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Saturday, 28 February 2009 11:01

London recently topped the Global University City Index for the second year running.

 

LSE building London

London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education institutes in Europe - employing 3,400 world class researchers in science, technology and design, and 700 staff dedicated to managing business collaborations.  The capital has a long and unique status as a scientific and medical centre, and is a major hub for teaching and research in medicine, science and technology with 75 public hospitals, 46 private hospitals and 10 dedicated medical universities.  There are currently 90,000 international students following a higher education programme in London, with more students from China than from any other country in the world, contributing approximately £1.5 billion to UK GDP (in the 2005/6 academic year).


The country with the most cities represented is the USA with nine cities,, ant the only other country with more than one city is Austrailia with two.

Rank    City               Country
1         London             UK
2         Boston              USA
3         Paris                 France
4         Tokyo                Japan
5         Melbourne         Australia
6         Sydney              Australia
7         New York           USA
8         Chicago             USA
9         Baltimore           USA
10       St. Louis            USA
11       Atlanta               USA
12       Washington DC   USA
13       Los Angeles        USA
14       Hong Kong         China
15       San Francisco     USA
16       Berlin                Germany
17       Singapore          Singapore
18       Seoul                Korea
19       Kuala Lumpur    Malaysia
20       Shanghai           China

Strict criteria were used to develop the study from RMIT University in Melbourne, Austrailia.  To be included a city must:

To view more about the survey click here   www.rmit,edu.au


Be home to tow or more hig profile universities as reposted by the Times Higher Education Supplement – Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranksings 2006.

Have a poplulation in excess of 2 million to ensure scale, diversity and vibrancy

Be in the top 100 most liveable cities as reported by the Economist Intelligence Unit Global Livability Rankings 2005.

Qualifying cities were them ranked by the following factors:

Global Recognition    
High Profile universities
International Students
Offshore research invenstment

Amenity
Liveability
Connectivity
Population scale

Education inputs and performance
Education expenditure
Student numbers
|Graduations

Research inputs and performance
Research expenditure
Patents
Commercialisation

Photo taken by Jan Adriaenssens (also posted on "http://www.verbeeld.be/2005-10-03/").
LSE: the St Clement's Building on the corner of Portugal Street and Clare Market.
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