The 2015/16 QS World University Rankings® were announced last week and it’s great to see so many UK universities ranking so high on the global stage. We’ve analysed the tables and, below, focus on where the UK uni’s rank internationally. Looking at the data we can see that UK institutions have done extremely well.
First, though, some quick stat’s:
- It’s extremely encouraging to see that 40% of the top 10 universities in the world are UK institutions.
Within Europe, 70% of the top 10 universities are from the UK. - If you look at the top 20 universities in the world, 25% of them are UK universities.
Within Europe, 60% of the top 20 universities are from the UK. - In the top 50 in the world, 20% of them are UK institutions.
Within Europe, 44% of the top 50 universities are from the UK. - For the top 100 in the world, 18% of them are UK establishments.
Within Europe, 30% of the top 100 universities are from the UK.
Just for the record, for the world as a whole the winning spot went to MIT with Harvard coming a close second and then the first UK university (Cambridge) appears just one-tenth of a percentage point behind Harvard at position 3 globally. Our sincere congratulations go out to all of them.
International rankings for UK universities
Here are the top 20 UK institutions and their positions in the QS World University Rankings®:
| Rank: | UK University: |
| 3 | University of Cambridge |
| 6 | University of Oxford |
| 7 | UCL (University College London) |
| 8 | Imperial College London |
| 19 | King’s College London |
| 21 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 33 | The University of Manchester |
| 35 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| 37 | University of Bristol |
| 48 | The University of Warwick |
| 61 | Durham University |
| 62 | University of Glasgow |
| 68 | University of St Andrews |
| 70 | The University of Nottingham |
| 76 | University of Birmingham |
| 80 | The University of Sheffield |
| 81 | University of Southampton |
| 87 | University of Leeds |
| 103 | University of York |
| 109 | Queen Mary University of London |
The QS World University Rankings® judged universities on key indicators such as research, teaching, employability and internationalisation. More information about the judging criteria can be found here and the full ‘global’ university results can be found here.
The Document Centre would like to congratulate all the UK universities – the results speak for themselves and it’s very encouraging to see so many UK institutions holding their ground so firmly on the global stage. It’s also great to see so many of our thesis printing and binding customers featuring so strongly in the list.
The Document Centre are printers and bookbinders based in South London (SE1) along the Southwark Bridge Road. As well as bespoke bookbinding, repair and restoration, a particularly specialist area is university thesis and dissertation printing and binding for university students, who can either drop into the shop or order online then upload their thesis to our system. Call 020 7928 9738 for further details and we’ll be happy to help.