World Ranking Guide

Rankings of top 5 universities/colleges in the USA:

(1) US News & World Report 2011 National Universities Rankings:
1 Harvard University
2 Princeton University
3 Yale University
4 Columbia University
5 Stanford University
5 University of Pennsylvania

(2) Academic Ranking of World Universities 2010:
National Rank, Institution, (Global Rank)
1 Harvard University Americas (1st)
2 University of California, Berkeley Americas (2nd)
3 Stanford University Americas (3rd)
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4th)
5 California Institute of Technology (6th)

(3) The Times Higher Education Supplement 2009:
National Rank, Institution, (Global Rank)
1 Harvard University (1st)
2 Yale University (3rd)
3 The University of Chicago (7th)
4 Princeton University (8th)
5 MIT (9th)

(4) Washington Monthly's 2010 national universities rankings:
1 Univ. of California, San Diego
2 University of California, Berkeley
3 Univ. of California, Los Angeles
4 Stanford University
5 University of Texas, Austin

(5) Webometrics ranking of world universities (July 2010):
1 Harvard University
2 MIT
3 Stanford
4 University of California Berkeley
5 Cornell University

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