Gender distribution at the world's leading universities 2023

Most of the highest ranked universities in the world had a higher share of male than female students. However, the margin was small in many of the universities, such as 48 to 52 percent at the University of Oxford and 47 to 53 percent at the University of Cambridge. See here for an overview of the highest ranked universities in the world.

Gender distribution at the world's leading universities in the academic year 2022/2023

Characteristic	Women	Men
University of Oxford (UK)	48%	52%
Harvard University (US)	50%	50%
University of Cambridge (UK)	47%	53%
Stanford University (US)	46%	54%
Massachusets Institute of Technology (US)	40%	60%
California Institute of Technology (US)	37%	63%
Princeton University (US)	46%	54%
University of California, Berkeley (US)	52%	48%
Yale University (US)	52%	48%
Imperial College London (UK)	40%	60%
Columbia University (US)*	38%	-
ETH Zurich (Switzerland)	33%	67%
University of Chicago (US)	47%	53%
University of Pennsylvania (US)	53%	47%
Johns Hopkins University (US)	53%	47%
Tsinghua Unviersity (China)**	10%	-
Peking University (China)***	19%	-
University of Toronto (Canada)	56%	44%
National Unviersity of Singapore	51%	49%
Cornell University (US)	51%	59%

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Release date

October 2022

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Worldwide

Survey time period

Autumn 2022

Supplementary notes

* Exact share of male students not stated, but likely to be at around 60 percent.
** Exact share of male students not stated, but likely to be at around 90 percent.
*** Exact share of male students not stated, but likely to be at around 80 percent.

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