Overall, China had seven universities in the top 100, compared to two universities in 2018.
“The competition from East Asia is accelerating,” said Phil Baty, chief global affairs officer at Times Higher Education, which publishes the ranking.
Britain’s University of Oxford was ranked the world’s number one for an eighth year in a row with two other UK universities also making the top 20, including Cambridge — fifth behind Harvard in the US.
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