Among the 3,000 such institutions, the first 18 places are given to American universities, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads the world podium.
The 19th place is occupied by England's Cambridge, the 23rd by the University of Toronto. The famous Oxford is placed at the 42nd position, the best among Russian universities - Lomonosov Moscow State University - at the 232nd, and the legendary Sorbonne at 1,117.
In the "Top Europe", the leader Cambridge is "hot on the heels" of the Federal Swiss Institute of Technology Zurich, the third and fourth places belong to the English universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, and the fifth was taken by the University of Oslo. After seizing the fifth position, the Scandinavians also occupied the next two - the sixth place is the Swedish Institute of Linkoping, the seventh - the University of Helsinki.
In the eighth position in Europe is University College London, in the ninth - the Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden, and the Austrian University of Vienna closes the top ten.
Thus, according to Spanish analysts, American higher education is the best in the world, while in the Old World traditional English education remains at a high level - four of the ten first places in Europe are given to universities in the UK.
In Asia, the first place is taken by the National University of Singapore, in the Middle East - the American University of Beirut, in Africa - the University of Cape Town, in Oceania - the Australian National University, and in Latin America - the National University of Mexico.