The Most Respected Universities In The World

Business Insider ^ | 03/05/2013 | Michael Kelley

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Times Higher Education has released its 2013 World Reputation Rankings, which are based on the world's largest invitation-only academic opinion survey "to provide the definitive list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands."

Although the reputation rankings aren't as objective as their annual World University Rankings — which employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators — the brand evaluation is based on "the expert judgement of senior, published academics."

Australia stepped up to the world stage as it now has six universities represented in the top 100 while the UK has lost three institutions from the world top 100 list since the first reputation rankings in 2011.

In the U.S. the University of Massachusetts has fallen from 19th to 42nd since 2011 while John Hopkins has dropped to 14th from 19th in 2011. New York University has risen 29 from the 51-60 group in '11.

Here's the top 10 (along with their overall score):

1 Harvard University United States 100.0

2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 87.6

3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 81.3

4 University of Oxford United Kingdom 73.0

5 University of California, Berkeley United States 72.4

6 Stanford University United States 70.6

7 Princeton University United States 36.2

8 University of California, Los Angeles United States 35.6

9 University of Tokyo Japan 32.9

10 Yale University United States 32.8

The U.S. continues to dominate the list with 11 of the top 15 and 43 universities total (the next highest is the UK with nine total). Twenty countries are represented in the list:

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As opposed to the “University of Spoiled Children”.

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74 of the 200 were in the US. Here is the list in order of American U’s that made the cut, but I would certainly argue with some of these rankings, most certainly including the multiple UCalifornia favorites. Note also that these are university rankings, whereas colleges are often a better and more specialized choice for some individuals, and are generally ranked separately:

U.S. Universites, Times Higher Education Rankings:
1 CIT
2 Stanford
3 Harvard
4 MIT
5 Princeton
6 UC Berkeley
7 U Chicago
8 Yale
9 UCLA
10 Columbia
11 U of Penn
12 Hopkins
13 Cornell
14 Northwestern
15 U Michigan
16 Carnegie Mellon
17 Duke
18 U of Washington
19 UT Austin
20 Georgia Tech
21 U Wisconsin-Madison
22 Illinois Urbana Champaign
23 UC Santa Barbara
24 UC San Diego
25 NYU
26 NC Chapel Hill
27 UC Davis
28 Washington U St Louis
29 U Minnesota
30 Brown
31 Ohio State
32 Boston U
33 USC
34 Penn State
35 Purdue
36 U of Mass
37 Rice
38 Pittsburgh
39 Emory
40 U Colorado Boulder
41 Notre Dame
42 Michigan State
43 UC Irvine
44 U Maryland College Park
45 U Arizona
46 Rutgers State NJ
47 Rochester
48 Case Western Reserve
49 Vanderbilt
50 UVA
51 UC Santa Cruz
52 U Florida
53 Dartmouth
54 U Utah
55 Indiana U
56 Arizona State
57 Boston College
58 UC Riverside
59 Yeshiva
60 Texas A&M
61 Stony Brook
62 U Delaware
63 UT Dallas
64 George Washington U
65 U Iowa
66 Georgetown
67 Renselaer Polytech
68 Colorado Sch of Mines
69 U Illinois Chicago
70 William & Mary
71 Medical U of SC
72 Wake Forest
73 Iowa State
74 U Miami

In a few moments, I will post the comparative list of Top 50 university rankings from USNews&World Report, which differs markedly.

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Some of the universities listed by USNews&WorldReport do not appear at all on the Time top list, and vice versa:

Top 74 U.S. Universities, USNews&WorldReport rankings:

1 Harvard
2 Yale
3 Columbia
4 U Chicago
5 MIT
6 Stanford
7 Duke
8 U Penn
9 CIT
10 Dartmouth
11 U of Penn
12 Northwestern
13 Hopkins
14 Washington U St Louis
15 Brown
16 Cornell
17 Rice
18 Notre Dame
19 Vanderbilt
20 Emory
21 Georgetown
22 UC Berkeley
23 Carnegie Mellon
24 UCLA
25 USC
26 UVA
27 Wake Forest
28 Tufts
29 Michigan Ann Arbor
30 NC Chapel Hill
31 Boston College
32 NYU
33 Brandeis
34 William and Mary
35 Rochester
36 GIT
37 Case Western Reserve
38 Lehigh
39 UC Davis
40 UC San Diego
41 Rensselaer Polytech
42 UC Santa Barbara
43 U Wisconsin Madison
44 UC Irvine
45 U Miami
46 Penn State
47 Illinois Urbana-Champaign
48 UT Austin
49 U Washington
50 Yeshiva
51 Boston U
52 Tulane
53 Pepperdine
54 U Florida
55 Northeastern
56 Ohio State Columbus
57 Fordham
58 Southern Methodist
59 Syracuse
60 U Maryland College Park
61 Pittsburgh
62 U Connecticut
63 U Georgia
64 Purdue W Lafayette
65 Texas A&M College Station
66 Worcester Polytech
67 Brigham Young
68 Clemson
69 Rutgers State NJ
70 Minnesota Twin Cities
71 Michigan State
72 U Iowa
73 Virginia Tech
74 Stevens Inst Tech