The number of UK universities in the top 200 of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings has dropped, while some Asian universities have risen up the list.
The University of Oxford has been named as the world’s number one university for the eighth year in a row in the latest rankings released this week, but the UK has three fewer universities in the world top 200 since last year, with 25 now in total.
Stanford University has taken second place followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in third place. All the top 10 universities are from the US and UK.
Phil Baty, chief global affairs officer at Times Higher Education, said the data shows “trends that threaten the UK’s aspirational status as a world science superpower”.
