Times Higher Education world reputation rankings Click heading to sort table. Download this data 2013 Rank 2012 Rank 2011 Rank Institution Country 1 1 1 Harvard University US 2 2 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 3 3 3 University of Cambridge UK 4 6 6 University of Oxford UK 5 5 4 University of California, Berkeley US 6 4 5 Stanford University US 7 7 7 Princeton University US 8 9 12 University of California, Los Angeles US 9 8 8 University of Tokyo Japan 10 10 9 Yale University US 11 11 10 California Institute of Technology US 12 12 13 University of Michigan US 13 15 23 Columbia University US 14 14 15 University of Chicago US 14 13 11 Imperial College London UK 16 16 17 University of Toronto Canada 17 16 16 Cornell University US 18 19 22 University of Pennsylvania US 19 18 14 Johns Hopkins University US 20 21 19 University College London UK 20 22 24 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich Switzerland 22 23 27 National University of Singapore Singapore 23 20 18 Kyoto University Japan 24 23 21 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign US 25 29 37 London School of Economics and Political Science UK 26 37 28 Carnegie Mellon University US 27 32 31 University of Texas at Austin US 27 28 26 University of Washington US 29 34 51-60 New York University US 30 27 25 University of Wisconsin-Madison US 31 25 31 University of British Columbia Canada 31 33 36 Duke University US 31 25 29 McGill University Canada 34 36 30 University of California, San Diego US 35 30 35 Tsinghua University China 36 39 42 The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 37 35 40 Northwestern University US 38 41 39 Georgia Institute of Technology US 39 43 45 University of Melbourne Australia 40 31 34 University of California, San Francisco US 41 51-60 51-60 Seoul National University Korea, Republic Of 42 44 51-60 Australian National University Australia 42 39 19 University of Massachusetts US 44 42 48 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany 45 38 43 Peking University China 46 49 45 University of Edinburgh UK 47 51-60 61-70 University of Manchester UK 48 44 38 University of California, Davis US 49 50 51-60 The University of Sydney Australia 50 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian Federation 50 47 47 Purdue University US 51-60 51-60 49 Delft University of Technology Netherlands 51-60 61-70 71-80 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland 51-60 91-100 Middle East Technical University Turkey 51-60 47 43 University of Minnesota US 51-60 46 41 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill US 51-60 51-60 51-60 The Ohio State University US 51-60 51-60 50 Osaka University Japan 51-60 51-60 61-70 Pennsylvania State University US 51-60 51-60 51-60 University of California, Santa Barbara US 51-60 61-70 81-90 National Taiwan University Taiwan 61-70 61-70 91-100 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 61-70 51-60 51-60 Karolinska Institute Sweden 61-70 61-70 61-70 King's College London UK 61-70 81-90 91-100 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Korea, Republic Of 61-70 81-90 81-90 Leiden University Netherlands 61-70 61-70 University of São Paulo Brazil 61-70 61-70 71-80 University of Southern California US 61-70 61-70 61-70 Technische Universität München Germany 61-70 51-60 51-60 Tohoku University Japan 61-70 51-60 51-60 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 71-80 61-70 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 71-80 61-70 71-80 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany 71-80 81-90 81-90 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium 71-80 71-80 71-80 Michigan State University US 71-80 81-90 91-100 Nanyang Technological University Singapore 71-80 71-80 Université Paris-Sorbonne France 71-80 61-70 51-60 University of Pittsburgh US 71-80 71-80 81-90 The University of Queensland Australia Australia 71-80 71-80 81-90 Universität Heidelberg Germany 81-90 71-80 81-90 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 81-90 91-100 61-70 Boston University US 81-90 81-90 Brown University US 81-90 81-90 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 81-90 91-100 61-70 École Polytechnique France 81-90 81-90 61-70 University of Florida US 81-90 The University of New South Wales Australia 81-90 91-100 Université Pierre et Marie Curie France 81-90 91-100 71-80 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey US 81-90 71-80 71-80 Utrecht University Netherlands 81-90 71-80 71-80 Washington University in St Louis US 91-100 91-100 81-90 University of Bristol UK 91-100 Freie Universität Berlin Germany 91-100 81-90 71-80 Lund University Sweden 91-100 University of Maryland, College Park US 91-100 Monash University Australia 91-100 91-100 Université Paris-Sud France 91-100 71-80 81-90 Texas A&M University US 91-100 71-80 61-70 Uppsala University Sweden 91-100 91-100 Wageningen University and Research Center Netherlands