Ten UK universities are in the top 100 of the Times Higher Education World Rankings for 2012-13. This should be compared with 12 for 2011-2012 and 14 in 2010-11.
Not including Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College and University College London, several top UK universities have slipped down the rankings.
Universities I know well
Manchester this year is ranked 49.
Sussex fell from 99th to 110th loosing its top 100 status.
World top 20
- California Institute of Technology
- Oxford (joint 2nd)
- Stanford (joint 2nd)
- Harvard
- MIT
- Princeton
- Cambridge
- Imperial College
- California, Berkeley
- Chicago
- Yale
- ETH Zurich
- California, Los Angeles
- Columbia
- Pennsylvania
- Johns Hopkins
- UCL
- Cornell
- Northwestern
- Michigan
Source: Times Higher Education
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