The following educational institutions are consistently ranked among the world's top 10 universities in major international league tables such as the Times Higher Education, QS and ARWU:
- University of Cambridge (ranked No. 1 internationally by QS)
- Harvard University (ranked No. 1 internationally by ARWU)
- University of Oxford
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Chicago
QS World University Rankings 2011/2012:
1 University of Cambridge
2 Harvard University
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 Yale University
5 University of Oxford
6 Imperial College London
7 University College London
8 University of Chicago
9 University of Pennsylvania
10 Columbia University
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011-2012:
1 California Institute of Technology
2 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
4 University of Oxford
5 Princeton University
6 University of Cambridge
7 MIT
8 Imperial College London
9 University of Chicago
10 University of California, Berkeley
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2011:
1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. MIT
4. University of California, Berkeley
5. University of Cambridge
6. California Institute of Technology
7. Princeton University
8. Columbia University
9. University of Chicago
10. University of Oxford
Source : http://worldranking.blogspot.com/2012/03/worlds-top-10-universities.html