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March 12, 2015

The World's 100 Most Prestigious Universities

Photo: A building at Harvard University. Photo Credit: Hong Duong.

London — Times Higher Education (THE) has announced its World Reputation Rankings 2015 that determines the 100 most renowned higher education institutions in the world.

For the fifth consecutive year, the rankings highlight an elite group of six US and UK “super-brands” that hold a significant lead over the rest. Although the order has changed over the years, the institutions in the top six have remained constant: Harvard University, Cambridge, Oxford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.

“What we are finding year on year is that universities in this group of six tend to stand out well above the seventh and eighth placed institutions,” said THE rankings editor Phil Baty. “They seem to be in a super-league all of their own.”

Germany remains the best-represented nation after the US and the UK, with six top 100 universities (the same as last year). Its neighbour France now boasts five institutions in the table (all of them based in Paris), up from two last year.

Asia’s best performer, the University of Tokyo, slipped one place to 12th position. Meanwhile, China’s top institution, Tsinghua University, climbed 10 places to 26th, and Peking University leaped from 41st to 32nd place.

THE partnered with Elsevier to disseminate the Academic Reputation Survey on which the results are based. Questionnaires, which asked participants to nominate up to 10 of the best institutions in their field of expertise, were completed by some 10,000 academics selected to give a statistically representative sample of global scholars.

World’s Most Prestigious Universities

Top 50

Rank - Institution - Location - Overall Score

1. Harvard University — United States — 100.0
2. University of Cambridge — United Kingdom — 84.3
3. University of Oxford — United Kingdom — 80.4
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — United States — 77.8
5. Stanford University — United States — 72.1
6. University of California, Berkeley — United States — 60.0
7. Princeton University — United States — 35.0
8. Yale University — United States — 33.1
9. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) — United States — 24.1
10. Columbia University — United States — 21.0
11. University of Chicago — United States — 19.8
12. The University of Tokyo — Japan — 19.3
13. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) — United States — 18.9
14. Imperial College London — United Kingdom — 18.2
15. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich — Switzerland — 16.7
16. University of Toronto — Canada — 15.8
17. University College London (UCL) — United Kingdom — 15.7
18. Johns Hopkins University — United States — 14.6
19. University of Michigan — United States — 13.8
20. Cornell University — United States — 13.6
21. New York University (NYU) — United States — 13.6
22. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) — United Kingdom — 12.9
23. University of Pennsylvania — United States — 11.2
24. National University of Singapore (NUS) — Singapore — 10.4
25. Lomonosov Moscow State University — Russian Federation — 9.9
26. Tsinghua University — China — 9.5
27. Kyoto University — Japan — 9.3
28. Carnegie Mellon University — United States — 9.2
29. University of Edinburgh — United Kingdom — 8.3
30. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — United States — 8.2
31. King’s College London — United Kingdom — 8.1
32. Peking University — China — 7.7
33. University of Washington — United States — 7.4
34. Duke University — United States — 7.3
35. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich — Germany — 7.2
36. McGill University — Canada — 7.2
37. University of British Columbia — Canada — 7.0
38. Heidelberg University — Germany — 6.4
39. University of California, San Francisco — United States — 6.4
40. University of Wisconsin-Madison — United States — 6.4
41. Humboldt University of Berlin — Germany — 6.3
42. University of California, San Diego — United States — 6.3
43. University of Melbourne — Australia — 6.3
44. University of California, Davis — United States — 6.0
45. Karolinska Institute — Sweden — 5.9
46. University of Texas at Austin — United States — 5.8
47. Northwestern University — United States — 5.7
48. Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne — Switzerland — 5.5
49. Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) — United States — 5.4
50. University of Manchester — United Kingdom — 5.3

51 to 60

• Australian National University — Australia
• Delft University of Technology — Netherlands
• Free University of Berlin — Germany
• KU Leuven — Belgium
• Panthéon-Sorbonne University - Paris 1 — France
• Paris-Sorbonne University - Paris 4 — France
• Seoul National University — Republic of Korea
• The University of Hong Kong — Hong Kong
• University of Amsterdam — Netherlands
• University of São Paulo — Brazil
• University of Sydney — Australia

61 to 70

• Ecole Normale Superieure — France
• Leiden University — Netherlands
• National Taiwan University — Taiwan
• Pennsylvania State University — United States
• Technical University of Munich — Germany
• University of California, Santa Barbara — United States
• University of North Carolina — United States
• University of Southern California — United States
• Wageningen University and Research Center — Netherlands

71 to 80

• Boston University — United States
• Brown University — United States
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — Hong Kong
• Michigan State University — United States
• National Autonomous University of Mexico — Mexico
• Purdue University — United States
• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey — United States
• Saint Petersburg State University — Russian Federation
• University of Minnesota — United States
• University of Pittsburgh — United States
• Utrecht University — Netherlands

81 to 90

• Durham University — United Kingdom
• Ohio State University — United States
• Texas A&M University — United States
• University of Copenhagen — Denmark
• University of Helsinki — Finland
• University of Queensland — Australia
• University of Warwick — United Kingdom
• Uppsala University — Sweden
• Washington University in St Louis — United States

91 to 100

• Ecole Polytechnique — France
• London Business School — United Kingdom
• Mayo Medical School — United States
• Monash University — Australia
• Nanyang Technological University — Singapore
• Pasteur Institute — France
• RWTH Aachen University — Germany
• University of Bristol — United Kingdom
• University of Maryland, College Park — United States
• University of Massachusetts — United States

|GlobalGiants.Com|

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