Top Ten Universities in the World 2012

Based on the US New’s Rankings, the top ten universities in the world are:

10

Columbia University

9

University of Pennsylvania

8

University of Chicago

7

UCL (University College London)

6

Imperial College London

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5

University of Oxford

4

Yale University

3

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2

Harvard University

1

University of Cambridge 

Surprisingly a few notorious schools are missing from this list: Stanford (#11), Princeton (#13), Cornell (#15), and John Hopkins University (#16).

Source: US News