Published September 8, 2010

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Harvard University is no longer the world’s best, according to an annual ranking of top universities. The No. 1 spot goes to the University of Cambridge, England, as the Guardian reports:

John O’Leary, executive member of the QS academic advisory board, blamed a hiring freeze for Harvard losing its top spot. “Cambridge has gone top because it has improved its citations. Harvard has taken more students and had a hiring freeze amongst its academics. That’s the reason these two have swapped around.”

Harvard had been No. 1 for the previous six years, since the list’s inception. So, as Cantabrigia notes, “Cambridge bests Cambridge.”

Maybe we need a dating site for nice Cambridge boys.