The following are the 165 universities considered the very best academic institutions worldwide ranked for the first time ever.
The list includes 89 from Asia, 38 from Europe, 19 from Africa, 14 from South America and five from North America.
At country level, there are: 20 newly-ranked universities from India, 14 from Turkey, 11 from Pakistan and nine from Algeria and Iran. Among these 165 universities, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) in South Korea has the best performance and is ranked in the 351–400 band.
THE’s World University Ranking started with 200 universities and now includes some 2,000, making it the world’s most global and inclusive ranking.
The updated methodology for the 20th edition of the World University Rankings to reflect the diverse range of research-intensive universities across the world can be seen here.
These are the top 12 institutions in the ranking:
1- University of Oxford, U.K.
2- Stanford University, U.S.
3- Massachusetts Institute of Technolog, U.S.
4- Harvard University, U.S.
5- University of Cambridge, U.K.
6- Princeton University, U.S.
7- California Institute of Technolog, U.S.
8- Imperial College London, U.K.
9- University of California, Berkeley, U.S.
10- Yale University, U.S.
11- ETH Zurich, Switzerland
12- Tsinghua Universit, China
View the full World University Rankings 2024 results.