World's top 100 universities 2012

	2012 reputation rank	2011 reputation rank	University	Country	2011-12 World University Rankings position
.	1	1	Harvard University	United States	2
.	2	2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	7
.	3	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	6
.	4	5	Stanford University	United States	2
.	5	4	University of California, Berkeley	United States	10
.	6	6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	4
.	7	7	Princeton University	United States	5
.	8	8	University of Tokyo	Japan	30
.	9	12	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	13
.	10	9	Yale University	United States	11
.	11	10	California Institute of Technology	United States	1
.	12	13	University of Michigan	United States	18
.	13	11	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	8
.	14	15	University of Chicago	United States	9
.	15	23	Columbia University	United States	12
.	16	16	Cornell University	United States	20
.	16	17	University of Toronto	Canada	19
.	18	14	Johns Hopkins University	United States	14
.	19	22	University of Pennsylvania	United States	16
.	20	18	Kyoto University	Japan	52
.	21	19	University College London	United Kingdom	17
.	22	24	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	15
.	23	21	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	31
.	23	27	National University of Singapore	Singapore	40
.	25	31	University of British Columbia	Canada	22
.	25	29	McGill University	Canada	28
.	27	25	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	27
.	28	26	University of Washington	United States	25
.	29	37	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	47
.	30	35	Tsinghua University	China	71
.	31	34	University of California, San Francisco	United States	#N/A
.	32	31	University of Texas at Austin	United States	29
.	33	36	Duke University	United States	22
.	34	51-60	New York University	United States	44
.	35	40	Northwestern University	United States	26
.	36	30	University of California, San Diego	United States	33
.	37	28	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	21
.	38	43	Peking University	China	49
.	39	42	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	34
.	39	19	University of Massachusetts	United States	64
.	41	39	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	24
.	42	48	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	45
.	43	45	University of Melbourne	Australia	37
.	44	51-60	Australian National University	Australia	38
.	44	38	University of California, Davis	United States	38
.	46	41	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	43
.	47	43	University of Minnesota	United States	42
.	47	47	Purdue University	United States	98
.	49	45	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	36
.	50	51-60	The University of Sydney	Australia	58
.	51-60	49	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	104
.	51-60	51-60	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	32
.	51-60	61-70	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	48
.	51-60	51-60	The Ohio State University	United States	57
.	51-60	50	Osaka University	Japan	119
.	51-60	61-70	Pennsylvania State University	United States	51
.	51-60	51-60	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	35
.	51-60	51-60	Seoul National University	Korea, Republic of	124
.	51-60	51-60	Tohoku University	Japan	120
.	51-60	51-60	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	108
.	61-70	71-80	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	46
.	61-70	#N/A	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	121
.	61-70	91-100	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	62
.	61-70	71-80	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	109
.	61-70	61-70	King's College London	United Kingdom	56
.	61-70	61-70	Technische Universität München	Germany	88
.	61-70	51-60	University of Pittsburgh	United States	59
.	61-70	#N/A	University of São Paulo	Brazil	178
.	61-70	71-80	University of Southern California	United States	55
.	61-70	81-90	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	154
.	71-80	81-90	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	92
.	71-80	81-90	Universität Heidelberg	Germany	73
.	71-80	71-80	Michigan State University	United States	96
.	71-80	#N/A	Université Paris-Sorbonne	France	#N/A
.	71-80	81-90	The University of Queensland Australia	Australia	74
.	71-80	81-90	Texas A&M University	United States	164
.	71-80	61-70	Uppsala University	Sweden	87
.	71-80	71-80	Utrecht University	Netherlands	68
.	71-80	71-80	Washington University in St Louis	United States	41
.	71-80	61-70	University of Zürich	Switzerland	61
.	81-90	#N/A	Brown University	United States	49
.	81-90	#N/A	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	151
.	81-90	61-70	University of Florida	United States	125
.	81-90	81-90	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	67
.	81-90	91-100	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Korea, Republic of	94
.	81-90	81-90	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	133
.	81-90	81-90	Leiden University	Netherlands	79
.	81-90	71-80	Lund University	Sweden	80
.	81-90	91-100	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	169
.	81-90	#N/A	Tel Aviv University	Israel	166
.	91-100	71-80	University of Arizona	United States	97
.	91-100	61-70	Boston University	United States	54
.	91-100	81-90	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	66
.	91-100	61-70	École Polytechnique	France	63
.	91-100	81-90	Indiana University	United States	123
.	91-100	#N/A	Middle East Technical University	Turkey	276-300
.	91-100	#N/A	Université Paris-Sud	France	#N/A
.	91-100	#N/A	Université Pierre et Marie Curie	France	84
.	91-100	71-80	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	United States	81
.	91-100	#N/A	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands	75