Harvard University number one in Global ranking!
Harvard University of the US has remained number one in a global ranking of 100 most prestigious education institutions, followed by Britain’s Cambridge and Oxford universities.
Harvard University one of the most prestigious Universities in the world, is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636. Established originally by the Massachusetts legislature and named for John Harvard (its first benefactor), Harvard is the United States oldest institution of higher learning. Harvard has the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world, standing at $32.3 billion as of June 2013. It had many eminent alumni, including eight U.S. Presidents and several foreign heads of state, 62 living billionaires and 335 Rhodes Scholars,150 Nobel laureates.
According to the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2015, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of the US was pushed to the fourth spot by the University of Oxford, and Stanford University was pushed to the fifth spot by the University of Cambridge. Japan’s University of Tokyo led Asia’s charge at the 12th spot.
London and Paris were the two cities with the maximum number of the top universities, with five universities each featuring in the list.
As far as countries were concerned, the US confirmed its supremacy, taking eight of the top 10 positions and 43 of the top 100 places — down from 46 last year followed by Britain, which has 12 such universities — up from 10 last year and nine in 2013.
Russia’s Lomonosov Moscow State University was ranked 25th, while Brazil’s University of Sao Paulo to the 51-60 band.
China too has gained ground as its top institution, Tsinghua University, rose 10 places to 26th, while Peking University too moved up nine places to reach the 32nd spot.
The 2015 World Reputation Rankings are based on 10,507 responses from 142 countries conducted between December 2014 and January 2015. In all, 21 countries are represented in the list.
The poll attracted almost 70,000 responses from more than 150 countries in five annual rounds since the first survey in 2010.
| Ranking | University | Country | Score |
| 1 | Havard University | United States | 100.00 |
| 2 | University of CambridgeUniversity of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 84.30 |
| 3 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 80.30 |
| 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 77.80 |
| 5 | Stanford University | United States | 72.10 |
| 6 | University of California | United States | 60.00 |
| 7 | Princeton University | United States | 35.00 |
| 8 | Yale UniversityYale University | United States | 33.10 |
| 9 | California Institute of Technology | United States | 24.10 |
| 10 | University of Cloumbia | United States | 21.00 |
| 11 | University of Chicago | United States | 19.80 |
| 12 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 19.30 |
| 13 | University of California | United States | 18.30 |
| 14 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 18.20 |
| 15 | ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland | 16.70 |
| 16 | University of Toronto | Canada | 15.80 |
| 17 | University College London (UCL) | United Kingdom | 15.70 |
| 18 | John Hopkins University | United States | 14.60 |
| 19 | University of Michigan | United States | 13.80 |
| 20 | Cornell University | United States | 13.60 |
| 21 | New York University | United Kingdom | 13.60 |
| 22 | London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom | 12.90 |
| 23 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 11.20 |
| 24 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 10.40 |
| 25 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia | 9.90 |