These are the top 10 universities in the world

Students from the UK are benefiting from some of the finest education in the world with three UK institutions appearing in the top 10 of the Times Higher Education world university rankings:

1. California Institute of Technology

2. Harvard University

3. University of Oxford

4. Stanford University

5. University of Cambridge

6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

7. Princeton University

8. University of California Berkeley

=9. Imperial College London

=9. Yale University

Source : Times Higher Education 2014

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