Best Universities in the world 2016 – 2017, MIT is the No 1

The thirteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings, compiled by global higher education think tank QS Quacquarelli Symonds, announced world’s best universities. There is no surprise at the world’s best university; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ranked as the world’s best university for a fifth consecutive year.

Ben Sowter, Head of Research at the QS Intelligence Unit, said: “This year’s rankings imply that levels of investment are determining who progresses and who regresses. Institutions in countries that provide high levels of targeted funding, whether from endowments or from the public purse, are rising. On the other hand, Western European nations making or proposing cuts to public research spending are losing ground to their US and Asian counterparts.”

Elsewhere in the world, Stanford University displaces the University of Cambridge in the top three. This means that US institutions hold all top-three places for the first time since the inaugural rankings of 2004. Russia, China, South Korea, and Japan enjoy noteworthy improvements, while the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy lose ground.

QS World University Rankings 2016/2017: Global Top 20
2016	2015	Institution Name	Country
1	1	MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)	US
2	3=	STANFORD UNIVERSITY	US
3	2	HARVARD UNIVERSITY	US
4	3=	UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE	UK
5	5	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (CALTECH)	US
6	6	UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD	UK
7	7	UCL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)	UK
8	9	ETH ZURICH (SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)	CH
9	8	IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON	UK
10	10	UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	US
11	11	PRINCETON UNIVERSITY	US
12	12	NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE (NUS)	SG
13	13	NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (NTU)	SG
14	14	ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)	CH
15	15	YALE UNIVERSITY	US
16	17	CORNELL UNIVERSITY	US
17	16	JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY	US
18	18	UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA	US
19	21	UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH	UK
20	22	COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY	US
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