IRELAND’S TOP universities have failed to place in the world’s top 200.
The latest list of the world’s most prestigious universities released by Jiao Tong University in Shanghai lists Trinity College as Ireland’s top university, but Trinity is only listed in the world’s top 300. The college is however, ranked between 75-123 in Europe.
UCD places between 301-400, while UCC slipped down from that grade to the 401-500 grade. The list is dominated by US universities with Harvard at number one followed by Berkeley and Stanford.
The list is considered highly influential, although it has come in for criticism for placing too much reliance on the number of Nobel Prizes and journal articles published.
Trinity does however place in the Top 50 in the Times Higher Education Supplement rankings, but promised revisions of the ranking may hit Trinity.
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