QS releases its first ‘Europe 2024’ ranking; 7 of top 10 top universities based in UK

In the 'QS World University Rankings 2024: Top global universities', University of Cambridge had ranked second with an overall score of 99.2, followed by University of Oxford at third rank with an overall score of 98.9.

QS Rankings: In the top 5 spots, ETH Zurich is the only non-UK university to secure a spot. (Representative image. File)

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Seven of the top 10 universities in Europe are based in the United Kingdom, as per the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking. QS has for the first time released rankings focused exclusively on European universities. A total of 688 universities are included in the list with the University of Oxford grabbing the first place, closely followed by ETH Zurich.

The third spot has been awarded to the University of Cambridge (with an overall score of 98.7), followed by Imperial College London (with an overall score of 97.6) and UCL at fifth spot (with an overall score of 97.5).

Rank	University	Overall score
1	University of Oxford	100
2	ETH Zurich	99.4
3	University of Cambridge	98.7
4	Imperial College London	97.6
5	UCL	97.5
6	The University of Edinburgh	96.5
7	Université PSL	96.2
8	The University of Manchester	94.6
9	EPFL	93.2
10	King’s College London	93.1
11	Technical University of Munich	92.2
12	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	90.2
13	Delft University of Technology	90.1
14	University of Glasgow	88.6
15	University of Leeds	88.3

In the top 5 spots, ETH Zurich is the only non-UK university to secure a spot. ETH Zurich has bagged the second spot with 99.4 overall score.

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The University of Edinburgh has secured the sixth position with an overall score of 96.5, followed by Université PSL at seventh, the University of Manchester at eighth, EPFL (Switzerland) at ninth and King’s College London at tenth spot.

In the ‘QS World University Rankings 2024: Top global universities’, University of Cambridge had ranked second with an overall score of 99.2, followed by University of Oxford at third rank with an overall score of 98.9. In the top 10 list, five are from Europe.

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