MIT, Cambridge, and Stanford Are the World’s Best Universities, According to the QS Ranking

IBL News | New York

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the world’s best university, followed by the University of Cambridge, Stanford University, Oxford, and Harvard.

This classification is according to the QS World University Ranking 2023, which features 1418 institutions worldwide, and was released this week.

London-based analyst QS Quacquarelli Symonds highlights in its 2023 ranking that the University of Oxford has dropped two places while Cambridge gained one. In addition, 49 of 90 UK institutions declined.

• MIT celebrates eleven years as the world’s best university.

• In the US, 103 out of 201 ranked universities fell and 29 rose, being 29 new entrants.

• China, the third most-represented higher education system, with 71 universities, is home to two world’s top 15 universities for the first time ever: Peking University (12^th) and Tsinghua University (14^th).

• Asia‘s top university is the National University of Singapore (11^th).

• ETH Zurich has remained continental Europe’s best university for fifteen consecutive years.

• France‘s merged universities ascend in the table, with Université PSL (26^th) breaking into the top-30.

• Universidad de Buenos Aires (67^th) is confirmed Latin America’s best. Hampered by low research impact scores, more of the continent’s universities are falling than rising.

• Arab Region’s top university – King Abdulaziz University, 106^th – reaches a record high.

• Africa‘s leader is the University of Cape Town (237^th). Only five of the continent’s universities are among the top-500.
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