He added that getting a degree from a particular university “is a brand that stays with you for life”.
“So universities have no choice but to respond to sustainability challenges, and they need to do that together,” he explained.
“So that collaboration metric, looking at how universities are working together around the world, is critically important in solving some of those big problems that the world faces.”
MIT CONTINUES TO TOP RANKING
The top 10 spots in the QS ranking, now in its 20th edition, are typically dominated by universities from the United States and Britain.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) topped the list for the 12th consecutive year.
The University of Cambridge retained its second spot, while the University of Oxford climbed up one place to third.
Other institutions that made the top 10 list include Harvard University, Stanford University, Imperial College London, ETH Zurich, University College London and the University of California, Berkeley.