UK universities rise up rankings
BBC News
8th November 2007
BBC NEWS | Education | UK universities rise up rankings
Oxford moves up to joint second
Britain's performance in a league table of the world's top universities has improved, but the US still dominates.
Four of the top 10 are British and the rest American. Harvard is top and Yale, Oxford and Cambridge joint second.
University College London breaks into the top 10 for the first time and Imperial College London rises to fifth.
The annual survey by the Times Higher Education Supplement and careers and education group QS ranks according to factors including academics' opinions.
University College London rose from 25th position last year to ninth.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was joint fourth last year but falls to 10th place, while Stanford falls from sixth position to 19th.
Another US university which tumbles in the rankings is the University of California, Berkeley. It was rated eighth last year but drops to 22nd place this year.
The Top 10 in full is:
1 Harvard University (US)
2 University of Cambridge (UK)
2 University of Oxford (UK)
2 Yale University (US)
5 Imperial College London (UK)
6 Princeton University (US)
7 California Institute of Technology (US)
7 University of Chicago (US)
9 University College London (UK)
10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)