Oxford¹ slipped to fourth place in the rankings having taken top spot last year. Harvard and Yale – part of the US 'Ivy² League' of universities - were second and third respectively.

 

But the UK as a country came third - behind the US and Germany- when companies were asked to name the best nation for producing work-ready graduates.

 

The table - the Global Employability University Ranking published by the International New York Times - also showed that universities in Asian countries were rapidly gaining ground on their western counterparts.

 

Asian universities claimed 20 percent of the top 150 places in 2014 compared with only 10 percent when the tables were first published in 2010.

 

The other British universities in the top 20 were University College London, in 14th place, Imperial College London, in 15th, andEdinburgh, 18th.

 

The coordinators of the table said it showed the gulf³ between a small number of eliteUKuniversities and less prestigious⁴ institutions.

 

 

1.University of Cambridge, UK

 

2.Harvard University, U.S.

 

3.Yale University, U.S.

 

4.University of Oxford, UK

 

5.California Institute of Technology,U.S.

 

6.Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.

 

7.Stanford University, U.S.

 

8.Technische Universität München, Germany

 

9.Princeton University, U.S.

 

10.University of Tokyo, Japan

 

11.Columbia University, U.S.

 

12.University of California, Berkeley, U.S.

 

13.University of Toronto, Canada

 

14.University College London, UK

 

15.Imperial College London, UK

 

16.Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

 

17.École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

 

18.University of Edinburgh, UK

 

19.Johns Hopkins University, U.S.

 

20.Peking University, China

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