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 in international education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrestled the top spot in the new U.S. News World’s Best Universities rankings away from University of Cambridge, which was No. 1 for the past two years. MIT, which tied for sixth place among National Universities 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. 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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