Universităţile din Marea Britanie, cele mai appreciate de tinerii care vor să studieze în străinătate, continuă ascensiunea în clasamentul celor mai bune universităţi din lume, publicat de Times Higher Education.
Celebrele universităţi britanice Oxford şi Cambridge ocupă a doua şi respectiv a treia poziţie în topul internaţional dominat de universitatea americană Harvard încă din 2011, de când se realizează clasamentul. Cu excepţia celor două simboluri ale învăţământului britanic, în top zece se regăsesc doar universităţi americane, potrivit The Telegraph.
În total, 12 universităţi britanice se regăsesc in clasament, Durham şi Warwick fiind nou intrate în ediţia din acest an. Topul universităţilor în 2015. Cele mai renumite 100 instituţii de învăţământ universitar din lume:
1. Harvard University, United States.
2. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
3. University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.
5. Stanford University, United States.
6. University of California, Berkeley, United States.
7. Princeton University, United States.
8. Yale University, United States.
9. California Institute of Technology, United States.
10. Columbia University, United States.
11. University of Chicago, United States.
12. University of Tokyo, Japan.
13. University of California, Los Angeles, United States.
14. Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
15. ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland..
16. University of Toronto, Canada.
17. University College London, United Kingdom.
18. Johns Hopkins University, United States.
19. University of Michigan, United States.
20. New York University, United States.
21. Cornell University, United States.
22. London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.
23. University of Pennsylvania, United States.
24. National University of Singapore, Singapore.
25. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation.
26. Tsinghua University, China.
27. Kyoto University, Japan.
28. Carnegie Mellon University, United States.
29. University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
30. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States.
31. King’s College London, United Kingdom.
32. Peking University, China.
33. University of Washington, United States.
34. Duke University, United States.
35. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
36. McGill University, Canada.
37. University of British Columbia, Canada.
38. Heidelberg University, Germany.
39. University of California, San Francisco, United States.
40. University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States.
41. University of California, San Diego, United States.
42. University of Melbourne, Australia.
43. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
44. University of California, Davis, United States.
45. Karolinska Institute, Sweden.
46. University of Texas at Austin, United States.
47. Northwestern University, United States.
48. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
49. Georgia Institute of Technology, United States.
50. University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
51-60 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium University of Sydney, Australia Australian National University, Australia Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1, France Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris 4, France Seoul National University, Republic of Korea University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Free University of Berlin, Germany Delft University of Technology, Netherlands University of Amsterdam, Netherlands University of São Paulo, Brazil Technical University of Munich, Germany.
61-70 École Normale Supérieure, France Pennsylvania State University, United States University of California, Santa Barbara, United States National Taiwan University, Taiwan Wageningen University and Research Center, Netherlands University of Southern California, United States Leiden University, Netherlands University of North Carolina, United States.
71-80 Purdue University, United States Utrecht University, Netherlands National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, United States Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Brown University, United States Boston University, United States University of Pittsburgh, United States Michigan State University, United States University of Minnesota, United States.
81-90 Saint Petersburg State University, Russian Federation Durham University, United Kingdom Uppsala University, Sweden University of Helsinki, Finland University of Copenhagen, Denmark University of Queensland, Australia Ohio State University, United States Washington University in St Louis, United States University of Warwick, United Kingdom Texas A&M University, United States.
91-100 École Polytechnique, France RWTH Aachen University, Germany University of Maryland, College Park, United States Mayo Medical School, United States Nanyang Technological University, Singapore London Business School, United Kingdom University of Massachusetts, United States Monash University, Australia Pasteur Institute, France University of Bristol, United Kingdom.