World's top 100 universities 2011: their reputations ranked by Times Higher Education

Harvard University ranks highest in the world according to the Times Higher Education for reputation in teaching and research.

The US has topped a reputation ranking of worldwide universities taking nearly half of the top 100 places, but how do other countries compare?

The US boasts the most reputable universities in the world according to a new global reputation ranking out today.

The list published today by the Times Higher Education, is the first of its kind looking solely at the reputations of institutions for teaching and research. Harvard comes top closely followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) beating both Oxford and Cambridge universities.

The US dominates with seven universities in the top ten and a massive 45 in the total rankings. Taking 12 of the places in the top 100, the UK is second to the US with Cambridge university beating Oxford. Imperial College, University College London (UCL), London School of Economicsand Edinburgh University also make the top 50.

The rankings based on a survey of 13,388 academics over 131 countries is the largest evaluation of academic reputation and is used partly used in indicators for compiling the well-known Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

The rankings also show Japan beating Canada, Australia and Germany with the flagship, University of Tokyo, at eighth place making it the only other nation apart from the US and UK to feature in the top ten.

With university fees rocketing and more applicants fighting for places, university reputation is set to be an even bigger focus for prospective students.

Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, said: "In an ever more competitive global market for students, academics and university administrators a university's reputation for academic excellence is crucial."

The full Times Higher education World Reputation Rankings 2011 with data supplied by Thomson Reuters, can be found in our table below. To see how the university reputations compare with their world rankings can be found in our spreadsheet.

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Reputation ranking	University ▴	2010 Top 100 ranking	Country
SOURCE: TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION, THOMSON REUTERS
51-60	Australian National University	43	Australia
61-70	Boston University	59	US
10	California Institute of Technology	2	US
28	Carnegie Mellon University	20	US
81-90	Catholic University of Leuven		Belgium
23	Columbia University	18	US
16	Cornell University	14	US
49	Delft University of Technology		Netherlands
36	Duke University	24	US
39	Georgia Institute of Technology	27	US
1	Harvard University	1	US
91-100	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	41	Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
71-80	Humboldt University of Berlin		Germany
11	Imperial College London	9	UK
91-100	Indian Institute of Science		India
81-90	Indiana University		US
14	Johns Hopkins University	13	US
51-60	Karolinska Institute	43	Sweden
61-70	King's College London		UK
91-100	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	79	Republic of Korea (South Korea)
18	Kyoto University	57	Japan
81-90	Leiden University		Netherlands
33	Lomonosov Moscow State University		Russian Federation
37	London School of Economics and Political Science	87	UK
91-100	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine		UK
71-80	Lund University	89	Sweden
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	3	US
29	McGill University	35	Canada
71-80	Michigan State University	15	US
91-100	Nanyang Technological University		Singapore
81-90	National Taiwan University		Taiwan
27	National University of Singapore	34	Singapore
51-60	New York University	60	US
40	Northwestern University	25	US
51-60	Ohio State University	67	US
50	Osaka University		Japan
43	Peking University	37	China
61-70	Pennsylvania State University	19	US
7	Princeton University	5	US
47	Purdue University		US
81-90	Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg	83	Germany
71-80	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey		US
51-60	Seoul National University		Republic of Korea (South Korea)
5	Stanford University	4	US
24	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich	15	Switzerland
61-70	Technical University of Munich	61	Germany
81-90	Texas A&M University		US
51-60	Tohoku University		Japan
51-60	Tokyo Institute of Technology		Japan
35	Tsinghua University	58	China
19	University College London	22	UK
81-90	University of Amsterdam		Netherlands
71-80	University of Arizona	95	US
81-90	University of Bristol	68	UK
31	University of British Columbia	30	Canada
4	University of California, Berkeley	8	US
38	University of California, Davis	54	US
12	University of California, Los Angeles	11	US
30	University of California, San Diego	32	US
34	University of California, San Francisco		US
51-60	University of California, Santa Barbara	29	US
3	University of Cambridge	7	UK
15	University of Chicago	12	US
71-80	University of Colorado	67	US
45	University of Edinburgh	40	UK
61-70	University of Florida		US
91-100	University of Helsinki		Finland
42	University of Hong Kong	21	Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
21	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	33	US
81-90	University of Leeds		UK
61-70	University of Manchester	87	UK
61-70	University of Maryland College Park	98	US
19	University of Massachusetts	57	US
45	University of Melbourne	37	Australia
13	University of Michigan	15	US
43	University of Minnesota	52	US
48	University of Munich	61	Germany
41	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	30	US
6	University of Oxford	7	UK
91-100	University of Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne		France
22	University of Pennsylvania	19	US
51-60	University of Pittsburgh	64	US
81-90	University of Queensland, Australia	81	Australia
91-100	University of Sheffield		UK
71-80	University of Southern California	73	US
51-60	University of Sydney	71	Australia
31	University of Texas at Austin		US
8	University of Tokyo	27	Japan
17	University of Toronto	17	Canada
91-100	University of Vienna		Austria
26	University of Washington	23	US
91-100	University of Waterloo		Canada
25	University of Wisconsin	43	US
61-70	University of Zurich	90	Switzerland
61-70	Uppsala University		Sweden
71-80	Utrecht University		Netherlands
71-80	Washington University Saint Louis		US
9	Yale University	10	US
61-70	École Polytechnique	39	France
71-80	École Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne	48	Switzerland

source:guardian.co.uk