📊 Latin America's Best Universities

From Mexico City to São Paulo, Latin America has got some great colleges.

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Education 🏫

It’s been often said that education is a key which unlocks many doors. Whether you want to be a doctor, a lawyer, or whatever a “management consultant” is, chances are that a university education is the first step.

But too often the conversation gets reduced to the Ivy Leagues, or about which half of Oxbridge is better. As with so many other domains, Latin America’s top-tier colleges fly under the radar when they absolutely shouldn’t.

Let’s change that.

Today we’re looking at the QS World University Rankings for 2024, quite possibly the definite choice for evaluating universities. And what do you know, Latin America is well represented, with 191 of its universities making up just under a fifth of the top 1000 universities worldwide.

How Many LatAm Universities Are in the Top 1,000?

Unsurprisingly, Brazil and Mexico dominate here, with Latin America’s two largest countries each having over 30 universities in the upper echelon of academia. However, following them it’s a three-way tie for third place, as Argentina, Chile, and Colombia each have 25 universities among the world’s best.

From there, most of Latin America’s countries make an appearance, though Ecuador is interestingly better represented than its much larger Andean peers of Peru and Venezuela.

If so many universities in Latin America are worthy of praise, how do we know where to send our kids to become teachers, engineers, or “project managers” then? Let’s dig deeper.

Latin America’s Top Universities in 2024