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Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 by Times Higher Education: 12 universities ranked, led by University of Oxford. The entries on record...

Published
September 27, 2023
On this page
12 of 1907 ranked
Method
Mixed
Reliability
Grade B

First edition under the WUR 3.0 method (18 indicators in five areas). Oxford first for the eighth consecutive year, Stanford second and MIT third; Tsinghua reached 12th. THE's page reports 1,907 ranked universities across 108 countries and regions (Forbes reported 1,904).

Method changed. Positions in this edition are not directly comparable with the previous one.

WUR 3.0: indicators expanded from 13 to 18 across five areas (teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, international outlook), with new measures of research strength, excellence and influence. Scores are not directly comparable with earlier editions.

The list on record

This page shows the 12 entries on record of 1907 published. Top 10 from Wikipedia's THE table, ranks 11 and 12 from Forbes' coverage; full list on timeshighereducation.com. See the original list.

RankNameLocationSince 2023
1University of OxfordUnited KingdomNo change
2Stanford UniversityUnited StatesUp 2
3Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesUp 2
4Harvard UniversityUnited StatesDown 2
5University of CambridgeUnited KingdomDown 2
6Princeton UniversityUnited StatesUp 1
7California Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesDown 1
8Imperial College LondonUnited KingdomUp 2
9University of California, BerkeleyUnited StatesDown 1
10Yale UniversityUnited StatesDown 1
11ETH ZurichSwitzerland
12Tsinghua UniversityChina

This list is reproduced as Times Higher Education published it. Names are shown as printed. The ranking belongs to its publisher.

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