Cambridge rises in world college rankings

Cambridge College has risen to second place in new world college rankings, with the UK house to 4 universities within the prime 10.

The QS Quacquarelli Symonds world college rankings for 2023 have seen Cambridge rise from third place to silver, whereas Oxford fell two locations to fourth within the world rankings.

The College of Cambridge topped the rankings in 2010 and 2011, and this yr has its finest rank since 2014.

Each Cambridge and Oxford achieved good scores for educational repute, graduate high quality and educating capability.

Massachusetts Institute of Know-how (MIT) has retained first place within the rankings for 11 years.

Within the UK, Imperial Faculty London rose from seventh place to sixth in 2023, whereas College Faculty London was ranked eighth, as in 2022.

Of the 90 British universities ranked, 10 improved their place since final yr, 48 had declined and 32 remained steady.

The ranked universities appeared to say no most when it got here to educating capability – the ratio of teachers to college students, with 92% of UK ranked universities declining between 2022 and 2023 for this measure.

Ten UK universities rank among the many world’s prime 150 in QS’s indicator of analysis impression, with 12 UK universities among the many prime 50 within the new Worldwide Analysis Community metric – the place UCL is the nationwide chief.

The analysis impression rating is the results of excessive ranges of worldwide collaboration – whereas 20% of the world’s analysis is completed on account of world collaboration, for the UK, the determine is 55%.

The rankings present that 40% of the UK’s analysis papers are revealed within the prime 10% of educational journals by impression – 4 instances the worldwide common (10%).

Ben Sowter, director of analysis at QS, mentioned: “Maybe no British analysis success story has captured the general public creativeness to the extent that the College of Oxford’s position in creating the ChAdOx1 vaccine has – and fairly rightly.

“Solely UCL has produced a better variety of tutorial analysis papers over the past 5 years, and no British college’s analysis has loved a better impression, with nearly 1.5 million citations yielded on Oxford’s papers.”

He added: “Regardless of an total decline in comparison with final yr’s efficiency in our rankings, the UK stays indisputably the world’s second most profitable increased schooling system.

“As British increased schooling navigates its post-Brexit and post-pandemic future, it ought to proceed to construct on its means to type efficient partnerships and collaborations and appeal to world abilities.

“It’s no accident that essentially the most internationally collaborative universities are additionally these having fun with success and progress in world rankings.”