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According to the US News "Best Global Universities" report [0], which ranks universities for their "academic research performance and their global and regional
by arrowsmith 3y ago
According to the US News "Best Global Universities" report [0], which ranks universities for their "academic research performance and their global and regional reputations", the UK has 4 universities (Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, Imperial) in the global top 20. The rest of Europe has zero.
Alternatively, the UK has 6 universities in the global top 40, while the rest of Europe has two (one in the EU, one in Switzerland.)
This isn't new. The British higher education sector has been a world leader for a long, long time. And that's despite the last few decades of funding cuts and declining educational standards - I can only imagine where we'd be in a more sensible timeline.
[0] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/search https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/se...
- sveme 3y agoOne problem with this is that research on the continent is often done by research organisations that aren't covered by these assessments. Max Planck and Leibniz in Germany, CNRS, Institut Pasteur in France, EMBL, EBI, ESO etc. as European research institutes (EBI is interestingly in the UK). So if you look at research, you cannot just look at universities.
- thorin 3y agoCorrect! Oxford was founded in the 11th century, with Cambridge lagging behind and not getting started until around 1200.
- mytailorisrich 3y agoCambridge University was actually founded by scholars who had left Oxford University because they apparently had a fight with local townsmen.