London cements its place because the world’s main educational metropolis this yr, with 4 universities within the prime 30 of prestigious rating

October 31, 2015 Adam

Mayor Boris Johnson as we speak stated London was the ‘international chief in schooling’ after a brand new research revealed the town has extra world class universities than another metropolis on the planet.

For the primary time ever, London has 4 universities – Imperial School London, College School London, London Faculty of Economics and Kings School London – within the prime 30 of The Occasions Greater World College Rankings 2015.

Mayor Mr Johnson, stated: “I am extremely proud that 4 of London’s universities are within the prime thirty world-wide in line with this survey. The capital continues to be the worldwide chief in schooling, innovating and galvanizing prime expertise from each throughout the nation and abroad.”

London has a complete of 9 universities within the prime 250 of the rankings with Queen Mary College of London shifting into the highest 100. The rankings additionally discovered that UK establishments have the second highest proportion of worldwide college students among the many prime 200.

The Occasions Greater stated: “London has confirmed its place because the world’s main educational metropolis this yr, with 4 universities within the prime 30 for the primary time.

LSE has climbed 11 locations as much as 23rd on the planet. Commenting on the Faculty’s efficiency, Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of LSE, stated: “This is good news for LSE and displays the Faculty’s place as a worldwide chief in social science.

“LSE was based 120 years in the past to deal with the key problems with the day with a concentrate on innovation and sensible relevance, each in our analysis and our educating. I’m proud to say that this mission is each bit as related in 2015 and I want to thank the Faculty’s employees and our college students for contributing to this excellent end result.”

The UK has 78 establishments within the World College Rankings prime 800 this yr and 34 establishments within the prime 200. It’s second solely to the US for the variety of world-class universities featured within the prime 800. Within the prime ten, the College of Oxford is in second place, adopted by the College of Cambridge in fourth and Imperial School London in eighth. In line with the rankings Caltech is the primary college on the planet.

THE World College Rankings are partly based mostly on publication and quotation knowledge from Elsevier’s Scopus, the world’s largest summary and quotation database of peer-reviewed literature, and embrace analytics from SciVal, Elsevier’s device to calculate comparative analysis metrics.

The rating options universities in 70 nations, with 29 new nations included this yr. Nations getting into this yr embrace Indonesia, Malaysia, Ghana, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Latvia, Oman, Qatar and the Ukraine.

THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2015-16 – FULL TOP 200

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Rank 2015-16	Establishment	Nation
1	California Institute of Know-how	US
2	College of Oxford	UK
three	Stanford College	US
four	College of Cambridge	UK
5	Massachusetts Institute of Know-how	US
6	Harvard College	US
7	Princeton College	US
eight	Imperial School London	UK
9	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Know-how Zurich	Switzerland
10	College of Chicago	US
11	Johns Hopkins College	US
12	Yale College	US
13	College of California, Berkeley	US
14	College School London	UK
15	Columbia College	US
16	College of California, Los Angeles	US
17	College of Pennsylvania	US
18	Cornell College	US
19	College of Toronto	Canada
20	Duke College	US
21	College of Michigan	US
22	Carnegie Mellon College	US
23	London Faculty of Economics and Political Science	UK
24	College of Edinburgh	UK
25	Northwestern College	US
26	Nationwide College of Singapore	Singapore
27	King’s School London	UK
28	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
29	LMU Munich	Germany
30	New York College	US
31	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
32	College of Washington	US
33	College of Melbourne	Australia
34	College of British Columbia	Canada
35	KU Leuven	Belgium
36	College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	US
37	Heidelberg College	Germany
38	McGill College	Canada
39	College of California, San Diego	US
39	College of California, Santa Barbara	US
41	Georgia Institute of Know-how	US
42	Peking College	China
43	College of Tokyo	Japan
44	College of California, Davis	US
44	College of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
46	College of Texas at Austin	US
47	Tsinghua College	China
47	Wageningen College and Analysis Middle	Netherlands
49	Humboldt College of Berlin	Germany
50	College of Wisconsin-Madison	US
51	Brown College	US
52	Australian Nationwide College	Australia
53	Technical College of Munich	Germany
54	École Normale Supérieure	France
55	Nanyang Technological College	Singapore
56	College of Manchester	UK
56	College of Sydney	Australia
58	College of Amsterdam	Netherlands
59	Hong Kong College of Science and Know-how	Hong Kong
60	College of Queensland	Australia
60	Washington College in St Louis	US
62	Utrecht College	Netherlands
63	College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	US
64	Boston College	US
65	Delft College of Know-how	Netherlands
65	College of Minnesota	US
67	Leiden College	Netherlands
68	College of Southern California	US
69	College of Bristol	UK
70	Durham College	UK
71	Erasmus College Rotterdam	Netherlands
72	Free College of Berlin	Germany
73	Monash College	Australia
74	College of Groningen	Netherlands
75	Pennsylvania State College	US
76	College of Glasgow	UK
76	College of Helsinki	Finland
78	College of Tübingen	Germany
79	College of Pittsburgh	US
80	College of Warwick	UK
81	Uppsala College	Sweden
82	College of Copenhagen	Denmark
82	College of New South Wales	Australia
84	College of Freiburg	Germany
85	Seoul Nationwide College	Korea, Republic of
86	College of St Andrews	UK
87	Vanderbilt College	US
88	Kyoto College	Japan
88	Maastricht College	Netherlands
90	Emory College	US
90	Lund College	Sweden
90	Ohio State College	US
93	College of Exeter	UK
94	College of Bonn	Germany
94	Georgetown College	US
94	McMaster College	Canada
97	College of Sheffield	UK
98	Queen Mary College of London	UK
99	College of Göttingen	Germany
99	Michigan State College	US
101	College of Basel	Switzerland
101	École Polytechnique	France
101	Rice College	US
104	Dartmouth School	US
104	College of Zurich	Switzerland
106	College of California, Irvine	US
106	College of Mannheim	Germany
108	College of Notre Dame	US
109	College of Western Australia	Australia
110	RWTH Aachen College	Germany
110	College of Southampton	UK
112	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Italy
113	College of Montreal	Canada
113	Pierre and Marie Curie College	France
113	Purdue College	US
116	Pohang College of Science and Know-how	Korea, Republic of
117	College of Maryland, School Park	US
118	Ghent College	Belgium
119	College of Birmingham	UK
120	College of Bern	Switzerland
120	College of Cape City	South Africa
120	College of Florida	US
123	College of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Germany
123	Rutgers, the State College of New Jersey	US
125	College of Münster	Germany
125	Radboud College Nijmegen	Netherlands
127	College of Colorado Boulder	US
127	Tufts College	US
129	Royal Holloway, College of London	UK
130	Lancaster College	UK
131	College of Geneva	Switzerland
131	College of York	UK
133	Case Western Reserve College	US
133	College of Leeds	UK
135	College of Oslo	Norway
136	Stockholm College	Sweden
137	College of Alberta	Canada
138	Chinese language College of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
138	Karlsruhe Institute of Know-how	Germany
140	College of Sussex	UK
141	College of Massachusetts	US
142	College of Vienna	Austria
143	College of Nottingham	UK
144	College of California, Santa Cruz	US
144	College of Lausanne	Switzerland
146	Autonomous College of Barcelona	Spain
147	College of Virginia	US
148	Korea Superior Institute of Science and Know-how (KAIST)	Korea, Republic of
149	Aarhus College	Denmark
149	College of Adelaide	Australia
149	College of East Anglia	UK
149	College of Twente	Netherlands
153	Sungkyunkwan College (SKKU)	Korea, Republic of
154	VU College Amsterdam	Netherlands
155	KTH Royal Institute of Know-how	Sweden
156	College of Cologne	Germany
157	College of Liverpool	UK
158	Dresden College of Know-how	Germany
158	College of Rochester	US
160	Trinity School Dublin	Eire
161	Lomonosov Moscow State College	Russian Federation
161	College of Miami	US
163	College of Arizona	US
164	Pompeu Fabra College	Spain
164	College of Studying	UK
164	Yeshiva College	US
167	College of California, Riverside	US
167	College of Leicester	UK
167	Nationwide Taiwan College	Taiwan
167	Technical College of Denmark	Denmark
167	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium
172	College of Aberdeen	UK
172	College of Auckland	New Zealand
174	College of Barcelona	Spain
175	College of Konstanz	Germany
176	Eindhoven College of Know-how	Netherlands
176	College School Dublin	Eire
178	Hebrew College of Jerusalem	Israel
179	College of Waterloo	Canada
180	College of Gothenburg	Sweden
180	Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna	Italy
182	College of Bergen	Norway
182	Cardiff College	UK
182	College of Utah	US
185	Brandeis College	US
185	College of Dundee	UK
185	College of Würzburg	Germany
188	Paris-Sud College	France
189	Arizona State College	US
190	College of Antwerp	Belgium
190	Boston School	US
192	Ulm College	Germany
193	College of Luxembourg	Luxembourg
193	Texas A&M College	US
195	Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin	Germany
196	Newcastle College	UK
196	St George’s, College of London	UK
198	College of Trento	Italy
199	Paris Diderot College – Paris 7	France
200	Queen’s College Belfast	UK

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