For the first time in 14 years, the best university in the world isn't in America
Oxford and Cambridge outrank elite US counterparts
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Your support makes all the difference.For the first time in 14 years, an American college didn't crack the top two in a ranking of the best universities in the world, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018 list.
United Kingdom-based Oxford and Cambridge Universities came in No.1 and No. 2, respectively.
Times Higher Ed reviews the top 1,000 universities in the world looking at factors of teaching, research, and influence to rank them.
It reviews quantitative factors, like the number of times a university's published work is cited by scholars globally, and qualitative factors, like peer surveys, to assemble the ranking.
Read below to see the top 10 universities in the world:
10. University of Pennsylvania (tie)
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Students: 20,361
Number of students per faculty member: 6.5
10. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (tie)
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Students: 19,233
Number of students per faculty member: 14.6
9. University of Chicago
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Students: 13,525
Number of students per faculty member: 6.2
8. Imperial College London
Location: Kensington, London
Students: 15,857
Number of students per faculty member: 11.4
7. Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Students: 7,955
Number of students per faculty member: 8.3
6. Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Students: 29,326
Number of students per faculty member: 8.9
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Students: 11,177
Number of students per faculty member: 8.7
3. Stanford University (tie)
Location: Stanford, California
Students: 15,845
Number of students per faculty member: 7.5
3. California Institute of Technology (tie)
Location: Pasadena, California
Students: 2,209
Number of students per faculty member: 6.5
2. University of Cambridge
Location: Cambridge, England
Students: 18,389
Number of students per faculty member: 10.9
1. University of Oxford
Location: Oxford, England
Students: 20,409
Number of students per faculty member: 11.2
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