Caltech ousts Harvard as world's top university
07 Oct 2011
The world's richest university, Harvard, has been overtaken by the California Institute of Technology as the world's top university for the first time in eight years.
Not only had it been knocked off from the perch, but Harvard has to share second place with Stanford.
Until this week, Harvard had topped the list since the London-based Times Higher Education magazine's World University Rankings began in 2004.
However, all is not going well for the Ivy League school as it was dethroned by UK's Cambridge University as the world's top university, according to a survey last month by higher education information provider QS in the survey's seven-year history.
The rest of the top 10 are the University of Oxford, Princeton University, the University of Cambridge, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, the University of Chicago and UC Berkeley.
The Times rankings are based on 13 performance indicators representing research, teaching, citations, international outlook and industry income. More than 17,500 academics were surveyed and 50 million citations analysed and compared with the world average for this year's rankings.
