Both QS World University Rankings 2024 TUM ranks 37th and LMU 54th. This means that both universities were able to last year's rankings (TUM: 49th place, LMU: 59th place) With their rankings, the Munich universities are among the four German universities that have made it into the top 100 universities worldwide. In the evaluations by subject group, TUM ranks 28th in both engineering and natural sciences.
According to the ranking, the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg is ranked 87th worldwide, while the Free University of Berlin just barely makes it into the top 100 at 98th place. The international ranking is led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as well as the universities of Cambridge and Oxford.
New criteria for QS World University Rankings 2024
The QS World University Rankings have been conducted annually since 2004 and are among the three most important international university rankings. This year, fundamental methodological changes were made. For the first time, various sustainability criteria at universities, international research networks, and graduate employment rates were considered as indicators. With the new methodology, reputation surveys and student-student ratios have somewhat less influence on the overall ranking than in previous years. The latest edition of the QS World University Rankings lists 1,499 universities, of which 2,963 applied for inclusion.
