UK dominates list of top 10 European universities, but US takes top five global positions
The University of Oxford has been named as Europe’s best by a new global ranking, ahead of Cambridge in second, Imperial College in third and University College London in fourth.
The rankings have been compiled by US News & World and Oxford came sixth in the list behind – you guessed it – five American institutions: Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California Berkeley, and the California Institute of Technology.
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"US universities do especially well in the Best Global Universities rankings because they place an enormous emphasis on academic research – a key factor in our methodology since these are indicators that can be compared globally," said Robert Morse, chief data strategist at US News.
Overall, in the top 1,000 list, the US contributed 210 universities, ahead of 87 from China, 68 from the UK, 55 from Germany and 49 from France.
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