Investment in Higher Education Pays in QS World University Rankings 2016/2017

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LONDON, Sept. 5, 2016 /CNW/ - The thirteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings 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).

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• MIT is the world's top university for the fifth consecutive year.
• Stanford, 2nd and Harvard, 3^rd, 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 São Paulo also occupies its highest-ever position (120th).
  
  

2016	2015	TOP 20 UNIVERSITIES
1	1	MIT	US
2	3=	STANFORD	US
3	2	HARVARD	US
4	3=	CAMBRIDGE	UK
5	5	CALTECH	US
6	6	OXFORD	UK
7	7	UCL	UK
8	9	ETH ZURICH	SWITZERLAND
9	8	IMPERIAL COLLEGE	UK
10	10	CHICAGO	US
11	11	PRINCETON	US
12	12	NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE	SINGAPORE
13	13	NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY	SINGAPORE
14	14	EPFL	SWITZERLAND
15	15	YALE	US
16	17	CORNELL	US
17	16	JOHNS HOPKINS	US
18	18	UPENN	US
19	21	EDINBURGH	UK
20	22	COLUMBIA	US

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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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