University challenged

Spain fails to make the top list,

the UK and America dominate the top 50

SPAIN is absent from the list of the world’s top 100 universities, while only 11 made it into the top

According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), the first entry from Spain is the University of Barcelona, which comes in between 151 Only the top 100 universities are given an individual ranking in the study, which identifies the best global higher educational instituBarcelona’s Autonomous University, Madrid’s Complutense University, and the universities of Granada and Valencia placed in

By Dilip Kuner

the 201-300 bracket. Madrid’s Autonomous University, Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra and the University of the Basque Country ranked between the 300th and

400th positions, while Valencia’s Polytechnic University and the universities of Santiago de Compostela and Sevilla ranked between 400 and 500.

The top five places went to Harvard, Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge and California-Berkeley. In sixth place comes Princeton, while Oxford makes the top ten at eighth and University College in London comes in 18th.

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Only two other countries make the top 20 with France’s Paris-Saclay coming in at 16th, while ETH in Switzerland comes in at 20th. Other British universities to make the top 50 are Imperial at 23rd, while Edinburgh comes in at 35th, Manchester comes at 38th and King’s College at 48th.

Justice seekers

SPAIN most popular university subject is law, according to a new study that looks at global education trends.

University students searched the most for info on law degrees, followed by computer science and psycholo gy.

Globally, the study showed that nursing was the most popular choice, followed by business admin istration and then law.

“These three programs likely attract a large number of students due to their practical and in-demand na ture, as well as the diverse career opportunities they can provide,” a spokesman for the University of the Potomac study explained.

A degree in education was the most popular degree in 24 countries including China, Russia, Brazil and Germany.

British kids searched for ‘psychology degrees’ more than for any other degree in the past 12 months.

Meanwhile in the US, Israel and Greece the highest interest is in computer science.