10 Of The World’s Top Universities 2016

The thirteenth edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds QS World University Rankings, released today. The rankings are based on four key pillars, research, teaching, employability and internationalisation. The methodology consists of six indicators — academic reputation (40%), employer reputation (10%), faculty-student ratio (20%), citations per faculty (20%), international students (5%), and international faculty (5%). Here’s the list of the world’s top 10 universities:
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
2. Stanford University, United States
3. Harvard University, United States
4. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
5. California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States
6. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
7. UCL (University College London), United Kingdom
8. ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
9. Imperial College London, United Kingdom
10. University of Chicago, United States



