These institutions from the U.S. and more than 80 other countries have been ranked based on 13 indicators that measure their academic research performance and their global and regional reputations. Students can use these rankings to explore the higher education options that exist beyond their own countries' borders and to compare key aspects of schools' research missions. 1. University of Oxford 2. University of Cambridge 3. Stanford University 4. Harvard University 5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 6. University of California, Berkeley 7. University College London (UCL) 8. Imperial College London 9. California Institute of Technology 10. Princeton University