QS ranked 1000 universities from 82 different locations, surveyed 94,000 ACADEMICS and 44,000 HIRING MANAGERS and analyzed 11.8 MILLION RESEARCH PAPERS and 100 MILLION CITATIONS. Universities are measured on academic standing, graduate employability, student/staff ratio, research impact, and internationalization.

Over 70 million stakeholders will view the rankings on www.TopUniversities.com [2] this year.

KEY FACTS

 ·         The University of Cambridge hits its lowest-ever position (7th). The UK records its third-worst performance ever, but the University of Oxford rises to 4th;

 ·         International student ratios at UK and US universities have consistently fallen;

 ·         ETH Zurich (6th), the Continental European top university, achieves its highest position ever, overtaking The University of Cambridge;

 ·         Asia's top two universities are the National University of Singapore and its compatriot Nanyang Technological University (both joint-11th);

 ·         24 of Australia's 35 universities rise;

 ·         China now has 19 of the world's top 200 research universities; it had 12 in 2016;

 ·         Of the 302 universities from the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, 216 have recorded worse Faculty/Student Ratio performance, QS's measure of institutional teaching capacity;

 ·         Latin America's top university is the Universidad de Buenos Aires (74th) for the fifth consecutive year. Brazilian and Argentinian universities are losing employer confidence in their graduates;

 ·         The Middle East has two top-200 universities for the first time ever. Saudi Arabia's King Abdul Aziz University (186th) is the new regional leader;

1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)More	United States
2	Stanford UniversityMore	United States
3	Harvard UniversityMore	United States
4	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)More	United States
5	University of OxfordMore	United Kingdom
6	University of CambridgeMore	United Kingdom
7	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of TechnologyMore	Switzerland
8	Imperial College LondonMore	United Kingdom
9	University of ChicagoMore	United States
10	UCLMore	United Kingdom
11	National University of Singapore (NUS)More	Singapore
12	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)More	Singapore
13	Princeton UniversityMore	United States
14	Cornell UniversityMore	United States
15	Yale UniversityMore	United States
16	Columbia UniversityMore	United States
17	Tsinghua UniversityMore	China
18	The University of EdinburghMore	United Kingdom
19	University of PennsylvaniaMore	United States
20	University of MichiganMore	United States
21	Johns Hopkins UniversityMore	United States
22	EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de LausanneMore	Switzerland
23	The University of TokyoMore	Japan
24	The Australian National UniversityMore	Australia
25	The University of Hong KongMore	Hong Kong