Only one Irish university featured in the top 200.
Trinity College Dublin was the highest ranked Irish third-level institution in the most recent Times Higher Education World University Rankings, released on Tuesday.
Trinity ranked in 117th place in the 14th annual Times Higher Education Ranking, a ranking which features 1,000 colleges and universities, no more than 5% of approximately 20,000 higher education institutions around the world.
As was the case with the QS 2018 World University Rankings published earlier this year, Trinity College Dublin was the highest ranking Irish third-level institution on the list, jumping 14 places from last year to 117th, with NUI Galway, the Royal College of Surgeons and UCD all ranked in the 200-250 bracket.
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UCC (351-400), DCU (401-500), NUI Maynooth (401-500), UL (501-600) and DIT (601-800) also feature on a list that is compiled using 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators and is subject to independent audit by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
Venerated UK universities Oxford and Cambridge ranked in first and second place respectively, with California Institute of Technology (Caltech) sharing third place with Stanford University.
American institutions dominated the top ten with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, Princeton, University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania all featuring, alongside Imperial College in London and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
You can find the full list and more information on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings here.
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