Peter Spiro/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — U.S. colleges accounted for nearly one-third of the top 200 universities in the world, according to the latest rankings put out by Times Higher Education.
The top slot in the newest rankings went to the University of Oxford, which bumped California Institute of Technology out of the top spot to number two. Stanford University came in third place, with the University of Cambridge fourth and Massachusetts Institute of Technology fifth.
The rankings included 980 educational institutions from 79 countries, using five groups of performance indicators. The rankings look at teaching, research, influence, international outlook and industry income to rank the universities. Among the specific factors used are a reputation survey, ratios of staff to students, doctorate degrees to bachelor’s degrees awarded, institutional and research income, international student population and collaboration and the number of times a school’s published work is cited by scholars around the world.
The top 200 list included 63 schools in the United States, 32 in the United Kingdom, 22 in Germany and 13 in the Netherlands.
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