The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2015 employ the world's largestinvitation-only academic opinion survey to provide the definitive list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands. A spin-off of the annual Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the reputation league table is based on nothing more than subjective judgement - but it is the considered expert judgement of senior, published academics - the people best placed to know the most about excellence in our universities.
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World Reputation Rankings 2015 results

RankInstitutionLocationOverall score
1Harvard UniversityUnited States
100.0
2University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom
84.3
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom
80.4
4Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)United States
77.8
5Stanford UniversityUnited States
72.1
6University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
60.0
7Princeton UniversityUnited States
35.0
8Yale UniversityUnited States
33.1
9California Institute of Technology (Caltech)United States
24.1
10Columbia UniversityUnited States
21.0
11University of ChicagoUnited States
19.8
12
The University of Tokyo
Japan
19.3
13University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)United States
18.9
14Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom
18.2
15ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ZürichSwitzerland
16.7
16
University of Toronto
Canada
15.8
17University College London (UCL)United Kingdom
15.7
18Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
14.6
19University of MichiganUnited States
13.8
20Cornell UniversityUnited States
13.6
20New York University (NYU)United States
13.6
22London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)United Kingdom
12.9
23University of PennsylvaniaUnited States
11.2
24
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
10.4
25Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussian Federation
9.9
26Tsinghua UniversityChina
9.5
27Kyoto UniversityJapan
9.3
28Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States
9.2
29University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom
8.3
30University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUnited States
8.2
31King's College LondonUnited Kingdom
8.1
32Peking UniversityChina
7.7
33University of WashingtonUnited States
7.4
34Duke UniversityUnited States
7.3
35Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichGermany
7.2
35McGill UniversityCanada
7.2
37University of British ColumbiaCanada
7.0
38Heidelberg UniversityGermany
6.4
38University of California, San FranciscoUnited States
6.4
38University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States
6.4
41Humboldt University of BerlinGermany
6.3
41University of California, San DiegoUnited States
6.3
41
University of Melbourne
Australia
6.3
44University of California, DavisUnited States
6.0
45Karolinska InstituteSweden
5.9
46University of Texas at AustinUnited States
5.8
47Northwestern UniversityUnited States
5.7
48École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland
5.5
49Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)United States
5.4
50University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom
5.3

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