College | #0 | 24,732 | |
| 9 | Royal Danish Academy of Music | #0 | 381 | |
| 10 | University of Copenhagen | Copenhagen | #100 (2025) | 27,912,135 |
| 11 | Technical University of Denmark | #107 (2026) | 12,398,707 | |
| 12 | Aarhus University | #131 (2026) | 13,207,563 | |
| 13 | University of Southern Denmark - SDU | #303 (2026) | 5,650,886 |
What the two columns mean
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.