Nearly 1,800 institutions from 104 countries were ranked in this year's report, based on 13 measures of excellence: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. Times Higher Education noted the incredible breadth of coverage: 121 million citations, 15.5 million research publications and 40,000 responses from scholars.

Times Higher Education's World Top 20

1. Oxford University
2. Harvard University
(tie) 3. University of Cambridge
(tie) 3. Stanford University
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6. California Institute of Technology
7. Princeton University
8. University of California at Berkeley
9. Yale University
10. Imperial College London
(tie) 11. Columbia University
(tie) 11. ETH Zurich
13. University of Chicago
14. University of Pennsylvania
15. Johns Hopkins University
16. Tsinghua University
17. Peking University
18. University of Toronto
19. National University of Singapore
20. Cornell University

Other U.S. Institutions in the Top 200

21. University of California at Los Angeles
23. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
24. New York University
25. Duke University
(tie) 26. Northwestern University
(tie) 26. University of Washington
28. Carnegie-Mellon University
32. University of California at San Diego
38. Georgia Institute of Technology
48. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
50. University of Texas at Austin
57. Washington University in Saint Louis
61. Brown University
63. University of California at Davis
64. University of California at Santa Barbara
65. University of Southern California
69. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(tie) 71. Boston University
81. University of Wisconsin at Madison
(tie) 82. Emory University
(tie) 95. University of California at Irvine
(tie) 98. Vanderbilt University
101. University of Minnesota
(tie) 104. University of Maryland at College Park
106. Michigan State University
112. Ohio State University
123. Dartmouth College
127. Purdue University
134. Case Western Reserve University
136. Georgetown University
144. University of Pittsburgh
147. Rice University
(tie) 148. University of Colorado at Boulder
(tie) 151. Penn State University
(tie) 151. Tufts University
(tie) 151. University of Florida
154. University of Rochester
(tie) 156. Arizona State University
(tie) 156. University of Virginia
158. Northeastern University
(tie) 170. Indiana University
180. University of Arizona
181. Texas A&M University
191. University of Massachusetts
(tie) 192. University of California at Santa Cruz
(tie) 194. University of Miami

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