News: Oxford Ranked Best University In The World [See Top 100]

The University of Oxford – the oldest university in the English-speaking world – has come top in a global education ranking for the first time.

Oxford dethroned the leader for the last five years, California Institute of Technology, into second place in the Times Higher Education’s global league table, which also saw Chinese universities climb rapidly, Reuters reports.
Oxford, which educated four of the last six British prime ministers, ousted its U.S. rival after its research funding rose 10 percent and overall funding rose to 1.4 billion pounds ($1.83 billion), while the impact of its research increased, said Phil Baty, editor of the rankings.

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The news comes with warnings that the vote to leave the European Union could destabilise UK higher education and hinder work with academics abroad.
According to Baty, Britain’s exit from the European Union “is a serious risk to our success” by making it harder to attract top academic staff and plug them into research projects.
Brexit risks driving away students, staff and funding, Oxford’s vice-chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson, told BBC radio.
The Times Higher tables rank universities worldwide on measures including teaching, research and international outlook – for example, numbers of overseas students and staff.
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Rank 2016-17   –  Rank 2015-16    –    Institution         –     Country

1	2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
2	1	California Institute of Technology	United States
3	3	Stanford University	United States
4	4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
5	5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
6	6	Harvard University	United States
7	7	Princeton University	United States
8	8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
9	9	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
10	13	University of California, Berkeley	United States
10	10	University of Chicago	United States
12	12	Yale University	United States
13	17	University of Pennsylvania	United States
14	16	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
15	14	University College London	United Kingdom
16	15	Columbia University	United States
17	11	Johns Hopkins University	United States
18	20	Duke University	United States
19	18	Cornell University	United States
20	25	Northwestern University	United States
21	21	University of Michigan	United States
22	19	University of Toronto	Canada
23	22	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
24	26	National University of Singapore	Singapore
25	23	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
25	32	University of Washington	United States
27	24	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
28	28	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
29	42	Peking University	China
30	31	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
30	29	LMU Munich	Germany
32	30	New York University	United States
33	41	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
33	33	University of Melbourne	Australia
35	47	Tsinghua University	China
36	34	University of British Columbia	Canada
36	36	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
36	27	King’s College London	United Kingdom
39	43	University of Tokyo	Japan
40	35	KU Leuven	Belgium
41	39	University of California, San Diego	United States
42	38	McGill University	Canada
43	37	Heidelberg University	Germany
43	44	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
45	50	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States
46	53	Technical University of Munich	Germany
47	52	Australian National University	Australia
48	39	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
49	59	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
50	46	University of Texas at Austin	United States
51	51	Brown University	United States
51	44	University of California, Davis	United States
53	65	University of Minnesota	United States
54	55	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
55	56	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
56	63	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
57	49	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany
57	60	Washington University in St Louis	United States
59	65	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
60	60	University of Queensland	Australia
60	68	University of Southern California	United States
60	56	University of Sydney	Australia
63	58	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
64	64	Boston University	United States
65	47	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands
66	54	École Normale Supérieure	France
67	117	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
68	75	Pennsylvania State University	United States
69	71	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
70	113	Purdue University	United States
71	69	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
72	90	Ohio State University	United States
72	85	Seoul National University	South Korea
74	73	Monash University	Australia
75	72	Free University of Berlin	Germany
76	138	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
77	67	Leiden University	Netherlands
78	82	University of New South Wales	Australia
78	110	RWTH Aachen University	Germany
80	74	University of Groningen	Netherlands
80	79	University of Pittsburgh	United States
82	104	Dartmouth College	United States
82	90	Emory University	United States
82	NR	Technical University of Berlin	Germany
82	80	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
86	62	Utrecht University	Netherlands
87	101	Rice University	United States
88	76	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
89	148	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea
89	78	University of Tübingen	Germany
91	76	University of Helsinki	Finland
91	88	Kyoto University	Japan
93	81	Uppsala University	Sweden
94	88	Maastricht University	Netherlands
95	84	University of Freiburg	Germany
96	70	Durham University	United Kingdom
96	90	Lund University	Sweden
98	106	Aarhus University	Denmark
98	101	University of Basel	Switzerland
98	106	University of California, Irvine	United States