Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-2013

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-2013 powered by Thomson Reuters are the only global university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments. Check out the list of the top ten universities.
 1 California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
2 University of Oxford
2 Stanford University
4 Harvard University
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
6 Princeton University
7 University of Cambridge
8 Imperial College London
9 University of California, Berkeley
10 University of Chicago.
Check out the other top 30 after the cut

11 Yale University
12 ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
13 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
14 Columbia University
15 University of Pennsylvania
16 Johns Hopkins University
17 University College London (UCL)
18 Cornell University
19 Northwestern University
20 University of Michigan
21 University of Toronto
22 Carnegie Mellon University
23 Duke University
24 University of Washington
 25 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
25 University of Texas at Austin
27 The University of Tokyo
28 University of Melbourne
29 National University of Singapore (NUS)
30 University of British Columbia

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