QS has published university rankings annually since 2004 and the ranking is done in collaboration with Elsevier. On 27 June, QS published its latest list (Ranking 2024) in which 2,963 institutions were evaluated and 1,503 universities were ranked.

Lund University has been in the top 100 for several years and this year comes in at 85th place. Lund University has improved ten places compared to the previous year, from 95th to 85th. This is the best result since the 2018 ranking.

Three new indicators this year

This year, QS has made its biggest methodological change ever by introducing three new indicators: Sustainability, Employment Outcomes and International Research Network, as well as recalibrating the weighting of some existing indicators, namely Academic Reputation, Employer Reputation and Faculty Student Ratio.

Lund University scores well in these three new areas. The very best is Sustainability with a 14th place. Lund also scores well in the areas of Academic reputation and International faculty. The results in Academic reputation are based on surveys of academics around the world on which universities they consider to be the best in their field.

Lund University's position in the QS World University Ranking for the last five years:

2020: 92
2021: 97
2022: 87
2023: 95
2024: 85

Full ranking - on the website of QS Topuniversities

About QS World University Ranking - on the website of QS Topuniversities