The University of Hong Kong (HKU) remains the best place in the world to study dentistry, although further down the table Swiss universities have made astonishing improvements since last year’s ranking. The University of Bern has climbed 15 places to seventh, while the University of Zurich is up 18 places to 11th.

Four universities are new entrants into this year’s ranking, the best-performing of these being another Swiss institution: the University of Geneva (ranked 23rd). The other three are all ranked between 45th and 50th.

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