Harvard named world’s top university
March 11th, 2011 - 12:52 pm ICT by ANIWashington, Mar 11 (ANI): Harvard has been ranked as the top university in the world, a new research has revealed.
Cambridge has been named as the most highly regarded universities in the world, while Oxford among the United Kingdom’s came third in a table that ranking universities exclusively on the basis of academics worldwide, the Daily Mail reports.
The United States dominated The Times Higher Education world reputation rankings, with seven institutions in the top 10.
Japan is the only country whose university found a place in the rankings besides the US and the UK. Tokyo University was placed eighth.
Overall, the U.S. had 45 universities in the top 100, while the UK had 12 and Japan had five. These three nations were the best represented in the rankings.
Canada, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands had four universities each in the top 100.
Phil Baty, editor of The Times Higher Education world university rankings, said: “In an ever more competitive global market for students, academics and university administrators, and at a time when the answers to the world’s most pressing problems will come from putting together the best brains wherever in the world they may be based, a university’s reputation for academic excellence is crucial.” (ANI)
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