The US boasts the most reputable universities in the world according to a new global reputation ranking out today.
The list published by the Times Higher Education, is the first of its kind looking solely at the reputations of institutions for teaching and research. Harvard comes top closely followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) beating both Oxford and Cambridge universities.
The rankings based on a survey of 13,388 academics over 131 countries is the largest evaluation of academic reputation and is used partly used in indicators for compiling the well-known Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
The rankings also show Japan beating Canada, Australia and Germany with the flagship, University of Tokyo, at eighth place making it the only other nation apart from the US and UK to feature in the top ten.
With university fees rocketing and more applicants fighting for places, university reputation is set to be an even bigger focus for prospective students.
Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, said: "In an ever more competitive global market for students, academics and university administrators a university's reputation for academic excellence is crucial."
The full Times Higher education World Reputation Rankings 2011 with data supplied by Thomson Reuters, can be found in our table below. To see how the university reputations compare with their world rankings can be found in our spreadsheet.
Data summary
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 US
3 University of Cambridge 7 UK
4 University of California, Berkeley 8 US
5 Stanford University 4 US
6 University of Oxford 7 UK
7 Princeton University 5 US
8 University of Tokyo 27 Japan
9 Yale University 10 US
10 California Institute of Technology 2 US
11 Imperial College London 9 UK
12 University of California, Los Angeles 11 US
13 University of Michigan 15 US
14 Johns Hopkins University 13 US
15 University of Chicago 12 US
16 Cornell University 14 US
17 University of Toronto 17 Canada
18 Kyoto University 57 Japan
19 University College London 22 UK
19 University of Massachusetts 57 US
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