For the academic year of 2024/2025, the University of Oxford was ranked as the best university in the world, with an overall score of 98.5 according the Times Higher Education. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University followed behind. A high number of the leading universities in the world are located in the United States, with the ETH Zürich in Switzerland the highest ranked neither in the United Kingdom nor the U.S.

India has the most universities worldwide. According to data from July 2023, there were an estimated ***** universities in India. Indonesia had the second most universities, counting *****, followed by the United States with ***** universities.

This dataset shows the Principal statistics of college & university education, 2002 - 2014 Source: Department of Statistics, Malaysia

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 include 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date. The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

1. The number of full-time faculty in various departments of colleges and universities.2. The data is the same as that on the "Teaching 1-1. Number of Full-time Faculty - Statistics by Department (Institute)" and "Teaching 1-2. Number of Full-time Faculty - Statistics by School" of the college and university affairs information open platform.

In the academic year of 2023/24, around 21 million students were enrolled for undergraduate degrees in the United States. This was a slight increase from the previous year, when 20.6 million students were enrolled as undergraduates.

1. Consolidate the public financial statements announcement URLs of various public colleges and universities.2. The data source is the same as the "Finance 1-4. National School Financial Statements Announcement URL" on the public information platform of colleges and universities.

New York University had around 27,247 international students studying there in the academic year 2023/24, making it the most popular university for international students in the United States. NYU was followed by Northeastern University with 21,023 international students and Columbia University, which hosted 20,321 international students.

Vietnam University & College: Student data was reported at 2,118.500 Person th in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2,363.900 Person th for 2014. Vietnam University & College: Student data is updated yearly, averaging 1,131.022 Person th from Sep 1991 (Median) to 2015, with 25 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,363.900 Person th in 2014 and a record low of 106.900 Person th in 1991. Vietnam University & College: Student data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by General Statistics Office. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Vietnam – Table VN.G050: Education Statistics.

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In 2022, Canada had the highest share of adults with a university degree, at over 60 percent of those between the ages of 25 and 64. India had the smallest share of people with a university degree, at 13 percent of the adult population. University around the world Deciding which university to attend can be a difficult decision for some and in today’s world, people are not left wanting for choice. There are thousands of universities around the world, with the highest number found in India and Indonesia. When picking which school to attend, some look to university rankings, where Harvard University in the United States consistently comes in on top. Moving on up One of the major perks of attending university is that it enables people to move up in the world. Getting a good education is generally seen as a giant step along the path to success and opens up doors for future employment. Future earnings potential can be determined by which university one attends, whether by the prestige of the university or the connections that have been made there. For instance, graduates from the Stanford Graduate School of Business can expect to earn around 250,000 U.S. dollars annually.

Access to the detailed results of this statistic from the academic year 1998/99 to the academic year 2010/11. Subsequently the statistics have been developed by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport The access url is directed to the operation menu from where they can be viewed as html and download the different tables that make up the publication. The download can be done in pc-axis, excel and CSV format

The annual census-nature operations University Statistics (EU) and School Activity Statistics (EAE), give information on the education system and its evolution, both in Higher Studies (third grade) and in Preliminary Studies (Primary and Secondary) respectively, supplying the official bodies and society as a whole with the main figures of the education system. They cover all the centres that teach regulated education included in the Register of Education Centres of the Basque Government, whether of the Public or Private Sectors.

Statistics on student enrolment in UGC-funded programmes

Vietnam University & College: Graduate data was reported at 353.600 Person th in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 441.800 Person th for 2014. Vietnam University & College: Graduate data is updated yearly, averaging 165.652 Person th from Sep 1991 (Median) to 2015, with 25 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 441.800 Person th in 2014 and a record low of 20.500 Person th in 1991. Vietnam University & College: Graduate data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by General Statistics Office. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Vietnam – Table VN.G050: Education Statistics.

Statistics of international students in Taiwanese universities and colleges

Sri Lanka Number of University Students data was reported at 88,855.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 84,451.000 Person for 2016. Sri Lanka Number of University Students data is updated yearly, averaging 48,666.000 Person from Dec 1987 (Median) to 2017, with 31 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 88,855.000 Person in 2017 and a record low of 18,913.000 Person in 1987. Sri Lanka Number of University Students data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Bank of Sri Lanka. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Sri Lanka – Table LK.G034: University Education Statistics.

This dataset includes the data on educational, scientific and research, international, financial and economic performance and public recognition of 93 Russian leading universities in the period 2015-2018. Leading universities refers to federal, national research and flagship universities, together with universities-participants of the Russian Academic Excellence Project (Project 5-100). These data were gathered from materials, published in the monitoring of higher education institutions performance, held by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Web of Science (citation-based research analytics tool InCites) and Scopus (citation-based research analytics tool SciVal) databases, materials from international ranking agencies QS, THE, ARWU and presented in Excel format. Researchers can use this dataset for socio-economic studies in comparative analysis of higher education system development level in different countries.

There were 1,126,690 international students studying in the United States in the 2023/24 academic year. This is an increase from the previous year, when 1,057,188 international students were studying in the United States.