By Graeme Paton. Record numbers of British universities have been named among the world’s elite despite warnings that institutions risk being overtaken by global competitors during the financial crisis. New international league tables published today list six British universities in the top 20 compared with just four a year earlier. Read more...
By Graeme Paton. Rising numbers of pupils from the country’s leading private schools are turning their backs on top British universities in favour of degree courses abroad, according to new research. Figures suggest nine out of 10 headmasters have witnessed an increase in sixth-formers seeking courses in the United States, Holland, Canada and Australia over the last two years. Read more...
Danny Byrne explains the research methodology and six main criteria behind the QS World University Rankings 2013
Top 200 QS World University Rankings 2013
The primary aim of the QS World University Rankings 2013 is to help students make more informed comparisons between their international study options. The rankings compare the world's top 800 institutions across broad areas that are of interest to prospective students: research, teaching, employability and international outlook. More...
By Grete Luxbacher. With government policy increasingly shaped by global rankings, Grete Luxbacher surveys the impact of the biggest tables.
Explore the Top 200 QS World University Rankings 2013
Global university rankings are a competitive business – not only for universities, but for the companies that research and publish them. They are simultaneously criticised and lauded. And while few can agree on which methodology is the most robust, there is consensus that global university rankings are here to stay, that no ranking is all encompassing and that their influence is growing. Students, universities and governments are taking note and action. The first international rankings, the Academic Ranking of World Universities or Shanghai Rankings, were published in 2003 by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. More...
By Jay Rosen. A Johns Hopkins computer science professor blogs on the NSA and is asked to take it down. I fear for academic freedom.
This actually happened yesterday:
A professor in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins, a leading American university, had written a post on his blog, hosted on the university's servers, focused on his area of expertise, which is cryptography. The post was highly critical of the government, specifically the National Security Agency, whose reckless behavior in attacking online security astonished him. More...
By Kerry Eustice, Libby Page, Nancy Groves. Plus how teachers can beat stress and what new students need to know to keep healthy on campus. University rankings are the subject of fevered debate. Even Barack Obama is getting involved: US higher education may be getting "Obamarank", as presidential plans have been nicknamed, to lower the costs of US college education by publicly ranking institutions according to their value for money. More...
By Ami Sedghi. MIT has been named the world's top university for the second year in a row. See how it compare to the rest of the world's top 100 institutions in the QS' 2013 rankings.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has maintained its position at the top of the QS World University Rankings, beating Harvard and Cambridge for the second year in a row. More...
By Louise Tickle. Beat high fees by netting a scholarship – or opt for a country just stepping into the international university market. If you want to pack up your laptop and head away from cold, drizzly and increasingly expensive Britain for your undergraduate degree, you're not alone. Winter in Grenada sounds like it might be bearable. Studying in Sienna as spring approaches could be balmy. Prague is going to be great at pretty much any time of year. But what if you have an itchier foot and want to explore further afield? There's a whole world of higher education out there: America, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia or China sound like fun?More...
By Helen Price. UK students are choosing to escape tuition fees by making the most of scholarships in the US.
Tips on how to study abroad
This month first year students will be starting univerisity in the UK. A growing number, however, are choosing to steer clear of Ucas altogether, by studying in the US instead. You might think that studying abroad would be too expensive, but with the help of scholarships and bursaries, studying in the US might not be out of reach. The US-UK Fulbright Commission, an organisation that promotes educational exchange between the two countries, says that 9,186 British students studied at American universities in the 2011/2012 academic year, a 2.7% rise on 2010/11. More...
By Shreya Paudel. Universities are eager to accept our fees – but are they doing enough to support young people like me who come from far away to study in the UK?
Can we do more to welcome international students?
Some of the international students who contribute £8bn a year to the UK economy are the well-heeled sons and daughters of elite families. But not all conform to that stereotype: many have poor parents who scrimped and saved to get them to the UK. More...
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