World's top universities include 29 in Spain
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 @ 11:50 AM
THE world's top 1,000 universities include 29 in Spain – two more than last year – according to the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Along with the UK and Spain, a further 75 countries are present on the list which, once again, is topped by Oxford, with Cambridge having leap-frogged the California Institute of Technology to snatch second place from it, climbing from fourth last year.
Once again, Spain's highest-ranked university is the Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (pictured), at number 140, sandwiched between the British universities of Leeds (139) and Birmingham (joint 141 with that of Eindhoven, The Netherlands).
In fact, the Pompeu Fabra, or UPF, has shot up 25 places from last year's 165, and Barcelona Autonomous University (UAB) has gone from 163 in the previous ranking to 147 – a meteoric rise, but dropping below the UPF.
Now sharing a ranking with the University of Nottingham and the University of Sussex (UK), Spain's second-ranked higher education institution is just below that of Oslo and just above that of Lancaster.
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