MIT celebrates decade as world's best university; Harvard falls to lowest rank ever
LONDON, June 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts, have today released the eighteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) celebrates an unprecedented, unbroken decade as the world's best university.
L. Rafael Reif, President of MIT, said: "We deeply appreciate the recognition of our institution and the faculty, staff, alumni, and students that make MIT what it is – and we also tremendously admire the achievements of academic institutions around the globe. The world benefits from a strong higher education network that delivers countless benefits for humanity, from fundamental discoveries to novel solutions to pressing challenges in climate and health, to the education of the next generation of talent. We are proud and grateful to belong to this great human community of scholars, researchers and educators, striving together to make a better world."
The top five also experiences its most significant reconfiguration for half a decade: Harvard University (5th) falls out of the top three – its lowest-ever rank - to be replaced by the University of Oxford (2nd, up from 5th) and the University of Cambridge (joint-3rd, shared with Stanford University).
QS World University Rankings 2022: Global Top 20
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2022 |
2021 |
Institution |
Location |
1 |
1 |
MIT |
USA |
2 |
5 |
University of Oxford |
UK |
3= |
7 |
University of Cambridge |
UK |
3= |
2 |
Stanford University |
USA |
5 |
3 |
Harvard University |
USA |
6 |
4 |
California Institute of Technology |
USA |
7 |
8 |
Imperial College London |
UK |
8= |
6 |
ETH Zurich |
Switzerland |
8= |
10 |
UCL |
UK |
10 |
9 |
University of Chicago |
USA |
11 |
11 |
National University of Singapore |
Singapore |
12 |
13 |
Nanyang Technological University |
Singapore |
13 |
16 |
University of Pennsylvania |
USA |
14= |
14 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Switzerland |
14= |
17 |
Yale University |
USA |
16 |
20 |
University of Edinburgh |
UK |
17 |
15 |
Tsinghua University |
Mainland China |
18 |
23 |
Peking University |
Mainland China |
19 |
19 |
Columbia University |
USA |
20 |
12 |
Princeton University |
USA |
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