Edinburgh only Scottish university to make world's top 100

THE University of Edinburgh was the only Scottish university to make a list of the world's most reputable universities.

Graduates from the University of Edinburgh throw their scolls in the air after graduating. Picture: Ian Rutherford

British Universities account for a 10th of the world’s best when it comes to global reputation but many have dropped down the rankings in the past year.

The Oxbridge institutions just managed to stay in the top five of the 100 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, but both have moved down two places since last year.

Edinburgh was ranked 38th in the World Reputation Rankings.

The University of Bristol and Durham University have fallen out of the top 100, bringing the UK’s total number of universities in the rankings to 10 for 2016.

Britain is second only to the United States for the number of universities making an appearance this year, with Harvard at the top of the list for the sixth year in a row.

Times Higher Education rankings editor Phil Baty said the UK’s drop-off comes as Asian universities move up in the rankings and questioned whether funding cuts have contributed.

He said: “The UK will have to ensure that it can still draw in talent and investment from across the world and it does not lose its position at the heart of higher education’s global elite.”

Mr Baty said six universities, four from America as well as Oxford and Cambridge, have dominated the top half of the rankings for the past five years, but added that other countries are making gains.

He said: “Outside this tiny super group, the global higher education world is changing, and some leading lights in the US and UK, for example, household names, have lost ground, while universities in China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea are all making progress. We now have a Chinese university in the world top 20 for the first time, and another right behind it in the top 30.”

Here is a list of the UK universities in The Times top 100 World Reputation Rankings:

• University of Cambridge, 4

• University of Oxford, 5

• Imperial College London, 15

• University College London, 20

• London School of Economics and Political Science, 24

• University of Edinburgh, 38

• King’s College London, 43

• University of Manchester, 49

• London Business School, 81-90

• University of Warwick, 81-90

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