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Where's Harvard? Why are all the British Universities out of the top five? The Times Higher Education has published its list of the top 100 universities in the world - just days after a competing list was published. See how they compare Harvard is back at number one - and there is not a British university in the top five. This week's list of the world's top 100 universities makes very different reading from the list published by careers advice company QS, in which Cambridge came top and Harvard second. The top 100 is dominated by American institutions, but China and South Korea have also scored highly after compilers placed less emphasis on "reputation and heritage" and gave more weight to objective measures including the influence of universities' research. The league table published today by the magazine Times Higher Education (THE) is topped by Harvard. American universities take all five top places and have 72 entries in the global top 200. Britain has three institutions in the top 10, with Imperial College London at ninth. But there are just five British universities in the top 50 – UCL is rated 22nd and Edinburgh 40th – and only 14 in the top 100. Says the THE:
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