Scotland's best universities have been revealed in a new world-league table.
The World University Rankings list for 2021 was published by Times Higher Education on Wednesday, and looked at data from more than 1500 universities across the world.
This year’s ranking analysed more than 80 million citations across over 13 million research publications, according to the survey curators, and included survey responses from 22,000 scholars globally.
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The University of Oxford topped the worldwide rankings for the fifth consecutive year, with the University of Edinburgh taking the top spot in Scotland - ranking 27th worldwide and 5th in the UK.
Conversely, Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen ranked joint-last in the UK.
It sat alongside universities including the University of South Wales and London South Bank University.
Here's the entire UK rankings list - including where each institution ranks worldwide.
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