The world's top 100 universities

Want to study at one of the world's top 100 universities? The QS World University Rankings offers an annually updated list of the top 1,400+ universities worldwide. We will be revealing which of these made the top 100. The 2024 edition of the QS World University Rankings sees the first major evolution of the rankings methodology in its 20-year history. Learn more about the changes in our methodology. Here’s a complete rundown of the world’s top 100 universities. Top 100 Universities in the World According to the QS World University Rankings 2024 Rank University Location 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 2 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 3 University of Oxford United Kingdom 4 Harvard University United States 5 Stanford University United States 6 Imperial College London United Kingdom 7 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland 8 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 9 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom 10 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 11 University of Chicago United States 12 University of Pennsylvania United States 13 Cornell University United States 14 University of Melbourne Australia 15 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States 16 Yale University United States =17 Peking University Mainland China =17 Princeton University United States =19 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) Australia =19 University of Sydney Australia 21 University of Toronto Canada 22 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 23 Columbia University United States 24 Universite PSL France 25 Tsinghua University Mainland China =26 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) Singapore =26 University of Hong Kong (UKU) Hong Kong SAR 28 Johns Hopkins University United States 28 University of Tokyo Japan 29 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 30 McGill University Canada 32 University of Manchester United Kingdom 33 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States =34 Australian National University Australia =34 University of British Columbia Canada 36 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland 37 Technical University of Munich Germany =38 Institut Polytechnique de Paris France =38 New York University (NYU) United States 40 King's College London United Kingdom 41 Seoul National University South Korea 42 Monash University Australia 43 University of Queensland Australia =44 Zhejiang University Mainland China 45 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) United Kingdom 46 Kyoto University Japan =47 Delft University of Technology Netherlands =47 Northwestern University United States =47 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Hong Kong SAR 50 Fudan University Mainland China 51 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Mainland China 52 Carnegie Mellon University United States 53 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 54 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany 55 University of Bristol United Kingdom 56 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology South Korea 57 Duke University United States 58 University of Texas at Austin United States 59 Sorbonne University France 60 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Hong Kong SAR 61 KU Leuven Belgium 62 University of California, San Diego (UCSD) United States 63 University of Washington United States 64 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States =65 Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong SAR =65 Universiti Malaya (UM) Malaysia 67 University of Warwick United Kingdom 68 University of Auckland New Zealand 69 National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan 70 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR 71 Universite Paris-Saclay France 72 University of Western Australia Australia =73 Brown University United States =73 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden 75 University of Leeds United Kingdom =76 University of Glasgow United Kingdom =76 Yonsei University South Korea 78 Durham University United Kingdom 79 Korea University South Korea 80 Osaka University Japan =81 Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Ireland =81 University of Southampton United Kingdom 83 Pennsylvania State University United States 84 University of Birmingham United Kingdom =85 Lund University Sweden =85 Universidade de São Paulo Brazil =87 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia =87 Universität Heidelberg Germany 89 The University of Adelaide Australia 90 University of Technology Sydney Australia =91 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan =91 University of Zurich Switzerland =93 Boston University United States =93 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Mexico =95 Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) Argentina =95 University of St Andrews United Kingdom 97 Georgia Institute of Technology United States 98 Freie Universitaet Berlin Germany 99 Purdue University United States =100 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) South Korea =100 University of Nottingham United Kingdom