QS World University Rankings 2021

LONDON, June 9, 2020 /CNW/ --  QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts, released the seventeenth edition of the QS World University Rankings - the world's most-consulted, most-covered source of comparative information about university performance.[1] 26 Asian universities place among the global top-100 – the highest number ever.

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology is named the world's best university for a record-breaking ninth consecutive year;
• The top three institutions remain American: MIT is followed by Stanford University (2nd) and Harvard University (3rd);
• Britain's top institution is the University of Oxford, which falls to fifth. Its compatriot competitor, the University of Cambridge, remains 7^th;
• 112 of America's 153 ranked universities fall, with only 34 recording improvements. This is primarily due to collective relative decline in QS's measures of academic standing and research impact;
• Continental Europe's best university is ETH Zurich (6^th no-change);
• Asia's top university is the National University of Singapore (11^th);
• China's Tsinghua University reaches a new all-time high (15^th);
• Latin America's leader is the Universidad de Buenos Aires (66^th, up 8 places). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (100^th) becomes the first Mexican university ever to achieve a top-100 place;
• Universities in Russia and Malaysia continue to rise: Lomonosov Moscow State University (74^th) and Universiti Malaya (59^th) reach record highs.

Ben Sowter, QS Director of Research, said: "The American higher education hegemony continues to diminish in the face of increasing competitiveness across the world: a competitiveness driven by strategic funding, internationalization efforts, and strong links between education and industry."

QS World University Rankings 2021: Global Top 20
2021	2020
1	1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
2	2	Stanford University	USA
3	3	Harvard University	USA
4	5	California Institute of Technology	USA
5	4	University of Oxford	UK
6	6	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
7	7	University of Cambridge	UK
8	9	Imperial College London	UK
9	10	University of Chicago	USA
10	8	University College London	UK
11	11=	National University of Singapore	Singapore
12	13	Princeton University	USA
13	11=	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore
14	18=	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland
15	16	Tsinghua University	China (Mainland)
16	15	University of Pennsylvania	USA
17	17	Yale University	USA
18	14	Cornell University	USA
19	18=	Columbia University	USA
20	20	University of Edinburgh	UK
© QS Quacquarelli Symonds  www.TopUniversities.com

Methodological details can be found here.  To view the full rankings: www.TopUniversities.com

[1] 'Most-consulted according to data from  independent monitoring platforms, including Google Analytics, SimilarWeb, Meltwater, and Alexa.

SOURCE QS Quacquarelli Symonds

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