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World's top 10 universities, Harvard leads again
Times Higher Education, the United Kingdom's leading higher education news publication, today released its first-ever international university rankings. American universities dominate the top of the Times list, faring much better than in rankings released last week by former Times partner Quacquarelli Symonds. The disparate results have already prompted debate about the criteria for evaluating and ranking universities.
Taylor Weidman / The Christian Science Monitor
1. Harvard University – Cambridge, Mass.
QS caused a minor uproar when it released its rankings last week, bumping Harvard out of the No. 1 spot and below University of Cambridge. But Times' puts Harvard back in its standard spot at the very top of university rankings.
Harvard gets a near-perfect score on the quality of its teaching, along with high marks for its research program and the number of times its published work is cited by academics. Harvard's $27.4 billion financial endowment is the largest in the world, rising 11 percent over the past year.
QS had Harvard at No. 1 in 2009.
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