Cambridge remains world's top University, Harvard, MIT follow

The US takes 13 of the top 20 spots and 70 of top 300 places in the latest world rankings of Universities compiled by the international career and education network QS.

The rankings of top 300 universities, based on six indicators including surveys of over 33,000 global academics and 16,000 graduate employers, is being claimed as the largest of its kind ever conducted.

Ben Sowter, QS head of research, said the gap between Cambridge and Harvard is very small, but Cambridge's superior student-faculty ratio helped tip the balance.

“Individual attention is one of the key attractions of the Oxbridge tutorial system,” he said.

The results said government and private funding for technology-focussed research is eroding the dominance of traditional comprehensive universities and the average age of the top 100 institutions has dropped by seven years since 2010, reflecting the emergence of newer specialist institutions particularly in Asia. (Indian Express)