Top 100 Universities Worldwide 2015 Based On Times Higher Education

This year's rankings consisted of the United States (43),United Kingdom (12), Germany (6), Australia (5), France (5), Netherlands (5), Canada (3), China (2), Hong Kong (2), Japan (2), Russian Federation (2), Singapore (2), Sweden (2), Switzerland (2), Belgium (1), Brazil (1), Denmark (1), Finland (1), Mexico (1), Republic of Korea (1) and Taiwan (1).

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This year's Top 10 also comes to no surprise - Harvard University tops the list for having a perfect score of 100. Followed by the University of Cambridge (84.3), University of Oxford (80.4), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (77.8), Stanford University (72.1), University of California, Berkeley (60), Princeton University (35), Yale University (33.1), California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (24.1) and Columbia University (21).

The basis of these rankings are in the methodology of two different pointing systems depending on the factors of an institution's research and teaching reputation. The two scores are combined at a ratio of 2:1, giving more weight to research. The scores are then based on the number of times a university is cited by respondents as the best in their field. Here is the list of the Top 100.

Rank	University	Country	Score
1	Harvard University	United States	100.00
2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	84.30
3	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	80.40
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	77.80
5	Stanford University	United States	72.10
6	University of California, Berkeley	United States	60.00
7	Princeton University	United States	35.00
8	Yale University	United States	33.10
9	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	24.10
10	Columbia University	United States	21.00
11	University of Chicago	United States	19.80
12	The University of Tokyo	Japan	19.30
13	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	18.90
14	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	18.20
15	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	16.70
16	University of Toronto	Canada	15.80
17	University College London (UCL)	United Kingdom	15.70
18	Johns Hopkins University	United States	14.60
19	University of Michigan	United States	13.80
20	Cornell University	United States	13.60
20	New York University (NYU)	United States	13.60
22	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	12.90
23	University of Pennsylvania	United States	11.20
24	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	10.40
25	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russian Federation	9.90
26	Tsinghua University	China	9.50
27	Kyoto University	Japan	9.30
28	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	9.20
29	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	8.30
30	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	8.20
31	King's College London	United Kingdom	8.10
32	Peking University	China	7.70
33	University of Washington	United States	7.40
34	Duke University	United States	7.30
35	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	Germany	7.20
35	McGill University	Canada	7.20
37	University of British Columbia	Canada	7.00
38	Heidelberg University	Germany	6.40
38	University of California, San Francisco	United States	6.40
38	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	6.40
41	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany	6.30
41	University of California, San Diego	United States	6.30
41	University of Melbourne	Australia	6.30
44	University of California, Davis	United States	6.00
45	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	5.90
46	University of Texas at Austin	United States	5.80
47	Northwestern University	United States	5.70
48	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	5.50
49	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)	United States	5.40
50	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	5.30
51-60	Australian National University	Australia	N/A
51-60	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	N/A
51-60	Free University of Berlin	Germany	N/A
51-60	KU Leuven	Belgium	N/A
51-60	Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1	France	N/A
51-60	Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris 4	France	N/A
51-60	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea	N/A
51-60	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	N/A
51-60	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	N/A
51-60	University of São Paulo	Brazil	N/A
51-60	University of Sydney	Australia	N/A
61-70	École Normale Supérieure	France	N/A
61-70	Leiden University	Netherlands	N/A
61-70	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	N/A
61-70	Pennsylvania State University	United States	N/A
61-70	Technical University of Munich	Germany	N/A
61-70	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	N/A
61-70	University of North Carolina	United States	N/A
61-70	University of Southern California	United States	N/A
61-70	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands	N/A
71-80	Boston University	United States	N/A
71-80	Brown University	United States	N/A
71-80	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	N/A
71-80	Michigan State University	United States	N/A
71-80	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico	N/A
71-80	Purdue University	United States	N/A
71-80	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	United States	N/A
71-80	Saint Petersburg State University	Russian Federation	N/A
71-80	University of Minnesota	United States	N/A
71-80	University of Pittsburgh	United States	N/A
71-80	Utrecht University	Netherlands	N/A
81-90	Durham University	United Kingdom	N/A
81-90	Ohio State University	United States	N/A
81-90	Texas A&M University	United States	N/A
81-90	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	N/A
81-90	University of Helsinki	Finland	N/A
81-90	University of Queensland	Australia	N/A
81-90	University of Warwick	United Kingdom	N/A
81-90	Uppsala University	Sweden	N/A
81-90	Washington University in St Louis	United States	N/A
91-100	École Polytechnique	France	N/A
91-100	London Business School	United Kingdom	N/A
91-100	Mayo Medical School	United States	N/A
91-100	Monash University	Australia	N/A
91-100	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	N/A
91-100	Pasteur Institute	France	N/A
91-100	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	N/A
91-100	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	N/A
91-100	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	N/A
91-100	University of Massachusetts	United States	N/A

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