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Cambridge loses No.1 spot to MIT
Tuesday September 11, 2012 08:31:59 PM,
IANS
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London: Cambridge has
slipped from the number one spot in the prestigious world ranking
of universities after being overtaken by America's Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT).
MIT is now ranked as the world's best university, pushing
Britain's historic academic centre into second place. MIT was
third on the list last year, the Daily Mail reported.
Oxford maintained its position at number five in the table
compiled by QS World University Rankings.
University College London climbed from number seven last year to
number four in the new rankings, placing it above Oxford
University, according to the Mail Tuesday.
Imperial College London is ranked sixth, meaning that for the
first time four of the top six universities in the world are
British.
Britain has 18 universities in the top 100 - one fewer than in
2011.
Harvard University, which held the top spot for six years between
2004 and 2009, is ranked third in the list.
The QS rankings are compiled using six indicators: academic
reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, citations
per faculty, international faculty ration and international
student ratio.
The results are based on surveys of over 46,000 academics and
28,000 employers.
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