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.
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 |
