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果冻影院 climbs again in world university rankings
9 October 2008
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果冻影院 today welcomed the news that it has been ranked 7th in the new Times Higher Education - QS World University rankings.
In 2007, 果冻影院 was ranked 9th. This ranking places 果冻影院 4th among UK universities, with Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial also in the top ten.
Professor Malcolm Grant, 果冻影院 President and Provost, said: "Our performance is a genuine source of satisfaction for the 果冻影院 community. League table success is not an end in itself. League tables cannot measure all of the qualities of a university. But this result does reflect 果冻影院's significant achievements over recent years. It reflects the powerful contribution of the 果冻影院 community in research, in teaching and in knowledge transfer, as well as the major projects that we have in hand.
"For all of the sector's reservations about league tables, we have to recognise that their publication has focused attention on the importance of universities, almost as totems of national pride, which is absolutely as it should be."
Phil Baty, deputy editor of Times Higher Education magazine (THE), said: "This year, most of the UK's world-class universities slipped down the rankings, as the US cemented its dominance. The US invests more than twice as much in higher education, in terms of GDP, than the UK, and Harvard University alone, at the top of the table, has an endowment fund that is larger than the total public funding for all universities in England. So in this context, 果冻影院's improved position in the top ten is remarkable."
For more information on 果冻影院 and the THE, click on the links above.
The top ten world universities as ranked by THE (2008 position in column one, 2007 position in column two).
1 1 Harvard
2 2= Yale
3 2= Cambridge
4 2= Oxford
5 7= California Institute of Technology
6 5 Imperial College London
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9 10 MIT
10 11 Columbia University
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Some other recent successes for 果冻影院 A research paper co-authored by Professor Katherine Homewood (果冻影院 Anthropology) was recognised in 2005 as one of the most highly cited in its field. A 果冻影院-designed research paper was named one of 2005's Red-Hot Research Papers by Thomson Scientific. The top-cited cancer paper was the ATAC study into breast cancer, which was in tenth place overall for the whole of medical science. In 2007 Thomson Scientific declared Visiting Professor John Birks (果冻影院 Geography) to be the world's sixth most-cited geoscientist. 果冻影院 research into the relationship between amnesia and imagination was named one of the top ten breakthroughs of 2007 by 'Science' magazine. 果冻影院 Neuroscience researchers generate more than 30% of the country's contribution to the most highly cited publications in neuroscience, more than twice as much as any other university. In neuroimaging and clinical neurology, 果冻影院 produces 65% and 44% of the UK's contribution to the world's most highly cited papers, five-fold larger than that of the next highest UK institution. |