Ten UK universities made it into the world’s top 50

King’s College London (Picture: PA)

Hurrah! Brainy UK is home to 10 of the world’s top 50 universities.



The University of Cambridge is the highest ranking in Britain, coming third in the QS World University Rankings.

And London is the only city that’s home to four universities in the top 50.

Cambridge came top in the UK (Picture: Nick Ansell/PA Wire

Unfortunately we were beaten to the top spot by MIT and Harvard, which took first and second place respectively.

Here are the top 10 in the UK then in the world – is your uni on here?

The top 10 universities in UK

1. The University of Cambridge

2. The University of Oxford

3. University College London

4. Imperial College London

5. The University of Bristol

6. The University of Warwick

7. London School of Economics

8. King’s College London

9. The University of Manchester

10. The University of Edinburgh

Top 10 universities in the world

University College London (Picture: Ian Waldie/Getty Images)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Harvard University

University of Cambridge

Stanford University

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

University of Oxford

University College London (UCL)

Imperial College London

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

University of Chicago

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