Harvard best university

Harvard University has topped an annual world university ranking compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University for the eighth year in a row.
The league table is once again dominated by US institutions, with Harvard followed by the University of California, Berkeley second and Stanford University third.
The top-rated institution from mainland Europe is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (23rd), while the Australian National University is the country's highest flyer (59th). No Chinese institutions make the top 100.

The other UK institutions to make the list are: University College London (21st), Imperial College London (26th), the University of Manchester (44th), the University of Edinburgh (54th), King's College London (63rd), the University of Bristol (66th), the University of Nottingham (84th), the University of Sheffield (88th) and the University of Birmingham (99th). More than half of the top 100 - 54 institutions - are in the US, 10 are in the UK, 23 in mainland Europe, nine in the Asia Pacific region and four in Canada.

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