The University of Oxford has been rated as the best in the country and the third best in the world by the Times Higher Education University World Rankings for 2014-15.

Oxford took the country’s top spot last year but has dropped one place in the world rankings, with American universities The California Institute of Technology and Harvard University taking first and second place.

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