USA: MIT is World's top university and overall 103/201 ranked universities fall, 29 rise. Twenty-five are new entrants.
Canada: 20/31 universities drop. McGill University (31st) is the new national leader.
UK: 48/90 universities declined, ten improved. Intensely collaborative: 55% of its research entails global collaborations vs 20% global average.
Australia retains five top-50 universities, yet is stagnating, with as many universities improving as declining.
ETH Zurich has remained continental Europe's best university for fifteen consecutive years.
France's merged universities ascend in the table, with Université PSL (26th) breaking into the top-30.
Asia's top university is the National University of Singapore (11th).
QS Ranking: India: more improvements than falls; All top India's nine institutions rise and rank improved.
China (Mainland), the 3rd most-represented higher education system (71 universities), is home to two world's top 15 universities first time ever: Peking University (12th) & Tsinghua University (14th).
Malaysia, South Korea and Indonesia improved while Japan and Thailand declined.