claimseveral social media users are posting an image of the british daily the guardians news report to claim that united kingdoms cambridge university has slipped in the world university ranking following congress leader rahul gandhis recent visit to the campussharing the screengrab of the guardian news report which states that cambridge universitys ranking has fallen to the lowestever place in the world university table many users are taking jibes at wayanad mpread alsorahul gandhi in new look ahead of cambridge university lecturerahul gandhi has donned multiple looks in the last few months after sporting a beard and a ruffledhair look months the congress leader was seen in a new look short hair trimmed beard and a suit as he reached uk to deliver a lecture at cambridge universityi had pegasus on my phone indian democracy under attack congress leader rahul gandhi at cambridge lecturecongress leader rahul gandhi launched a scathing attack at the centre during a lecture at cambridge university alleging that an attack has been unleashed on the basic structure of indian democracy while also claiming that israeli spyware pegasus was being used to snoop into his phoneit should be noted that gandhi visited the cambridge university campus last week to deliver a lecturerahul gandhi went and spoke cambridge slips to lowest ever place in world university table of rahul gandhi indians are not surprised because his party lost in the constituencies where he campaigned sic tweeted a user sharing the screengrab and making this claimno wonder they slipped lowest because they invite anti nationals and evil people like your boss shashitharoor would have been the best among the congis he speaks well and is very articulate and i dont think he will speak against the country in a foreign platform sic tweeted another user making this claimtruthalthough the report about cambridge universitys fall in the world university ranking table is true it is old and is not linked to gandhis recent visit to the universityverification and methodologytaking relevant keywords from the guardians news report we ran a google search and traced the post published on june 19 2019titled cambridge slips to lowestever place in world university table the report states that cambridge slipped from sixth to seventh its lowestever position as a result of steadily declining research performance as measured by citations per member of academic staffbrexit and the financial squeeze affecting universities appear to be taking a toll on britains universities with many seeing their rankings in international league tables tumbling for the third year in a row the news report mentionswe then looked up the latest ranking of cambridge university on topuniversitiescom and found that under the qs world university rankings 2023 top global universities cambridge university was ranked two just below massachusetts institute of technology in the united statesalso gandhi visited cambridge university last week to deliver a lecture at cambridge judge business schooltimes of india reported about it on march 1 2023as per the times of india report during