QS World University Rankings 2018

MIT named world’s best university for record sixth year

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QS Quacquarelli Symonds, higher education experts, have released the fourteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the world’s leading university for a record sixth consecutive year. 959 universities are ranked.

• Caltech joins Stanford and Harvard for clean sweep of top 4 places
• 51 of the United Kingdom’s 76 universities fall, reflecting prolonged funding cuts, the increasing use of adjunct faculty, improvements from other nations, and concerns about the potential impact of Brexit;
• Universities with a strong technological focus succeed. Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University rises to 11^th, Korea’s KAIST reaches a record high (41^st), while Delft University of Technology becomes the Netherlands’ leading university for the first time since 2005;
• Australian institutions consistently improve. Australian National University (20^th) returns to the top 20;
• Six Chinese universities now feature in the Top 100, two more than last year;
• India boasts three universities among the Top 200, one more than last year;
• Lomonosov Moscow State University (95^th) rises into the top 100;
• Latin American institutions struggle to improve, but the Universidad de Buenos Aires reaches its highest-ever position (75^th).

Ben Sowter, Research Director, QS, said: “MIT is the nucleus of an unrivalled innovation ecosystem. Companies created by its alumni enjoyed combined revenues of $2 trillion*, making them the equivalent of the world’s 11^th largest economy. However, their continued dominance at the top should not obscure a changing landscape elsewhere, with other US and UK institutions making way for the best of Russia, China and India – among others.”

View the 2018 QS World University Rankings at: www.TopUniversities.com.

*Source: http://web.mit.edu/innovate/entrepreneurship2015.pdf