Latest results suggest that underfunded Western institutions
outside the elite are struggling
Evidence is emerging of a decline in the power of US
universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-2015,
despite the California Institute of Technology’s claim on the top spot for the
fourth consecutive year.
The West Coast institution heads a top 10 for 2014-15 that
still consists almost entirely of US-based universities, with only the
universities of Oxford (third) and Cambridge (fifth) and Imperial College
London (joint ninth) preventing a clean sweep.