Harvard University achieved the number 1 spot for the eighth successive year in the annual Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014, followed by Stanford University in 2nd place globally.
In the UK, the highest ranked university is the University of Cambridge (1st in UK and 5th in the world), followed by the University of Oxford (2nd in UK and 9th in the world) and University College London (3rd in UK and 20th in the world).
Top 30 Universities in the World:
1 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
3 MIT
4 University of California-Berkeley
5 University of Cambridge
6 Princeton University
7 California Institute of Technology
8 Columbia University
9 University of Chicago
9 University of Oxford
11 Yale University
12 University of California, Los Angeles
13 Cornell University
14 University of California, San Diego
15 University of Washington
16 University of Pennsylvania
17 The Johns Hopkins University
18 University of California, San Francisco
19 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
20 University College London
21 The University of Tokyo
22 The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
22 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
24 University of Toronto
24 University of Wisconsin - Madison
26 Kyoto University
27 New York University
28 Northwestern University
28 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
30 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Source: ARWU 2014
In the UK, the highest ranked university is the University of Cambridge (1st in UK and 5th in the world), followed by the University of Oxford (2nd in UK and 9th in the world) and University College London (3rd in UK and 20th in the world).
Top 30 Universities in the World:
1 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
3 MIT
4 University of California-Berkeley
5 University of Cambridge
6 Princeton University
7 California Institute of Technology
8 Columbia University
9 University of Chicago
9 University of Oxford
11 Yale University
12 University of California, Los Angeles
13 Cornell University
14 University of California, San Diego
15 University of Washington
16 University of Pennsylvania
17 The Johns Hopkins University
18 University of California, San Francisco
19 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
20 University College London
21 The University of Tokyo
22 The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
22 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
24 University of Toronto
24 University of Wisconsin - Madison
26 Kyoto University
27 New York University
28 Northwestern University
28 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
30 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Source: ARWU 2014
