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.
