Graduate quantum computing programs

Aalto University

Espoo, Finland

Home to InstituteQ, the Finnish Quantum Institute, Aalto offers an Engineering Physics master's with a Materials Physics and Quantum Technology major, building on national infrastructure like OtaNano and the Finnish Quantum Computing Infrastructure.

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Aarhus University's physics department includes a quantum physics research group working on ultracold atoms and quantum optics.

The University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum) has a quantum information and quantum optics research group within its physics department.

One of India's leading private technical universities, with research activity in quantum computing and quantum information across its computer science and physics departments.

Boston University

Boston, MA, United States

BU's Quantum Science & Engineering Consortium, launched in 2024 under the Rafik Hariri Institute, coordinates 20+ affiliated faculty across physics, chemistry, computer science, and electrical/computer engineering. BU also offers a dedicated MS in Quantum Science & Engineering — a one-year, 32-credit terminal degree combining physics, math, CS, and engineering coursework with hands-on quantum hardware — while PhD students still pursue quantum research through their home departments rather than a separate quantum PhD.

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Brown University's physics department includes faculty working on quantum information science and quantum materials.

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA, United States

Quantum computing research at Caltech is centered in IQIM, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center spanning physics, applied physics, computer science, and electrical engineering, with deep roots in the field going back to founding theorists like John Preskill and Alexei Kitaev. Caltech also hosts the AWS Center for Quantum Computing on campus. There is no standalone quantum-computing PhD -- students join a home graduate option (Physics, Applied Physics, CMS, EE) and can add a formal Quantum Science and Engineering (QSE) graduate minor.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Quantum Computing and Information Technologies (QCiT) coordinates quantum coursework and research across computer science, physics, and engineering, alongside CMU's membership in the multi-university Pittsburgh Quantum Institute.

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Chalmers University of Technology

Gothenburg, Sweden

Chalmers coordinates WACQT, a 12-year, SEK 1 billion national quantum technology program funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, running a Swedish Graduate School in Quantum Technology that funds roughly 90 PhD studentships across academic and industrial tracks.

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Charles University's Department of Condensed Matter Physics includes a quantum information research group.

CUHK's physics department has faculty active in quantum information and condensed matter research.

Columbia University

New York, NY, United States

Columbia does not offer a standalone quantum computing PhD — graduate students pursue quantum research through their home physics or engineering department — but the Columbia Quantum Initiative runs a joint Engineering/Physics MS in Quantum Science and Technology, launched in 2024.

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Comenius University's Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics hosts a quantum information theory research group.

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY, United States

Cornell's quantum computing research is coordinated through its Quantum Science & Engineering initiative, spanning Applied & Engineering Physics, ECE, and Computer Science, with strengths in photonic and superconducting quantum hardware and quantum algorithms.

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Delft University of Technology

Delft, Netherlands

QuTech, TU Delft's advanced research center for quantum computing and the quantum internet, hosts both experimental and theoretical PhD research across more than a dozen groups working toward a scalable quantum computer and quantum network.

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Duke University

Durham, NC, United States

The Duke Quantum Center coordinates research across more than 15 faculty members in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, and Mathematics. Under the leadership of Christopher Monroe (co-founder of IonQ), the center focuses on trapped-ion quantum computing as its core platform, with recent achievements including the first demonstration of three-node multipartite entanglement across separately controlled trapped-ion systems. Graduate students pursue PhDs in Physics, ECE, Computer Science, or Mathematics with quantum computing specialization; there is no standalone quantum PhD degree, but coordinated cross-departmental research supervision through the center.

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Eindhoven University of Technology

Eindhoven, Netherlands

The Center for Quantum Materials and Technology Eindhoven (QT/e), founded in 2018, anchors a two-year Quantum Science and Technology master's track entered via the Applied Physics or Industrial and Applied Mathematics programs.

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EPFL

Lausanne, Switzerland

EPFL's Center for Quantum Science and Engineering (QSE Center), launched in 2021, coordinates cross-disciplinary quantum research and education across the university, with a Master's in Quantum Science and Engineering feeding into PhD research in its affiliated groups.

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ETH Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

The ETH Zurich Quantum Center unifies 43 research groups from six ETH departments, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), and Empa, engaging more than 600 researchers across quantum computing, quantum simulation, quantum sensing, and quantum foundations. Key areas include superconducting-circuit quantum error correction, trapped-ion scaling, neutral-atom platforms, quantum algorithms and machine learning, and quantum information theory. PhD study is organized through individual research groups in physics, computer science, electrical engineering, and materials; a dedicated MSc in Quantum Engineering is also available through the Quantum Engineering Initiative.

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Freie Universität Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Physics faculty co-run the Berlin School of Optical Sciences and Quantum Technologies (BOS.QT), a joint doctoral graduate school with Humboldt and TU Berlin under the wider Berlin Quantum initiative; FU's own quantum information theory research is centered in the Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems.

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Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA, United States

Graduate quantum computing research is concentrated in the School of Physics's Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics group, alongside a campus-wide Quantum Sciences and Technology minor for undergraduates.

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Ghent University's photonics research group works on integrated quantum photonics.

Home to the Centre for Quantum Dynamics, focused on quantum optics and quantum information experiments.

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA, United States

The Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) is a community of over 100 faculty and researchers spanning Physics, Chemistry, Applied Physics, Computer Science, and Mathematics, with a dedicated PhD in Quantum Science and Engineering (launched 2021). Research strengths center on neutral-atom (Rydberg) quantum computing with fault-tolerant quantum computing breakthroughs (448-qubit system, 2025), quantum error correction and quantum simulation, and quantum nanophotonics. HQI maintains strategic partnerships including an Amazon Web Services alliance for quantum networking/quantum internet research. HQI co-directors are Evelyn Hu (nanophotonics) and Mikhail Lukin (neutral-atom quantum algorithms).

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PolyU has applied physics faculty researching quantum materials and quantum sensing.

ICFO – Institute of Photonic Sciences

Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain

A PhD-granting photonics research institute offering a Master in Quantum Science and Technology run jointly with UPC and other Barcelona institutions, giving access to 60+ research groups spanning quantum sensing, communication, computing, and simulation.

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Imperial College London

London, United Kingdom

The Centre for Quantum Engineering, Science and Technology (QuEST) coordinates quantum research across Physics, Computing, Mathematics, Chemistry, and Materials departments; QuEST does not recruit PhD students directly, so applicants apply through the relevant home department.

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Indiana University's physics department includes quantum information science research.

JKU Linz has a semiconductor physics group with quantum-relevant materials research.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Karlsruhe, Germany

Joined IQST as a partner institution in 2024 and runs its own Graduate School of Quantum Matter (KSQM); research spans molecular and superconducting qubits through the Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies.

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KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Stockholm, Sweden

The KTH Quantum Technology Hub coordinates quantum research and education across the greater Stockholm area — including Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet — with quantum technology courses offered at the master's and PhD level.

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Part of the QVLS quantum research alliance, with strengths in quantum sensing and precision measurement.

Leiden's Institute of Physics (LION) has a strong quantum matter and quantum optics research tradition.

LMU Munich

Munich, Germany

LMU is a founding partner of the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology and the IMPRS-QST doctoral program run jointly with the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and TU Munich, with its own quantum information theory and experimental quantum optics groups.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA, United States

MIT's Center for Quantum Engineering (CQE) coordinates close to 100 faculty and staff spanning physics, EECS, nuclear science, and mechanical engineering, plus MIT Lincoln Laboratory, with research covering superconducting qubits, quantum algorithms, quantum photonics, and quantum software. Graduate study runs through standard departmental Master's/PhD programs alongside iQuISE, an NSF-funded interdisciplinary quantum information science and engineering PhD training program, and MIT xPRO offers non-degree professional quantum courses. MIT also runs iQuHACK, an annual quantum hackathon that draws over a thousand student and early-career participants worldwide.

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McGill University

Montreal, QC, Canada

Quantum information research within the Department of Physics spans theory (spin/nanoscale qubits) and experiment (diamond NV-center quantum photonics); graduate admission is by direct faculty supervision rather than a separate quantum-specific program.

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NTU's physics and engineering faculty collaborate closely with Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies.

NTHU's Department of Physics includes a quantum information and quantum optics research group.

NUS hosts the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), one of Asia's leading quantum research centers.

New York University

New York, NY, United States

The NYU Quantum Institute, launched in 2025 and anchored by the Department of Physics' Center for Quantum Information Physics, offers one of fewer than 20 U.S. institutions' MS in Quantum Science and Technology alongside PhD research spanning quantum computing, communication, and sensing.

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NYU Abu Dhabi's physics faculty includes researchers working on quantum information and condensed matter physics; a distinct campus from NYU's New York-based Quantum Institute.

Newcastle University has research activity in quantum technologies within its School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics.

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC, United States

Home to the first IBM Quantum Innovation Center in North America and a DOE Quantum Science Center partnership; quantum research spans Physics, ECE, Computer Science, Math, and Materials Science, with students pursuing quantum research through those departments' existing PhD programs rather than a single dedicated degree.

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Northwestern University

Evanston, IL, United States

INQUIRE (Institute for Quantum Information Research and Engineering), an Institute since 2024, spans 70+ affiliated faculty across Weinberg College and the McCormick School of Engineering, with graduate opportunities including the Applied Physics Graduate Program; Northwestern is also a Chicago Quantum Exchange member.

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One of China's leading universities, with significant quantum information and quantum computing research groups.

Politecnico di Milano

Milan, Italy

QC@Polimi, the university's Quantum Computing Lab and a Quantum Flagship member, hosts PhD students researching quantum machine learning, error correction, and variational algorithms through existing engineering and computer science PhD programs rather than a standalone quantum degree.

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Polytechnique Montréal

Montreal, QC, Canada

The Department of Engineering Physics hosts the Polyquantique research group working at the intersection of quantum optics and information, and physically houses INTRIQ, the multi-university Quebec quantum information consortium.

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Princeton University

Princeton, NJ, United States

Princeton University hosts the Princeton Quantum Initiative (founded 2019), which brings together over 30 faculty across physics, electrical and computer engineering, computer science, chemistry, and related departments. The university offers a dedicated PhD program in Quantum Science and Engineering (launched Fall 2024) spanning four research tracks: Quantum Systems Experiment, Quantum Systems Theory, Quantum Materials Science, and Quantum Computer Science. Research spans multiple hardware platforms including superconducting qubits, neutral atoms in optical lattices, topological qubits based on Majorana fermions, spin qubits in quantum dots and silicon, and diamond color-center platforms. A recent major gift (April 2026) supports further expansion of quantum science and engineering research and graduate education.

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Purdue University

West Lafayette, IN, United States

The Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute (PQSEI) coordinates 65+ faculty across physics, electrical/computer engineering, computer science, and materials engineering. Purdue also hosts Microsoft Quantum, West Lafayette on campus, where Microsoft engineers work directly with Purdue faculty and facilities on next-generation quantum computing hardware, and leads the NSF-backed Center for Quantum Technologies alongside Indiana University and Notre Dame. Purdue's quantum credentials span an undergraduate certificate, minor, and ECE concentration; a professional/online Master's in Quantum (submitted for accreditation, pending Higher Learning Commission review); PhD concentrations in both the College of Science and ECE; and the MicroMasters in Quantum Technology: Computing and Sensing, alongside quantumHUB, Purdue's free public quantum-education materials.

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Purdue has a broad quantum science and engineering research effort spanning physics, electrical and computer engineering, and materials science.

Rice University

Houston, TX, United States

The Rice Quantum Initiative connects faculty across eight departments spanning atomic physics, condensed matter, optics, and computer science, with particular strength in quantum simulation using ultracold atoms and quantum materials.

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Home to a dedicated Chair for Quantum Technology within its physics department.

RWTH Aachen University

Aachen, Germany

Hosts the JARA Institute for Quantum Information, a joint initiative with Forschungszentrum Jülich, and is a founding partner of the ML4Q Cluster of Excellence with Cologne and Bonn; offers a dedicated Master's track in Quantum Technology jointly run by the Physics and Electrical Engineering departments.

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Saarland University

Saarbrücken, Germany

Backed by more than €53 million in state funding for its new Center for Quantum Technologies (QuTe), spanning Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics; expanding its Bachelor's/Master's Quantum Engineering programs with a new Master's in quantum information open to non-physics students.

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Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

Pisa, Italy

Runs a dedicated PhD programme in Quantum Technology and Nanoscience, alongside quantum information and computing research within its Computational Methods and Mathematical Models PhD, based at the NEST (National Enterprise for nanoScience and nanoTechnology) laboratory.

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SJTU's School of Physics and Astronomy includes quantum information and quantum optics research groups.

Simon Fraser University

Burnaby, BC, Canada

SFU's Department of Physics runs quantum information and AMO research programs and co-delivers the NSERC CREATE Program in Quantum Computing with UBC and UVic, alongside its own silicon-qubit and trapped-ion quantum computing research groups.

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Sorbonne Université

Paris, France

The Kastler Brossel Laboratory (LKB), a joint research unit of Sorbonne Université, ENS, Collège de France, and CNRS, runs a Quantum Optics and Quantum Information research line spanning cold atoms, quantum measurement, and quantum information across more than a dozen research teams.

Stanford University

Stanford, CA, United States

Stanford's quantum computing research is coordinated through Q-FARM, spanning Applied Physics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science. Six core faculty work on photonic and superconducting quantum hardware, quantum information theory, quantum control systems, and quantum simulation approaches. PhD students specialize in quantum computing within the Physics and Applied Physics departments.

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Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY, United States

Runs the only master's program in quantum physics in New York State (MS in Quantum Information Science and Technology), tied to the SUNY Center of Quantum Information Science at Long Island and the multi-node SCY-QNet quantum network testbed connecting Stony Brook, Columbia, Yale, and Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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Technical University of Denmark

Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Quantum DTU coordinates quantum research spanning more than a third of DTU's institutes, and DTU jointly runs Denmark's first MSc in Quantum Information Science with the University of Copenhagen, alongside 24 fully-funded Villum-backed PhD fellowships (QISTgrad) running 2026–2034.

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Technical University of Munich

Munich, Germany

TUM's Center for Quantum Engineering (ZQE) and its Chair for Quantum Computing focus on hybrid quantum technologies and quantum algorithms; graduate students can also join the joint IMPRS-QST doctoral program with LMU and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.

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The Ohio State University

Columbus, OH, United States

Launching an NSF-funded interdisciplinary MS/PhD in Quantum Information Science and Engineering, administered by the Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering (CQISE) and spanning Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Math, Chemistry, and Materials Science.

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Trinity College Dublin

Dublin, Ireland

The School of Physics hosts nine theoretical quantum research groups and the new Research Ireland-funded Rinn Quantum centre, alongside an MSc/PGDip in Quantum Science and Technology and PhD research opportunities.

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TU Wien

Vienna, Austria

A founding member of VCQ (Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology), a joint initiative with the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and IST Austria hosting 25 PIs; TU Wien's own Atominstitut anchors experimental groups in neutron/quantum physics and cold molecules.

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Ulm University

Ulm, Germany

A founding IQST partner alongside Stuttgart, home to the Institute for Quantum Optics and the Center for Quantum Bioscience (ZQB), offering a joint M.Sc. in Quantum Engineering spanning the Physics and Engineering departments plus the DLR Institute.

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Mexico's largest university, with quantum information theory research groups within its physics institutes.

Université de Liège has research activity in quantum photonics and quantum materials.

Université de Montréal

Montreal, QC, Canada

DIRO (Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle) hosts the Laboratoire d'Informatique Théorique et Quantique (LITQ) and is a core member of INTRIQ, the multi-university Quebec quantum information consortium; graduate students can specialize in quantum computing within the department's Master's/PhD in Computer Science.

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Université de Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

Graduate training across quantum information, quantum materials, and quantum engineering through the Institut quantique, home of pioneering work in circuit quantum electrodynamics for superconducting qubits.

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Université Grenoble Alpes

Grenoble, France

The Quang2 doctoral programme recruits PhD students in quantum materials, computing, and technologies across Institut Néel, CEA, Inria, and other Grenoble research partners.

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Home to QuIC (Quantum Information and Communication), a well-known quantum information theory research group.

Université Paris-Saclay

Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Offers a dedicated M1/M2 track in Quantum and Distributed Computer Science feeding into PhD research, anchored by the Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N), a major French hub for quantum photonics and quantum hardware.

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UCD's School of Physics includes quantum optics and quantum information research.

University College London

London, United Kingdom

The UCL Quantum Science and Technology Institute (UCLQ) has trained over 100 PhD students since 2014 through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Delivering Quantum Technologies, with a new CDT in Quantum Computation and Quantum Communications launching in 2026.

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University of Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

QuSoft, founded in 2015 as a joint University of Amsterdam/CWI research center, anchors a new MSc in Quantum Computer Science launched in 2024 — the first Dutch computer science program with a dedicated quantum information specialization.

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University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ, United States

The Arizona Quantum Initiative (AQuI) coordinates quantum information science and engineering research across the Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Mathematics. The University anchors the NSF Engineering Research Center for Quantum Networks (with Harvard, MIT, and Yale as core partners) and offers an M.S. in Quantum Information Science and Engineering through Wyant College.

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University of Basel

Basel, Switzerland

The Quantum Computing and Quantum Technologies (QCQT) PhD program, established 2016 in the Department of Physics, embeds projects within the Basel Quantum Center's groups spanning quantum-confined semiconductors, superconductors, topological quantum materials, and quantum optics.

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University of Bristol

Bristol, United Kingdom

Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QET Labs), which pioneered integrated quantum photonics, hosts the Quantum Information Science and Technologies CDT (QIST-CDT, run jointly with the University of Sussex); its earlier Quantum Engineering CDT graduated over 70 PhD students.

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University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Quantum computing theory and hardware research based in the Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, spanning measurement-based and topological computation to silicon and photonic qubit architectures.

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University of Calgary

Calgary, AB, Canada

The Faculty of Science's Master of Quantum Computing (MQuaC) evaluates current research and commercial applications in quantum computing, anchored by the Institute for Quantum Science and Technology (IQST) and Calgary's role as the hub of the federally-funded Quantum City initiative.

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University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, United States

Quantum computing research at Berkeley spans the EECS, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics departments, coordinated through the Berkeley Quantum Information & Computation Center (BQIC). Experimental platforms include superconducting qubits, trapped ions, ultracold atoms, and Rydberg atoms for quantum information processing; theory focuses on quantum algorithms, complexity theory, and quantum error correction. The Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation (NSF-funded, $25M, led by Dan Stamper-Kurn) and partnerships with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's Quantum Systems Accelerator amplify research scope. Berkeley offers research-focused graduate PhDs in Physics, EECS, Chemistry, and Mathematics with quantum computing specialization, rather than a standalone quantum degree.

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University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA, United States

UCLA's Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, run jointly by the College's Division of Physical Sciences and the Samueli School of Engineering, offers a one-year Master of Quantum Science and Technology alongside an NSF PhD Quantum Research Traineeship spanning physics, chemistry, materials science, and electrical/computer engineering.

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UC San Diego hosts the Center for Quantum Information, with quantum engineering research spanning physics and engineering.

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA, United States

UCSB's Physics PhD program feeds into the NSF Quantum Foundry and Eddleman Quantum Institute via a Graduate Traineeship offering dedicated quantum information coursework, industry internships, and co-advising across physics, materials, and engineering.

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University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge's quantum computing research spans the Department of Computer Science and Technology's Quantum Computing group and DAMTP's Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, covering quantum algorithms, complexity theory, and quantum architecture alongside quantum foundations.

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University of Chicago

Chicago, IL, United States

The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering's PhD in Quantum Science and Engineering lets students work across UChicago and Argonne National Laboratory, anchored by the Chicago Quantum Exchange spanning computing, communication, sensing, and materials.

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UCAS runs a dedicated School of Quantum, drawing on Chinese Academy of Sciences quantum research institutes.

University of Cologne's physics institute includes quantum matter and quantum information research.

University of Colorado Boulder

Boulder, CO, United States

Home to JILA, a joint institute with NIST that has produced four Nobel laureates in physics, and the CUbit Quantum Initiative coordinating quantum computing, sensing, and networking research across campus.

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University of Copenhagen

Copenhagen, Denmark

The Center for Quantum Devices (QDev) at the Niels Bohr Institute focuses on creating, controlling, and protecting quantum coherence in solid-state electronic devices, admitting PhD students through the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Science PhD school.

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University of Delaware

Newark, DE, United States

Offers a dedicated interdisciplinary PhD in Quantum Science and Engineering spanning Physics, Materials Science, Computer and Information Sciences, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, with three tracks: nanotechnology, theory, and algorithms/computation.

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University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Informatics, a five-institution consortium anchored at Edinburgh's School of Informatics, offers fully funded four-year PhDs bridging quantum hardware, software, and applications; the Quantum Software Laboratory, led by Elham Kashefi, is the UK's largest quantum software research group.

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Home to the International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies (ICTQT), a dedicated quantum information theory research center.

University of Geneva

Geneva, Switzerland

The Group of Applied Physics's Quantum Information & Communication group, world-renowned for quantum cryptography under Nicolas Gisin's legacy, spans quantum communication, quantum networks, and quantum theory, and directly recruits well-remunerated 3-4 year PhD positions.

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University of Glasgow

Glasgow, United Kingdom

The Centre for Quantum Technology brings together physicists, engineers, and computer scientists across the James Watt School of Engineering and the School of Physics & Astronomy, and Glasgow co-delivers fully funded PhDs in quantum computing and simulation through the Applied Quantum Technologies CDT with Strathclyde and Heriot-Watt.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States

UIUC's quantum computing research is coordinated through IQUIST, spanning Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Computer Science, with strengths in superconducting qubits and photonic quantum information.

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University of Innsbruck

Innsbruck, Austria

Innsbruck is home to the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, jointly run with the university, and is one of the world's leading trapped-ion quantum computing centers. Faculty include pioneers in trapped-ion quantum computing (Rainer Blatt), foundational theorists in quantum simulation and quantum information (Peter Zoller), and active research groups spanning neutral atoms in optical tweezers (Hannes Bernien), superconducting qubits (Gerhard Kirchmair), Rydberg atom arrays for quantum information (Hannes Pichler), quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories (Torsten Zache), and quantum metrology with trapped ions (Klemens Hammerer). The university offers a Master's programme in Physics with a dedicated specialization in Quantum Sciences.

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University of Manchester's physics department includes quantum information and quantum materials research.

University of Maryland

College Park, MD, United States

The Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) and the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) -- both UMD/NIST partnerships -- host PhD researchers spanning trapped ions, superconducting qubits, neutral atoms, and quantum algorithms/complexity theory. UMD also hosts the National Quantum Laboratory (QLab), a commercial-grade trapped-ion user facility built on campus with IonQ, and offers a standalone, non-thesis Master of Science in Quantum Computing (30 credits, no prior quantum physics background required).

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University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI, United States

The Quantum Research Institute, backed by a $55M investment announced in 2023, coordinates quantum computing, materials, and sensing research across physics, EECS, and the College of Engineering, with dedicated graduate fellowships for incoming students.

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University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM, United States

The Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) supervises roughly 30 graduate students across physics, chemistry, electrical/computer engineering, and computer science, with close partnerships with Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories.

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Home to the Notre Dame Quantum Institute, coordinating quantum research across physics, engineering, and computer science.

Home to the Center for Quantum Research and Technology (CQRT).

University of Oregon

Eugene, OR, United States

Offers an Applied Physics MS in Quantum and Nanotechnology alongside PhD research through the Center for Applied Quantum Science and the Oregon Center for Optical, Molecular and Quantum Science, covering quantum optics, trapped-ion quantum computing, and quantum sensing.

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A partner institution in New Zealand's Dodd-Walls Centre for quantum and photonic research.

University of Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom

Oxford's quantum information and computation research spans Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Materials departments, coordinated by the Oxford Quantum Institute (headed by Ian Walmsley as Director from October 2025). The University hosts more than 60 groups in quantum science and technology, making it one of the UK's largest quantum research hubs. Research covers trapped-ion quantum computing (Lucas, Steane, Goodwin groups), superconducting quantum circuits, quantum algorithms, error correction, quantum cryptography, and quantum software verification. Graduate training includes the MSc in Quantum Technologies (interdisciplinary, covering computing/sensing/communications with industry partnerships) and DPhil pathways in quantum computing across multiple departments. Notable spinouts include Oxford Ionics (IonQ-acquired), Oxford Quantum Circuits, and QFX Quantum. Oxford is also home to two national UK quantum hubs: the Quantum Innovation and Knowledge Network and Quantum for Health.

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University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA, United States

Penn QUIEST, launched in 2023, is a joint center between Penn Engineering and the School of Arts & Sciences coordinating roughly 30 faculty working on quantum information, sensing, and quantum-enabled devices.

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University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Pitt's quantum science and engineering research is concentrated in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, spanning superconducting qubits and topological quantum devices, and is part of the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute — a joint effort with Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne.

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University of Rochester

Rochester, NY, United States

Quantum information research spans The Institute of Optics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, with roots in quantum optics research dating back to the 1960s.

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One of the world's leading quantum computing research universities, home to the Wilczek Quantum Center and Pan Jianwei's photonic quantum computing group.

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA, United States

USC's quantum computing research is led by CQIST, an interdisciplinary center spanning the Viterbi School of Engineering and Dornsife College, with particular strength in quantum error correction and open quantum systems.

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Home to the Centre for Quantum Mathematics.

University of Strathclyde

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Strathclyde's Department of Physics combines the Computational Nonlinear & Quantum Optics group's theoretical work with the Experimental Quantum Optics & Photonics group's cold-atom and ion research, and offers a dedicated MSc in Quantum Technologies alongside PhD study.

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University of Stuttgart

Stuttgart, Germany

A founding partner (with Ulm and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, later joined by KIT) of IQST, a state-wide quantum science center; hosts the Center for Applied Quantum Technology (ZAQuant) and an IQST Graduate School offering four-year doctoral positions across quantum computing, sensing, and photonics.

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University of Sussex

Brighton, United Kingdom

The Ion Quantum Technology Group, within the Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies, is a world-leading trapped-ion quantum computing lab offering an MSc in Quantum Technology and PhD study in microwave-driven, scalable ion-trap architectures.

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University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX, United States

The University of Texas at Austin hosts the Quantum Information Center (QIC), a collaboration of 10 faculty across computer science, physics, and electrical/computer engineering, plus dozens of affiliated faculty across UT departments. The Texas Quantum Institute (TQI) coordinates research spanning quantum algorithms, materials, metrology, and systems. Graduate training is anchored in departmental PhDs (Physics, CS, ECE) with quantum specializations, plus the new Q-CAT program (NSF Research Traineeship, $3M award, 2026), which provides a structured graduate certificate in quantum science and technology and bridges quantum-computing hardware, software, algorithms, and applications across multiple platforms.

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Home to the Structured Light Laboratory, researching quantum and classical structured light.

University of Toronto

Toronto, ON, Canada

Quantum computing research spans Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Chemistry, and Math, coordinated through the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC); graduate students apply directly through their home department.

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University of Twente

Enschede, Netherlands

The QUANT centre, based in the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, coordinates roughly 100 researchers across quantum photonics, electronics, and materials, feeding into a Quantum Physics specialization within the Applied Physics master's.

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University of Victoria

Victoria, BC, Canada

UVic's Department of Physics and Astronomy co-delivers the NSERC CREATE Program in Quantum Computing with UBC and SFU, training graduate students in both quantum hardware and software alongside industry partners.

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University of Vienna has a major quantum physics research tradition, including foundational quantum optics and quantum information experiments.

University of Warsaw

Warsaw, Poland

The Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies (QOT), established with the University of Oxford under Poland's International Research Agenda Programme, trains PhD candidates in quantum optics, metrology, sensing, and computation.

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University of Warwick

Coventry, United Kingdom

Warwick's Quantum Information Science research group, led by Animesh Datta within the Department of Physics, investigates quantum algorithms, sensing, and the theoretical limits quantum mechanics places on information processing, and is a member of the UK QCi3 hub.

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University of Washington

Seattle, WA, United States

UW QuantumX coordinates quantum research and a Graduate Certificate in Quantum Information Science and Engineering that can be paired with a master's or PhD across physics, ECE, CSE, and materials science, backed by a DOE-funded Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage.

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University of Waterloo

Waterloo, ON, Canada

Interdisciplinary Quantum Information graduate program (MMath/MSc/MASc/PhD) run jointly by the Faculties of Science, Mathematics, and Engineering through the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) — home to 30 faculty members and one of the largest concentrations of quantum computing researchers in North America. IQC collaborates closely with the neighboring Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (a separate, affiliated research institute) and has a formal partnership with Xanadu on quantum computing education and open-source tooling.

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, WI, United States

Anchored by the Wisconsin Quantum Institute, an interdisciplinary hub coordinating quantum information science and engineering research across the physics, electrical engineering, and computer sciences departments.

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University of Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

UZH's Physik-Institut runs a general physics PhD program; quantum information theory research there is anchored by Lidia del Rio's group, which takes an operational, agent-based approach to quantum foundations, thermodynamics, and cryptography. Most of Zurich's quantum computing hardware research is concentrated at the separate ETH Zurich.

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Yale University

New Haven, CT, United States

Yale Quantum Institute connects 31 research groups across physics, applied physics, and engineering, anchored by the team that pioneered circuit QED and continues to lead in superconducting-qubit error correction.

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