The best university in the world
According to the QS World University rankings it is.... Cambridge:
'Cambridge University has edged out Harvard to become the first non-US university to top a global ranking, according to a survey released Wednesday.The British-based Cambridge knocked Harvard out of the top spot for the first time in the seven-year history of the QS World University Rankings released by the London consultancy Quacquarelli Symonds Limited.
The survey, which in previous years had been conducted with The Times of London, had six American and four British schools in the top 10.
US-based Yale University was ranked third, followed by University College London, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford University, Imperial College London, the University of Chicago, California Institute of Technology and Princeton University.
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You can see the full survey here.