article_snippet: The results show that for the fifth year in a row there is an elite group of six US and UK
article_snippet: ‘super brands’, the authors suggested, which are ‘head and shoulders above the rest’.
article_snippet: Taking fourth place was MIT, down two on last year, while Stanford fell two places to fifth and University of California, Berkeley remained in sixth.
article_snippet: The rankings are based on a survey of about 10,000 academics in 142 countries.
article_snippet: The rankings were asked to nominate up to ten of the best institutions in the world for teaching and research.