Four British institutions have been ranked in top five of the world's universities, it has been revealed.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology grabbed the top spot in top five of the world's universities, whereas Cambridge University and Imperial College were ranked at second-equal in the list, the Guardian reported.
According to the QS rankings of world universities, Harvard University was ranked fourth and Oxford and University College London were placed jointly at fifth place.
Professor Alice Gast, Imperial's new president of Imperial College, said that these rankings supported what their students, alumni, staff, friends and collaborators knew, that Imperial was one of the world's great universities.
