THE University Reputation Rankings 2013-14

The new rankings for worldwide universities by reputation were published today by Times Higher Education.

The US continues to dominate the top 10 by reputation with seven of the highest scores. However, with Oxford and Cambridge in the top 5, and 9 universities in the top 100, the UK is the second most reputable country according to academic experts.. 

Imperial College London has dropped one position to joint 14th. Meanwhile, other UK institutions have risen in the poll: University College London (UCL) rose by one place to 20th, the London School of ­Economics(LSE) rises four places to 25th), the University of Edinburgh is now ranked 46th and the University of ­Manchester breaks into the top 50 at 47th).

Congratulations to the University of Melbourne, now ranked 39th in the world. Other universities in Australia are also doing well. Notably, University of New South Wales and Monash University are both now in the top 100 and Australian National University has risen to joint 42nd.

While students have many other factors to consider when choosing a university for study (cost, location and course being among the most important), many agree that international reputation is a useful benchmark, despite being purely based on opinion.
 

1	Harvard University	United States
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
5	University of California, Berkeley	United States
6	Stanford University	United States
7	Princeton University	United States
8	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
9	University of Tokyo	Japan
10	Yale University	United States

 

 Top 50 universities by reputation 2013

The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings employ the world's largest invitation-only academic opinion survey to provide the definitive list of the top 100 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.

Rank	Institution	Country / Region	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
11	California Institute of Technology	United States	27.8
12	University of Michigan	United States	22.4
13	Columbia University	United States	21.4
14	University of Chicago	United States	21.3
14	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	21.3
16	University of Toronto	Canada	18.8
17	Cornell University	United States	18.3
18	University of Pennsylvania	United States	17.9
19	Johns Hopkins University	United States	16.9
20	University College London	United Kingdom	15.8
20	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	15.8
22	National University of Singapore	Singapore	15.5
23	Kyoto University	Japan	15.0
24	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	14.3
25	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	12.1
26	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	11.3
27	University of Texas at Austin	United States	11.2
27	University of Washington	United States	11.2
29	New York University	United States	10.8
30	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	10.7
31	University of British Columbia	Canada	10.2
31	Duke University	United States	10.2
31	McGill University	Canada	10.2
34	University of California, San Diego	United States	9.7
35	Tsinghua University	China	9.6
36	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	9.5
37	Northwestern University	United States	9.4
38	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	9.2
39	University of Melbourne	Australia	8.9
40	University of California, San Francisco	United States	8.7
41	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea	8.3
42	Australian National University	Australia	8.2
42	University of Massachusetts	United States	8.2
44	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	8.0
45	Peking University	China	7.8
46	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	7.7
47	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	7.3
48	University of California, Davis	United States	6.9
49	University of Sydney	Australia	6.7
50	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russian Federation	6.5
50	Purdue University	United States

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