No Africa University is Among Top 100 World Universities- QS rankings

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The QS annual world university rankings were published today, with MIT maintaining its position as the top-ranked university worldwide.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has retained its position as the top ranked university in the world, according to annual league tables.

The QS World Universities 2015/16 rankings, published today, also saw Harvard rise from fourth place last year to take second spot this year, overtaking the University of Cambridge.

Imperial College London, which was placed joint second last year, slipped to eighth, while the University of Oxford and UCL also fell in the rankings.

However, despite these slips, the UK has maintained its reputation for world class higher education. London, in particular, performed strongly, as the only city in the world with four universities in the top 50, more than Boston and New York (3) Paris, Sydney, Hong Kong and Beijing (2).

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, praised institutions in the Capital, saying the city was the "education capital of the world."

"The city’s education sector is going from strength to strength," he said. "Attracting the world’s top talent and producing the next generation of great thinkers and leaders."

The QS top 100 world universities

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1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 2. Harvard University 3= University of Cambridge 3= Stanford University 5. California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) 6. University of Oxford 7. UCL (University College London) 8. Imperial College London 9. Eth Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) 10. University of Chicago 11. Princeton University 12. National University of Singapore (NUS) 13. Nanyang Technological University (NTU) 14. École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 15. Yale University 16. Johns Hopkins University 17. Cornell University 18. University of Pennsylvania 19= Australian National University (ANU) 19= Kings College London KCL) 21. University of Edinburgh

22. Columbia University 23. École normale supérieure, Paris (ENS Paris) 24. McGill University 25. Tsinghua University 26. University of California Berkeley, Berkeley (UCB) 27. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 28. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) 29. Duke University 30= University of Michigan 30= University of Hong Kong (HKU) 32. Northwestern University 33. University of Manchester 34. University of Toronto 35. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 36. Seoul National University (SNU) 37. University of Bristol 38. Kyoto University 39. The University of Tokyo 40. Ecole Polytechnique Paristech

Imperial College London Photo: Alamy

41. Peking University 42. The University of Melbourne 43. KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 44. University of California, San Diego (UCSD) 45. The University of Sydney 46= The University of New South Wales (UNSW) 46= The University of Queensland (UQ) 48. University of Warwick 49. Brown University 50. University of British Columbia 51= The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) 51= Fudan University 53. New York University (NYU) 54. University of Wisconsin-Madison 55. University of Amsterdam 56. Tokyo Institute of Technology 57. City University of Hong Kong 58. Osaka University 59. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 60. Technische Universitat Munchen

London School of Economics and Political Science Photo: Alex Sagre

61. Durham University 62= Carnegie Mellon University 62= University of Glasgow 64. Delft University of Technology 65. University of Washington 66. Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg 67. Monash University 68. University of St Andrews 69. University of Copenhagen 70= National Taiwan University (NTU) 70= Lund University 70= Shanghai Jiao Tong University 70= University of Nottingham 74. Tohoku University 75. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen 76. University of Birmingham 77. University of Texas at Austin 78. Trinity College Dublin (TCD) 79. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 80. University of Sheffield

81. University of Southampton 82= The University of Auckland 82= Katholieke Universiteit 84. Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) 85= University of California, Davis (UCD) 85= University of Zurich 87= University of Leeds 87= Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) 89= Purdue University 89= University of Geneva 91. Boston University 92. KTH, Royal Institute of Technology 93. KIT, Karlsruher Institute Fur Technologie 94. Utrecht University 95. Leiden University 96= University of Helsinki 96= University of Alberta 98. The University of Western Australia (UWA) 99. Ohio State University 100. University of Groningen