Les grandes universités du monde sont aux USA, en Grande-Bretagne, au Japon et au Canada.

par John Ven 16 Mar 2012, 19:17

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/15/asian-universities-challenge-us-uk-domination

Britain has better universities than any other country apart from the US, but Asian nations are catching up fast, a survey of the world's top thinkers shows.

Campuses across the world were rated by 17,554 leading academics from 149 countries according to how good they thought their research and teaching were.

Harvard takes the top spot, with the University of Cambridge in third place and the University of Oxford in sixth place – the same as last year.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology comes second, while Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, are in fourth and fifth place.

The results, published as a league table by Times Higher Education magazine, places 44 US universities in the top 100 – one fewer than last year – while Britain has 10, two fewer than last year. Japan and the Netherlands have five each in the top 100.

Just four countries are represented in the top 20: the US, the UK, Japan and Canada.