UCL leaps ahead in world university rankings

UCL has jumped up the rankings of the world's top 20 'super elite' universities - rising two places to 14 ^th position this year. The Times Higher Education's (THE) rankings, published today, show that UCL has bucked a UK-wide trend by rising up the tables, while many other major UK institutions have slipped down. This year's list is led by the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge for the second year in a row. But many British universities have fallen with Imperial, Edinburgh, the LSE, King's College London, Manchester and Bristol all losing ground. The results re-affirm UCL's status as a world-leading university following its 7 ^th place in the QS world rankings (third in the UK) and 17 ^th in the Shanghai Rankings (3 ^rd in the UK) earlier this year. The THE's World University Rankings 2019 includes more than 1,250 universities, making it the biggest international league table to date. It is the only global university performance table to judge research-intensive universities across all of their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.