| # | University | City | World rank | In-country | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Jordan | #368 (2025) | #1 | 1,136,007 | |
| 2 | Jordan University of Science and Technology | #461 (2026) | #2 | 1,033,194 | |
| 3 | Middle East University | not ranked | #11 | 83,061 | |
| 4 | Hashemite University | not ranked | #3 | 316,004 | |
| 5 | Yarmouk University | not ranked | #4 | 279,860 | |
| 6 | Al-Balqa Applied University | not ranked | #5 | 264,135 | |
| 7 | Al-Ahliyya Amman University | not ranked | #7 | 149,463 | |
| 8 | Mu' tah University | not ranked | #8 | 138,143 | |
| 9 | Al al-Bayt University | not ranked | #9 | 109,756 | |
| 10 | German Jordanian University | not ranked | #10 | 93,995 | |
| 11 | Princess Sumaya University for Technology | not ranked | #12 | 75,748 | |
| 12 | Al Hussein Bin Talal University | not ranked | #13 | 75,428 | |
| 13 | Amman Arab University for Higher Studies | not ranked | #14 | 71,069 | |
| 14 | Al-Isra University | not ranked | #15 | 70,543 | |
| 15 | University of Petra | not ranked | #16 | 59,117 | |
| 16 | Jadara University | not ranked | #17 | 51,853 | |
| 17 | Tafila Technical University | not ranked | #19 | 41,188 | |
| 18 | Irbid National University | not ranked | #20 | 23,973 | |
| 19 | The World Islamic Sciences & Education University | not ranked | #21 | 17,556 |
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.