University of Oxford ranked as best university in the world for 7th consecutive year by Times Higher Education

The University of Oxford has been ranked as the best university in the world for the 7th consecutive year in the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

Oxford is the first university in the world to have ever retained its place for seven years in a row and it follows recent success in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide League Table 2023, where Oxford usurped St Andrews to be ranked as the best university in the UK.

1,799 universities from 104 countries were ranked in the 2023 guide, with fellow UK institutions University of Cambridge (3rd) and Imperial College London (10th) also making the top 10 overall.

Professor Dame Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor at Oxford, said: of the result: "My colleagues and I are absolutely delighted that for the seventh consecutive year Oxford has been named the top university in the world. I am very grateful to those who work on compiling these rankings which prove so helpful to universities.

"Above all, I am indebted to the extraordinary women and men of Oxford whose research and teaching continues to excite our imaginations, broaden our horizons, cure disease and explore deeply difficult problems for the betterment of society. I am so proud to be associated with them."

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