Best Universities in the UK 2022
This league table reveals the best UK universities and colleges, according to the trusted Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022.
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Best universities in the UK 2024
This league table reveals the best UK universities and colleges, according to the trusted Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024.
| Rank | Name Country/Region |
No. of FTE Students
|
No. of students per staff
|
International Students
|
Female:Male Ratio
|
% Interdiscip. Science Research
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Oxford | 21,750 | 10.9 | 42% | 49 : 51 | 23% |
| 2 | Stanford University | 14,517 | 6.4 | 23% | 47 : 53 | 22% |
| 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 11,085 | 8.0 | 33% | 41 : 59 | 40% |
| 4 | Harvard University | 20,050 | 9.0 | 25% | 51 : 49 | 12% |
| 5 | University of Cambridge | 20,565 | 11.5 | 38% | 48 : 52 | 27% |
| 6 | Princeton University | 7,753 | 7.3 | 23% | 47 : 53 | 43% |
| 7 | California Institute of Technology | 2,240 | 6.1 | 33% | 37 : 63 | 49% |
| 8 | Imperial College London | 20,275 | 11.8 | 61% | 42 : 58 | 28% |
| 9 | University of California, Berkeley | 39,991 | 17.9 | 22% | 52 : 48 | 36% |
| 10 | Yale University | 11,924 | 5.2 | 21% | 51 : 49 | 13% |
| 11 | ETH Zurich | 22,619 | 15.4 | 43% | 33 : 67 | 43% |
| 12 | Tsinghua University | 38,518 | 11.2 | 10% | n/a | 42% |
| 13 | The University of Chicago | 15,792 | 6.2 | 36% | 47 : 53 | 29% |
| 14 | Peking University | 33,064 | 10.9 | 14% | n/a | 33% |
| 15 | Johns Hopkins University | 15,772 | 4.1 | 28% | 56 : 44 | 15% |
| 16 | University of Pennsylvania | 21,312 | 6.2 | 22% | 54 : 46 | 13% |
| 17 | Columbia University | 25,914 | 5.2 | 35% | n/a | 23% |
| 18 | University of California, Los Angeles | 42,634 | 9.6 | 15% | 56 : 44 | 21% |
| 19 | National University of Singapore Explore | 33,334 | 20.0 | 24% | 49 : 51 | 28% |
| 20 | Cornell University | 23,620 | 10.0 | 24% | 51 : 49 | 25% |
| 21 | University of Toronto | 79,282 | 25.8 | 27% | 56 : 44 | 17% |
| 22 | UCL | 41,110 | 11.3 | 61% | 59 : 41 | 21% |
| 23 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 45,783 | 8.1 | 16% | 51 : 49 | 22% |
| 24 | Carnegie Mellon University | 13,562 | 11.9 | 44% | 44 : 56 | 43% |
| 25 | University of Washington | 49,486 | 10.1 | 16% | 56 : 44 | 20% |
| 26 | Duke University | 15,527 | 3.9 | 18% | 52 : 48 | 15% |
| 27 | New York University | 48,461 | 11.8 | 42% | 58 : 42 | 21% |
| 28 | Northwestern University | 18,894 | 13.1 | 18% | 52 : 48 | 18% |
| 29 | The University of Tokyo | 26,345 | 10.3 | 15% | n/a | 35% |
| =30 | University of Edinburgh | 33,940 | 11.5 | 46% | 61 : 39 | 24% |
| =30 | Technical University of Munich Explore | 35,506 | 44.4 | 39% | 37 : 63 | 36% |
| 32 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | 25,895 | 16.7 | 27% | 49 : 51 | 38% |
| 33 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | 12,543 | 13.5 | 64% | 30 : 70 | 44% |
| 34 | University of California, San Diego | 40,596 | 12.0 | 19% | 45 : 55 | 21% |
| 35 | University of Hong Kong Explore | 18,103 | 18.3 | 43% | 55 : 45 | 36% |
| 36 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 32,079 | 28.0 | 29% | 34 : 66 | 43% |
| 37 | University of Melbourne | 51,307 | 25.1 | 47% | 58 : 42 | 18% |
| =38 | King’s College London | 32,835 | 13.9 | 53% | 63 : 37 | 12% |
| =38 | LMU Munich Explore | 34,622 | 33.5 | 18% | 62 : 38 | 21% |
| 40 | Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris | 16,120 | 15.0 | 22% | 51 : 49 | 30% |
| 41 | University of British Columbia | 58,987 | 19.4 | 34% | 55 : 45 | 21% |
| 42 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 50,250 | 19.6 | 23% | 51 : 49 | 35% |
| 43 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 38,472 | 12.6 | 9% | 37 : 63 | 31% |
| 44 | Fudan University | 38,101 | 12.6 | 9% | 52 : 48 | 24% |
| 45 | KU Leuven Explore | 49,435 | 37.3 | 19% | 52 : 48 | 23% |
| 46 | London School of Economics and Political Science | 11,945 | 12.6 | 72% | 56 : 44 | 15% |
| 47 | Universität Heidelberg Explore | 19,315 | 13.3 | 20% | 55 : 45 | 20% |
| 48 | Delft University of Technology | 21,262 | 15.9 | 30% | 31 : 69 | 50% |
| 49 | McGill University Explore | 30,821 | 11.9 | 29% | 61 : 39 | 22% |
| 50 | Karolinska Institute | 8,085 | 9.9 | 27% | 70 : 30 | 4% |
| 51 | University of Manchester Explore | 40,725 | 15.6 | 45% | 56 : 44 | 26% |
| 52 | University of Texas at Austin | 48,558 | 16.4 | 8% | 55 : 45 | 36% |
| 53 | Chinese University of Hong Kong Explore | 18,290 | 18.8 | 25% | n/a | 25% |
| 54 | Monash University | 58,460 | 43.1 | 38% | 56 : 44 | 21% |
| =55 | Kyoto University | 21,817 | 9.0 | 11% | 25 : 75 | 32% |
| =55 | Zhejiang University Explore | 48,169 | 12.0 | 16% | n/a | 32% |
| 57 | University of Science and Technology of China Explore | 20,252 | 8.1 | 5% | n/a | 43% |
| 58 | Université Paris-Saclay | 31,662 | 13.0 | 24% | 50 : 50 | 35% |
| 59 | University of California, Davis | 37,926 | 13.3 | 18% | 60 : 40 | 22% |
| 60 | The University of Sydney | 57,414 | 23.1 | 51% | 58 : 42 | 18% |
| 61 | University of Amsterdam | 28,649 | 13.2 | 36% | 60 : 40 | 16% |
| 62 | Seoul National University | 28,620 | 16.1 | 13% | n/a | 26% |
| 63 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 41,209 | 9.9 | 13% | n/a | 24% |
| =64 | Brown University | 9,781 | 10.3 | 19% | n/a | 17% |
| =64 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Explore | 9,794 | 19.9 | 30% | n/a | 44% |
| =64 | Wageningen University & Research | 15,899 | 18.1 | 28% | 54 : 46 | 28% |
| 67 | Australian National University | 17,293 | 15.1 | 48% | 52 : 48 | 29% |
| 68 | Washington University in St Louis | 13,825 | 7.3 | 22% | 52 : 48 | 12% |
| 69 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 25,540 | 27.5 | 18% | 54 : 46 | 39% |
| 70 | The University of Queensland Explore | 42,847 | 39.1 | 42% | 55 : 45 | 21% |
| 71 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris | 6,073 | 6.8 | 42% | 25 : 75 | 47% |
| 72 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 30,782 | 7.7 | 8% | 60 : 40 | 12% |
| 73 | Nanjing University | 36,711 | 16.7 | 8% | 54 : 46 | 41% |
| 74 | University of Southern California | 44,083 | 14.2 | 24% | 49 : 51 | 20% |
| 75 | Sorbonne University | 41,527 | 14.5 | 22% | 60 : 40 | 32% |
| 76 | Yonsei University (Seoul campus) Explore | 18,961 | 13.9 | 17% | 49 : 51 | 21% |
| 77 | Leiden University Explore | 35,072 | 19.3 | 21% | 60 : 40 | 24% |
| 78 | Boston University | 26,677 | 10.8 | 29% | 58 : 42 | 16% |
| 79 | University of Groningen Explore | 31,942 | 28.8 | 29% | 53 : 47 | 17% |
| 80 | University of Zurich | 25,608 | 14.7 | 24% | 58 : 42 | 19% |
| 81 | University of Bristol Explore | 27,335 | 14.8 | 31% | 55 : 45 | 27% |
| 82 | City University of Hong Kong Explore | 9,076 | 13.2 | 67% | 54 : 46 | 39% |
| 83 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | 10,130 | 10.7 | 8% | 21 : 79 | 40% |
| 84 | UNSW Sydney Explore | 47,044 | 36.6 | 40% | 47 : 53 | 26% |
| 85 | University of Minnesota | 59,556 | 11.8 | 9% | 55 : 45 | 22% |
| 86 | Purdue University West Lafayette | 42,633 | 18.3 | 17% | 44 : 56 | 37% |
| =87 | University of Glasgow Explore | 32,270 | 14.4 | 43% | 59 : 41 | 23% |
| =87 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University Explore | 20,034 | 30.6 | 30% | 51 : 49 | 38% |
| =87 | Humboldt University of Berlin | 34,761 | 54.5 | 18% | n/a | 23% |
| 90 | RWTH Aachen University | 34,914 | 43.3 | 29% | 34 : 66 | 39% |
| 91 | University of Bonn | 26,290 | 44.5 | 17% | 57 : 43 | 26% |
| =92 | University of California, Irvine | 35,675 | 16.2 | 26% | 53 : 47 | 25% |
| =92 | Vanderbilt University | 12,971 | 3.9 | 17% | 55 : 45 | 16% |
| 94 | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin | 8,868 | 17.5 | 21% | 65 : 35 | 6% |
| =95 |
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
|
32,680 | 9.6 | 37% | 50 : 50 | 39% |
| =95 | University of Tübingen | 21,632 | 27.1 | 14% | 59 : 41 | 21% |
| =97 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 13,269 | 15.9 | 26% | 34 : 66 | 46% |
| =97 | University of Southampton | 19,920 | 13.0 | 35% | 51 : 49 | 32% |
| =99 | Erasmus University Rotterdam Explore | 33,874 | 36.0 | 25% | 54 : 46 | 10% |
| =99 | Ohio State University (Main campus) | 55,538 | 11.4 | 11% | 51 : 49 | 22% |