Leading universities worldwide 2023/24

For the academic year of 2023/2024, the University of Oxford was ranked as the best university in the world, with an overall score of 98.5 according the Times Higher Education. Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology followed behind. A high number of the leading universities in the world are located in the United States, with the ETH Zürich in Switzerland the highest ranked neither in the United Kingdom nor the U.S.

World university rankings for 2023/24, according to Times Higher Education

Characteristic	Times Higher Education Score
University of Oxford (United Kingdom)	98.5
Stanford University (United States)	98
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)	97.9
Harvard University (United States)	97.8
University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)	97.5
Princeton University (United States)	96.9
California Institute of Technology (United States)	96.5
Imperial College London (United Kingdom)	95.1
University of California, Berkeley (United States)	94.6
Yale University (United States)	94.2
ETH Zurich (Switzerland)	93.1
Tsinghua University (China)	92.4
University of Chicago (United States)	92.1
Peking University (China)	91.8
Johns Hopkins University (United States)	91.1
University of Pennsylvania (United States)	91
Columbia University (United States)	90.9
University of California, Los Angeles (United States)	90.1
National University of Singapore	90
Cornell University (United States)	89.5
University of Toronto (Canada)	88.6
UCL (United Kingdom)	88.1
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (United States)	87.4
Carnegie Mellon University (United States)	86.3
University of Washington (United States)	85.3

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Release date

September 2023

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

Autumn 2023

Number of respondents

1,799 universities in 104 countries

Supplementary notes

To calculate the rankings the following criteria were considered:
Teaching (30%) - the learning environment.
Research (30%) volume, income and reputation.
Citations (30%) - research influence.
Industry income (2.5%) - innovation.
International Outlook (7.5%) staff, students and research.

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