As every year for 20 years, the QS World Ranking lifts the veil on the best universities in the world. More and more young people continue their studies after secondary school and go to university. This ranking, published for 2024, is therefore based on the analysis of several million university articles and on the opinions of experts, and in particular on those of more than 240,000 university professors and employers from all over the world. The overall score enabling the ranking to be obtained is ultimately obtained using six indicators: the reputation of the university, the reputation of the employer, the staffing rate, the international staffing rate, the references by faculty and the international student rate. These six elements are complemented by three others, used for the first time this year, which take into account the changes that have taken place in higher education: the international research network, employment results and sustainable development.
This year, the ranking reveals that Europe occupies half of the places in the top 10. But the universities truly dominating the first places of the ranking are mainly English-speaking. They obtain these places of choice thanks to remarkable scores in categories such as academic reputation, the ratio of professors to students or even the reputation of employers. Thus, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) maintains its first place, for the 12th consecutive year, with an overall score of 100. It is followed by the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, which obtains the score of 99, 2, itself followed by the University of Oxford, its arch-rival which rose to third place with 98.9 points. Harvard University comes in fourth place, with a score of 98.3, while Stanford University ranks fifth, with 98.1 points.
France, absent from the world top 10
While five European universities have climbed into the top 10 of the best universities in the world, France remains the big absentee. We therefore find in the ranking the University of Cambridge and Oxford, in 3rd and 4th positions, the Imperial College of London in 6th place, the ETH of Zurich in Switzerland in 7th position and finally, the University College of London in 9th position. However, France is not one of the countries with the fewest universities in this prestigious ranking, since it finally enters the top 20 of the best European universities, and obtains 7th place with Université PSL. It also occupies 11th place thanks to the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, but also 18th place with the University of the Sorbonne.
A more diversified classification
Certain trends emerge from this ranking, and we note for example that the QS World University Rankings tends to diversify. Indeed, while the top 10 was until recently dominated by American universities, the Old Continent is now managing to obtain a few choice places. Asia is also represented in the top 10 with the National University of Singapore. Finally, according to the Euronews media, while Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern and African universities represented only 37% of the ranking in 2018, this figure now stands at 46% for the 2024 ranking. which has therefore increased significantly in just six years. China is gaining more and more space, while the United States and the United Kingdom, the two countries dominating the ranking, suffer a slight decline.
Here are the top 10 best universities in the world in 2024:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Cambridge UniversityOxford UniversityHarvard UniversityStanford UniversityImperial College LondonETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ZurichNational University of Singapore (NUS)University College London ( UCL)The University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
2023-08-10 00:00:02
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