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May 30, 2018

World’s Top 100 Most Prestigious Universities in 2018

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London, May 30, 2018 — The most valuable asset in a crowded market is reputation. Times Higher Education (THE) today announced the World Reputation Rankings 2018 comprising the world’s top 100 most prestigious universities.

According to Times Higher Education, its World Reputation Rankings are created using the world’s largest invitation-only academic opinion survey, a unique piece of research.

“The Academic Reputation Survey, available in 15 languages, uses United Nations data as a guide to ensure that the response coverage is as representative of world scholarship as possible. It is also evenly spread across academic disciplines,” THE elucidates.

The reputation table ranks institutions according to an overall measure of their esteem that combines data on their reputation for research and teaching.

World’s Top 100 Most Prestigious Universities in 2018

RANK — INSTITUTION — COUNTRY

1. Harvard University — United States
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology — United States
3. Stanford University — United States
4. University of Cambridge — United Kingdom
5. University of Oxford — United Kingdom
6. University of California, Berkeley — United States
7. Princeton University — United States
8. Yale University — United States
9. University of California, Los Angeles — United States
10. University of Chicago — United States
11. California Institute of Technology — United States
12. Columbia University — United States
13. The University of Tokyo — Japan
14. Tsinghua University — China
15. University of Michigan — United States
16. University of Pennsylvania — United States
17. Peking University — China
18. Cornell University — United States
19. UCL — United Kingdom
20. Imperial College London — United Kingdom
21. Johns Hopkins University — United States
22. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich — Switzerland
23. University of Toronto — Canada
24. National University of Singapore — Singapore
25. London School of Economics and Political Science — United Kingdom
26. New York University — United States
27. Kyoto University — Japan
28. University of Washington — United States
29. Duke University — United States
30. Carnegie Mellon University — United States
31. University of California, San Diego — United States
32. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — United States
33. Lomonosov Moscow State University — Russian Federation
34. University of Wisconsin-Madison — United States
35. University of Edinburgh — United Kingdom
36. University of Texas at Austin — United States
37. Northwestern University — United States
38. University of British Columbia — Canada
39. Paris Sciences & Lettres - PSL University — France
40. University of Hong Kong — Hong Kong
41. McGill University — Canada
42. King’s College London — United Kingdom
43. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne — Switzerland
44. University of California, San Francisco — United States
45. Georgia Institute of Technology — United States
46. Seoul National University — South Korea
47. University of California, Davis — United States
48. University of Melbourne — Australia
49. LMU Munich — Germany
50. Pennsylvania State University — United States

51-60

• Delft University of Technology — Netherlands
• KU Leuven — Belgium
• Heidelberg University — Germany
• University of Manchester — United Kingdom
• University of Minnesota — United States
• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore — Singapore
• National Taiwan University — Taiwan
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — United States
• Purdue University — United States
• Sorbonne University — France

61-70

• University of Amsterdam — Netherlands
• Australian National University — Australia
• University of California, Santa Barbara — United States
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — Hong Kong
• Humboldt University of Berlin — Germany
• Karolinska Institute — Sweden
• Michigan State University — United States
• Ohio State University — United States
• University of Southern California — United States
• Technical University of Munich — Germany

71-80

• Brown University — United States
• Chinese University of Hong Kong — Hong Kong
• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) — South Korea
• Leiden University — Netherlands
• University of Maryland, College Park — United States
• Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) — South Korea
• University of Sydney — Australia
• Texas A&M University — United States
• Tokyo Institute of Technology — Japan
• Zhejiang University — China

81-90

• Arizona State University — United States
• Free University of Berlin — Germany
• Fudan University — China
• Indiana University — United States
• Osaka University — Japan
• University of Science and Technology of China — China
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University — China
• Tohoku University — Japan
• Utrecht University — Netherlands
• University of Warwick — United Kingdom
• Washington University in St Louis — United States

91-100

• Boston University — United States
• University of Colorado Boulder — United States
• University of Copenhagen — Denmark
• École Polytechnique — France
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem — Israel
• University of Helsinki — Finland
• Indian Institute of Science — India
• Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology — Russian Federation
• University of Pittsburgh — United States
• Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey — United States
• RWTH Aachen University — Germany
• Uppsala University — Sweden
• Wageningen University & Research — Netherlands
• University of Zurich — Switzerland

The World Reputation Rankings are based on an invitation-only opinion survey of senior, published academics, who were asked to name no more than 15 universities that they believed were the best for research and teaching in their field.

From India, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru has made it to the list in the 91-100 band. The last time it was featured was in 2011.

Commenting on IISc Bengaluru’s accomplishment, Phil Baty, editorial director of Global Rankings for THE, said, “Only 100 institutions in the world make it to this annual list of the most powerful university brands. So it is a highly significant achievement to be included. And it is fantastic to see an Indian presence this year.”

|GlobalGiants.Com|

Edited & Posted by the Editor | 2:55 PM | Link to this Post

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