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The world's top 100 universities listed
Oxford is down and Tokyo is up. Find out how the world's universities did
Top 100 universities: Cambridge came second Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Getty
Oxford University has slipped in the international league table of the world's top universities - in a study which shows the advance of academia in Asia that will soon pose a challenge to the Ivy League and Oxbridge.
The study, from Times Higher Education and QS Top Universities shows that overall the UK still punches above its weight, second only to the US. The UK has four out of the top 10 slots and 18 in the top 100. But there has been a significant fall in the number of North American universities in the top 100, from 42 in 2008 to 36 in 2009.
However, the number of Asian universities in the top 100 increased from 14 to 16. The University of Tokyo, at 22, is the highest ranked Asian university, ahead of the University of Hong Kong at 24.
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The world's top universities
2009 Rank 2008
Rank
School Name Country
SOURCE: THES, QS
1 1 HARVARD University United States
2 3 University of CAMBRIDGE United
Kingdom
3 2 YALE University United States
4 7 UCL (University College London) United
Kingdom
5 6 IMPERIAL College London United
Kingdom
5 4 University of OXFORD United
Kingdom
7 8 University of CHICAGO United States
8 12 PRINCETON University United States
9 9 MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology
(MIT)
United States
10 5 CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology
(Caltech)
United States
11 10 COLUMBIA University United States
12 11 University of PENNSYLVANIA United States
13 13 JOHNS HOPKINS University United States
14 13 DUKE University United States
15 15 CORNELL University United States
16 17 STANFORD University United States
17 16 AUSTRALIAN National University Australia
18 20 MCGILL University Canada
19 18 University of MICHIGAN United States
20 24 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology)
Switzerland 20 23 University of EDINBURGH United
Kingdom
22 19 University of TOKYO Japan
23 22 KING'S College London United
Kingdom
24 26 University of HONGKONG Hong Kong
25 25 KYOTO University Japan
26 29 University of MANCHESTER United
Kingdom
27 21 CARNEGIE MELLON University United States
28 28 École normale supérieure, PARIS France
