The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 include 1,906 universities across 108 countries and regions. The table is based on our new WUR 3.0 methodology, which includes 18 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook....CONTINUE READING
This year’s ranking analysed more than 134 million citations across 16.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 68,402 scholars globally. Overall, we collected 411,789 datapoints from more than 2,673 institutions that submitted data.
Trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments and industry experts, the 2024 league table reveals how the global higher education landscape is shifting.
The University of Oxford tops the ranking for the eighth year in a row, but others in the top five have seen shifts in their ranks. Stanford University moves up to second place, pushing Harvard University down to fourth.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) climbs up two places to third this year. The University of Cambridge slips to fifth place, after being in joint third place last year.
The highest new entry is Italy’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, ranked in the 301-350 bracket. However, the majority of the institutions joining the ranking for the first time this year are in Asia.
The US is the most-represented country overall, with 169 institutions, and also the most-represented in the top 200 (56). With 91 institutions, India is now the fourth most-represented nation, overtaking China (86).
Four countries enter the ranking for the first time – all of them in Europe. The addition of Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Armenia is in contrast to last year’s trend when all the new entrants were from Africa.
Stanford University leads the teaching pillar, while the universities of Oxford and Cambridge come top for research environment. The research quality pillar, which is the newly renamed citations pillar, sees MIT in first place.
The University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates scores highest in international outlook, while 28 institutions receive a top score of 100 for the industry pillar.
In addition to the 1,904 ranked institutions, a further 769 universities are listed with “reporter” status, meaning that they provided data but did not meet our eligibility criteria to receive a rank, and agreed to be displayed as a reporter in the final table.
Below are the top 100:
1 University of Oxford
United Kingdom
2 Stanford University
United States
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
4 Harvard University
United States
5 University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
6 Princeton University
United States
7 California Institute of Technology
United States
8 Imperial College London
United Kingdom
9 University of California, Berkeley
United States
10 Yale University
United States
11 ETH Zurich
Switzerland
12 Tsinghua University
China
13 The University of Chicago
United States
14 Peking University
China
15 Johns Hopkins University
United States
16 University of Pennsylvania
United States
17 Columbia University
United States
18 University of California, Los Angeles
United States
19 National University of Singapore
Singapore
20 Cornell University
United States
21 University of Toronto
Canada
22 UCL
United Kingdom
23 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
United States
24 Carnegie Mellon University
United States
25 University of Washington
United States
26 Duke University
United States
27 New York University
United States
28 Northwestern University
United States
29 The University of Tokyo
Japan
30 University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
32 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Singapore
33 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Switzerland
34 University of California, San Diego
United States
35 University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
36 Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
37 University of Melbourne
Australia
38 King’s College London
United Kingdom
38 LMU Munich
Germany
40 Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris
France
41 University of British Columbia
Canada
42 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States
43 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China
44 Fudan University
China
45 KU Leuven
Belgium
46 London School of Economics and Political Science
United Kingdom
47 Universität Heidelberg
Germany
48 Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
49 McGill University
Canada
50 Karolinska Institute
Sweden
51 University of Manchester
United Kingdom
52 University of Texas at Austin
United States
53 Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
54 Monash University
Australia
55 Kyoto University
Japan
55 Zhejiang University
China
57 University of Science and Technology of China
China
58 Université Paris-Saclay
France
59 University of California, Davis
United States
60 The University of Sydney
Australia
61 University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
62 Seoul National University
South Korea
63 University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States
64 Brown University
United States
64 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
64 Wageningen University & Research
Netherlands
67 Australian National University
Australia
68 Washington University in St Louis
United States
69 University of California, Santa Barbara
United States
70 The University of Queensland
Australia
71 Institut Polytechnique de Paris
France
72 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
United States
73 Nanjing University
China
74 University of Southern California
United States
75 Sorbonne University
France
76 Yonsei University (Seoul campus)
South Korea
77 Leiden University
Netherlands
78 Boston University
United States
79 University of Groningen
Netherlands
80 University of Zurich
Switzerland
81 University of Bristol
United Kingdom
82 City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
83 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
South Korea
84 UNSW Sydney
Australia
85 University of Minnesota
United States
86 Purdue University West Lafayette
United States
87 University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
88 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
89 Humboldt University of Berlin
Germany
90 RWTH Aachen University
Germany
91 University of Bonn
Germany
92 University of California, Irvine
United States
92 Vanderbilt University
United States
94 Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany
95 Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
96 University of Tübingen
Germany
97 KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden
98 University of Southampton
United Kingdom
99 Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands
100 Ohio State University (Main campus)
United States
World University Rankings 2024
