MIT breaks records in QS University Rankings 2019

07 Jun 2018

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The results are in! The QS University Rankings 2019 have at last been revealed. The defining feature of this year’s long awaited league table: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has broken records, coming in at number one for the seventh consecutive year.

Yesterday we were wondering whether MIT could achieve such a feat, also questioning whether an Australian university could retain its space in the top 20 and how Brexit would affect the UK’s reputation…

Now, we have the answers.

The rankings are as follows:

Ranking	University	Country
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	US
2	Stanford University	US
3	Harvard University	US
4	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	US
5	University of Oxford	UK
6	University of Cambridge	UK
7	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland
8	Imperial College London	UK
9	University of Chicago	US
10	UCL (University College London)	UK
11	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore
12	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore
13	Princeton University	US
14	Cornell University	US
15	Yale University	US
16	Columbia University	US
17	Tsinghua University	China
18	The University of Edinburgh	UK
19	University of Pennsylvania	US
20	University of Michigan	US

MIT has broken records

MIT has held title of best university in the world for the seventh year in a row – the longest time any institution has held this position down in the history of QS!

MIT is closely followed by three fellow US universities: Stanford, Harvard and Caltech, who landed second, third and fourth place respectively.

Half of the top 10 is held by US universities.

The UK holds its own

As predicted, Cambridge, Oxford and a handful of London universities were ranked highly, with four in the top 10. Despite the looming shadow of Brexit on the horizon, the UK’s reputation in the ‘international representation’ aspect of the rankings has so far remained intact, and UK universities are still considered among the best in the world.

Oxford swoops in at fifth followed by Cambridge at sixth. Imperial College London has also made the top ten, holding down eighth place while UCL comes in at number 10.

Australia slips from the top 20

Poor old Oz! Having snuck its way into the top 20 last year with the Australian National University, Oz’s top performing institution has now slipped down to number 24.

Australia now has no universities in the top 20 – and nor does Canada with its top university, University of Toronto, coming in at number 28.

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Sigapore’s success

Two Singaporean universities, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have made the top 10 – a real impressive feat! Last year, no Singaporean institutions were in the top 10, with NTU landing slot 11 and NUS at number 15.

You can view the full rankings of the world’s top 1,000 universities on QS’ website.