University, Oxford is the best. Bologna and Pisa in the early two hundred

's "Best Universities in the World" ranking

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Harvard maintains the second position of the World University Rankings 2023, while third, tied for, are Cambridge (coming from fifth place) and Stanford.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Princeton, Berkeley, Yale and Imperial College London follow.

The ranking judges research-intensive universities in each of their main missions: teaching (the learning environment);

research (volume, income and reputation), international perspectives (personnel, students and research);

citations (influence on research);

sector income (knowledge transfer).

Harvard tops the ranking for teaching, while Oxford leads the ranking for research. 

Overall, 1,799 universities are classified.

Another 526 universities provided data but did not meet the eligibility criteria required to be included in the final ranking.

The United States is the most represented country of all, with 177 university institutions, and also the most represented among the top 200 (58).

Mainland China has the fourth highest number of universities in the top 200 (11, up from 10 last year), after overtaking Australia, which has dropped to fifth (along with the Netherlands). 

Five countries enter the ranking for the first time, all in Africa (Zambia, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Mauritius).

Alma Mater of Bologna and Normale of Pisa between the first two hundred

Italy also fails to enter the world top 100 this year but places two universities in the top two hundred positions.

The University of Bologna climbs 11 positions placing itself in 161st place, followed in the ranking by the Scuola Normale Superiore at 183rd.

Both are listed among the top two hundred universities in the world.

In our country, the new entry with the best result is the Humanitas University in Milan, classified in the 201-250 range, together with Padua, Sant'Anna di Pisa and Sapienza di Roma.