Ranking: World’s Best Universities For 2024

by: Kristy Bleizeffer on September 29, 2023 | 1,871 Views

Stanford University scored the highest in teaching with a score of 99 out of a 100 in the 2024 World University Rankings.

In the five key categories in the ranking, Stanford University comes out on top in Teaching with a score of 99. It is followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 98.6, Harvard at 97.7, University of Oxford and California Institute of Technology at 96.6.

In Research Environment, two UK schools tied for first with a score of 100: University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. Harvard scored 99.9, followed by University of California-Berkeley at 98.8, and Tsinghua University at 98.1.

Related, in Research Quality, Massachusetts Institute of Technology scored highest with 99.7. Four other schools cracked 99: Stanford (99.6), Harvard (99.4), Oxford (99) and UC-Berkeley (99).

The table below shows how the ranking’s top 100 institutions scored in each category.

2024 Rank

School

Overall Score

Teaching Score

Research Environment

Research Quality

Industry

International Outlook
1 University of Oxford 98.5 96.6 100 99 98.7 97.5
2 Stanford University 98 99 97.8 99.6 100 87
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 97.9 98.6 96.2 99.7 100 93.8
4 Harvard University 97.8 97.7 99.9 99.4 84.2 90.8
5 University of Cambridge 97.5 95.8 100 98 87.9 97.4
6 Princeton University 96.9 96.3 97.9 98.8 95.1 89.1
7 California Institute of Technology 96.5 96.6 98 95.9 100 90.6
8 Imperial College London 95.1 90.9 95.5 98.6 90.9 98.3
9 University of California, Berkeley 94.6 87.2 98.8 99 99.4 86.8
10 Yale University 94.2 94 94.9 97.7 86.5 82.4
11 ETH Zurich 93.1 87.6 96.8 95.6 82.9 95.6
12 Tsinghua University 92.4 95.3 98.1 93.2 99.9 51.7
13 The University of Chicago 92.1 89.6 91.2 97.6 93.8 82.3
14 Peking University 91.8 95.6 97.3 87.2 98.8 70.2
15 Johns Hopkins University 91.1 84.4 92.3 97.2 100 84.2
16 University of Pennsylvania 91 87.7 89.7 97.6 97.7 78.8
17 Columbia University 90.9 88.6 89.7 97.4 75.2 86.9
18 University of California, Los Angeles 90.1 85.7 91.9 96.4 92.3 74.3
19 National University of Singapore 90 78.8 94 95.4 100 91.1
20 Cornell University 89.5 85.7 88.7 97.6 69.4 86
21 University of Toronto 88.6 77.5 94.1 92.8 96.1 90.7
22 UCL 88.1 78.4 86.4 98.6 75.2 97.9
23 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 87.4 84.7 87.4 95.5 80.7 69
24 Carnegie Mellon University 86.3 75 84.6 98.9 87.3 85.5
25 University of Washington 85.3 78 83.5 98.2 77.6 73.2
26 Duke University 83.9 79.3 76.1 96.2 100 74.8
27 New York University 83.5 73.2 84 94.9 75.4 80.7
28 Northwestern University 83.2 72.3 78.8 97.8 99.7 75.9
29 The University of Tokyo 83.1 93.9 94.2 67.8 100 49.7
30 (Tie) University of Edinburgh 82.5 70.7 77.5 96.9 71.1 97
30 (Tie) Technical University of Munich 82.5 69.8 85.1 90 100 83.1
32 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 82.3 66.2 80.9 94.5 99.7 93.3
33 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 81.4 74.5 73.2 90.3 99.8 95.8
34 University of California, San Diego 81 66 78.4 97.6 100 74.3
35 University of Hong Kong 80.3 65.6 72.3 96.4 95.2 96.8
36 Georgia Institute of Technology 80 63.4 78.9 94.1 94.6 84.8
37 University of Melbourne 79.2 64.8 76.4 90.1 98.3 92.7
38 (Tie) King’s College London 79 59.8 75.1 97.7 74.2 97.5
38 (Tie) LMU Munich 79 65.3 76.8 92.2 100 76.9
40 Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris 78.5 75.7 72.8 83.2 99.7 81.6
41 University of British Columbia 78 62.5 76.6 90.5 76.7 95
42 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 77.9 69.5 81.5 85.2 85.3 64
43 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 77.7 76.6 82.5 75.4 100 60.6
44 Fudan University 77.5 76.5 75.3 83.5 96 56.1
45 KU Leuven 77 60.1 74.9 91.9 100 79.6
46 London School of Economics and Political Science 76.8 59.5 73.5 95.4 55.9 94.1
47 Universität Heidelberg 76.7 67.7 64.3 94.6 99.3 76.4
48 Delft University of Technology 76.3 66.7 78.2 76.5 100 92.8
49 McGill University 76 62.3 72.3 88.8 76.1 92.5
50 Karolinska Institute 75.9 58.9 67.9 95.3 96 85.7
51 University of Manchester 75.6 61.4 67.1 93.1 73.1 95.6
52 University of Texas at Austin 75.5 66 75.7 91 81.4 47.3
53 Chinese University of Hong Kong 75.4 59.1 61.5 97.6 95.9 93.6
54 Monash University 75.2 55.3 67.8 94.7 99.7 91.1
55 (Tie) Kyoto University 75 85.4 84.3 60 100 45.7
55 (Tie) Zhejiang University 75 70.2 75.3 78.7 99 65.5
57 University of Science and Technology of China 74.8 74.3 66.3 88.2 95.6 45.4
58 Université Paris-Saclay 74.4 70.9 66.1 82.4 92.4 78.6
59 University of California, Davis 74.1 63.7 67.8 87.2 91.5 78.7
60 The University of Sydney 73.8 52.6 68.9 92 97.7 90.2
61 University of Amsterdam 73.6 55 63.1 96.7 77.6 93.2
62 Seoul National University 73.4 74.2 75.3 74.6 100 43.7
63 University of Wisconsin-Madison 73.3 68.5 67.5 85.5 79.8 62.8
64 (Tie) Brown University 73 69.8 59.6 89.7 69.3 72.1
64 (Tie) The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 73 54 62.1 92.9 100 95.5
64 (Tie) Wageningen University & Research 73 56.4 59.8 93.8 98.8 92.4
67 Australian National University 72.6 55.9 68 86.6 82 94.8
68 Washington University in St Louis 72.3 60.8 57.2 97.5 77.8 72.7
69 University of California, Santa Barbara 72.1 47.4 64.7 96.9 99.4 84
70 The University of Queensland 72 52.9 64.3 89.1 99.8 94
71 Institut Polytechnique de Paris 71.3 71 61.6 70.8 98.8 97.1
72 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 71.2 63.4 60.3 93.9 75.8 50.9
73 Nanjing University 70.9 64 61.7 85.3 96.8 61.8
74 University of Southern California 70.8 59.2 58.8 92.5 74.4 74.3
75 Sorbonne University 70.5 64.7 60.8 83.7 69.5 78.8
76 Yonsei University (Seoul campus) 70.4 68.1 64.3 79.3 99.9 51.8
77 Leiden University 70.2 46 62.7 93 98.1 87.8
78 Boston University 70.1 59.6 54.1 94.3 76.4 74.1
79 University of Groningen 70 47.5 57.2 94.5 99.9 93.4
80 University of Zurich 69.9 54.8 53.4 91.8 93.7 92.4
81 University of Bristol 69.8 48.7 56.5 97.3 72.3 92.5
82 City University of Hong Kong 69.3 52.2 52.4 91.1 100 98.7
83 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) 69.2 67.1 65.8 77.4 100 41.6
84 UNSW Sydney 68.9 47.2 57.4 91.1 98.6 94.5
85 University of Minnesota 68.7 61 58.5 87.2 99.8 48.3
86 Purdue University West Lafayette 68.5 64 65.3 71.8 84.3 76.7
87 (Tie) University of Glasgow 68.2 48.1 51.8 96.8 69.7 96.1
87 (Tie) Hong Kong Polytechnic University 68.2 45.7 54.1 94.5 87.4 96.3
87 (Tie) Humboldt University of Berlin 68.2 55.3 63.7 82.8 65.4 79
90 RWTH Aachen University 68 54.9 64.8 78.9 100 71.2
91 University of Bonn 67.8 51.7 57.7 89.7 82.6 73.8
92 (Tie) University of California, Irvine 67.4 47.1 53.8 93.2 96.1 80.9
92 (Tie) Vanderbilt University 67.4 54.1 48.5 96 96.5 62.9
94 Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin 67.2 47.5 49.1 97.7 100 75.2
95 (Tie) Lomonosov Moscow State University 67 87.5 75.2 33.9 91.1 73.8
95 (Tie) University of Tübingen 67 49.1 56.5 89 99.8 72
97 (Tie) KTH Royal Institute of Technology 66.9 53.5 57.8 81 97.7 82.5
97 (Tie) University of Southampton 66.9 48.9 50.1 92.7 73.1 96.5
99 (Tie) Erasmus University Rotterdam 66.7 38.5 54.1 96.9 94.7 90.6
99 (Tie) Ohio State University (Main campus) 66.7 55.8 52.7 88.4 85 67.3

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