U.S. Universities Continue to Falter in World Rankings as China Rises

Among the highest-ranked universities in the world, outside the United Kingdom and the United States, is Tsinghua University in Beijing. (Photo: Tsinghua University)

The U.S.'s pre-eminence among the world's top research universities continues to diminish, according to a new global ranking, while Chinese universities are on the rise, producing a greater quantity and higher quality of research than ever before.

This year's World University Rankings, released on Tuesday by Times Higher Education, a British publication that tracks education, also named University of Oxford in England the world's leading research university for the seventh straight year.