QS World University Rankings 2018: MIT Named World's Best University for Record Sixth Year

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LONDON, June 7, 2017 /CNW/ - QS Quacquarelli Symonds, higher education experts, released the 14^th annual QS World University Rankings. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the world's leading university for a record sixth consecutive year. 959 universities are ranked.

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• Caltech joins Stanford and Harvard for clean USA sweep of top 4 places
• 51 of the United Kingdom's 76 universities fall, reflecting prolonged funding cuts,
  improvements from other nations, and concerns about the potential impact of Brexit;
• Universities with a strong technological focus succeed. Singapore's Nanyang Technological University rises to 11^th, Korea's KAIST reaches a record high (41^st), while Delft University of Technology becomes the Netherlands' leading university;
• Australian institutions consistently improve. Australian National University (20^th) returns to the top 20;
• Six Chinese universities now feature in the Top 100, two more than last year;
• India boasts three universities among the Top 200, one more than last year;
• Lomonosov Moscow State University (95^th) rises into the top 100;
• Latin American institutions struggle to improve, but the Universidad de Buenos Aires reaches its highest-ever position (75^th).

QS World University Rankings 2018: Top 20
2018	2017	Institution	Country
1	1	MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)	US
2	2	STANFORD UNIVERSITY	US
3	3	HARVARD UNIVERSITY	US
4	5	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (CALTECH)	US
5	4	UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE	UK
6	6	UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD	UK
7	7	UCL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)	UK
8	9	IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON	UK
9	10	UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	US
10	8	ETH ZURICH (SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF 10 8 TECHNOLOGY)	CH
11	13	NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (NTU)	SG
12	14	ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)	CH
13	11	PRINCETON UNIVERSITY	US
14	16	CORNELL UNIVERSITY	US
15	12	NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE (NUS)	SG
16	15	YALE UNIVERSITY	US
17	17	JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY	US
18	20	COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY	US
19	18	UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA	US
20	22	AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (ANU)	AU

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Ben Sowter, Research Director, QS, said: "MIT is the nucleus of an unrivalled innovation ecosystem. Companies created by its alumni enjoyed combined revenues of $2 trillion, making them the equivalent of the world's 11^th largest economy. However, their continued dominance at the top should not obscure a changing landscape elsewhere, with other US and UK institutions making way for the best of Russia, China and India - among others."

View the 2018 QS World University Rankings at: http://www.TopUniversities.com.

SOURCE QS Quacquarelli Symonds