The University of Harvard has kept its pole postition in a world university ranking for 2006. However, Cambridge and Oxford have moved to second and third places respectively. Both universities crept up the table, removing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology also known as MIT from its second place. MIT is now ranked fourth in the Times Higher Education Supplement's table.
29 British universities made it into the top 200 universities. This is a rise of 6 from last year, the largest rise from any country.
A London university is now in the top 10 also, Imperial College London has risen to 9th, from 13th in 2005. Imperial College have agreed a split from the University of London in order to displace itself from other London universities such as London School of Economics and University College London.
Imperial College expects to become completely independent from the University of London in July 2007, which also makes the college's centenary. Students will hence receive degree certificates from Imperial College rather than the University of London.
The university findings were based on a survey of over 3,000 academics worldwide. Those questioned were asked to nominate up to 30 educational institutions they believed as the best at research in their fields of expertise. On that indicator alone, Cambridge University came top, followed by Oxford and Harvard.
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Oxbridge and Imperial are part of top ten world universities
Fri, 06 Oct 2006

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