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UK universities outside London dropping down global league table

5 March 2014

The number of UK universities in the world's top 100 based on reputation has fallen from 12 to 10 in the three years since rankings began in 2011.

Only London-based universities saw their reputations improve this year, according to the latest tables released today by Times Higher Education.

Although 10 UK universities in the top 100 is an improvement on last year's nine, the University of Bristol has dropped out of the top 100, following the University of Leeds, who went last year, and the University of Sheffield in 2012. The University of Manchester this year dropped out of the top 50.

UCU said the tables showed that UK universities continued to punch above their weight. However, the union said that unless we properly invest in our universities, we risked undermining our standing on the global stage.

UCU said that, while the tables were at best only a partial guide to the strength of academic capacity, it looked like a good year for London universities. All six London institutions saw their position improve. The other four UK representatives saw their standing fall, apart from Scotland's sole representative, the University of Edinburgh, (a non-mover at number 46).

Eight of the UK's 10 representatives are now based in the south-east with six in London. Cambridge and Oxford remain in the top 10, despite both dropping one place, to fourth and fifth respectively.

US and UK institutions dominate the top positions with Harvard once again crowned the world's best university based on reputation alone. Only Japan, Switzerland and Canada can boast institutions in the top 20, apart from the US and UK.

UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'The UK continues to punch above its weight on the global stage, but as other countries invest in their universities and move up global league tables, we risk being overtaken.

'While these tables are at best only a partial guide to the strength of academic capacity, our higher education sector is a success story and ministers should be doing all they can to help it progress. Other countries recognise the value of their universities and if we do not match their investment we will struggle to maintain our position.'

Tables

The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2014: Full Tables

Copyright Times Higher Education.

THE WRR 2014

THE WRR 2013

Institution name

Country / Region

1

1

Harvard University

US

2

2

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

US

3

6

Stanford University

US

4

3

University of Cambridge

UK

5

4

University of Oxford

UK

6

5

University of California, Berkeley

US

7

7

Princeton University

US

8

10

Yale University

US

9

11

California Institute of Technology

US

10

8

University of California, Los Angeles

US

11

9

University of Tokyo

Japan

12

13

Columbia University

US

13

=14

Imperial College London

UK

14

=14

University of Chicago

US

15

12

University of Michigan

US

16

=20

ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich

Switzerland

17

17

Cornell University

US

18

19

Johns Hopkins University

US

19

23

Kyoto University

Japan

20

16

University of Toronto

Canada

21

22

National University of Singapore

Singapore

22

18

University of Pennsylvania

US

23

24

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

US

24

25

London School of Economics and Political Science

UK

25

20

University College London

UK

26

41

Seoul National University

South Korea

27

29

New York University

US

28

30

University of Wisconsin-Madison

US

29

26

Carnegie Mellon University

US

30

=31

Duke University

US

31

=27

University of Washington

US

32

40

University of California, San Francisco

US

33

=31

University of British Columbia

Canada

33

=31

McGill University

Canada

33

=27

University of Texas at Austin

US

36

35

Tsinghua University

China

37

37

Northwestern University

US

38

38

Georgia Institute of Technology

US

39

51-60

Pennsylvania State University

US

40

34

University of California, San Diego

US

41

45

Peking University

China

42

51-60

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

43

36

University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

43

61-70

King's College London

UK

43

39

University of Melbourne

Australia

46

46

University of Edinburgh

UK

46

44

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Germany

48

=50

Purdue University

US

49

51-60

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Switzerland

50

51-60

Osaka University

Japan

51-60

48

University of California, Davis

US

51-60

61-70

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Hong Kong

51-60

61-70

Karolinska Institute

Sweden

51-60

61-70

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

South Korea

51-60

47

University of Manchester

UK

51-60

51-60

University of Minnesota

US

51-60

50

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Russian Federation

51-60

51-60

Ohio State University

US

51-60

51-60

National Taiwan University

Taiwan

51-60

61-70

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Japan

61-70

42

Australian National University

Australia

61-70

51-60

University of California, Santa Barbara

US

61-70

42

University of Massachusetts

US

61-70

71-80

Michigan State University

US

61-70

51-60

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

US

61-70

71-80

Universität Heidelberg

Germany

61-70

61-70

University of Southern California

US

61-70

49

University of Sydney

Australia

61-70

61-70

Technische Universität München

Germany

61-70

61-70

Tohoku University

Japan

71-80

81-90

University of Amsterdam

Netherlands

71-80

81-90

Boston University

US

71-80

71-80

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Germany

71-80

-

Indiana University

US

71-80

71-80

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Belgium

71-80

51-60

Middle East Technical University

Turkey

71-80

71-80

Université Paris-Sorbonne

France

71-80

71-80

University of Pittsburgh

US

71-80

91-100

Texas A&M University

US

71-80

81-90

Washington University in St Louis

US

81-90

81-90

Brown University

US

81-90

81-90

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

81-90

91-100

Freie Universität Berlin

Germany

81-90

61-70

Leiden University

Netherlands

81-90

91-100

University of Maryland, College Park

US

81-90

-

Mayo Medical School

US

81-90

71-80

University of Queensland

Australia

81-90

61-70

University of São Paulo

Brazil

81-90

81-90

Utrecht University

Netherlands

81-90

-

Yonsei University

South Korea

91-100

-

University of Arizona

US

91-100

81-90

University of Florida

US

91-100

-

London Business School

UK

91-100

-

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

UK

91-100

71-80

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

91-100

81-90

University of New South Wales

Australia

91-100

81-90

Université Pierre et Marie Curie

France

91-100

81-90

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

US

91-100

-

RWTH Aachen University

Germany

91-100

-

Technion Israel Institute of Technology

Israel

The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2014: State Of The Nations - Number Of Representatives From Each Country In The Top 100

Copyright Times Higher Education.

Country

Number of institutions in the top 100

Top institution

Top institution rank

US

46

Harvard University

1

UK

10

University of Cambridge

4

Germany

6

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

=46

Japan

5

University of Tokyo

11

Australia

5

University of Melbourne

=43

Netherlands

4

Delft University of Technology

42

Canada

3

University of Toronto

20

South Korea

3

Seoul National University

26

Hong Kong

3

University of Hong Kong

=43

Switzerland

2

ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich

16

Singapore

2

National University of Singapore

21

China

2

Tsinghua University

36

France

2

Université Paris-Sorbonne

71-80

Taiwan

1

National Taiwan University

51-60

Sweden

1

Karolinska Institute

51-60

Russia

1

Lomonosov Moscow State University

51-60

Turkey

1

Middle East Technical University

71-80

Belgium

1

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

71-80

Brazil

1

University of São Paulo

81-90

Israel

1

Technion Israel Institute of Technology

91-100

Last updated: 10 December 2015

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