UK universities continue to slip down international league table
4 March 2013
The number of UK universities in the world's top 100 based has fallen for a second successive year, according to new reputation-based rankings released today by Times Higher Education.
UCU said that while the UK continued to punch above its weight on the global stage, the government had to recognise the advances being made in other countries, particularly those investing more in their higher education sectors.
The union added that a spate of negative headlinesabout the UK threatening to deport students, coupled with changes to how students are classified for migration figures, will not have enhanced the UK's reputation on the international stage.
There are now just nine UK universities in the world's top 100, compared to 10 last year and 12 in 2011. The University of Leeds dropped out this year, joining the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Sheffield who fell last year.
US and UK institutions dominate the top positions with Harvard once again crowned the world's best university based on reputation alone. The University of Cambridge held on to third spot overall and remains the UK's number one institution holding off the University of Oxford, which climbed from sixth to fourth.
UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'The UK continues to punch above its weight on the global stage, but while other countries are investing in their universities and moving up global league tables, we face funding crises and damage to our proud reputation for excellence.
'Our higher education sector is a success story and ministers should be doing all they can to help, not hinder, its progress. We won't win the global race unless we invest properly in our universities, as other countries are doing - particularly in the East.
'It is unlikely that recent negative headlines around the world about the UK threatening to deport students, coupled with changes to how students are classified for migration figures, will have done much to enhance our reputation on the international stage.'
Tables
The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2013
(Copyright Times Higher Education 2013: www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/)
2013 Rank | 2012 Rank | Institution | Country |
1 | 1 | Harvard University | US |
2 | 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | US |
3 | 3 | University of Cambridge | UK |
4 | 6 | University of Oxford | UK |
5 | 5 | University of California, Berkeley | US |
6 | 4 | Stanford University | US |
7 | 7 | Princeton University | US |
8 | 9 | University of California, Los Angeles | US |
9 | 8 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
10 | 10 | Yale University | US |
11 | 11 | California Institute of Technology | US |
12 | 12 | University of Michigan | US |
13 | 15 | Columbia University | US |
=14 | 14 | University of Chicago | US |
=14 | 13 | Imperial College London | UK |
16 | =16 | University of Toronto | Canada |
17 | =16 | Cornell University | US |
18 | 19 | University of Pennsylvania | US |
19 | 18 | Johns Hopkins University | US |
=20 | 21 | University College London | UK |
=20 | 22 | ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich | Switzerland |
22 | =23 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
23 | 20 | Kyoto University | Japan |
24 | =23 | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | US |
25 | 29 | London School of Economics and Political Science | UK |
26 | 37 | Carnegie Mellon University | US |
=27 | 32 | University of Texas at Austin | US |
=27 | 28 | University of Washington | US |
29 | 34 | New York University | US |
30 | 27 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | US |
=31 | =25 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
=31 | 33 | Duke University | US |
=31 | =25 | McGill University | Canada |
34 | 36 | University of California, San Diego | US |
35 | 30 | Tsinghua University | China |
36 | =39 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
37 | 35 | Northwestern University | US |
38 | 41 | Georgia Institute of Technology | US |
39 | 43 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
40 | 31 | University of California, San Francisco | US |
41 | 51-60 | Seoul National University | Republic of Korea |
=42 | =44 | Australian National University | Australia |
=42 | =39 | University of Massachusetts | US |
44 | 42 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany |
45 | 38 | Peking University | China |
46 | 49 | University of Edinburgh | UK |
47 | 51-60 | University of Manchester | UK |
48 | =44 | University of California, Davis | US |
49 | 50 | University of Sydney | Australia |
=50 | - | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russian Federation |
=50 | =47 | Purdue University | US |
51-60 | 51-60 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
51-60 | 61-70 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
51-60 | 91-100 | Middle East Technical University | Turkey |
51-60 | =47 | University of Minnesota | US |
51-60 | 46 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | US |
51-60 | 51-60 | Ohio State University | US |
51-60 | 51-60 | Osaka University | Japan |
51-60 | 51-60 | Pennsylvania State University | US |
51-60 | 51-60 | University of California, Santa Barbara | US |
51-60 | 61-70 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan |
61-70 | 61-70 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
61-70 | 51-60 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
61-70 | 61-70 | King's College London | UK |
61-70 | 81-90 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | Republic of Korea |
61-70 | 81-90 | Leiden University | Netherlands |
61-70 | 61-70 | University of São Paulo | Brazil |
61-70 | 61-70 | University of Southern California | US |
61-70 | 61-70 | Technische Universität München | Germany |
61-70 | 51-60 | Tohoku University | Japan |
61-70 | 51-60 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan |
71-80 | 61-70 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel |
71-80 | 61-70 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany |
71-80 | 81-90 | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium |
71-80 | 71-80 | Michigan State University | US |
71-80 | 81-90 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
71-80 | 71-80 | Université Paris-Sorbonne | France |
71-80 | 61-70 | University of Pittsburgh | US |
71-80 | 71-80 | University of Queensland | Australia |
71-80 | 71-80 | Universität Heidelberg | Germany |
81-90 | 71-80 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
81-90 | 91-100 | Boston University | US |
81-90 | 81-90 | Brown University | US |
81-90 | 81-90 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
81-90 | 91-100 | École Polytechnique | France |
81-90 | 81-90 | University of Florida | US |
81-90 | - | University of New South Wales | Australia |
81-90 | 91-100 | Université Pierre et Marie Curie | France |
81-90 | 91-100 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | US |
81-90 | 71-80 | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
81-90 | 71-80 | Washington University in St Louis | US |
91-100 | 91-100 | University of Bristol | UK |
91-100 | - | Freie Universität Berlin | Germany |
91-100 | 81-90 | Lund University | Sweden |
91-100 | - | University of Maryland, College Park | US |
91-100 | - | Monash University | Australia |
91-100 | 91-100 | Université Paris-Sud | France |
91-100 | 71-80 | Texas A&M University | US |
91-100 | 71-80 | Uppsala University | Sweden |
91-100 | 91-100 | Wageningen University and Research Center | Netherlands |
State of the nations: representatives of each country in the top 100
(Copyright Times Higher Education 2013: www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/)
Country | Number of top 100 institutions | Top institution | Top institution rank |
US | 43 | Harvard University | 1 |
UK | 9 | University of Cambridge | 3 |
Australia | 6 | University of Melbourne | 39 |
Germany | 5 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 44 |
Japan | 5 | University of Tokyo | 9 |
Netherlands | 5 | Delft University of Technology | 51-60 |
France | 4 | Université Paris-Sorbonne | 71-80 |
Canada | 3 | University of Toronto | 16 |
Hong Kong | 3 | University of Hong Kong | 36 |
Sweden | 3 | Karolinska Institute | 61-70 |
Switzerland | 2 | ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich | =20 |
Republic of Korea | 2 | Seoul National University | 41 |
Singapore | 2 | National University of Singapore | 22 |
China | 2 | Tsinghua University | 35 |
Israel | 1 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 71-80 |
Russian Federation | 1 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | =50 |
Turkey | 1 | Middle East Technical University | 51-60 |
Taiwan | 1 | National Taiwan University | 51-60 |
Belgium | 1 | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | 71-80 |
Brazil | 1 | University of São Paulo | 61-70 |
Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings contacts:
Matt de Leon or Fran Langdon t: 020 7079 9222; e: timeshighereducation@vancomms.com
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