2010 QS 世界大学排行榜报告 QS_World_University_Rankings_top500.pdfVIP

2010 Distinguish yourself King’s is ranked in the top 25 universities worldwide* and based in the heart of London. With nine Schools and six Medical Research Council centres, King’s offers world-class teaching and research. Our extensive range of subjects includes humanities, law, medicine, psychiatry, dentistry, nursing, mathematics; natural, biomedical, social and management sciences. *QS World University Rankings, 2010 www.kcl.ac.uk A shift in power John O’Leary looks at the top performers in this year’s QS World University Rankings® Cambridge has replaced Harvard at the Yale University and University College On the evidence of this year’s rankings, the US pinnacle of global higher education in the first London (UCL) hold on to third and fourth remains the dominant force in higher education, change of leadership in seven years of the QS places respectively in the 2010 rankings, with but the balance of power is shifting to some World University Rankings®*. the Massachusetts Institute of Technology extent. There are 53 US universities in the top The 2010 rankings show a growing European (MIT) moving up from ninth place to complete 200, compared with 58 two years ago. Many US challenge to the domination of US universities, the top five. This year’s top 20 contains 13 US universities are feeling the effects of budget cuts with leading institutions in the UK, Germany and four UK universities, but Switzerland, and sharp drops in their endowment. Similar and Switzerland in particular, improving their Canada and Australia are also represented. or more