QS world university rankings 2014 full list: Four UK universities dominate top five

The four UK universities that dominated the top five are Cambridge University, Imperial College Oxford and UCL.

18:21 16 September 2014

Four UK universities have dominated the top five of the latest QS ranking. Claiming the top spot is Massachusetts Institute of technology followed by England’s leaders Imperial and Cambridge as equal second.

Harvard is in fourth place this year followed by Oxford and University of College London in joint fifth place. Stanford, Caltech, Princeton and Yale of the US also made it to the top 10.

Professor Alice Gast, Imperial's new president of Imperial College and a leading chemical engineer, said: "These rankings support what our students, alumni, staff, friends and collaborators know, that Imperial is one of the world's great universities. Imperial has a rare ability to turn outstanding research into discoveries that have a real impact on the world."

Ben Sowter, head of research at QS, said the top 10 had excellent academic reputations, graduate recruitment, staff-student ratios and international reach for faculty and students. "The performance of Imperial in citations per faculty has helped it become the biggest climber in the top 10, leapfrogging Harvard, UCL and Oxford to rank second equal in the world, tied with Cambridge.”

The UK universities in the top 100 are: Cambridge (2), Imperial (2), Oxford (5), UCL (5), KCL (16), Edinburgh (17), Bristol (29), Manchester (30), Glasgow (55), Warwick (61), Birmingham (64), Sheffield (69), LSE (71), Nottingham (77), St Andrews (88), Durham (92), Southampton (94), Leeds (97) and Queen Mary, University of London (98).

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Rank 2014	Rank 2013	Institution	Country	Overall score
1	1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100
2=	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	99.4
2=	4	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	99.4
4	2	Harvard University	United States	99.3
5=	6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	99.2
5=	4	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	99.2
7	7	Stanford University	United States	98.3
8	10=	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	97.1
9	10=	Princeton University	United States	96.6
10	8	Yale University	United States	96.5
11	9	University of Chicago	United States	95.5
12	12	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	95.3
13	13	University of Pennsylvania	United States	94.5
14=	14	Columbia University	United States	94.1
14=	16	Johns Hopkins University	United States	94.1
16	19=	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	92.9
17=	17=	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	92.8
17=	19=	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	92.8
19	15	Cornell University	United States	92.6
20	17=	University of Toronto	Canada	92.4
21	21	McGill University	Canada	91.5
22	24	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	91.1
23	22	University of Michigan	United States	90.3
24	28	Ecole normale supérieure, Paris	France	90.2
25=	27	Australian National University	Australia	89.7
25=	23	Duke University	United States	89.7
27	25	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	89.5
28	26	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	88.8
29	30	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	88.5
30	33	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	86.9
31=	32	The University of Tokyo	Japan	86.7
31=	35	Seoul National University	Korea, South	86.7
33	31	The University of Melbourne	Australia	86.5
34	29	Northwestern University	United States	86
35	41=	Ecole Polytechnique	France	85
36	35=	Kyoto University	Japan	84.7
37=	40	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	84.3
37=	38	The University of Sydney	Australia	84.3
39	41=	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	84
40	34	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	83.3
41=	44	New York University (NYU)	United States	82.5
41=	37	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	82.5
43=	49	University of British Columbia	Canada	82.4
43=	43	The University of Queensland	Australia	82.4
45	45	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	82
46	39	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	81.9
47	48	Tsinghua University	China	81.3
48	52	The University of New South Wales	Australia	81.2
49	50	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	81.1
50	58	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	80.5
51	60	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	Korea, South	79.9
52=	65	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	79.8
52=	47	Brown University	United States	79.8
54	53	Technische Universität München	Germany	79.7
55=	55	Osaka University	Japan	79.6
55=	51	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	79.6
57=	46	Peking University	China	78.8
57=	78	University of Zurich	Switzerland	78.8
59	63	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	78.6
60	67	Lund University	Sweden	78.3
61	64	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	78.1
62	54	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	77.5
63	56	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	76.9
64	62	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	76.7
65=	59	University of Washington	United States	76.5
65=	57	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	76.5
67	69	University of Helsinki	Finland	76.4
68	66	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	76.3
69	71=	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	75.7
70	69=	Monash University	Australia	75.5
71=	88	Fudan University	China	75.3
71=	68	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	75.3
71=	75=	Tohoku University	Japan	75.3
71=	61	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	75.3
75	74	Leiden University	Netherlands	75.2
76	82	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	75.1
77	75=	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	74.9
78	79=	Boston University	United States	74.8
79	71=	University of Texas at Austin	United States	74.6
80	81	Utrecht University	Netherlands	74.5
81	79=	Uppsala University	Sweden	74.2
82	77	KU Leuven	Belgium	74.1
83	92=	Université de Montréal	Canada	73.6
84	96	University of Alberta	Canada	73.3
85	71=	University of Geneva	Switzerland	73.1
86=	95	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	72.9
86=	107=	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	Korea, South	72.9
88	83	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	72.7
89	84	The University of Western Australia	Australia	72.6
90=	97=	University of Groningen	Netherlands	72.1
90=	92=	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	72.1
92=	94	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	72
92=	90	Durham University	United Kingdom	72
94	86=	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	71.9
95	85	University of California, Davis	United States	71.7
96	91	Aarhus University	Denmark	71.6
97	97=	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	71.3
98	115	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)	United Kingdom	71.2
99	86=	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	70.8
100	104=	The University of Adelaide	Australia	70.5