Harvard's Back on Top

After capturing the top spot on U.S. News and World Report’s 2011 ranking of national universities but taking second to the University of Cambridge on the QS World University Rankings, Fair Harvard has again come out on top in this year’s Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

California Institute of Technology rose from the tenth spot all the way to number two, and MIT rose six spots to number three. Rounding out the top five were Stanford and Princeton, followed by a tie for sixth place between Oxford and Cambridge.

The other Ivies did not fare as well as Harvard in The Times’ rankings. Yale placed the best at number ten. Cornell, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania managed to make it into the top 20 at 14, 18, and 19, respectively. Brown came in at 55, and Dartmouth barely made it within the top 100 by placing at 99.

A full list can be found here, but all we have to say is, here’s to being back on top.

Original photo courtesy of Jaci Gresham under CC-BY-2.0.