The World’s Top 50 Universities

Harvard forfeits first place to the University of Cambridge in a league table of the world’s top institutions, the first time in the list’s seven year history that the Ivy League university has been knocked off the number one spot

The QS table is based on measures of research quality, graduate employability, teaching and how international the faculties and student bodies are.

Harvard was still most popular among the 5,000 employers polled worldwide, but Cambridge was voted best for research quality in a survey of 15,000 academics and took overall first place. The rankings also use citation counts from a database of academic publishing.

Here are the top 50 Universities of the world.

1. Cambridge University
2. Harvard University
3. Yale University

4. University College London
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6. Oxford
7. Imperial College London

8. University of Chicago
9. Princeton University
10. Columbia University
11. Columbia University
12. University of Pennsylvania
13. Stanford University
14. Duke University
15. University of Michigan

16. Cornell University
17. John Hopkins University
18. McGill University
19. ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
20. Australian National University (ANU)
21. King’s College London (KCL)

22. University of Edinburgh

23. University of Hong Kong (HKU)

24. The University of Tokyo

25. Kyoto University
26. Northwestern University

27. University of Bristol

28. University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
29. University of Toronto

30. University of Manchester

31. National University of Singapore (NUS)

32. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
33. École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS Paris)
34. Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
35. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
36. École Polytechnique, ParisTech
37. University of Sydney
38. University of Melbourne
39. Brown University
40. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
41. New York University (NYU)
42. Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
43. The University of Queensland (UQ)
44. The University of British Columbia (UBC)
45. University of Copenhagen
46. University of New South Wales (UNSW)
47. Peking University
48. University of Wisconsin-Madison
49. Osaka University
50. Seoul National University (SNU)

Thanks to MSN Education for posting world’s top 50 universities.