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QS Rankings 2018 : Many UK unis fall in rankings.

NB. The latest QS rankings thread is for Subjects here:
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QS released their 2018 rankings. The top 3 remain the same, and the UK still has 4 in the Top 10. Cambridge (now 5th) has swapped places with Caltech.

But overall UK universities haven't faired so well with 51 fallers out of 76 in the ranking.

Top 10 Universities
1. MIT
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Caltech (+1 place from last year)
5. Cambridge (-1)
6. Oxford
7. UCL
8. Imperial (+1)
9. Chicago (+1)
10. ETH Zurich (-2)

Selected others
23= Edinburgh (+4)
23= KCL (-2)
34. Manchester (-5)
35. LSE (-2)
44. Bristol (-3)
57. Warwick (-6)
65. Glasgow (-2)
78= Durham (-4)
82= Sheffield (+2)
84= Nottingham (-9)
84= Birmingham (-2)
92. St Andrews (-22)

St Andrews is the biggest UK faller in the Top 100 since last year.

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2018

(edited 6 years ago)

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Reply 1

FinnToScotland

I’m so happy for Edinburgh 🙌🏽

Reply 2

Thomazo

Why is LSE so low, out of curiosity? Is it because they only specialise in politics/economics?

Reply 3

gr8wizard10

the only rankigns thar matter is that for ib

oxbridge / lse > rest

Reply 4

Notoriety

VC sent out an email a few hours ago about this. Doonesbury is getting slow.

Not sure why the VC Is telling people about QS rankings, given we've already been duped into studying at the uni. Note, he made no mention of the uni losing a few places in the overall ranking.

Reply 5

Doones

Original post by Notoriety

VC sent out an email a few hours ago about this. Doonesbury is getting slow.

Reply 6

SarcAndSpark

Original post by Thomazo

Why is LSE so low, out of curiosity? Is it because they only specialise in politics/economics?

40% of the score comes from "academic reputation" where LSE's is weirdly low (90% compared to 95%+ for UCL and Imperial and 92% for Kings), and it has a very low student:faculty ratio (which you would expect in a uni that specializes in non science subjects). I'd say maybe as a smaller uni that doesn't specialize in science, the weightings are a little biased against them?

Or maybe internationally no-one really rates LSE, who knows?

Reply 7

The Assassin

Warwick has fallen in nearly everything even it's strongest math/economics

Here I was thinking it would cement itself a bit more in a stronger area

(edited 6 years ago)

Reply 8

Capricancer

Original post by Doonesbury

QS has just released their 2018 rankings. The top 3 remain the same, and the UK still has 4 in the Top 10. Cambridge (now 5th) has swapped places with Caltech.

But overall UK universities haven't faired so well with 51 fallers out of 76 in the ranking.

Top 10 Universities
1. MIT
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Caltech (+1 place from last year)
5. Cambridge (-1)
6. Oxford
7. UCL
8. Imperial (+1)
9. Chicago (+1)
10. ETH Zurich (-2)

Selected others
23= Edinburgh (+4)
23= KCL (-2)
34. Manchester (-5)
35. LSE (-2)
44. Bristol (-3)
57. Warwick (-6)
65. Glasgow (-2)
78= Durham (-4)
82= Sheffield (+2)
84= Nottingham (-9)
84= Birmingham (-2)
92. St Andrews (-22)

St Andrews is the biggest UK faller in the Top 100 since last year.

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2018

what's the point of re-posting this...? QS announced their 2018 rankings on the 8th June 2017.

Reply 9

Blue_Cow

Original post by FinnToScotland

I’m so happy for Edinburgh 🙌🏽

Edinburgh's fallen down 7 places in Computer Science - one of it's strongest/flagship Schools (especially for AI).

It still holds a respectable rank though.

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Reply 10

Doones

Original post by Capricancer

what's the point of re-posting this...? QS announced their 2018 rankings on the 8th June 2017.

It's so important we've done it twice... :wink:

(well spotted!)

Reply 11

Fullofsurprises

Original post by Doonesbury

Quite a stretch to picture Cambridge as below Caltech.

Reply 12

username2752874

Original post by gr8wizard10

the only rankigns thar matter is that for ib

oxbridge / lse > rest

Pretty sure UCL and Imperial grads basically have identical success rates :biggrin:

Reply 13

username2752874

Also, isn't this old?

Reply 14

Blue_Cow

Original post by Kyber Ninja

Also, isn't this old?

The QS World Rankings is old, but they only released the Subject rankings today.

Reply 15

Doones

Original post by Fullofsurprises

Quite a stretch to picture Cambridge as below Caltech.

Reply 16

Wikia

Excuse my ignorance, but why does KCL rank so high internationally but so low in our own national rankings?

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Reply 17

SarcAndSpark

Original post by Wikia

Excuse my ignorance, but why does KCL rank so high internationally but so low in our own national rankings?

International academics seem to rate it- more so than they rate LSE (for example). I wonder if it's the name? Or maybe some of them are confusing it with King's College, Cambridge?