Universities in the UK, including Oxford and Cambridge, have risen in international rankings published by the Times Higher Education. Check out the full table here
University of Cambridge ranks second in the THE world reputation league table
British universities have climbed up world reputation rankings, according to the latest table published by Times Higher Education (THE), with Oxford and Cambridge passing big US names to make it to the top spots just after Harvard.
The table shows 12 UK universities made it into the top 100, up from 10 the year before, thanks to the universities of Durham and Warwick.
Cambridge and Oxford each rose two places to reach second and third place respectively, overtaking the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University.
Harvard has retained first place in the ranking as the world’s most prestigious university since rankings began in 2011
Top 100 world universities by reputation 2015
1. Harvard University, United States
2. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
3. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
5. Stanford University, United States
6. University of California, Berkeley, United States
7. Princeton University, United States
8. Yale University, United States
9. California Institute of Technology, United States
10. Columbia University, United States
11. University of Chicago, United States
12. University of Tokyo, Japan
13. University of California, Los Angeles, United States
14. Imperial College London, United Kingdom
15. ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
16. University of Toronto, Canada
17. University College London, United Kingdom
University College London (UCL)
18. Johns Hopkins University, United States
19. University of Michigan, United States
20. New York University, United States
21. Cornell University, United States
22. London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
23. University of Pennsylvania, United States
24. National University of Singapore, Singapore
25. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation
26. Tsinghua University, China
27. Kyoto University, Japan
28. Carnegie Mellon University, United States
29. University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
30. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
31. King’s College London, United Kingdom
King’s College London (KCL)
32. Peking University, China
33. University of Washington, United States
34. Duke University, United States
35. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
36. McGill University, Canada
37. University of British Columbia, Canada
38. Heidelberg University, Germany
39. University of California, San Francisco, United States
40. University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
41. University of California, San Diego, United States
42. University of Melbourne, Australia
43. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
44. University of California, Davis, United States
45. Karolinska Institute, Sweden
46. University of Texas at Austin, United States
47. Northwestern University, United States
48. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
49. Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
50. University of Manchester, United Kingdom
University of Manchester
51-60
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
University of Sydney, Australia
Australian National University, Australia
Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1, France
Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris 4, France
Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Free University of Berlin, Germany
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Technical University of Munich, Germany
61-70
École Normale Supérieure, France
Pennsylvania State University, United States
University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Wageningen University and Research Center, Netherlands
University of Southern California, United States
Leiden University, Netherlands
University of North Carolina, United States
71-80
Purdue University, United States
Utrecht University, Netherlands
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, United States
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Brown University, United States
Boston University, United States
University of Pittsburgh, United States
Michigan State University, United States
University of Minnesota, United States
Durham University
81-90
Saint Petersburg State University, Russian Federation
Durham University, United Kingdom
Uppsala University, Sweden
University of Helsinki, Finland
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
University of Queensland, Australia
Ohio State University, United States
Washington University in St Louis, United States
University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Texas A&M University, United States
91-100
École Polytechnique, France
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Mayo Medical School, United States
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
London Business School, United Kingdom
University of Massachusetts, United States
Monash University, Australia
Pasteur Institute, France
University of Bristol, United Kingdom