Helsinki University fails to secure place in world´s top 100 universities

The University of Helsinki failed to secure place in the list of the best 100 universities in the world, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024, published on Wednesday.

The university ranked 121 to become the top among the Finnish universities.

The Aalto University, which was included in the list of 201-250 best universities in the 2024 global ranking, secured second position among the universities in Finland, followed by Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology- LUT and University of Oulu ranked in the bracket of 251 to 300, Tampere University and University of Turku in the bracket of 301 to 350 and University of Jyväskylä and University of Vaasa in the bracket of 401 to 500.

University of Oxford ranked top on the global list, followed by Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, University of Cambridge, University of Princeton, California Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, University of California, Berkeley and Yale University.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 included 1,904 universities across 108 countries and regions.

The University of Helsinki also failed to secure place in the list of the best 100 universities, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), known as Shanghai Ranking published in August 2023.