World’s top 10 universities Oxford University has topped the Times Higher Education world rankings table, unseating the California Institute of Technology Radcliffe Camera, Oxford How they scored Teaching Research Overall University of Oxford, United Kingdom California Institute of Technology, U.S. Stanford University, U.S. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S. Harvard University, U.S. Princeton University, U.S. Imperial College London, United Kingdom Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland University of California, Berkeley, U.S. University of Chicago, U.S. Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings Picture: Getty Images /ENDS