Only four Romanian universities have been included in the 2016/17 QS World University Ranking, which features just over 900 of the top universities in the world. However, Romania does better than last year, when two similar rankings included only two, respectively three local universities, Romania-Insider informs.

The Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, the University of Bucharest, and the West University of Timisoara are the four Romanian schools included in the ranking. All four of them are in the 701+ category, which is the last category in the top.

Three U.S universities are the best in the world, according to the QS ranking, namely the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, and Harvard University. They are followed by Great Britain’s University of Cambridge, American California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and Great Britain’s University of Oxford, and UCL (University College London).

In Europe, Great Britain has the best universities: the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and UCL (University College London).

The QS Rankings are based on six performance indicators, namely academic reputation (which has a share of 40%), employer reputation (10%), student-to-faculty ratio (20%), citations per faculty (20%), international faculty ratio (5%), and international student ratio (5%).