Ranking: World’s Best Universities For 2024

by: Kristy Bleizeffer on September 29, 2023 | 0 Comments | 1,805 Views

Duke University and Vanderbilt University have the lowest ratio of students to staff members, according to THE’s 2024 ranking.

The table below shows key demographic data for each of the 100 top institutions in the 2024 THE World University Ranking. This includes the number of full-time equivalent enrollment, how many students per staff, the percent of international students and the ratio of female students to male.

Karolinska Institute in Sweden has the highest percentage of female students at 70%, followed by Charite Universitats in Germany at 65%. In the United States, University of California-Davis has the highest percentages at 60%

For the percentage of international students, London School of Economics & Political Science comes first at 72% followed by City University of Hong Kong at 67%. The US school with the most international students is Carnegie Mellon University at 44%.

And, US schools dominate the ranking for having the fewest number of students per institution staff, having the nine best ratios in the category. Duke University and Vanderbilt University each have 3.9 students per staff member, followed by John Hopkins University at 4.1, and Columbia and Yale Universities with 5.2 apiece.

2024 Rank

School

Country

Full-time Students

Students per staff

International Students

Female:Male Ratio
1 University of Oxford United Kingdom 21,750 10.9 42% 49 : 51
2 Stanford University United States 14,517 6.4 23% 47 : 53
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 11,085 8 33% 41 : 59
4 Harvard University United States 20,050 9 25% 51 : 49
5 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 20,565 11.5 38% 48 : 52
6 Princeton University United States 7,753 7.3 23% 47 : 53
7 California Institute of Technology United States 2,240 6.1 33% 37 : 63
8 Imperial College London United Kingdom 20,275 11.8 61% 42 : 58
9 University of California, Berkeley United States 39,991 17.9 22% 52 : 48
10 Yale University United States 11,924 5.2 21% 51 : 49
11 ETH Zurich Switzerland 22,619 15.4 43% 33 : 67
12 Tsinghua University China 38,518 11.2 10% n/a
13 The University of Chicago United States 15,792 6.2 36% 47 : 53
14 Peking University China 33,064 10.9 14% n/a
15 Johns Hopkins University United States 15,772 4.1 28% 56 : 44
16 University of Pennsylvania United States 21,312 6.2 22% 54 : 46
17 Columbia University United States 25,914 5.2 35% n/a
18 University of California, Los Angeles United States 42,634 9.6 15% 56 : 44
19 National University of Singapore Singapore 33,334 20 24% 49 : 51
20 Cornell University United States 23,620 10 24% 51 : 49
21 University of Toronto Canada 79,282 25.8 27% 56 : 44
22 UCL United Kingdom 41,110 11.3 61% 59 : 41
23 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States 45,783 8.1 16% 51 : 49
24 Carnegie Mellon University United States 13,562 11.9 44% 44 : 56
25 University of Washington United States 49,486 10.1 16% 56 : 44
26 Duke University United States 15,527 3.9 18% 52 : 48
27 New York University United States 48,461 11.8 42% 58 : 42
28 Northwestern University United States 18,894 13.1 18% 52 : 48
29 The University of Tokyo Japan 26,345 10.3 15% n/a
30 (Tie) University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 33,940 11.5 46% 61 : 39
30 (Tie) Technical University of Munich Germany 35,506 44.4 39% 37 : 63
32 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Singapore 25,895 16.7 27% 49 : 51
33 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland 12,543 13.5 64% 30 : 70
34 University of California, San Diego United States 40,596 12 19% 45 : 55
35 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 18,103 18.3 43% 55 : 45
36 Georgia Institute of Technology United States 32,079 28 29% 34 : 66
37 University of Melbourne Australia 51,307 25.1 47% 58 : 42
38 (Tie) King’s College London United Kingdom 32,835 13.9 53% 63 : 37
38 (Tie) LMU Munich Germany 34,622 33.5 18% 62 : 38
40 Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris France 16,120 15 22% 51 : 49
41 University of British Columbia Canada 58,987 19.4 34% 55 : 45
42 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States 50,250 19.6 23% 51 : 49
43 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 38,472 12.6 9% 37 : 63
44 Fudan University China 38,101 12.6 9% 52 : 48
45 KU Leuven Belgium 49,435 37.3 19% 52 : 48
46 London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom 11,945 12.6 72% 56 : 44
47 Universität Heidelberg Germany 19,315 13.3 20% 55 : 45
48 Delft University of Technology Netherlands 21,262 15.9 30% 31 : 69
49 McGill University Canada 30,821 11.9 29% 61 : 39
50 Karolinska Institute Sweden 8,085 9.9 27% 70 : 30
51 University of Manchester United Kingdom 40,725 15.6 45% 56 : 44
52 University of Texas at Austin United States 48,558 16.4 8% 55 : 45
53 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 18,290 18.8 25% n/a
54 Monash University Australia 58,460 43.1 38% 56 : 44
55 (Tie) Kyoto University Japan 21,817 9 11% 25 : 75
55 (Tie) Zhejiang University China 48,169 12 16% n/a
57 University of Science and Technology of China China 20,252 8.1 5% n/a
58 Université Paris-Saclay France 31,662 13 24% 50 : 50
59 University of California, Davis United States 37,926 13.3 18% 60 : 40
60 The University of Sydney Australia 57,414 23.1 51% 58 : 42
61 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 28,649 13.2 36% 60 : 40
62 Seoul National University South Korea 28,620 16.1 13% n/a
63 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States 41,209 9.9 13% n/a
64 (Tie) Brown University United States 9,781 10.3 19% n/a
64 (Tie) The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 9,794 19.9 30% n/a
64 (Tie) Wageningen University & Research Netherlands 15,899 18.1 28% 54 : 46
67 Australian National University Australia 17,293 15.1 48% 52 : 48
68 Washington University in St Louis United States 13,825 7.3 22% 52 : 48
69 University of California, Santa Barbara United States 25,540 27.5 18% 54 : 46
70 The University of Queensland Australia 42,847 39.1 42% 55 : 45
71 Institut Polytechnique de Paris France 6,073 6.8 42% 25 : 75
72 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States 30,782 7.7 8% 60 : 40
73 Nanjing University China 36,711 16.7 8% 54 : 46
74 University of Southern California United States 44,083 14.2 24% 49 : 51
75 Sorbonne University France 41,527 14.5 22% 60 : 40
76 Yonsei University (Seoul campus) South Korea 18,961 13.9 17% 49 : 51
77 Leiden University Netherlands 35,072 19.3 21% 60 : 40
78 Boston University United States 26,677 10.8 29% 58 : 42
79 University of Groningen Netherlands 31,942 28.8 29% 53 : 47
80 University of Zurich Switzerland 25,608 14.7 24% 58 : 42
81 University of Bristol United Kingdom 27,335 14.8 31% 55 : 45
82 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 9,076 13.2 67% 54 : 46
83 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) South Korea 10,130 10.7 8% 21 : 79
84 UNSW Sydney Australia 47,044 36.6 40% 47 : 53
85 University of Minnesota United States 59,556 11.8 9% 55 : 45
86 Purdue University West Lafayette United States 42,633 18.3 17% 44 : 56
87 (Tie) University of Glasgow United Kingdom 32,270 14.4 43% 59 : 41
87 (Tie) Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong 20,034 30.6 30% 51 : 49
87 (Tie) Humboldt University of Berlin Germany 34,761 54.5 18% n/a
90 RWTH Aachen University Germany 34,914 43.3 29% 34 : 66
91 University of Bonn Germany 26,290 44.5 17% 57 : 43
92 (Tie) University of California, Irvine United States 35,675 16.2 26% 53 : 47
92 (Tie) Vanderbilt University United States 12,971 3.9 17% 55 : 45
94 Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Germany 8,868 17.5 21% 65 : 35
95 (Tie) Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian Federation 32,680 9.6 37% 50 : 50
95 (Tie) University of Tübingen Germany 21,632 27.1 14% 59 : 41
97 (Tie) KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden 13,269 15.9 26% 34 : 66
97 (Tie) University of Southampton United Kingdom 19,920 13 35% 51 : 49
99 (Tie) Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands Explore 33,874 36 25% 54 : 46
99 (Tie) Ohio State University (Main campus) United States 55,538 11.4 11% 51 : 49

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