Argentina: Universidad de Buenos Aires – ranked 75^th

Australia: Australian National University (ANU) – ranked 20^th

Austria: Universität Wien – ranked 154^th

Azerbaijan: Khazar University – ranked 701-750

Bahrain: Arabian Gulf University – ranked 411-420

Bangladesh: University of Dhaka – ranked 701-750

Belarus: Belarus State University – ranked joint 334^th

Belgium: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – ranked joint 71^st

Brazil: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) – ranked 121^st

Brunei Darussalam: University of Brunei Darussalam – ranked joint 349^th

Bulgaria: Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” – ranked 701-750

Canada: University of Toronto – ranked 31^st

Chile: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile – ranked joint 137^th

China: Tsinghua University – ranked 25^th

Colombia: Universidad Nacional de Colombia – ranked joint 254^th

Costa Rica: Universidad de Costa Rica – ranked 411-420

Croatia: University of Zagreb – ranked 601-650

Cuba: Universidad de la Habana – ranked 601-650

Czech Republic: Charles University – ranked joint 314^th

Denmark: University of Copenhagen – ranked joint 73^rd

Ecuador: Universidad de San Francisco de Quito – ranked 701-750

Egypt: American University in Cairo – ranked joint 395^th

Estonia: University of Tartu – ranked joint 314^th

Finland: University of Helsinki – ranked joint 102^nd

France: Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS Paris) – ranked 43^rd

Germany: Technische Universität München – ranked 64^th

Ghana: University of Ghana – ranked 801-1000

Greece: National Technical University of Athens – ranked 401-410

Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong (HKU) – ranked 26^th

Hungary: University of Szeged – ranked 501-550

India: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) – ranked 172^nd

Indonesia: University of Indonesia – ranked joint 277^th

Iran: Sharif University of Technology – ranked 471-480

Iraq: University of Baghdad – ranked 501-550

Israel: Hebrew University of Jerusalem – ranked 145^th

Italy: Politecnico di Milano – ranked 170^th

Japan: University of Tokyo – ranked joint 28^th

Jordan: University of Jordan – ranked 551-600

Kazakhstan: Al-Farabi Kazakh National University – ranked joint 236^th

Kenya: University of Nairobi – ranked 801-1000

Kuwait: Kuwait University – ranked 651-700

Latvia: Riga Technical University – ranked 651-700

Lebanon: American University of Beirut (AUB) – ranked 235^th

Lithuania: Vilnius University – ranked 401-410

Macao, S.A.R., China: University of Macau – ranked 501-550

Malaysia: Universiti Malaya (UM) – ranked joint 114^th

Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) – ranked joint 122^nd

Morocco: Université Mohammed V de Rabat – ranked 801-1000

Netherlands: Delft University of Technology – ranked 54^th

New Zealand: University of Auckland – ranked joint 82^nd

Norway: University of Oslo – ranked joint 142^nd

Oman: Sultan Qaboos University – ranked 451-460

Pakistan: National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Islamabad – ranked 431-440
Palestine: Birzeit University – ranked 801-1000

Peru: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – ranked 431-440

Philippines: University of the Philippines – ranked joint 367^th

Poland: University of Warsaw – ranked 411-420

Portugal: University of Porto – ranked joint 301^st

Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico – ranked 801-1000

Qatar: Qatar University – ranked joint 349^th

Republic of Ireland: Trinity College Dublin (TCD) – ranked 88^th

Romania: University of Bucharest – ranked 701-750

Russia: Lomonosov Moscow State University – ranked joint 95^th

Saudi Arabia: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) – ranked joint 173^rd

Serbia: University of Belgrade – ranked 801-1000

Singapore: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) – ranked 11^th

Slovakia: Comenius University in Bratislava – ranked 701-750

Slovenia: University of Ljubljana – ranked 651-700

South Africa: University of Cape Town – ranked 191^st

South Korea: Seoul National University (SNU) – ranked joint 36^th

Spain: Universitat de Barcelona (UB) – ranked 156^th

Sri Lanka: University of Colombo – ranked 751-800

Sweden: Lund University – ranked joint 78th

Taiwan: National Taiwan University (NTU) – ranked joint 76^th

Thailand: Culalongkorn University – ranked joint 245^th

Turkey: Bilkent University – ranked 421-430

Uganda: Makerere University – ranked 801-1000

Ukraine: V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University – ranked 401-410

United Arab Emirates: United Arab Emirates University – ranked 390^th

Uruguay: Universidad de Montevideo – ranked 501-550

Venezuela: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) and Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) – both ranked 651-700

The top 100 reputation list is a subsidiary of the prestigious annual Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which is published each fall (MIT placed third on that list last year). The new ranking looks at institutional reputations for world-class performance in teaching and research.

Many students go on to achieve great things and in the current academic community there are 20 Nobel laureates affiliated with Stanford.

The large campus is home to 97 per cent of undergraduates and nearly 700 major university buildings alongside museums, gardens and recreational centres.

Currently, there are just under 7,000 undergraduates and 9,000 graduates at the university, with a 4:1 student-to-staff ratio.

Research at Stanford uses a $1.22 billion budget in total and more than 5,000 of the projects are externally funded

It was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard, who left his library and half his estate to the institution when he died in 1638.

The private Ivy League institution has connections to more than 45 Nobel laureates, over 30 heads of state and 48 Pulitzer prizewinners. It has more than 323,000 living alumni, including over 271,000 in the US and nearly 52,000 in 201 other countries. Thirteen US presidents have honorary degrees from the institution; the most recent of these was awarded to John F. Kennedy in 1956.

Faculty members who have been awarded a Nobel prize in recent years include chemist Martin Karplus and economist Alvin Roth, while notable alumni who were given the honour include former US vice-president Al Gore, who won the Peace Prize in 2007, and poet Seamus Heaney, who was a professor at Harvard from 1981 to 1997.

Situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard’s 5,000-acre campus houses 12 degree-granting schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, two theatres and five museums. It is also home to the largest academic library in the world, with 20.4 million volumes, 180,000 serial titles, an estimated 400 million manuscript items, 10 million photographs, 124 million archived web pages and 5.4 terabytes of born-digital archives and manuscripts.

There are more than 400 student organisations on campus, and Harvard’s medical school is connected to 10 hospitals.

The university receives one of the largest financial endowments of any higher education institution in the world; it created $1.5 billion in the fiscal year ended June 2013 – more than a third of Harvard’s total operating revenue in that year.

Harvard’s official colour is crimson, following a vote in 1910, after two student rowers provided crimson scarves to their teammates so that spectators could differentiate the university’s team during a regatta in 1858.

Caltech aims to foster an interdisciplinary environment in which students learn about and tackle the most challenging and fundamental scientific or technological problems.

The institution dates to 1891 when it was founded as Throop University. It assumed its current name in 1920.

There were 6,506 applicants for the entry class who will graduate in 2019 and 99 per cent of the students accepted across all years were in the top 10 per cent of their high school class.

More than half of Caltech students receive need-based financial support. The average financial aid package is $38,983 (£29,890).

Caltech’s mascot is a beaver, "nature’s engineer".

Among the unusual features of the university are the customary cookie break taken every Thursday by physicists and their students and the university’s status as a distributor of olive oil.

In Cambridge, there are 31 colleges and 150 academic departments.
The university has a long and prestigious history dating back to 1209, when scholars in Oxford fled to Cambridge after clashes with local people.

Many famous politicians, cultural figures and scientists spent time in Cambridge, including Isaac Newton and John Harvard, who would go on to found Harvard University.

Every college has unique traditions and all students matriculate in a formal ceremony when arriving at the university

3. Harvard University
Country: United States
Region: North America
Total enrollment: 20,324

 4.California Institute of Technology
Country: United States
Region: North America

Total enrollment: 2,240

5. University of Cambridge
Country: United Kingdom
Region: Europe
Total enrollment: 18,977

6. University of Oxford
Country: United Kingdom
Region: Europe
Total enrollment: 19,790

7. University of California Berkeley
Country: United States
Region: North America
Total enrollment: 40,174

8. Columbia University
Country: United States
Region: North America
Total enrollment: 25,084

9.Princeton University
Country: United States
Region: North America
Total enrollment: 8,181

10. Johns Hopkins University
Country: United States
Region: North America

Total enrollment: 23,992

11. University of Washington
Country: United States
Region: North America
Total enrollment: 45,591

12. Yale University
Country: United States
Region: North America

Total enrollment: 12,458