News: Times Higher - World top 200 Universities list
- Posted:
- 10 October 2008
Britain has 17 universities in the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings top 100, down from 19 last year.
Harvard tops the list for the fifth consecutive year. Second place goes to Yale, which was joint second with Cambridge and Oxford last year. The two British institutions came third and fourth respectively this year.
In total the UK has 29 universities in the top 200, one fewer than last year. Of these, 22 had slipped down the rankings. The highest ranking UK university is Cambridge at Number 3, and the lowest ranking is the University of Reading, at 194 just six from bottom place, which goes to the University of Athens.
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We are pleased to see:
- University of Edinburgh (23)
- University of Manchester (29)
- University of Bristol (32)
- University of Glasgow (73)
- Univerisity of Birmingham (75)
- University of Nottingham (86)
- Univeristy of Southampton (99)
- University of Leeds (104)
- Cardiff University (133)
- Queen Mary, University of London (160)
- Newcastle University (162)
- Lancaster University (170)
- University of Leicester (177)
Source: The Times