The best universities in the world revealed
LONDON, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts, has released the nineteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings, with 1,418 establishments spread over 100 sites. The results represent 16.4 million academic papers and 117.8 million citations received by those papers; they also reflect the expert opinions of 151,000 university professors and 99,000 employers. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) celebrates eleven years as the best university in the world. The University of Oxford (4e) loses two places while University of Cambridge (2n/a) won a.
Strong points
- UNITED STATES: 103/201 universities ranked down, 29 up. Twenty-five are new entrants.
- UK: 48/90 universities declined, ten improved. Intensely collaborative: 55% of its research involves global collaborations compared to 20% on average worldwide.
- Canada: 20/31 universities drop out. McGill university (31st) is the new national leader.
- Australia retains five of the top 50 universities, but stagnates, with as many universities improving as declining.
- China (Mainland), the third most represented higher education system (71 universities), welcomes for the first time two of the 15 best universities in the world: Peking University (12e) and Tsinghua University (14e).
- India: more improvements than falls; All the first nine institutions go up.
- Asiathe best university is national university of singapore (11e).
- Malaysia, South Korea and Indonesia improved while Japan and Thailand decreases.
- ETH Zürich remained continental Europe best university for fifteen consecutive years.
- FranceThe merged universities move up the rankings, with Université PSL (26e) enters the top 30.
- University of Buenos Aires (67e) is confirmed Latin America better. Hampered by low research impact scores, more universities on the continent are falling than they are rising.
- from the Arab region best university – King Abdulaziz University, 106e – reached a record level.
- Africais the University of Cape Town (237e). Only five universities on the continent
are among the top 500
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QS World University Rankings 2023: Top 20 |
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1 |
1 |
MIT |
WE |
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2 |
3= |
University of Cambridge |
UK |
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3 |
3= |
Stanford University |
WE |
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4 |
2 |
University of Oxford |
UK |
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5 |
5 |
Harvard University |
WE |
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6= |
6 |
Caltech |
WE |
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6= |
seven |
imperial college london |
UK |
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8 |
8= |
UCL |
UK |
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9 |
8= |
ETH Zürich |
Swiss |
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ten |
ten |
University of Chicago |
WE |
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11 |
11 |
national university of singapore |
Singapore |
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12 |
18 |
Peking University |
China |
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13 |
13 |
University of Pennsylvania |
WE |
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14 |
17 |
Tsinghua University |
China |
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15 |
16 |
Edinburgh University |
UK |
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16= |
14= |
EPFL |
Swiss |
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16= |
20 |
princeton university |
WE |
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18 |
14= |
Yale University |
WE |
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19 |
12 |
Nanyang Technological University |
Singapore |
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20 |
21 |
Cornell University |
WE |
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