Three British universities in world top 10

The Times Higher Education’s latest world university rankings reveal that Britain still has the second-best education system worldwide, although the authors raised concerns that funding cuts and the proposed tripling of tuition fees could damage the UK’s international standing.

Oxford was rated the UK’s best university, coming fourth in the new table, putting it above Cambridge which was in sixth place. This is partly due to changes in the way institutions are ranked.

Last year the two institutions were joint sixth.

Imperial College London was the third UK university to make this year’s top 10.

Overall, seven UK universities were ranked in the top 50, and 12 in the top 100. This is down slightly on last year when 14 were in the top 100.

There were 32 UK universities in the top 200, the rankings for 2011-12 also show.