Oxford University has been named as the best university in the world for the seventh year running, with London’s Imperial College also making it into the top ten.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023, published today, rate 1,799 institutions from 104 countries. The top 10 is dominated by universities solely from the UK and US, with Cambridge in third place and Imperial in 10th. Harvard was rated as second. University College London was 22nd, King’s College London 35th and LSE 37th.
But Phil Baty from Times Higher Education said although Western universities still dominate the top rankings, East Asia and the Middle East are gaining ground. The number of US universities in the top 100 fell from 43 in 2018 to 34 this year, but the number of Chinese universities rose from two in 2018 to seven now
