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Oxford top global university rankings
Oxford University took the first place in an international ranking for the fourth year in a row.
The annual Cambridge placed third place and Imperial College London in the eighteenth.
But there is A Warning , the fight, the authors of the rankings, the other British universities ", in order to hold their own" against global rivals.
they warn that Germany is "ready to overtake" the United Kingdom, with most of The Top universities in Europe.
The rankings show Oxford is named again as The Best University in The World , in front of a US University, the California Institute of Technology in second place.
Global competitionUS universities continue to dominate the rankings, taking seven of The Top 10 spots and 60 out of The Top 200.
The Technical University of Munich: German universities were among the biggest risers in the rankingsAsian university systems, holt - lead with China and Japan, strong in the rankings.
Iranian universities are among the "biggest riser" in this year, The League Table is.
Top 10 Times Higher Education World University Rankings1Oxford2California Institute for Tech3Cambridge4Stanford5Massachusetts Institute for Tech6Princeton7Harvard8Yale9Chicago10imperial College London source: Times Higher EducationThe full list of 1,300 universities in 92 countries, with the rankings taking into account the quality of the teaching, the volume and reputation of research, citations of research, income from industry and international links.
An analysis accompanying the rankings said that the United Kingdom, the so-called "Golden Triangle " - Oxford, Cambridge and London universities - continues to be very successful.
But it warns that this "masking" a relative decline in the other British universities, while the German universities to improve rapidly in The League Table .
Since the year 2016, The Number of British universities in The Top 200 fell from 34 to 28, while The Number of German universities increased from three to 23.
International collaborationsThe analysis by The Times Higher Education says, these reflect System of higher investments in Germany, high school.
Cambridge University, part of the "Golden Triangle ", was ranked on the third place of theIt also warns that UK universities could continue to fall behind Germany in the financing, if you lose the access to EU research partnerships, according to the Leak.
"If the UK starts to withdraw from The International stage, to suffer from its position in the upper echelons of the rankings," says Phil Baty of Times Higher Education rankings.
The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Louise Richardson , said: "Oxford's success is in large part due to our research collaborations with other excellent universities around The World and we remain committed both to deepen and broaden these partnerships, whatever Leakage. "
United Kingdom universities in The Top 400•Oxford•Cambridge•Imperial College London•University College London•London School of Economics•Edinburgh•King' s College London•Manchester•Warwick•Bristol•Glasgow•Queen Mary, University of London•Birmingham•Sheffield•Southampton•York•Durham•Lancaster•Exeter•Sussex•Nottingham•Leeds•Liverpool•Leicester•Aberdeen•East Anglia•Cardiff•St. Andrews•Dundee•Newcastle•Queen' s University, Belfast•reading•St George' s, University of London•bath•Brighton & Sussex Medical School•Essex•Heriot-Watt•, Royal Holloway, University of London•Surrey•Swansea•Anglia Ruskin•Birkbeck, University of London•Brunel•Goldsmiths, University of London•Kent•Loughborough•Northumbria•Stirling source: Times Higher Education World University Rankingsuniversities, universities in the uk
Source of news: bbc.com
