The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) leads the global ranking of universities prepared by the consulting firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), which highlights the jump of Imperial College London to second place.
Among the first hundred on the list, the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) It is the one that achieves the greatest jump, climbing 24 positions, from 95 last year to 71 in this edition.
Immobile at number one for 13 years, the M.I.T. It is seconded in the top ten by centers from the United Kingdom and the United States, with the only exceptions being the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School (ETH) in Zurich, in seventh place, and the National University of Singapore, in eighth.
Imperial College regains the second place it reached ten years ago at the expense of the also British Cambridge, which drops to fifth.
Oxford (United Kingdom) and Harvard (United States) repeat as third and fourth in the classification, while the Californian Stanford is moved to sixth.
Rounding out the top 10 are University College London (UCL) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), which burst into tenth place after jumping from 15th.
In a statement, QS reported that this year’s ranking includes 1,500 universities from 106 university education systems.
With 197 universities, the United States is the most represented country on this list, followed by the United Kingdom, with 90, and China, with 71.
Despite everything, Asia-Pacific is the region that has improved the most, with 28 universities in the top 100, and China and India are the two countries with the most universities that rise in the general ranking, thanks to research and academic reputation.
The QS firm prepares its classification taking into account nine indicators that are distributed as follows: academic reputation (30%), employer reputation (15%), teacher-student ratio (10%), citations by Faculty (20%) , ratio of international teaching staff (5%), ratio of international students (5%), International Research Network (5%), employment results (5%) and sustainability (5%).
Source: Gestion
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