Top of the class: The world's 10 most reputable universities

Times Higher Education (THE), a London Magazine that tracks the higher education market, listed the world’s 10 most reputable universities.

16:51 07 March 2014

Times Higher Education has released the list of the world’s most reputable universities. The findings were based on a survey of published professors at universities in more than 100 countries around the world.

The participants were asked to list down 15 or less institutions in their field, which they considered to have the best departments in their area of study. Based on the result, Harvard remains on number one spot while MIT comes in second.

Phil Baty,THE’s rankings editor, said: “This is purely subjective data. It’s completely based on opinion. But it’s opinion from the people whose opinions really count.”

Explaining why reputation is important, he explained: “Reputation is almost like the currency of higher education. It’s the way scholars decide whom to do business with, whom to collaborate with and where they’ll go for their next career move.” The same goes for students, he says. “Reputation often comes out as the No. 1 factor that students use to decide where they want to go to school.”

Here are the top 10 most reputable universities:

1. Harvard
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. Stanford University
4. University of Cambridge
5. University of Oxford
6. University of California, Berkeley
7. Princeton University
8. Yale University
9. California Institute of Technology
10. University of California, Los Angeles