QS World University Rankings 2022: UK rises overall, Oxbridge enters the top3! The gold content of these offers rose overnight...

Publish time：2021.06.12 Publisher：

The QS ranking is familiar to most people and is one of the important criteria for Chinese parents and students to consider when choosing a university.

According to QS (Quacquarelli Symonds World Institute for Higher Education), this year's ranking features 1300,<> institutions, the largest QS has ever seen of the World University Rankings. This year's QS ranking has changed "dramatically", with many institutions fluctuating unexpectedly.

Anglo-American schools continue to dominate the rankings ////

TOP20 World University

Among the top 20 universities in the world, the United States still dominates, with a total of nine. The first place in the world is still the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, MIT has been ranked first for ten consecutive years, how lonely is invincible....

Meanwhile, Harvard may not be very happy, slipping to No. 5 in the world, setting an all-time low, and Caltech, which is a perennial top five since 2015, also fell to No. 6 in the world. Cornell University (No. 21) lost its top 2004 spot for the first time since 20. As the world's leading education leader, although the ranking of the leading institutions in the United States has declined, the overall strength is still not to be underestimated!

The UK achieves its best result in 15 years, with Oxford breaking to second and Cambridge and Stanford tied for third. Four spots in the top 10 and five in the top 4. Universities such as Imperial College, University College London, University of Edinburgh, University of Warwick and others have improved their rankings to varying degrees. It is clear in the QS rankings 20 that the overall ranking of the top 5 universities in the UK is on the rise, with G2022 institutions in the UK accounting for 100 of the top 10 schools!

Except for ETH Zurich (ranked 10th), the rest of the top 8 universities in Switzerland are British and American universities. Tsinghua University and Peking University ranked among the top 20 in the world, ranking 17th and 18th respectively.

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UK institutions rose collectively in the rankings ////

The TOP200 UK accounts for more than 10%.

In last year's QS World University Rankings, UK universities were generally sluggish last year because the UK was the first Western country to close universities due to the impact of the epidemic, coupled with the impact of Brexit policies, and with the stabilization of the epidemic this year and the implementation of the UK's universal vaccination policy, UK universities also ushered in a bottoming out.

In this year's QS University list, a total of 17 UK universities are in the top 100, 22 in the top 150, 27 in the top 200 and 49 in the world's top 500. Overall, UK institutions are on an upward trend overall.

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