Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has maintained its position at the top of the QS World University Rankings, beating Harvard and Cambridge for the second year in a row.
Cambridge has slipped to third place as Harvard come in second. University College London (UCL) and Imperial are placed fourth and fifth respectively.
Despite Cambridge dropping to third place and Oxford falling out the top five, UK universities still register a strong performance in the rankings with UK institutions taking four of the top six places. Claire Shaw and Richard Adams write today:
The QS rankings included a record number of UK institutions in the top 20, with Edinburgh and King's College London entering for the first time at 17th and 19th respectively.
Coventry was among 15 UK institutions named as a leading university in the QS rankings, which represent the top 4% of international higher education institutions and take into account subject range, research output and academic reputation of more than 3,000 universities around the globe.
As usual US universities continue to dominate the the rankings - taking more than half of the top 20 places. The UK has 30 institutions in the list, the same number as last year. QS suggest that universities in continental Europe are experiencing a resurgence as Switzerland boosts its representation in the top 20 and the Netherlands record two more universities than last year in the top 100.
QS rank institutions based on an overall score calculated using ratings for six criteria; academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per faculty, faculty-to-student ratio, international proportion of faculty and international proportion of students. All scores are out of 100.
MIT was not ranked first in any of the six categories, but had four scores in the top 20. Harvard was ranked first for academic reputation followed by Cambridge.
Oxford placed first for employer reputation above Cambridge in second place and Harvard in third. The full data can be found in the downloadable spreadsheet including scores for each of the six categories. The table below shows the top 100 of the QS rankings and includes the 2012 rank also.
Rank
|
University (links to profile on QS)
|
Country
|
2012 rank
|
Year-on-year change
|
Overall Score
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 1 | 0 | 100 |
2 | Harvard University | United States | 3 | 1 | 99.2 |
3 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 2 | -1 | 99 |
4 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom | 4 | 0 | 98.9 |
5 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 6 | 1 | 98.8 |
6 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 5 | -1 | 98.7 |
7 | Stanford University | United States | 15 | 8 | 96.8 |
8 | Yale University | United States | 7 | -1 | 96.5 |
9 | University of Chicago | United States | 8 | -1 | 96.2 |
10= | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States | 10 | 0 | 96.1 |
10= | Princeton University | United States | 9 | -1 | 96.1 |
12 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | Switzerland | 13 | 1 | 94.3 |
13 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 12 | -1 | 93.8 |
14 | Columbia University | United States | 11 | -3 | 93.6 |
15 | Cornell University | United States | 14 | -1 | 92.5 |
16 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 16 | 0 | 92.1 |
17= | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 21 | 4 | 91.3 |
17= | University of Toronto | Canada | 19 | 2 | 91.3 |
19= | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland | 29 | 10 | 90.9 |
19= | King's College London (KCL) | United Kingdom | 26 | 7 | 90.9 |
21 | McGill University | Canada | 18 | -3 | 90.6 |
22 | University of Michigan | United States | 17 | -5 | 90.5 |
23 | Duke University | United States | 20 | -3 | 90.1 |
24 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 25 | 1 | 89.4 |
25 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 22 | -3 | 89 |
26 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 23 | -3 | 88.6 |
27 | Australian National University | Australia | 24 | -3 | 88.5 |
28 | Ecole normale supérieure, Paris | France | 34 | 6 | 87.8 |
29 | Northwestern University | United States | 27 | -2 | 87.3 |
30 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 28 | -2 | 86.6 |
31 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 36 | 5 | 86 |
32 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 30 | -2 | 85.7 |
33 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 32 | -1 | 85.2 |
34 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong | 33 | -1 | 84.4 |
35= | Kyoto University | Japan | 35 | 0 | 84.1 |
35= | Seoul National University | Korea, South | 37 | 2 | 84.1 |
37 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 38 | 1 | 83 |
38 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 39 | 1 | 82.9 |
39 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 40 | 1 | 82.3 |
40 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 31 | -9 | 81.9 |
41= | Ecole Polytechnique | France | 41 | 0 | 81.1 |
41= | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 47 | 6 | 81.1 |
43 | The University of Queensland | Australia | 46 | 3 | 80.9 |
44 | New York University (NYU) | United States | 43 | -1 | 80.8 |
45 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 51 | 6 | 80.5 |
46 | Peking University | China | 44 | -2 | 80 |
47 | Brown University | United States | 42 | -5 | 79.8 |
48 | Tsinghua University | China | 48 | 0 | 79.7 |
49 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 45 | -4 | 79.4 |
50 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | Germany | 55 | 5 | 79.3 |
51 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom | 54 | 3 | 78.9 |
52 | The University of New South Wales | Australia | 52 | 0 | 78.8 |
53 | Technische Universität München | Germany | 53 | 0 | 78.5 |
54 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | United States | 57 | 3 | 77 |
55 | Osaka University | Japan | 50 | -5 | 76.9 |
56 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 56 | 0 | 76.7 |
57 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 49 | -8 | 76.6 |
58 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 62 | 4 | 76.4 |
59 | University of Washington | United States | 59 | 0 | 76.2 |
60 | KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | Korea, South | 63 | 3 | 75.8 |
61 | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland | 67 | 6 | 75.1 |
62 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | 77 | 15 | 74.9 |
63 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States | 70 | 7 | 74.8 |
64 | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 58 | -6 | 74.5 |
65 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany | 60 | -5 | 74.4 |
66 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | 65 | -1 | 74.2 |
67 | Lund University | Sweden | 71 | 4 | 74 |
68 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom | 69 | 1 | 73.9 |
69= | Monash University | Australia | 61 | 8 | 73.7 |
69= | University of Helsinki | Finland | 78 | 9 | 73.7 |
71= | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | 66 | -5 | 73.3 |
71= | University of Geneva | Switzerland | 74 | 3 | 73.3 |
71= | University of Texas at Austin | United States | 68 | -3 | 73.3 |
74 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 75 | 1 | 73.2 |
75= | The University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | 72 | -3 | 73.1 |
75= | Tohoku University | Japan | 75 | 0 | 73.1 |
77 | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium | 82 | 5 | 73 |
78 | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 90 | 12 | 72.9 |
79= | Boston University | United States | 64 | -15 | 72.5 |
79= | Uppsala University | Sweden | 81 | 2 | 72.5 |
81 | Utrecht University | Netherlands | 85 | 4 | 72.3 |
82 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 80 | -2 | 72 |
83 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom | 93 | 10 | 71.6 |
84 | The University of Western Australia | Australia | 79 | -5 | 71.4 |
85 | University of California, Davis | United States | 100 | 15 | 71.3 |
86= | University of Southampton | United Kingdom | 73 | -13 | 71 |
86= | Washington University in St. Louis | United States | 84 | -2 | 71 |
88 | Fudan University | China | 90 | 2 | 70.8 |
89 | University of Oslo | Norway | 111 | 22 | 70.6 |
90 | Durham University | United Kingdom | 92 | 2 | 70.4 |
91 | Aarhus University | Denmark | 89 | -2 | 70.3 |
92= | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands | 99 | 7 | 70.2 |
92= | Université de Montréal | Canada | 114 | 22 | 70.2 |
94 | The University of Auckland | New Zealand | 83 | -11 | 69.8 |
95 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | 103 | 8 | 69.4 |
96 | University of Alberta | Canada | 108 | 12 | 69.3 |
97= | University of Groningen | Netherlands | 109 | 12 | 69.2 |
97= | University of Leeds | United Kingdom | 94 | -3 | 69.2 |
99= | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | 88 | -11 | 68.4 |
99= | Nagoya University | Japan | 86 | -13 | 68.4 |
99= | Purdue University | United States | 95 | -4 | 68.4 |
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