1. TOP 10 UNIVERSITIES OF THE WORLD<br />1 Harvard University (US)2 University of Cambridge (UK)2 University of Oxford (UK)2 Yale University (US)5 Imperial College London (UK)6 Princeton University (US)7 California Institute of Technology (US)7 University of Chicago (US)9 University College London (UK)10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)Of course, this is based on a general reputation of quality and not individual departments/groups.(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7083292.stm)<br />TOP 100 UNIVERSITIES OF THE WORLD<br />Rank Institution Country Score Citations per paper1 Cambridge University UK 100.0 7.62 Oxford University UK 95.0 7.53 University of California, Berkeley US 93.1 9.54 Harvard University US 88.9 11.15 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 87.8 9.66 Princeton University US 80.1 11.67 Stanford University US 79.1 9.58 California Institute of Technology US 73.2 11.99 Imperial College London UK 72.9 6.310 Tokyo University Japan 72.1 5.611 ETH Zurich Switzerland 71.6 6.812 Beijing University China 67.6 3.313 Kyoto University Japan 66.6 4.914 Yale University US 65.7 9.515 Cornell University US 64.5 6.916 Australian National University Australia 63.1 6.117 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France 60.8 6.018 University of Chicago US 60.4 11.619 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia 60.1 2.020 University of Toronto Canada 54.9 6.021 University of California, Los Angeles US 53.1 8.222= National University of Singapore Singapore 52.4 3.522= Pierre and Marie Curie University France 52.4 4.824 Ecole Polytechnique France 52.3 4.925 University of Columbia US 49.9 8.826 University of Texas at Austin US 49.2 6.627 Melbourne University Australia 48.6 5.028 Heidelberg University Germany 48.0 6.729 University of Illinois US 47.5 6.030 La Sapienza University, Rome Italy 46.4 4.631 University of California, Santa Barbara US 46.3 9.432 China University of Sci & Technol China 45.7 3.333 Indian Institutes of Technology India 45.1 –34 University of Michigan US 45.0 7.135 Sydney University Australia 44.8 4.436 University of California, San Diego US 44.0 8.337= Göttingen University Germany 43.6 4.737= McGill University Canada 43.6 5.039 Paris XI — Orsay France 43.5 5.540 Seoul National University South Korea 43.3 4.241= New South Wales University Australia 43.1 4.941= Tsing Hua University China 43.1 2.343 Munich University Germany 43.0 5.944 Utrecht University Netherlands 42.4 5.845 University of British Columbia Canada 41.3 6.446 Edinburgh University UK 40.6 7.847 Copenhagen University Denmark 40.2 4.848 Johns Hopkins University US 40.0 9.949 Osaka University Japan 39.6 4.650 Technion — Israel Institute of Technol Israel 39.1 3.951 University of Wisconsin US 39 6.552 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 38.5 5.053 Bonn University Germany 38.3 4.654 Monash University Australia 37.9 –55 Pennsylvania University US 37.8 9.456= Delft University of Technology Netherlands 37.7 5.656= Technical University Berlin Germany 37.7 –58= Auckland University New Zealand 37.5 –58= Queensland University Australia 37.5 4.358= Tel Aviv University Israel 37.5 5.461 National Taiwan University Taiwan 37.4 3.462 Malaysia National University Malaysia 36.8 –63 Fudan University China 36.7 –64 Aarhus University Denmark 36.6 6.465= Tohoku University Japan 36.2 4.665= Warwick University UK 36.2 –67= Humboldt University Berlin Germany 36.1 5.367= Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 36.1 –69 Hong Kong University Sci & Technol Hong Kong 35.8 –70 Nanjing University China 35.7 2.771 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 35.3 –72 Helsinki University Finland 35.2 6.073= St Petersburg State University Russia 35.1 –73= Vienna University Austria 35.1 4.775 Technical University Munich Germany 34.9 5.976 Georgia Institute of Technology US 34.2 5.877 Penn State University US 34.1 7.078 Leiden University Netherlands 34.0 6.579 Lund University Sweden 33.9 6.280 University of Adelaide Australia 33.8 –81 Aachen RWTH Germany 33.6 4.982= Korea Advanced Inst Sci & Technol South Korea 32.9 –82= New York University US 32.9 –84 King’s College London UK 32.8 –85 Nagoya University Japan 32.7 5.486 Manchester University & Umist UK 32.5 5.087= Nanyang Technological University Singapore 32.4 –87= Vienna Technical University Austria 32.4 –89 Carnegie Mellon University US 32.3 9.990= Free University Berlin Germany 32.2 4.690= University College London UK 32.2 6.090= State University New York US 32.2 7.593= Bristol University UK 32.1 6.193= Trinity College Dublin Ireland 32.1 –95 Malaya University Malaysia 31.9 –96 Chalmers University of Technology Sweden 31.7 4.497= Maryland University US 31.5 7.297= University of Waterloo Canada 31.5 –99 Brown University US 31.0 8.4100= Uppsala University Sweden 30.7 5.3100= Washington University US 30.7 8.9<br />