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The world's top 100 universities

By Craig OCallaghan

Updated April 18, 2024 Updated April 18, 2024

Out Now! QS World University Rankings 2024

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

Out Now! QS World University Rankings 2024

This article was originally published in June 2013 . It was last updated in April 2024

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Craig OCallaghan

As Head of Content, Craig is responsible for all articles and guides published across TopUniversities and TopMBA. He has nearly 10 years of experience writing for a student audience and extensive knowledge of universities and study programs around the world.

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