U.S. Colleges Slip in Global Rankings
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Source: The Wall Street Journal.
U.S. Colleges Slip in Global Rankings
American schools are still dominant, but lose luster as China, U.K. shine
By Douglas Belkin
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Sept. 5, 2017 9:00 a.m. ET
The U.S. continues to lay claim to more elite research universities than any other country in the world, but that dominance is beginning to fray.
Oxford and Cambridge, the intellectual one-two punch of the U.K., took the first and second spots in the 2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Their showing marked the first year schools outside the U.S. seized the two top positions in the 14 year history of the list. ... The U.S., led by the California Institute of Technology, (No. 3 tied) Stanford University (No. 3 tied) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (No. 5), Harvard (No. 6) and Princeton (No. 7) and the University of Chicago (No. 9) claimed seven in the top 11 spots.
But 2018 also marked the fifth year of consecutive decline in the overall showing of the U.S. This ranking listed 62 U.S. schools in the top 200. In 2014, 77 U.S. universities ranked in the top 200.
By contrast, the cumulative reputation of Chinese research institutions is swelling. In 2018, seven Chinese schools cracked the top 200. In 2014, there were just two. Peking University and Tsinghua University topped Chinese schools, ranking 27th and 30th respectively. That placed them ahead of the Georgia Institute of Technology (No. 33), Brown University (No. 51) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (No. 56).
The Top 20
1. University of Oxford (U.K.)
2. University of Cambridge (U.K.)
T-3. California Institute of Technology (U.S.)
T-3. Stanford University (U.S.)
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.)
6. Harvard University (U.S.)
7. Princeton University (U.S.)
8. Imperial College London (U.K.)
9. University of Chicago (U.S.)
T-10. ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Switzerland)
T-10. University of Pennsylvania (U.S.)
12. Yale University (U.S.)
13. Johns Hopkins University (U.S.)
14. Columbia University (U.S.)
15. University of California, Los Angeles (U.S.)
16. University College London (U.K.)
17. Duke University (U.S.)
18. University of California, Berkeley (U.S.)
19. Cornell University (U.S.)
20. Northwestern University (U.S.)
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--Te-Ping Chen contributed to this article.
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[div class"excerpt"]World University Rankings 2018: now starring a cast of thousands
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings-2018-now-starring-cast-thousands
A global ranking featuring 1,000 institutions is a milestone. How did we get here, asks Phil Baty
September 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/timeshighered
By Phil Baty
Twitter: @phil_baty
Browse the full results of the World University Rankings 2018
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2018/world-ranking
Welcome to the THE top 1,000. This is the 14th annual edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, but the first to feature a total of 1,000 institutions compared with just 200 universities when we first published the analysis in 2004.
Our top 1,000 represents no more than 5 per cent of the 20,000 or so higher education institutions in the world. This prestigious group is drawn from THEs comprehensive and growing database, which contains hundreds of thousands of data points on more than 1,500 leading global research universities, selected for analysis on the strength of their record in international research and on their global academic reputation (see our methodology for the full entry criteria).
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/methodology-world-university-rankings-2018
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I didn't encounter any problem viewing the entire article online. In case it does get placed behind a paywall, you might be able to read the article via the paper's or the author's Twitter feeds:
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I wonder where Northern Virginia Community College is on that list.
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I would expect our ratings to go down.
Get used to it, America as the pukes try to make us sink into the ooze.
