U.S. universities top world rankings

By Matt Zalaznick. U.S. universities took eight of the top 10 places in a ranking of 500 world universities by a China-based research center. Harvard, Stanford, University of California at Berkeley and MIT took the top four spots, followed by Cambridge in England, on the annual Academic Ranking of World Universities by The Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. More...