Everyone loves a good ranking. Here we have an comprehensive table from US News and World Report that covers the top 400 universities and colleges. And yes Bangor graduates you can be proud – Bangor Universtiy made it into the world rankings at 400= with Kasetsart University Thailand. Obviously we cannot squeeze the whole list in (click here to view in full) so here’s a taster – the top ten:

1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Cambridge
4. Oxford
5. Cal Tech
6. Imperial College London
7. University College London
8. University of Chicago
9. MIT
10. Columbia

With 4 out of the top 10 overall in the UK, its not a bad showing; to give you the top ten from the UK, the next 6 Brit hot-houses of academia were:

22. KCL

23. Edinburgh

29. Manchester

32. Bristol

66. LSE

69. Warwick

To see the full list which has additional details of the ranking criteria and a blurb about each institution click here …