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September 6, 2016

"Investment in Universities Pays" indicate the just announced QS World University Rankings 2016/2017

Photo: The University of Chicago Campus, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Image Credit & Copyright © Corey Seeman.

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• The thirteenth edition of the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World University Rankings, announced today, indicates that investment in higher education - either public or private - is a key differentiating factor between this year’s risers (South Korea, Russia, the US, and China) and fallers (Most of Western and Southern Europe, South Africa, and Latin America).

• MIT is the world’s top university for the fifth consecutive year.
• Stanford, 2nd and Harvard, 3rd, follow.
• US institutions hold all top-three places for the first time since 2004/5.
• Western European institutions consistently suffer drops, particularly the UK and Germany. The University of Cambridge drops to fourth.
• Russia and South Korea rise significantly (16 top-500 universities compared to 13 last year).
• China progresses; Tsinghua (24th) achieves its highest-ever position.
• National University of Singapore (12th) leads Asian universities.
• Australia and Canada increase their representation in the top 200, with nine universities apiece, one more than last year.
• Latin America struggles, but sees a top-100 institution for the first time since 2006. Universidad de Buenos Aires (85th) occupies the second-highest rank ever achieved by a Latin American university.
• Universidade de Sao Paulo also occupies its highest-ever position (120th).

TOP 20 UNIVERSITIES 2016/2017

1. MIT (US)
2. STANFORD (US)
3. HARVARD (US)
4. CAMBRIDGE (UK)
5. CALTECH (US)
6. OXFORD (UK)
7. UCL (UK)
8. ETH ZURICH (SWITZERLAND)
9. IMPERIAL COLLEGE (UK)
10. CHICAGO (US)
11. PRINCETON (US)
12. NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE (SINGAPORE)
13. NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (SINGAPORE)
14. EPFL (SWITZERLAND)
15. YALE (US)
16. CORNELL (US)
17. JOHNS HOPKINS (US)
18. UPENN (US)
19. EDINBURGH (UK)
20. COLUMBIA (US)

QS World University Rankings 2016/17 — INDIA

QS RANK — INSTITUTION

• 152 — Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore
• 185 — Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
• 219 — Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
• 249 — Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
• 302 — Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)
• 313 — Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP)
• 399 — Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR)
• 481-490 — Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG)
• 501-550 — University of Delhi
• 651-700 — University of Calcutta
• 701+ — Banaras Hindu University
• 701+ — Panjab University Chandigarh
• 701+ — University of Mumbai
• 701+ — University of Pune

74,651 academics and 37,781 employers contributed to the rankings through the QS global surveys, the largest of their kind. QS analyzed 10.3 million research papers and 66.3 million citations, indexed by Elsevier’s Scopus database.

• Ben Sowter, Head of Research, QS, said: “Institutions in countries providing high levels of targeted funding, whether from endowments or the public purse, rise. Conversely, Western European nations making or proposing cuts to public research spending lose ground to their US and Asian counterparts.”

The rankings include 916 universities from 81 countries. Thirty-three countries feature in the Top 200. The US dominates, with 48 institutions, ahead of the UK (30), Netherlands (12), Germany (11), Canada, Australia (9), Japan (8), China (7), France, Sweden and Hong Kong (5).

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