If education was a popularity contest Harvard would come first and Yale would come in…ninth?

Times Higher Education has published on Thursday a new list that ranks universities based to their reputation for teaching and research. Seven of the top 10 universities are found in the United States (the other three in the United Kingdom and Japan). Yale ranked ninth, Harvard first and Princeton seventh.

  1. Harvard University

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  3. University of Cambridge

  4. University of California, Berkeley

  5. Stanford University

  6. University of Oxford

  7. Princeton University

  8. University of Tokyo

  9. Yale University

  10. California Institute of Technology

[via Time and Guardian]