Top 100 Universities in the World – QS 2024 Rankings

This page displays the historic QS World University Rankings for 2024, with the Top 100 universities in the world ranked that year. It provides a simple overview of which institutions excelled in terms of teaching, research, and reputation in 2024. It is also useful for looking back through time to see how the global higher education system has changed as the world moves forward. If you want to see the latest results, click on the latest QS Top 100 universities rankings (2026).

QS World University Rankings is one of the most reliable rankings for top universities in the world. They have listed over 1,500 institutions across 104 countries for the 2024 university rankings.

Historic QS 2024 Rankings – Top 100 Universities

Below is the list of the top 100 universities in the world for 2024, based on the QS World University Rankings.

Rank Name City Country
#1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge United States
#2 University of Cambridge Cambridge United Kingdom
#3 University of Oxford Oxford United Kingdom
#4 Harvard University Cambridge United States
#5 Stanford University Stanford United States
#6 Imperial College London London United Kingdom
#7 ETH Zurich Zürich Switzerland
#8 National University of Singapore Singapore Singapore
#9 University College London London United Kingdom
#10 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley United States
#11 University of Chicago Chicago United States
#12 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia United States
#13 Cornell University Ithaca United States
#14 The University of Melbourne Melbourne Australia
#15 California Institute of Technology Pasadena United States
#16 Yale University New Haven United States
#17 Peking University Beijing China
#17 Princeton University Princeton United States
#19 The University of New South Wales Kensington Australia
#19 The University of Sydney Sydney Australia
#21 University of Toronto Toronto Canada
#22 University of Edinburgh Edinburgh United Kingdom
#23 Columbia University in New York New York City United States
#24 Paris Sciences et Lettres University Paris France
#25 Tsinghua University Beijing China
#26 Nanyang Technological University Singapore Singapore
#26 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong
#28 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore United States
#28 University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan
#29 University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles United States
#30 McGill University Montreal Canada
#32 The University of Manchester Manchester United Kingdom
#33 University of Michigan Ann Arbor United States
#34 Australian National University Canberra Australia
#34 University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada
#36 Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland
#37 Technical University of Munich München Germany
#38 Polytechnic Institute of Paris Palaiseau France
#38 New York University New York City United States
#40 Kings College London, University of London London United Kingdom
#41 Seoul National University Seoul South Korea
#42 Monash University Clayton Australia
#43 The University of Queensland St Lucia Australia
#44 Zhejiang University Hangzhou China
#45 London School of Economics and Political Science London United Kingdom
#46 Kyoto University Kyoto Japan
#47 Delft University of Technology Delft Netherlands
#47 Northwestern University Evanston United States
#47 Chinese University of Hong Kong New Territories Hong Kong
#50 Fudan University Shanghai China
#51 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai China
#52 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh United States
#53 University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Netherlands
#54 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich München Germany
#55 University of Bristol Bristol United Kingdom
#56 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology Yuseong-gu South Korea
#57 Duke University Durham United States
#58 The University of Texas at Austin Austin United States
#59 Sorbonne University Paris France
#60 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong Hong Kong
#61 KU Leuven Leuven Belgium
#62 University of California, San Diego San Diego United States
#63 University of Washington Seattle United States
#64 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign United States
#65 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Kowloon Hong Kong
#65 University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
#67 The University of Warwick Coventry United Kingdom
#68 University of Auckland Auckland Central New Zealand
#69 National Taiwan University Taipei Taiwan
#70 City University of Hong Kong Kowloon Hong Kong
#71 Paris-Saclay University Gif-sur-Yvette France
#72 The University of Western Australia Crawley Australia
#73 Brown University Providence United States
#73 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm Sweden
#75 University of Leeds Leeds United Kingdom
#76 University of Glasgow Glasgow United Kingdom
#76 Yonsei University Seoul South Korea
#78 Durham University Durham United Kingdom
#79 Korea University Seoul South Korea
#80 Osaka University Suita Japan
#81 Trinity College Dublin Dublin Ireland
#81 University of Southampton Southampton United Kingdom
#83 Pennsylvania State University University Park United States
#84 University of Birmingham Birmingham United Kingdom
#85 Lund University Lund Sweden
#85 University of São Paulo São Paulo Brazil
#87 Moscow State University Moscow Russia
#87 University of Heidelberg Heidelberg Germany
#89 The University of Adelaide Adelaide Australia
#90 University of Technology Sydney Sydney Australia
#91 Institute of Science Tokyo Meguro-ku Japan
#91 University of Zürich Zürich Switzerland
#93 Boston University Boston United States
#93 National Autonomous University of Mexico Mexico City Mexico
#95 University of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina
#95 University of St Andrews St Andrews United Kingdom
#97 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta United States
#98 Free University of Berlin Berlin Germany
#99 Purdue University West Lafayette United States
#100 Pohang University of Science and Technology Pohang South Korea

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Top Countries in 2024

The QS 2024 results also highlight the countries that had the most top-ranked universities. Here are the top 10 countries with the highest number of institutions ranked in 2024.