Blog post: ajb: UK universities fall in the world rankings

Ten UK universities are in the top 100 of the Times Higher Education World Rankings for 2012-13. This should be compared with 12 for 2011-2012 and 14 in 2010-11.

Not including Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College and University College London, several top UK universities have slipped down the rankings.

Universities I know well

Manchester this year is ranked 49.

Sussex fell from 99th to 110th loosing its top 100 status.

World top 20

• California Institute of Technology
  
• Oxford (joint 2nd)
  
• Stanford (joint 2nd)
  
• Harvard
  
• MIT
  
• Princeton
  
• Cambridge
  
• Imperial College
  
• California, Berkeley
  
• Chicago
  
• Yale
  
• ETH Zurich
  
• California, Los Angeles
  
• Columbia
  
• Pennsylvania
  
• Johns Hopkins
  
• UCL
  
• Cornell
  
• Northwestern
  
• Michigan
  

Source: Times Higher Education

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