The 20th edition of the World’s Best Universities by the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings has been released, with Britain’s Oxford University in first place for an unprecedented eighth consecutive year and Stanford University in second, making it the top-ranked U.S. university.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is third.
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The U.S. has 13 in the top 20 and 56 in the top 200, with 169 universities featured in the ranking—more than any other country. Asia is the most-represented continent since the 2021 edition (overtaking Europe), while Africa and South America each have more than 100 universities represented.
edition of the World University Rankings 2024 includes 1,904 universities—up from 1,799 last year—from 108 countries and regions, assessing research-intensive universities across 18 performance indicators covering their core missions of teaching, research, knowledge transfer and internationalization.
The 10 first institutions on the list, which is still dominated by U.S. universities, are: University of Oxford, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, University of Cambridge (UK), Princeton University, California Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, University of California, Berkeley and Yale University.