The latest QS world league table is out
Full details of the rankings can be found at the QS website. A summary of the world top 10 follows where we find MIT retaining the top spot for a third consecutive year but really not a lot to grab the headlines here:
Global top ten
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Last year: 1)
2= University of Cambridge (3)
2= Imperial College London (5)
4 Harvard University (2)
5= University of Oxford (6)
5 = University College London (4)
7 Stanford University (7)
8 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (10=)
9 Princeton University (10=)
10 Yale University (8)
Not a huge change then with Chicago the only mover out of the top 10. However, four out of the top six universities are from the UK which must be something of a surprise.
Top UK universities
Again, little movement for the UK universities within the top 100 although there is one new entry with QMUL becoming the 19th UK university to make it into the top 100.
2= University of Cambridge (3)
2= Imperial College London (5)
5= University of Oxford (6)
5= UCL (4)
16 King’s College London (19=)
17= University of Edinburgh (17=)
29 University of Bristol (30)
30 The University of Manchester (33)
55 University of Glasgow (51)
61 The University of Warwick (64)
64 University of Birmingham (62)
69 The University of Sheffield (71=)
71 LSE (68)
77 The University of Nottingham (75=)
88 University of St Andrews (83)
92 Durham University (90)
94 University of Southampton (86=)
97 University of Leeds (97=)
98 Queen Mary University of London (115)
So, interesting but perhaps helpfully unexciting in terms of radical change.
