TOP 50 UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD

TheTimes Higher EducationWorld Reputation Rankings employ the world's largest invitation-only academic opinion survey to provide the definitive list of the top100 most powerful global university brands. A spin-off of the annual World University Rankings, the reputation league table is based on nothing more than subjective judgement - but it is the considered expert judgement of senior, published academics - the people best placed to know the most about excellence in our universities. Top universities by reputation 2013 01 - 50 51 - 60 61 - 70 71 - 80 81 - 90 91 - 100 Rank Institution Location Overall score 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 100.0 2 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States87.6 3 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom81.3 4 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom73.0 5 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States72.4 6 Stanford UniversityUnited States70.6 7 Princeton UniversityUnited States36.2 8 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States35.6 9 University of TokyoJapan32.9 10 Yale UniversityUnited States32.8 11 California Institute of TechnologyUnited States27.8 12 University of MichiganUnited States22.4 13 Columbia UniversityUnited States21.4 14 University of ChicagoUnited States21.3 15. Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom21.3 16 University of TorontoCanada18.8 17 Cornell UniversityUnited States18.3 18 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States17.9 19 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States16.9 20 University College LondonUnited Kingdom15.8 21. ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ZürichSwitzerland15.8 22 National University of SingaporeSingapore15.5 23 Kyoto UniversityJapan15.0 24 University of Illinois at Urbana ChampaignUnited States14.3 25 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom12.1 26 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States11.3 27 University of Texas at AustinUnited States11.2 28. University of WashingtonUnited States11.2 29 New York UniversityUnited States10.8 30 University of Wisconsin- MadisonUnited States10.7 31 University of British ColumbiaCanada10.2 32. Duke UniversityUnited States10.2 33. McGill UniversityCanada10.2 34 University of California, San DiegoUnited States9.7 35. Tsinghua UniversityChina9.6 36. The University of Hong KongHong Kong9.5 37. Northwestern UniversityUnited States9.4 38. Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States9.2 39. University of MelbourneAustralia8.9 40. University of California, San FranciscoUnited States8.7 41. Seoul National UniversityRepublic of Korea8.3 42. Australian National UniversityAustralia8.2 43. University of MassachusettsUnited States8.2 44 Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität MünchenGermany8.0 45. Peking UniversityChina7.8 46. University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom7.7 47 University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom7.3 48. University of California, DavisUnited States6.9 49. University of SydneyAustralia6.7 50. Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussian Federation6.5 50 Purdue UniversityUnited States6.5