QS World University Rankings 2024 top performers

1) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 

2) University of Cambridge 

3) University of Oxford 

4) Harvard University 

5) Stanford University  

6) Imperial College London 

7) ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 

8) National University of Singapore (NUS) 

9) University College London (UCL) 

10) University of California, Berkeley (UCB) 

Institutions in both Europe and America dominate the top 10 rankings, many of which received perfect scores of 100 in indicators such as: ‘Academic reputation’, ‘Employer reputation’ and ‘Faculty/Student ratio’. 

Notably, National University of Singapore (NUS), is the only institution from Asia to sit in the top 10. 

University of California (UCB) is the only institution to have earned a perfect score of 100 in our new ‘Sustainability’ indicator – followed closely by the University of Pennsylvania (ranked 12th), University of Toronto (ranked 21st) and University of British Columbia (ranked 34th) – all with scores of 99.9.