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QS Best Student Cities: Which cities are new to our ranking?

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Craig OCallaghan

Updated Jul 14, 2025
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This year's QS Best Student Cities ranking features some new entrants. Let's take a closer look at some of this year's entrants and their areas of strength according to our ranking which measures a range of indicators (which you can read about in our methodology).

New cities this year

Osaka

Location: Japan
Best Student Cities 2026 rank: =62

Al Ain

Location: United Arab Emirates
Best Student Cities 2026 rank: 107

Baku

Location: Azerbaijan
Best Student Cities 2026 rank: =117

Daegu

Location: South Korea
Best Student Cities 2026 rank: 131

Bishkek

Location: Kyrgyzstan
Best Student Cities 2026 rank: =138

Tel Aviv-Yafo

Location: Israel
Best Student Cities 2026 rank: =138

Chengdu

Location: China (Mainland)
QS Best Student Cities 2026 rank: 146

Irbid

Location: Jordan
QS Best Student Cities 2026 rank: 150

Previous new entrants

The cities in the table below all made their debut in a previous edition of the Best Student Cities ranking.

2026 rank City
64 Amman
65 Belfast
66 Turin
75 Dubai
76 Sharjah
85 Doha
=92 Tainan
113 Taichung
=117 Busan
121 Yogyakarta
122 Jeddah
123 Bandung
124 Xi'an
127 Astana
129 Tallinn
130 Taoyuan District
132 Tianjin
133 Pretoria
134 Macau
136 Dhaka
141 Izmir
142 Kaunas
143 Surabaya
=144 Shah Alam
=148 Cluj-Napoca
=148 Durham