L.A.’s three main analysis universities – UCLA, California Institute of Expertise and USC – have slipped barely in an annual rating from Times Higher Education, although UCLA and Caltech nonetheless price within the high 25.
Pasadena’s Caltech dropped to No. 3 this yr from No. 2 final yr, tying with Stanford College in Palo Alto. Britain’s two premier analysis universities – Oxford and Cambridge – took the highest two slots.
UCLA dropped one spot to No. 15, whereas USC fell six locations to No. 66.
A abstract on Occasions Increased Schooling’s web site notes that of the 62 U.S. analysis universities within the high 200, 29 dropped in rating as a number of universities from Europe and China moved up the record.
London-based Occasions Increased Schooling gives knowledge and evaluation on the world’s main analysis universities. Its annual rating of analysis universities – which grew to 1,000 colleges this yr – takes into consideration the standard of the colleges’ academics, analysis, data switch and international outlook.
General, 157 U.S. analysis universities made the record. Moreover UCLA, 5 different College of California campuses made the highest 100: UC Berkeley (No. 18), UC San Diego (No. 31), UC Santa Barbara and UC Davis (Nos. 53 and 54 respectively), and UC Irvine (No. 99).
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