High Potential Individual visa: global universities list 2025
Updated 4 November 2025
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This list of universities relates to qualifications awarded between 1 November 2025 and 31 October 2026.
| Alphabetical rankings lists 2025 | Country |
|---|---|
| Australian National University (ANU) | Australia |
| Boston University | United States |
| Brown University | United States |
| California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States |
| Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) | Hong Kong |
| Columbia University | United States |
| Cornell University | United States |
| Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| Duke University | United States |
| EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
| Fudan University | China |
| Harvard University | United States |
| Heidelberg University | Germany |
| Institut Polytechnique de Paris | France |
| Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden |
| KU Leuven | Belgium |
| Kyoto University | Japan |
| Lund University | Sweden |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
| McGill University | Canada |
| Monash University | Australia |
| Nanjing University | China |
| Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | Singapore |
| National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| New York University (NYU) | United States |
| Northwestern University | United States |
| Peking University | China |
| Princeton University | United States |
| PSL University | France |
| Purdue University - West Lafayette | United States |
| Seoul National University | South Korea |
| Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
| Sorbonne University | France |
| Stanford University | United States |
| Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong |
| The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong |
| The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
| The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| The University of Melbourne | Australia |
| The University of New South Wales (UNSW) | Australia |
| The University of Queensland | Australia |
| The University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| Tsinghua University | China |
| Université Paris-Saclay | France |
| University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| University of Bonn | Germany |
| University of British Columbia | Canada |
| University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States |
| University of California, Irvine | United States |
| University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States |
| University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | United States |
| University of Chicago | United States |
| University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States |
| University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | United States |
| University of Munich (LMU Munich) | Germany |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States |
| University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| University of Science and Technology of China | China |
| University of Southern California | United States |
| University of Sydney | Australia |
| University of Toronto | Canada |
| University of Washington | United States |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
| University of Zurich | Switzerland |
| Uppsala University | Sweden |
| Vanderbilt University | United States |
| Washington University in St Louis | United States |
| Yale University | United States |
| Yonsei University | Japan |
| Zhejiang University | China |