World's top 10 universities, Harvard leads again

3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Cambridge, Mass.

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MIT, only a mile away from fellow top 10 school Harvard, comes in at No. 3 on the Times list. MIT had a near-perfect score – 99.9 out of 100 – for the number of times its published work is cited by academics. In 150 years, according to Times, the school has produced 73 Nobel laureates, eight of whom are faculty members.

QS ranked MIT fifth in 2010, up from ninth in 2009.

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