Durham University moves up in World rankings

Durham University has risen further in a prestigious league table ranking the world's leading universities, further cementing its place as a global top 100 university. Durham jumped three places to 80^th in the Times Higher World Rankings 2012-13 and is one of only 10 UK universities to feature in the World Top 100, according to the guide. The Times Higher league table ranks universities across the globe according to their strengths in five headline categories - teaching, research, citations, industry income and international outlook. Durham increased its performance across all of these key areas and scored highly in terms of citations, which recognises the University's research influence, scoring 93.3 per cent. The University is ranked in the World Top 50 for citations and for international outlook. In September Durham climbed in the QS World University Rankings which also ranked the University in the World Top 100 and 20^th in the world for employer reputation after 25,000 leading companies were asked to identify universities that produce the best graduates. Durham is consistently one of the top-five universities in the UK, alongside Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London and the London School of Economics.