New QS European university rankings places our University in top 10

21 Sep 2023

We are eighth in Europe and sixth in United Kingdom for our performance across a range of research and teaching and learning indicators

Our University has been named as one of the top universities in Europe, according to the first ever edition of the QS World University Rankings: Europe 2024.

Global higher education analyst QS Quacquarelli Symonds has today released its first Europe-wide ranking, the only significant regional ranking of European universities. The results see The University of Manchester placed eighth in Europe and sixth in United Kingdom.

The inaugural ranking measures a total of 690 institutions across 42 locations in Europe, with 107 HE organisations coming from the UK.

QS Senior Vice President Ben Sowter said: “The inaugural edition of the QS Europe Ranking is a landmark step and a long time in the making. It offers a unique opportunity for universities in one of the world’s most competitive higher education landscapes to benchmark themselves against their international peers and for its policymakers to assess individual institutional performance across the broadest range of datasets in any of our rankings.

“The UK, somewhat predictably shines across indicators, underpinned in part by the global renown of the historic Oxbridge universities and its high-impact, globally collaborative research. However, signposts for success are illuminated in all locations by the respective challenges identified by the datasets, whether incentivising international faculty and students, developing cross-border research partnerships or expanding teaching capacity.”

QS has previously ranked the University 42 in the world for graduate employability. In the UK, we're the most targeted university by the nation's top graduate employers (The Graduate Market, 2023).

Earlier this year the University was also named top in both the UK and Europe, and second in the world for meaningful contributions towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) in the 2023 THE University Impact Rankings. The University is the only institution in the world to rank in the top 10 in every year the THE Impact Rankings have existed.