City University of Hong Kong climbs as the world’s most international university

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Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland and the UK are top destinations for prospective students who wish to study in the most international environments in the world.

Hong Kong is home to the world’s most international university for the sixth year in a row, according to the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024.

The crown, however, changed hands this year as City University of Hong Kong, which ranked fourth last year, surpassed last year’s winner University of Hong Kong to claim the top spot in the 2024 rankings.

Other Hong Kong universities that made it to the top 20 included The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (9^th), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (10^th), and Chinese University of Hong Kong (13^th), meaning the city has the most universities in the top 10, with four features.

Taking up the second spot was Abu Dhabi University in the United Arab Emirates, followed by three universities in the UK and two in Switzerland.

The top 10 most international universities in the world in 2024:

Looking at Asia, two universities in Singapore saw a drop this year, as Nanyang Technological University, Singapore dropped three places to joint 15^th, while the National University of Singapore fell 10 spots to joint 20^th.

The ranking of other universities based in Asia:

79^th  – University of Malaya, Malaysia

132^nd – Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea

139^th – Peking University, China

148^th – Tongji University, China

157^th – Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

158^th – Zhejiang University, China

159^th – The University of Tokyo, Japan

160^th – Waseda University, Japan

163^rd – Nanjing University, China

163^rd – Tohoku University, Japan

165^th – National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan

167^th – Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

172^nd – University of Tsukuba, Japan

174^th – Fudan University, China

175^th – Osaka University, Japan

176^th – Tsinghua University, China

177^th – Seoul National University, South Korea

179^th – Yonsei University (Seoul campus), South Korea

180^th – Kyoto University, Japan

181^st – Tianjin University, China

181^st – Beijing Normal University, China

184^th – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea

186^th – Kyushu University, Japan

187^th – Hokkaido University, Japan

189^th – Nankai University, China

190^th – Nagoya University, Japan

191^st – Southeast University, China

192^nd – Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea

194^th – University of Science and Technology of China, China

195^th – Sichuan University, China

196^th – Wuhan University, China

197^th – Keio University, Japan

198^th – Sun Yat-sen University, China

199^th – Harbin Institute of Technology, China

200^th – Beijing Institute of Technology, China

201^st – Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

202^nd – Indian Institute of Science, India

203^rd – Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Times Higher Education’s ranking of the World’s Most International Universities 2024 was compiled by taking into account a university’s proportions of international students, international staff, journal publications with at least one international co-author, as well as a university’s international reputation.

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