TOP UNIVERSITIES OF THE WORLD BY RANK 2011

                              Top Universities by Reputation 2011#
1 Harvard University United States
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom
4 University of California Berkeley United States
5 Stanford University United States
6 University of Oxford United Kingdom
7 Princeton University United States
8 University of Tokyo Japan
9 Yale University United States
10 California Institute of Technology United States
11 Imperial College London United Kingdom
12 University of California Los Angeles United States
13 University of Michigan United States
14 Johns Hopkins University United States
15 University of Chicago United States
16 Cornell University United States
17 University of Toronto Canada
18 Kyoto University Japan
19 University College London United Kingdom
19 University of Massachusetts United States
21 University of Illinois - Urbana United States
22 University of Pennsylvania United States
23 Columbia University United States
24 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland
25 University of Wisconsin United States
26 University of Washington United States
27 National University of Singapore Singapore
28 Carnegie Mellon University United States
29 McGill University Canada
30 University of California San Diego United States
31 University of British Columbia Canada
31 University of Texas at Austin United States
33 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian Federation
34 University of California San Francisco United States
35 Tsinghua University China
36 Duke University United States
37 London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom
38 University of California Davis United States
39 Georgia Institute of Technology United States
40 Northwestern University United States
41 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill United States
42 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
43 Peking University China
43 University of Minnesota United States
45 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
45 University of Melbourne Australia
47 Purdue University United States
48 University of Munich Germany
49 Delft University of Technology Netherlands
50 Osaka University Japan

#Courtesy
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/reputation-rankings.html#uni-581