Top 10 best universities in the world in 2024

The graduation ceremony was held by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May. This is the only school in the top 3 best schools in the world of all 3 prestigious university rankings.

Times Higher Education (THE) magazine, Quacquarelli Symonds organization (QS) in the UK and ShanghaiRanking Consultancy (SRC) in China are the most prestigious, experienced and influential university ranking organizations in the world. Up to now, the above organizations have announced the list of the top 10 best universities in the world in 2024.

Accordingly, there are 6 universities appearing in the top 10 in all 3 rankings, including 2 universities from the UK: Oxford University, Cambridge University and 4 universities from the US: Harvard University, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In addition, the National University of Singapore (NUS) is the only Asian representative to be recognized in the top 10 best universities in the world in 2024.

Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings

Announced on September 27, THE's ranking of the top 10 best universities in the world in 2024 has seen significant changes, especially in the top positions. Except for Oxford University, which has been at the top for 8 consecutive years, Stanford University has "usurped" the 2nd place that used to belong to Harvard University, pushing this school down to 4th place. Cambridge University, which used to hold the 3rd position, has now dropped to 5th place and given way to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Oxford University ranked first in THE magazine's 2024 world university rankings

Outside the top 5, Princeton University and Imperial College London rose 1 and 2 places respectively compared to last year, ranking 6th and 8th. Meanwhile, the California Institute of Technology, the University of California at Berkeley, and Yale University all fell 1 place, to 7th, 9th, and 10th. Overall, there are no new names in the top 10 best universities in the world in 2024. On the other hand, the gap in evaluation scores between the top 1 and 10 schools is not too far, at 4.3.

Ranking 2024	Ranking 2023	School	Nation	Point
1	1	Oxford University	Older brother	98.5
2	=3	Stanford University	America	98
3	5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	America	97.9
4	2	Harvard University	America	97.8
5	=3	University of Cambridge	Older brother	97.5
6	7	Princeton University	America	96.9
7	6	California Institute of Technology	America	96.5
8	10	Imperial College London	Older brother	95.1
9	8	University of California at Berkeley	America	94.6
10	9	Yale University	America	94.2

This year, THE ranked more than 1,900 higher education institutions from 108 countries and territories based on information from 134 million citations of 16.5 million scientific publications on the Scopus database and survey results of 68,402 scholars worldwide. Notably, for the first time, China has 2 representatives in the world's top 15: Tsinghua University (ranked 12th) and Peking University (14th).

At the same time, this unit also changed the ranking criteria after 12 years, including renaming 3/5 criteria groups, as well as removing and adding some new component criteria, increasing the total number of criteria in 5 groups to 18, instead of 13 as before. The ranking criteria groups include: teaching, research environment, research quality, technology transfer and international prospects.

Ranking by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy (SRC)

On August 15, SRC also announced the 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities. The top 10 best universities in the world maintained their rankings from last year, with Harvard University leading the rankings for the 21st consecutive year, followed by Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all from the US.

Harvard University ranked first in the 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy

The other universities in the top 10 are also located in the UK and the US, respectively: Cambridge University, University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, Oxford University, Columbia University, California Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago. Notably, on a 100-point scale, Harvard University ranked first with a full score, 25.2 points ahead of the second-placed school and nearly double the gap from the 10th-placed school (53.8 points).

Ranking 2024	Ranking 2023	School	Nation	Point
1	1	Harvard University	America	100
2	2	Stanford University	America	74.8
3	3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	America	69.1
4	4	University of Cambridge	Older brother	67.9
5	5	University of California, Berkeley	America	63.4
6	6	Princeton University	America	60.1
7	7	Oxford University	Older brother	59.5
8	8	Columbia University	America	55.3
9	9	California Institute of Technology	America	54.5
10	10	University of Chicago	America	53.8

This year, SRC ranked 2,500 higher education institutions and announced the list of the 1,000 best schools in the world. China is the prominent name when it occupies 191 positions in the top 1,000 with Tsinghua University holding the highest position (22nd), surpassing the US (187 schools) for the first time. In addition, China has 2 more representatives in the top 100 best universities in the world for the first time: Central South University (95th) and Nanjing University (96th).

According to SRC, there are 6 criteria for ranking universities, including: number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals; number of publications in scientific journals Nature and Science; number of highly cited researchers and number of publications listed in the expanded scientific citation index; number of highly cited researchers and number of publications listed in the social science citation index; average research performance per capita.

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Rankings

Previously, on June 28, QS announced the 2024 World University Rankings. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked first for the 12th consecutive year with 100/100 points, 9.6 points ahead of the 10th ranked University of California at Berkeley. In the top 5, Cambridge University maintained its 2nd place, while Oxford University and Harvard University both rose 1 place to 3rd and 4th place. Stanford University fell 2 places to 5th place.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology tops QS World University Rankings 2024

The top 10 best universities in the world in 2024 recorded some new names compared to last year, such as the National University of Singapore (up 3 places, ranked 8th), the University of California at Berkeley (up 17 places, ranked 10th). Imperial College London maintained its 6th place while the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology rose 2 places, ranked 7th. On the other hand, University College London dropped 1 place to 9th place.

Ranking 2024	Ranking 2023	School	Nation	Point
1	1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	America	100
2	=2	University of Cambridge	Older brother	99.2
3	4	Oxford University	Older brother	98.9
4	=2	Harvard University	America	98.3
5	3	Stanford University	America	98.1
6	=6	Imperial College London	Older brother	97.8
7	9	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland	93.3
8	11	National University of Singapore	Singapore	92.7
9	8	University College London	Older brother	92.4
10	27	University of California, Berkeley	America	90.4

Similar to THE, QS also changed its evaluation method for the first time in nearly 20 years. In addition to the old ranking criteria of academic reputation, citation/faculty ratio, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, international faculty ratio, international student ratio, QS also evaluated nearly 1,500 higher education institutions based on three new aspects: sustainable development, recruitment results and international research network.

Vietnam mark

Except for the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy University Rankings, Vietnam has representatives appearing in the top best universities in the world. Accordingly, the 6 representatives appearing in THE University Rankings are Duy Tan University, Ton Duc Thang University (ranked 601-800), Hanoi National University (1,201-1,500), Ho Chi Minh City National University, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hue University (ranked 1,501+).

In the QS university rankings, the 5 schools recorded are Duy Tan University (ranked 514), Ton Duc Thang University (721-730), Ho Chi Minh City National University, Hanoi National University (ranked 951-1,000), and Hanoi University of Science and Technology (ranked 1,201-1,400).

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