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The world's top 100 universities
By Craig OCallaghan
Updated UpdatedWant 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
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
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