QS World University Rankings; Photo courtesy of www.topuniversities.com

The just released QS World University Rankings for 2013-2014, have shown few surprises in the list – mostly stable the ranking reaffirms the U.K. and the U.S. as hotspots for top academic institutions.

Interestingly though, U.S. universities represent less than a third of the top 100 universities on the list, and only a quarter of the top 200. The list also indicates a resurgence in European universities – possibly due to an increase in English-taught courses. Several Asian and Australian universities continue to feature on the list, but QS cites the picture for the Asian university trend as being “mixed”.

Here’s the list for the Top 50 ranked universities; for more see QS World University Rankings.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (USA)
2. Harvard University (USA)
3. University of Cambridge (UK)
4. University College London (UCL) (UK)
5. Imperial College London (UK)
6. University of Oxford (UK)
7. Stanford University (USA)
8. Yale University (USA)
9. University of Chicago (USA)
10. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (USA)
11. Princeton University (USA)
12. ETH Zurch (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) (SWITZERLAND)
13. University of Pennsylvania (USA)
14. Columbia University (USA)
15. Cornell University (USA)
16. Johns Hopkins University (USA)
17. University of Edinburgh (UK)
18. University of Toronto (CANADA)
19. Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (SWITZERLAND)
20. King’s College London (UK)
21. McGill University (CANADA)
22. University of Michigan (USA)
23. Duke University (USA)
24. National University of Singapore (NUS) (SINGAPORE)
25. University of California, Berkeley (USA)
26. University of Hong Kong (HONG KONG)
27. Australian National University (AUSTRALIA)
28. Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (FRANCE)
29. Northwestern University (USA)
30. University of Bristol (UK)
31. The University of Melbourne (AUSTRALIA)
32. The University of Tokyo (JAPAN)
33. The University of Manchester (UK)
34. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HONG KONG)
35. Kyoto University (JAPAN)
36. Seoul National University (KOREA)
37. University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
38. The University of Sydney (AUSTRALIA)
39. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (HONG KONG)
40. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (USA)
41. Ecole Polytechnique (FRANCE)
42. Nanyang Technological University (SINGAPORE)
43. The University of Queensland (AUSTRALIA)
44. New York University (NYU) (USA)
45. University of Copenhagen (DENMARK)
46. Peking University (PR CHINA)
47. Brown University (USA)
48. Tsinghua University (PR CHINA)
49. University of British Columbia (CANADA)
50. Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg (GERMANY)

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