The Indian Institute of Technology has
made it to the league of best universities in the world while Oxbridge
claimed
second and third place in a survey of top 100 universities in
the world published on Wednesday.
Both Cambridge and Oxford were beaten by
the American ‘Ivy League’ rival Harvard while two British universities
leapfrogged over US rivals - Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Yale and Stanford - to claim prized positions.
India’s IIT is ranked 57th; Imperial
College, London, graduated to No. 9 while London School of Economics
and University College London and Edinburgh made it among the top 30 in
the latest Times Higher Education Supplement - QS World University
Rankings.
The University of California at Berkeley is placed eighth and Princeton University is ranked 10th.
As many as 39 European universities appear
in the top 100, with UK’s share alone being a record 29 (last year it
was 23). Among the top 200, Europe’s share has gone up to 86.
The rankings were based on the results of a survey of 3,703 academics from across the world, spanning various disciplines.
‘The latest THES - QS World University
Rankings underline the fierce competition between leading universities
across the world. Although Harvard is still at the top, the gap between
it and its nearest rivals has closed markedly and there are a lot of
changes further down the table," London’s Evening Standard newspaper
quoted John O’Leary, the editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement, as saying.
The highest-ranking Asian university was
Beijing University, coming in at 15th - also the highest rank for a
non-US or British institution.
Australian National University was
Australia’s best at 16th, while France’s Ecole Normale Superieure was
continental Europe’s best at 18th.
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The top 25 universities
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1) Harvard University (US) 25) University College London (UK) |
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Selected universities in the top 100
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33) University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) |
University of California at Berkeley (US)
