Brown’s reputation makes list of world’s top 100

THE WORLD REPUTATION RANKINGS were released Wednesday by Times Higher Education and Brown University earned a spot on the list.
THE WORLD REPUTATION RANKINGS were released Wednesday by Times Higher Education and Brown University earned a spot on the list.

PROVIDENCE – Brown University earned a place among the 100 “most prestigious universities in the planet,” according to Times Higher Education, which published the 2015 World Reputation Rankings Wednesday.
Brown ranked in the 71 to 80 group on the list; last year it was among the 81 to 90 group.
Harvard University was first, for the second year in a row, followed by the University of Cambridge (fourth last year) and University of Oxford (fifth last year), both in the United Kingdom.
The U.S. represented the rest of the top 10: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (second last year), Stanford University (third last year), University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, Yale University, California Institute of Technology and Columbia University. Columbia made the top 10 for the first time, according to the Times.

Last year, University of California at Berkeley, Princeton, Yale and California Institute of Technology held the same spots.

Overall, the report found that the U.S. continues to dominate, with 26 of the top 50 places and 43 of the top 100. The U.S. held 46 spots last year.
However, funding cuts have caused some public universities to lose ground, noting that UCLA is out of the top 10 and now 13th; the University of Michigan slipped from 15th to 19th; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign dropped from 23rd to 30th; the University of Wisconsin-Madison fell 10 places to tie for 38th; and the University of Texas at Austin declined from 33rd to 46th.
Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education Rankings, said in a statement, “The U.S. is the undisputed superpower when it comes to the world’s most prestigious universities, taking eight of the top 10 places in the reputation table and more than half of the top 50. However, there are warning signs: U.S. public universities, which have suffered harsh funding cuts, continue to slide down the list. The U.S.’ utter dominance cannot be taken for granted and some great institutions risk losing their global status.”
The Times said Mexico made its first appearance in the global top 100, with the National Autonomous University of Mexico entering the 71-80 band. Brazil’s flagship, the University of São Paulo, also jumped from the 81-90 group to the 51-60 band.
Twenty-one countries are represented on the list. After the U.S., the U.K. has the most universities on the list with 12; last year, it had 10.

The 2015 results were drawn from 10,507 survey responses from published senior academics who on average have worked in higher education for 15 years.

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