Harvard has topped a reputation ranking of worldwide universities, with US institutions taking more than 40 places on the top 100 list complied by Times Higher Education. Get the full data
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Harvard university has once again topped the Times Higher Education's world reputation ranking of universities. The 2013 rankings, show the US dominating the list with more than 40 institutions in the top 100.
Following Harvard are Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Cambridge university, taking second and third place respectively. Oxford university has climbed two places since the 2012 rankings, to take fourth place and Stanford university has dropped down to sixth.
The rankings also highlight a big improvement for Australia which now has six universities represented in the top 100 - the third highest representation in the list behind the US and the UK. Australia has two new entries: the university of New South Wales and Monash university. Read more...

The 2013 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings will be released online on Monday 4 March, ahead of their official launch at the British Council’s Going Global conference in Dubai. The reputation rankings, now in their third year, are based on an invitation-only survey of thousands of senior researchers from all over the world, providing an unparalleled insight into institutions’ global academic prestige.
“This ranking is based purely on subjective judgement, but it is the expert judgement of those who know excellence in teaching and research better than anyone else – experienced, informed and engaged academics,” said Phil Baty, editor of Times Higher Education rankings.
“Almost 50,000 academics have provided their expert insight over just three short annual rounds of the survey, providing a serious worldwide audit of an increasingly important but little-understood aspect of global higher education – a university’s academic brand.”
This year’s reputation rankings will be the based on the 16,639 responses, from 144 countries, to Thomson Reuters’ 2012 Academic Reputation Survey, which was carried out during March and April 2012. The 2011 survey attracted 17,554 responses, and 2010’s survey attracted 13,388 respondents. Read more...