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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the world’s best university for a record-breaking seventh consecutive year. The fifteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings, released today by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds, sees MIT hold outright the record it previously shared with Harvard University.

QS rank the world’s 1000 best universities, which come from 85 different countries. Over 65 million stakeholders will view the rankings on www.TopUniversities.com this year.

Key Facts

• US institutions retain all of the top four positions (Stanford 2^nd, Harvard 3^rd, Caltech 4^th);
• The University of Oxford (5^th globally) is the UK’s top university for the first time since the US began compiling standalone rankings in 2011;
• Both UK and US universities record more improvements than drops, representing stabilization for both sectors after recent regressions;
• Continental Europe’s best university is ETH Zurich (7^th, up from 10^th);
• Asia’s two best universities are the National University of Singapore (11^th) and compatriot Nanyang Technological University (12^th);
• China achieves its first top-20 position in the QS World University Rankings: Tsinghua University places 17^th;
• Latin America continues to struggle, especially in QS’s research metric, but Argentina’s Universidad de Buenos Aires reaches its highest-ever rank (73^rd, up from 75^th);
• Both Malaysia and Russia record consistent, noteworthy improvements.

The full rankings can be found at www.TopUniversities.com from Wednesday 6^th June, 21:00 BST.