World's top universities 2014 according to Times Higher Education

The California Institute for Technology has been named the world’s best institution for the fourth consecutive year. How do other universities compare?

The California Institute for Technology (Caltech) has been named the world’s best institution for the fourth consecutive year in the Times Higher Education’s annual league table.
Harvard and Oxford follow in second and third place respectively. Stanford has retained its fourth place position while the University of Cambridge has climbed two places to fifth and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has dropped one place to sixth on the rankings.
Princeton University is up one place and the University of California, Berkeley remains eighth on the list, while Imperial College London and Yale now share ninth place.
US continues to dominate, taking seven of the top ten positions and 45 of the top 100 but the number is slightly down on last year when the US saw 46 of its universities make it into the top 100.
The chart below shows how the top 100 breaks down by country representation. 

The California Institute for Technology (Caltech) has been named the world’s best institution for the fourth consecutive year in the Times Higher Education’s annual league table.
Harvard and Oxford follow in second and third place respectively. Stanford has retained its fourth place position while the University of Cambridge has climbed two places to fifth and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has dropped one place to sixth on the rankings.
Princeton University is up one place and the University of California, Berkeley remains eighth on the list, while Imperial College London and Yale now share ninth place.
US continues to dominate, taking seven of the top ten positions and 45 of the top 100 but the number is slightly down on last year when the US saw 46 of its universities make it into the top 100.
The chart below shows how the top 100 breaks down by country representation.
According to the latest rankings, London is home to a cluster of well-regarded universities - four London universities are in the top 40, more than any other city featured in the world rankings.
Once again, the highest-ranked institution outside the US and the UK is Switzerland’s ETH Zürich ­- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, which gains one place to 13th position in the latest rankings.
The table below shows the top 100 universities featured on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-15, with data provided by Thomson Reuters. You can find the full methodology on the THE website.

2014 Rank	2013 Rank	Name	Country
1	1	California Institute of Technology	US
2	2	Harvard University	US
3	2	University of Oxford	UK
4	4	Stanford University	US
5	7	University of Cambridge	UK
6	5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
7	6	Princeton University	US
8	8	University of California Berkeley	US
9	10	Imperial College London	UK
9	11	Yale University	US
11	9	University of Chicago	US
12	12	University of California Los Angeles	US
13	14	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
14	13	Columbia University	US
15	15	Johns Hopkins University	US
16	16	University of Pennsylvania	US
17	18	University of Michigan	US
18	17	Duke University	US
19	19	Cornell University	US
20	20	University of Toronto	Canada
21	22	Northwestern University	US
22	21	University College London	UK
23	23	University of Tokyo	Japan
24	24	Carnegie Mellon University	US
25	26	National University of Singapore	Singapore
26	25	University of Washington	US
27	28	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
28	27	University of Texas at Austin	US
29	55	University of Munich	Germany
29	29	University of Illinois - Urbana	US
29	30	University of Wisconsin Madison	US
32	31	University of British Columbia	Canada
33	34	University of Melbourne	Australia
34	37	École Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne	Switzerland
34	32	London School of Economics and Political Science	UK
36	39	University of Edinburgh	UK
37	33	University of California Santa Barbara	US
38	40	New York University	US
39	35	McGill University	Canada
40	38	King's College London	UK
41	40	University of California San Diego	US
42	42	Washington University Saint Louis	US
43	43	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
44	36	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
45	48	Australian National University	Australia
46	46	University of Minnesota	US
46	47	University of North Carolina	US
48	45	Peking University	China
49	50	Tsinghua University	China
50	44	Seoul National University	S.Korea
51	57	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
52	56	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	S.Korea
52	58	University of Manchester	UK
54	52	Brown University	US
55	61	KU Leuven	Belgium
55	52	University of California Davis	US
57	50	Boston University	US
58	49	Pennsylvania State University	US
59	52	Kyoto University	Japan
60	72	University of Sydney	Australia
61	70	Ecole Polytechnic	France
61	76	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
63	Not ranked	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Italy
64	67	Leiden University	Netherlands
65	63	University of Queensland Australia	Australia
66	60	Pohang University of Science and Technology	S.Korea
67	63	University of Göttingen	Germany
68	59	Ohio State University	US
69	65	Rice University	US
70	68	Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg	Germany
71	69	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
72	73	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
73	77	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands
74	79	University of Bristol	UK
75	74	University of Basel	Switzerland
75	70	University of Southern California	US
77	83	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
78	65	Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris	France
79	74	Utrecht University	Netherlands
80	94	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany
81	86	Free University of Berlin	Germany
82	83	Michigan State University	US
83	91	Monash University	Australia
83	80	Durham University	UK
85	201-225	Middle East Technical University	Turkey
86	90	University of Notre Dame	US
86	103	University of Arizona	US
88	80	Tufts University	US
88	93	University of California Irvine	US
90	85	Ghent University	Belgium
91	78	University of Pittsburgh	US
91	132	University of Massachusetts	US
93	80	Emory University	US
94	92	McMaster University	Canada
94	117	University of Glasgow	UK
96	88	Vanderbilt University	US
97	97	University of Colorado	US
98	87	Technical University of Munich	Germany
98	103	Stockholm University	Sweden
98	111	Uppsala University	Sweden