Britain's finest: Cambridge University, with Trinity College pictured here, is the third best regarded university on the planet. |
Cambridge is the most highly regarded UK university in the world, according to new research. The prestigious institution came third in a table ranking universities exclusively on their reputation among academics worldwide. The UK had two institutions in the top 10 - along with Cambridge, Oxford University was placed sixth. The United States dominated The Times Higher Education world reputation rankings, with seven institutions in the top 10. The only other country to make the top 10, besides the US and UK, was Japan, with Tokyo University in eighth place. The world-famous Harvard University in the US topped today's rankings, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also a US university. In total, the US had 45 universities in the top 100, while the UK had 12 and Japan had five. These three nations were the best represented in the rankings. Canada, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands each had four universities in the top 100. The rankings looked at universities reputations for world-class performance in teaching and research. It is based on a survey of 13,388 academics from 131 countries, carried out in 2010 by Ipsos Media for the Times Higher Education magazine's ranking-data supplier Thomson Reuters. THE TOP 10 UNIVERSITIES - BY REPUTATION 1 Harvard University US 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 3 University of Cambridge UK 4 University of California Berkeley US 5 Stanford University US 6 University of Oxford UK 7 Princeton University US 8 University of Tokyo Japan 9 Yale University US 10 California Institute of Technology US (Read by Lee Hannon. Lee Hannon is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
根据新调查,剑桥大学被认为是全世界最好的英国大学。 久负盛名的剑桥在一项完全根据各大学在全球学术界的名气而进行的排行中名列第三。 英国有两所大学进入了前十名,除了剑桥大学之外,还有排行第六的牛津大学。 在“泰晤士报世界大学名气排行榜”中,美国的大学占了大多数,前十名就有七所大学是美国的大学。 除了美国和英国,前十名中来自其他国家的大学只有日本的东京大学,排在第八名。 世界著名的美国哈佛大学在今天发布的这一排行榜上居首位,紧随其后的是麻省理工学院,也是一所美国大学。 美国共有45所大学进入了前100名,英国有12所,日本有5所。这三个国家在排行榜中表现最佳。 加拿大、澳大利亚、德国和荷兰各有四所大学进入了前100名。 该排行评估了各大学在教学和研究上的国际声誉。 这一排行基于对131个国家的1.3万名学者的调查。该调查是Ipsos Media公司为《泰晤士高等教育》杂志的排行数据供应商汤姆森路透集团在2010年开展的。 世界大学名气排行榜前十位: 1. 哈佛大学 美国 2. 麻省理工学院 美国 3. 剑桥大学 英国 4. 加州大学伯克利分校 美国 5. 斯坦福大学 美国 6. 牛津大学 英国 7. 普林斯顿大学 美国 8. 东京大学 日本 9. 耶鲁大学 美国 10. 加州理工学院 美国 相关阅读 (中国日报网英语点津 陈丹妮 编辑:冯明惠) |
Vocabulary: prestigious: respected and admired as very important or of very high quality(有威望的;声誉高的) |