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
Hangzhou
Location: China (Mainland)
Best Student Cities 2027 rank: 57
Kaohsiung
Location: Taiwan
Best Student Cities 2027 rank: 134
Nicosia
Location: Cyprus
Best Student Cities 2027 rank: =135
Tashkent
Location: Uzbekistan
Best Student Cities 2027 rank: 146
Previous new entrants
The cities in the table below all made their debut in a previous edition of the Best Student Cities ranking.
| 2027 rank | City |
| 60 | Osaka |
| =61 | Belfast |
| 66 | Turin |
| 69 | Amman |
| 79 | Dubai |
| 80 | Sharjah |
| =81 | Doha |
| =95 | Baku |
| 109 | Al-Ain |
| 113 | Xi'an |
| 118 | Yogyakarta |
| 119 | Astana |
| 120 | Busan |
| 122 | Jeddah |
| 126 | Taichung |
| 128 | Bandung |
| 131 | Taoyuan District |
| 132 | Daegu |
| 133 | Pretoria |
| =135 | Tallinn |
| 137 | Bishkek |
| =138 | Chengdu |
| 140 | Surabaya |
| 141 | Dhaka |
| 142 | Macau |
| 143 | Tianjin |
| 145 | Kaunas |
| 149 | Cluj-Napoca |
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