Investment in Higher Education Pays in QS World University Rankings 2016/2017

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The thirteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings indicates that investment in higher education - either public or private - is a key differentiating factor between this year's risers ( South Korea , Russia , the US, and China ) and fallers (Most of Western and Southern Europe , South Africa , and Latin America ).

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and contributed to the rankings through the QS global surveys, the largest of their kind. QS analyzed and , indexed by Elsevier's Scopus database.

Ben Sowter , Head of Research, QS, said: "Institutions in countries providing high levels of targeted funding, whether from endowments or the public purse, rise. Conversely, Western European nations making or proposing cuts to public research spending lose ground to their US and Asian counterparts."

The rankings include 916 universities from 81 countries. Thirty-three countries feature in the Top 200. The US dominates, with 48 institutions, ahead of the UK (30), Netherlands (12), Germany (11), Canada , Australia (9), Japan (8), China (7), France , Sweden and Hong Kong (5).