Top Ten Universities
Here are listings of the top 10 universities in the world that was compliled from the Times Higher Education (THE) research that's published each year in October. The list is developed from asking for peer reviews, employer reviews, the faculty to student ratio, citations per faculty, number of international faculty and students. Full information on how these are weighted are listed in the top universities in the world page.
Top 10 Worldwide Rankings 2008
Here are the current top 10 universities in the world according to their research from 2008.
1 - Harvard University - USA
2 - Yale University - USA
3 - University of Cambridge - UK
4 - University of Oxford - UK
5 - California Institute of Technology - USA
6 - Imperial College London - UK
7 - UCL (University College London) - UK
8 - University of Chicago - USA
9 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - USA
10 - Columbia University - USA
As you can see it's made up of universities only from the UK and American. Here are further lists split by those countries.
Top 10 Universities in the USA
From the same list published by THE in October 2008 the top 10 universities in America is as follows with their worldwide ranking in brackets:
1 - Harvard University - USA (1)
Harvard University is the oldest institute of higher learning in the USA and was founded in 1636. It's
based in Cambridge Massachusetts and a member of the Ivy League.
2 - Yale University - USA (2)
3 - California Institute of Technology - USA (5)
4 - University of Chicago - USA (8)
5 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - USA (9)
6 - Columbia University - USA (10)
7 - University of Pennsylvania - USA (11)
8 - Princetown University - USA (12)
9 - Duke University - USA (13=)
10 - Johns Hopkins University - USA (13=)
Top 10 Universities in UK
From the same list published by THE in October 2008 the top 10 universities in the UK is as follows with their worldwide ranking in brackets:
1 - University of Cambridge - UK (3)
Cambridge University is the second oldest university in the English speaking world and was founded
in 1209 and based in Cambridgeshire England. The university has 31 separate colleges.
2 - Oxford University- UK (4)
3 - Imperial College London - UK (6)
4 - UCL - University College London - UK (7)
5 - King's College London - UK (22)
6 - University of Edinburgh - UK (23)
7 - University of Manchester - UK (29)
8 - University of Bristol - UK (32)
9 - London School of Economics - UK (66)
10 - University of Warwick - UK (69)