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The world’s best universities

U.S. schools continued to fare well in the World’s Best Universities rankings, U.S. News reports. In what may be a sign of the growth of science and technology [1] in international education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrestled the top spot in the new U.S. News World’s Best Universities rankings [2] away from University of Cambridge, which was No. 1 for the past two years. MIT, which tied for sixth place among National Universities [3] in the recent U.S. News Best Colleges rankings, had ranked No. 3 in the previous World’s Best rankings. The new 2012 data are based on the QS World University Rankings, developed by QS Quacquarelli Symonds [4]. Harvard University dropped from second in the 2011 rankings to third place, and Cambridge assumed the second spot on the new list…

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