Top 10 Universities Worldwide

The table below show the top ten universities in a world league of research universities compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong university, which was founded in 1896, and is among the oldest Chinese universities. The league, which Shanghai’s academics admit is biased towards science-based universities, measures them on academic research, including the numbers of staff or alumni who have won Nobel prizes and Fields medals in math's; highly acclaimed researchers; and articles published in magazines such as Nature and Science. American universities dominate the table with the two top British universities among them.

Top 10 Universities Worldwide
1. Harvard, US
2. Stanford, US
3. Cambridge UK England
4. University of California, Berkeley, US
5. Massachusetts Inst Tech, US
6. California Inst Tech, US
7. Princeton, US
8. Oxford UK England
9. Columbia, US
10. Chicago, US

Top 10 Universities in USA