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Top Ten Universities in the World

          Recently, Times Higher Education (THE) released the “World University Ranking” which observed and ranked universities according to their teaching, research, international outlook, reputation and more.  

Here are the world’s best universities according to THE:

1. University of Oxford                          Oxford is one of the oldest universities “in the English-speaking world”, according to the ranking. It has the United Kingdom’s largest library systems with over 100 libraries. The campus educates 19,718 students, 35 per cent of whom are international student. The university also boasts of having 26 Nobel Laureate, 120 Olympic medallists and over 30 modern world leaders as their alumni

2. California Institute of Technology 

         Ranked second by THE, this university is a world-renown science and engineering research and education institution. It was founded in 1981 and used to be called “Throop University” before it was renamed in 1920.The California Institute of Technology has 22,930 alumni and is considered the current best university for engineering and technology in the world.

3. Stanford University                   This university was established in 1885 and has its roots in the aftermath of World War II and had a hand in the development of the Silicon Valley. The university boast of having 30 living billionaires, 17 astronauts, 18 Turing Award recipients and two Fields Medallists as its alumni. 

4. University of Cambridge                 Cambridge University is 800 years old, which makes it the fourth-oldest surviving university in the world and the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. It has six schools— Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences and Technology— which house 150 faculties and other institutes

5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology         

         MIT is divided into five different schools for  architecture and planning, engineering, humanities, arts and social sciences, management and science. It houses around 1,000 faculty members and over 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students.Around 85 Nobel Laureates, 58 National Medal of Science winners, 29 National Medal of Technology and Innovation winners and 45 MacArthur Fellows have studied at MIT. This includes the former secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan.

6. Harvard University

        This is a private Ivy League institution and is connected to more than 45 Nobel laureates, over 30 heads of state and 48 Pulitzer prizewinners of the 323,000 alumni. Harvard has even presented honorary degrees to thirteen United States presidents, including John F Kennedy 

7. Princeton University                           Princeton was founded 1746 as the “College of New Jersey” and is another Ivy League private institute. It is connected to 40 Nobel laureates, 17 winners of the National Medal of Science and five recipients of the National Humanities Medal.The alumni include two US presidents— James Madison and Woodrow Wilson. Wilson had been the president of Princeton University before he had earned a place in the White House. 

8. Imperial College London  

    This university was founded in 1907 and was merged with the Royal College of Science, the Royal School of Mines and the City and Guilds College. Famous alumni from the Imperial College include Sir Alexander Fleming (the discoverer of penicillin), writer HG Wells, Queen guitarist Brian May, India’s former PM Rajiv Ghandhi, former UK chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson, and former chief executive of Singapore Airlines Chew Choon Seng.

9. ETH Zurich     

          The ETH Zurich is considered the current best university in the world for computer sciences. It is connected with over 20 Nobel Prize Laureates including the famous Albert Einstein. The university is commonly known as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.

10. University of California, Berkeley 

         This university is known for having faculty who have won 19 Nobel prizes in physics, chemistry and economics. The University’s graduates also won 17 medals in the 2012 London Olympics. The university was founded in 1868 and is connected with alumni such as journalist Jack London, actor Gregory Peck.

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