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According to Times magazine and its list of the world’s top-ranking universities the winner is still mighty Harvard University.

1. Harvard University (US)

The name Harvard comes from the college’s first benefactor, the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown. Upon his death in 1638, he left half his estate to the institution established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Harvard college currently enrolls 6700 undegrads and 12300 graduate and professional students. Harvard University is made up of 10 principal academic units — nine faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The nine faculties oversee schools and divisions that offer courses and award academic degrees. Average tuition is around $32,557 a year.

2. Yale University (US)

Yale’s roots can be traced back to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World. This vision was fulfilled in 1701, when the charter was granted for a school “wherein Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences [and] through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State.” In 1718 the school was renamed “Yale College” in gratitude to the Welsh merchant Elihu Yale, who had donated the proceeds from the sale of nine bales of goods together with 417 books and a portrait of King George I. Yale University comprises three major academic components: Yale College (the undergraduate program), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the professional schools. Yale encompasses a wide array of centers and programs, libraries, museums, and administrative support offices. Approximately 11250 students attend Yale.

3. University of Cambridge (UK)

The University of Cambridge is one of the world’s oldest universities and leading academic centres, and a self-governed community of scholars. Its reputation for outstanding academic achievement is known world-wide for over 800 years. Cambridge University today boasts 31 colleges and over 13000 students.

4. University of Oxford (UK)

As the oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford is a unique and historic institution. There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096. From its early days, Oxford was a centre for lively controversy, with scholars involved in religious and political disputes. Oxford has one of the lowest drop-out rates in the UK. There are over 20,000 students at Oxford, including 11917 undergraduates and 7350 postgraduates.

5. California Institute of Technology (US)

Caltech (commonly referred to as Caltech) began as a vocational school founded in Pasadena in 1891 by local businessman and politician Amos G. Throop. The school was known successively as Throop University, Throop Polytechnic Institute, and Throop College of Technology, before acquiring its current name in 1921. The California Institute of Technology  is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech maintains a strong emphasis on the natural sciences and engineering. Caltech also operates and manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a NASA Center that oversees the design and operation of many unmanned space probes. Caltech is a small school, with only about 2100 students about 900 undergraduates and 1200 graduate students.

6. Imperial College London (UK)

Imperial College London officially The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine as given in its Royal Charteris a British university in London that focuses primarily on science, engineering, medicine and business. Imperial’s main campus is located in South Kensington in central London, on the boundary between the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster, with its front entrance on Exhibition Road. Formerly a constituent college of the University of London, Imperial became independent of the university on 8 July 2007, the 100th anniversary of its founding.

7. University College London (UK)

University College London (UCL) is a multi-faculty university institution based in the United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London. It was founded in 1826, as London University, and was the first British university institution established on a secular basis and also the first to admit students regardless of race, class, religion and gender.

8. University of Chicago (US)

Once the main roles were cast—in the persons of John D. Rockefeller and William Rainey Harper—the University of Chicago was irrevocably headed for greatness.  Established in 1891 without the support of both of these men it would never have become one of the nation’s major universities in a mere quarter century. It was the first ethnically diverse university in the US. Its doors are open to 4900 undergraduate students  and 9820 graduate professional every year.

9. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. Founded by William Barton Rogers in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the university adopted the German university model and emphasized laboratory instruction from an early date. MIT enrolled 4,172 undergraduates, 6,048 postgraduate students in 2008 school year.

10. Columbia University (US)

Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private university and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia’s main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan. The institution was established as King’s College by the Church of England, receiving a Royal Charter in 1754 from George II of Great Britain. There are over 20000 students at Columbia University , including 5530 undergraduates and 14692 postgraduates.

As in previous years listing, the rankings continue to be dominated by English-speaking universities and, in particular, those from the US and the UK which monopolise the top ten. This year, the Americans have strengthened their hold on the top ten, although Princeton has dropped out to be replaced by Columbia which comes in at number

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