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U.S. And U.K. Dominate Times Higher Education (THE) Top 10

The Times Higher Education (THE) world university rankings, published today, saw the California Institute of Technology maintain its position as the top-ranked university.

MIT, which ranks first in the QS world rankings, once again came in fifth in the THE rankings.

U.S. universities dominated with 7 out of 10 of the top 10 universities. British universities make up 3 out of the top 10, 7 of the top 50 and 11 in the top 100, which are listed below. The University of Oxford maintains its position in joint second place.

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said that, “These rankings testify to London’s strength in higher education and to our lengthening lead over European rivals.”

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014 powered by Thomson Reuters are the only global university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

World University Rankings 2013-2014

Rank	Institution	Location	Overall score change criteria
1	California Institute of Technology	United States	94.9
2	Harvard University	United States	93.9
2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	93.9
4	Stanford University	United States	93.8
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	93.0
6	Princeton University	United States	92.7
7	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	92.3
8	University of California, Berkeley	United States	89.8
9	University of Chicago	United States	87.8
10	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	87.5
11	Yale University	United States	87.4
12	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	86.3
13	Columbia University	United States	85.2
14	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	84.5
15	Johns Hopkins University	United States	83.7
16	University of Pennsylvania	United States	81.0
17	Duke University	United States	79.3
18	University of Michigan	United States	79.2
19	Cornell University	United States	79.1
20	University of Toronto	Canada	78.3
21	University College London	United Kingdom	77.6
22	Northwestern University	United States	77.1
23	The University of Tokyo	Japan	76.4
24	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	76.0
25	University of Washington	United States	73.4
26	National University of Singapore	Singapore	72.4
27	University of Texas at Austin	United States	72.2
28	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	71.6
29	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	71.4
30	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	71.1
31	University of British Columbia	Canada	70.8
32	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	69.8
33	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	68.4
34	University of Melbourne	Australia	68.2
35	McGill University	Canada	68.1
36	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	67.8
37	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	67.7
38	King’s College London	United Kingdom	67.6
39	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	67.5
40	New York University	United States	67.4
40	University of California, San Diego	United States	67.4
42	Washington University in St Louis	United States	67.2
43	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	65.3
44	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea	65.2
45	Peking University	China	65.0
46	University of Minnesota	United States	64.9
47	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	64.5
48	Australian National University	Australia	64.4
49	Pennsylvania State University	United States	64.2
50	Tsinghua University	China	63.5
50	Boston University	United States	63.5
52	Kyoto University	Japan	63.2
52	Brown University	United States	63.2
52	University of California, Davis	United States	63.2
55	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	63.1
56	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	62.9
57	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	62.5
58	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	62.3
59	Ohio State University	United States	62.0
60	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	61.7
61	KU Leuven	Belgium	61.3
62	Purdue University	United States	60.7
63	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	59.9
63	University of Queensland Australia	Australia	59.9
65	Rice University	United States	59.8
65	École Normale Supérieure	France	59.8
67	Leiden University	Netherlands	59.4
68	Universität Heidelberg	Germany	59.2
69	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	59.1
70	University of Southern California	United States	59.0
70	École Polytechnique	France	59.0
72	University of Sydney	Australia	58.8
73	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	58.1
74	Universität Basel	Switzerland	57.7
74	Utrecht University	Netherlands	57.7
76	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	57.2
77	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands	56.8
78	University of Pittsburgh	United States	56.7
79	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	56.3
80	Emory University	United States	56.1
80	Durham University	United Kingdom	56.1
80	Tufts University	United States	56.1
83	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	55.9
83	Michigan State University	United States	55.9
85	Ghent University	Belgium	55.5
86	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	55.3
87	Technische Universität München	Germany	55.2
88	Case Western Reserve University	United States	55.0
88	Vanderbilt University	United States	55.0
90	University of Notre Dame	United States	54.7
91	Monash University	Australia	54.6
92	McMaster University	Canada	54.5
93	University of California, Irvine	United States	54.1
94	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	53.8
95	University of Rochester	United States	53.6
96	Université Pierre et Marie Curie	France	53.5
97	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	53.4
98	University of Groningen	Netherlands	52.9
98	Maastricht University	Netherlands	52.9
100	University of Helsinki	Finland	52.6
100	University of York	United Kingdom	52.6

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Richard D. Baris

Rich, the People's Pundit, is the Data Journalism Editor at PPD and Director of the PPD Election Projection Model. He is also the Director of Big Data Poll, and author of "Our Virtuous Republic: The Forgotten Clause in the American Social Contract."