World’s top universities 2014 according to Times Higher Education

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The California Institute for Technology has been named the world’s best institution for the fourth consecutive year. How do other universities compare?

The California Institute for Technology (Caltech) has been named the world’s best institution for the fourth consecutive year in the Times Higher Education’s annual league table.

Harvard and Oxford follow in second and third place respectively. Stanford has retained its fourth place position while the University of Cambridge has climbed two places to fifth and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has dropped one place to sixth on the rankings.

Princeton University is up one place and the University of California, Berkeley remains eighth on the list, while Imperial College London and Yale now share ninth place.

US continues to dominate, taking seven of the top ten positions and 45 of the top 100 but the number is slightly down on last year when the US saw 46 of its universities make it into the top 100.

The chart below shows how the top 100 breaks down by country representation.

 

According to the latest rankings, London is home to a cluster of well-regarded universities – four London universities are in the top 40, more than any other city featured in the world rankings.

Once again, the highest-ranked institution outside the US and the UK is Switzerland’s ETH Zürich ­- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, which gains one place to 13th position in the latest rankings.

The table below shows the top 100 universities featured on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-15, with data provided by Thomson Reuters.

2014 Rank 2013 Rank Name Country
1 1 California Institute of Technology US
2 2 Harvard University US
3 2 University of Oxford UK
4 4 Stanford University US
5 7 University of Cambridge UK
6 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
7 6 Princeton University US
8 8 University of California Berkeley US
9 10 Imperial College London UK
9 11 Yale University US
11 9 University of Chicago US
12 12 University of California Los Angeles US
13 14 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland
14 13 Columbia University US
15 15 Johns Hopkins University US
16 16 University of Pennsylvania US
17 18 University of Michigan US
18 17 Duke University US
19 19 Cornell University US
20 20 University of Toronto Canada
21 22 Northwestern University US
22 21 University College London UK
23 23 University of Tokyo Japan
24 24 Carnegie Mellon University US
25 26 National University of Singapore Singapore
26 25 University of Washington US
27 28 Georgia Institute of Technology US
28 27 University of Texas at Austin US
29 55 University of Munich Germany
29 29 University of Illinois – Urbana US
29 30 University of Wisconsin Madison US
32 31 University of British Columbia Canada
33 34 University of Melbourne Australia
34 37 École Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne Switzerland
34 32 London School of Economics and Political Science UK
36 39 University of Edinburgh UK
37 33 University of California Santa Barbara US
38 40 New York University US
39 35 McGill University Canada
40 38 King’s College London UK
41 40 University of California San Diego US
42 42 Washington University Saint Louis US
43 43 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
44 36 Karolinska Institute Sweden
45 48 Australian National University Australia
46 46 University of Minnesota US
46 47 University of North Carolina US
48 45 Peking University China
49 50 Tsinghua University China
50 44 Seoul National University S.Korea
51 57 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong
52 56 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology S.Korea
52 58 University of Manchester UK
54 52 Brown University US
55 61 KU Leuven Belgium
55 52 University of California Davis US
57 50 Boston University US
58 49 Pennsylvania State University US
59 52 Kyoto University Japan
60 72 University of Sydney Australia
61 70 Ecole Polytechnic France
61 76 Nanyang Technological University Singapore
63 Not ranked Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Italy
64 67 Leiden University Netherlands
65 63 University of Queensland Australia Australia
66 60 Pohang University of Science and Technology S.Korea
67 63 University of Göttingen Germany
68 59 Ohio State University US
69 65 Rice University US
70 68 Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg Germany
71 69 Delft University of Technology Netherlands
72 73 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands
73 77 Wageningen University and Research Center Netherlands
74 79 University of Bristol UK
75 74 University of Basel Switzerland
75 70 University of Southern California US
77 83 University of Amsterdam Netherlands
78 65 Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris France
79 74 Utrecht University Netherlands
80 94 Humboldt University of Berlin Germany
81 86 Free University of Berlin Germany
82 83 Michigan State University US
83 91 Monash University Australia
83 80 Durham University UK
85 201-225 Middle East Technical University Turkey
86 90 University of Notre Dame US
86 103 University of Arizona US
88 80 Tufts University US
88 93 University of California Irvine US
90 85 Ghent University Belgium
91 78 University of Pittsburgh US
91 132 University of Massachusetts US
93 80 Emory University US
94 92 McMaster University Canada
94 117 University of Glasgow UK
96 88 Vanderbilt University US
97 97 University of Colorado US
98 87 Technical University of Munich Germany
98 103 Stockholm University Sweden
98 111 Uppsala University Sweden

 

(Source: Times Higher Education)