UK institutions are slipping in the global reputation rankings as new entrants from Asia join the Times Higher Education top 100
British universities
account for 10% of the world’s best when it comes to global reputation,
but many have dropped down the rankings in the past year.
The Oxbridge institutions just managed to stay in the top five of the 100 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, but both have moved down two places since last year.
The University of Bristol and Durham University have fallen out of the top 100, bringing the UK’s total number of universities in the rankings to 10 for 2016.
Britain is second only to the US for the number of universities making an appearance this year, with Harvard at the top of the list for the sixth year in a row.
Times Higher Education rankings editor Phil Baty said the UK’s drop-off comes as Asian universities move up in the rankings and questioned whether funding cuts have contributed.
He said: “The UK will have to ensure that it can still draw in talent and investment from across the world and it does not lose its position at the heart of higher education’s global elite.”
Baty said six universities, four from the US as well as Oxford and Cambridge, have dominated the top half of the rankings for the past five years, but added that other countries are making gains.
He said: “Outside this tiny supergroup, the global higher education world is changing, and some leading lights in the US and UK, for example, household names, have lost ground, while universities in China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea are all making progress. We now have a Chinese university in the world top 20 for the first time, and another right behind it in the top 30.”
The Oxbridge institutions just managed to stay in the top five of the 100 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, but both have moved down two places since last year.
The University of Bristol and Durham University have fallen out of the top 100, bringing the UK’s total number of universities in the rankings to 10 for 2016.
Britain is second only to the US for the number of universities making an appearance this year, with Harvard at the top of the list for the sixth year in a row.
Times Higher Education rankings editor Phil Baty said the UK’s drop-off comes as Asian universities move up in the rankings and questioned whether funding cuts have contributed.
He said: “The UK will have to ensure that it can still draw in talent and investment from across the world and it does not lose its position at the heart of higher education’s global elite.”
Baty said six universities, four from the US as well as Oxford and Cambridge, have dominated the top half of the rankings for the past five years, but added that other countries are making gains.
He said: “Outside this tiny supergroup, the global higher education world is changing, and some leading lights in the US and UK, for example, household names, have lost ground, while universities in China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea are all making progress. We now have a Chinese university in the world top 20 for the first time, and another right behind it in the top 30.”
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