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)

Another Survey recently released by 'The Scientist Magazine' :

2007 Results Announced: Best Places to Work in Academia.

2007 Results Announced: Best Places to Work in Academia

http://www.the-scientist.com/bptw/


The Top 10 International Institutions:

1. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

2. University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

3. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

4. University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

5. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

6. Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

7. University College London, London, UK

8. ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

9. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

10. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

The Top 15 Institutions in the U.S - Best Places to Work in Academia.:



1. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA



2. National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, MD



3. Clemson University, Clemson, SC



4. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN



5. Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, NY



6. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN



7. The J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA



8. University of Nebraska - Lincoln, NE



9. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX



10. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA



11. University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX



12. Duke University, Durham, NC



13. Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY



14. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA



15. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN