Harvard has once again been named the world's top university, beating Cambridge and Oxford in the Times Higher Education Reputation Rankings.
This is the fifth year in a row that Harvard has ranked number one.
The
U.S. has 43 colleges in the list of the top 100 universities in the
world it has been revealed, far outstripping the U.K. with 12, and
Germany with six.
American
institutions take up eight of the top ten positions, with Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford rounding out the top five.
Top: Harvard, the oldest academic institute in the U.S., dating from 1636, was named number one again
University
of California at Berkeley, Princeton, Yale, California Institute of
Technology and Columbia rank six to ten respectively.
The
results show that for the fifth year in a row there is an elite group
of six US and UK ‘super brands’, the authors suggested, which are ‘head
and shoulders above the rest’.
While Harvard took first place again, Cambridge moved up from fourth, and Oxford, rose from fifth to third.
M.I.T.
was down two on last year to fourth place, while Stanford fell two
places to fifth and University of California, Berkeley remained in
sixth.
Columbia steps into the top ten displacing University of California, Los Angeles, which slipped to 13th position.
Cambridge
University (left) and Oxford University (right) were the only two
non-American institutions in the top 10 of the newly released rankings
Other
American universities that just missed out on a place in the top 10 are
the University of Chicago (11), John Hopkins University (18), University
of Michigan (19) and Cornell University (20).
Overall, the U.S. remains dominant with 43 top 100 places, compared with 46 last year.
The
U.K. with 12 representatives, up from 10 in 2014, has had a strong year
and remains firmly entrenched as the world number two when it comes to
global university brands.
Aside
from Oxford and Cambridge, other U.K. universities in the top 100
include Imperial College London, which falls one place to 14th,
University College London, which is up eight places to 17th, and the
London School of Economics and Political Science which has moved from
24th to 22nd.
Across
the world, London and Paris have the highest number of prestigious
universities in the world. Each have five universities in the top 100.
There
has also been a marked improvement by universities in Brazil, Russia
and China, and a continued solid performance from academic institutions
across Europe, as well as in Canada, Australia, and across Asia.
The rankings are based on a survey of about 10,000 academics in 142 countries.
They were asked to nominate up to ten of the best institutions in the world for teaching and research.
Responses were collected between November 2014 and January 2015.
Harvard has ranked number one for each of the five years that the survey has been conducted.
The oldest academic institute in the U.S., dating from 1636, the school is named after its first benefactor, John Harvard.
It has the global academy's largest financial endowment and boasts more than 40 Nobel laureates.
MIT's campus at Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT slipped two places this year but still came fourth
Like MIT, Stanford in California also slipped two places allowing Oxford and Cambridge into the second and third spots
TOP 100 UNIVERSITIES
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