Best Universities in the World 2011 Rankings

The U.S. News World’s Best Universities rankings are released today. And based on data from the 2011 QS World University Rankings, the number one university in the world comes from the United Kingdom.

For the second year in a row, the University of Cambridge topped Harvard University.

Here is a list of the top 15 universities in the world.

1. University of Cambridge – United Kingdom
2. Harvard University – United States
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – United States
4. Yale University – United States
5. University of Oxford – United Kingdom
6. Imperial College London – United Kingdom
7. UCL (University College London) – United Kingdom
8. University of Chicago – United States
9. University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) – United States
10. Columbia University – United States
11. Stanford University – United States
12. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – United States
13. Princeton University – United States
14. University of Michigan – United States
15. Cornell University – United States