MIT, Cambridge and Stanford are the best universities in the world, according to QS rankings

IBL News | New York

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the best university in the world, followed by Cambridge University, Stanford University, Oxford and Harvard.

This classification is consistent with QS World University Rankings 2023which presents 1418 institutions in the world, and was published this week.

London-based analyst QS Quacquarelli Symonds points out in its 2023 rankings that Oxford University fell two places while Cambridge moved up one. In addition, 49 out of 90 UK institutions refused.

• MIT celebrates eleven years as the best university in the world.

• In the United States, 103 of the 201 ranked universities fell and 29 rose, or 29 new entrants.

• China, the third most represented higher education system, with 71 universities, is home for the first time to two of the top 15 universities in the world: Peking University (12^e) and Tsinghua University (14^e).

• Asiathe best university is national university of singapore (11^e).

• ETH Zurich remained continental Europe best university for fifteen consecutive years.

• FranceThe merged universities move up the table, with Université PSL (26^e) enters the top 30.

• University of Buenos Aires (67^e) is confirmed Latin America better. Hampered by low research impact scores, more universities on the continent are down than up.

• The best university in the Arab region – King Abdulaziz University, 106^e – reached a record level.

• Africais the University of Cape Town (237^e). Only five of the continent’s universities are among the top 500.
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