There are 1,904 institutions from 108 regions and countries represented in the 2024 edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

The new WUR 3.0 approach used to compile this table comprises 18 finely tuned performance indicators that evaluate a school’s effectiveness in five key areas: education, research, innovation, and global engagement.

This year’s ranking used the opinions of 68,402 academics from all across the world, as well as the results of an analysis of more than 134 million citations across 16.5 million research articles. There were over 2,673 participating institutions, yielding a total of 411,789 data points.

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024

Ranking	University Name	International students
1	University of Oxford	42%
2	Stanford University	23%
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	33%
4	Harvard University	25%
5	University of Cambridge	38%
6	Princeton University	23%
7	California Institute of Technology	33%
8	California Institute of Technology	61%
9	University of California, Berkeley	22%
10	Yale University	21%
11	ETH Zurich	43%
12	Tsinghua University	10%
13	The University of Chicago	33%
14	Peking University	14%
15	Johns Hopkins University	28%
16	University of Pennsylvania	22%
17	Columbia University	35%
18	University of California, Los Angeles	15%
19	National University of Singapore	24%
20	Cornell University	24%
21	University of Toronto	27%
22	University College London (UCL)	61%
23	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	16%
24	Carnegie Mellon University	44%
25	University of Washington	16%

Students, faculty, governance, and industry experts all over the world rely on the 2024 ranking to demonstrate how the global higher education scene is changing.

While Oxford is at the top for the eighth year running, the order of the other four universities in the top five has changed. Harvard was previously holding the #4 spot, and Stanford is now at #2.

This year, MIT moves up two spots to third place, after Stanford and Harvard. After finishing tied for third the previous year, Cambridge University now finds itself in fifth.

The United States has the most total institutions represented (169), as well as the most institutions in the top 200 (56). India has surpassed China to become the country with the fourth-most institutions represented, with a total of 91.

All four of the new countries on this list are located in Europe. When compared to the pattern of the previous year, when all new members were located in Africa, the inclusion of Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, and Armenia stands out.

When it comes to education, Stanford University ranks first, whereas Oxford and Cambridge lead in terms of research facilities. MIT ranks top in the research quality pillar, formerly known as the citations pillar.

The final table includes 1,904 ranked institutions and an additional 769 universities with “reporter” status, which indicates that these schools contributed data but did not qualify for a rank but consented to being displayed as reporters anyway.