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The world's Top 10 universities

QS released its annual World University Rankings list of the top 200 universities Wednesday. The UK's University of Cambridge overtook former No. 1 Harvard University, the first time the leading US university was not in the No. 1 spot. Click right arrow to see school's ranked in ascending order.

- Ariel Zirulnick, Contributor

10. California Institute of Technology – Pasadena, Calif.

Caltech jumped one spot in 2010, from No. 10 in 2009 to No. 9 this year.

Rankings by category:

Academic peer review: 26 (33 in 2009)

Employer review: 96 (142 in 2009)

Citations per faculty: 1 (1 in 2009)

Student-faculty ratio: 49 (66 in 2009)

International faculty: 22 (1 in 2009)

International students: 78 (69 in 2009)

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