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LONDON, June 10, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

-- Asia ascending, America ailing

QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts, released the

seventeenth edition of the QS World University Rankings

(https://www.topuniversities.com/qs-world-university-rankings ) - the world's

most-consulted, most-covered source of comparative information about university

performance.[1] 26 Asian universities place among the global top-100 – the

highest number ever.

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    -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology is named the world's best

       university for a record-breaking ninth consecutive year;

    -- The top three institutions remain American: MIT is followed by

       Stanford University (2nd) and Harvard University (3rd);

    -- Britain's top institution is the University of Oxford, which falls to

       fifth. Its compatriot competitor, the University of Cambridge, remains

       7th;

    -- 112 of America's 153 ranked universities fall, with only 34 recording

       improvements. This is primarily due to collective relative decline in

       QS's measures of academic standing and research impact;

    -- Continental Europe's best university is ETH Zurich (6th no-change);

    -- Asia's top university is the National University of Singapore (11th);

    -- China's Tsinghua University reaches a new all-time high (15th);

    -- Latin America's leader is the Universidad de Buenos Aires (66th, up 8

       places). Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (100th) becomes the

       first Mexican university ever to achieve a top-100 place;

    -- Universities in Russia and Malaysia continue to rise: Lomonosov

       Moscow State University (74th) and Universiti Malaya (59th) reach

       record highs.

Ben Sowter, QS Director of Research, said: "The American higher education

hegemony continues to diminish in the face of increasing competitiveness across

the world: a competitiveness driven by strategic funding, internationalization

efforts, and strong links between education and industry."

      QS World University Rankings 2021: Global Top 20

2021        2020                

1              1        Massachusetts Institute of Technology        USA

2              2        Stanford University                                       USA

3              3        Harvard University                                        USA

4              5        California Institute of Technology                 USA

5              4        University of Oxford                                       UK

6              6        ETH Zurich                                                    Switzerland

7              7        University of Cambridge                                UK

8              9        Imperial College London                                UK

9            10        University of Chicago                                     USA

10            8        University College London                             UK

11          11=      National University of Singapore                   Singapore

12          13         Princeton University                                      USA

13          11=      Nanyang Technological University (NTU)      Singapore

14          18=      Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de  

                          Lausanne (EPFL)                                            Switzerland

15          16        Tsinghua University                                        China (Mainland)

16          15        University of Pennsylvania                             USA

17          17        Yale University                                                USA

18          14        Cornell University                                           USA

19          18=     Columbia University                                        USA

20          20        University of Edinburgh                                  UK

      (C) QS Quacquarelli Symonds  www.TopUniversities.com

Methodological details can be found here

(https://www.topuniversities.com/qs-world-university-rankings/methodology ).  

To view the full rankings: www.TopUniversities.com

[1] 'Most-consulted according to data from  independent monitoring platforms,

including Google Analytics, SimilarWeb, Meltwater, and Alexa.

SOURCE  QS Quacquarelli Symonds