Reputation rankings show 'super-brands' escaping chasing pack

By Jack Grove. Harvard University heads a group of six "super-brands" which have pulled away from the chasing pack in terms of reputation and prestige, according to the tables published on 4 March.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the second highest in the list of top 100 university brands followed by the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University.
Australia is the major success story of the 2013 rankings, with an extra two representatives in the world top 100 - the University of New South Wales and Monash University.
Its four other universities in the top 100 also improved their standings, with the University of Melbourne highest ranked at number 39.
The UK had nine institutions in the top 100 - the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial College London, University College London, the London School of Economics, Edinburgh, Manchester, King's College London, Bristol - three fewer than the inaugural 2011 rankings.
Germany, Japan and the Netherlands each has five universities in the top 100, France has four institutions and Canada, Hong Kong and Sweden three apiece.
Compiled by Thomson Reuters, the ranking is based on responses from around 16,300 leading peer-reviewed academics from across the world who were asked to nominate no more than 15 of the best institutions in their field of expertise. Thirty-nine per cent of responses were from the Americas, 26 per cent from Europe, 25 per cent from Asia Pacific and 12 per cent from the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. Read more...