List of the top hundred universities of the world-World's best university

Top universities of the world 

A list of top universities of the world are given below.One can visit the desired university website by following the link.According to a latest report Cambridge which is a public research university situated in Cambridge, United Kingdom is now the world's top university. which knocks Harvard university  which is also a research university situated in Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636. 

Cambridge  university    

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2010 rank	University Name	Country	2009 Rank	2008 Rank
1	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	2	3
2	Harvard University	United States	1	1
3	Yale University	United States	3	2
4	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	4	7
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	9	9
6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	5=	4
7	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	5=	6
8	University of Chicago	United States	7	8
9	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	10	5
10	Princeton University	United States	8	12
11	Columbia University	United States	11	10
12	University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)	United States	12	11
13	Stanford University	United States	16	17
14	Duke University	United States	14	13
15	University of Michigan	United States	19	18
16	Cornell University	United States	15	15
17	Johns Hopkins University	United States	13	13
18	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Techno...	Switzerland	20=	24
19	McGill University	Canada	18	20
20	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	17	16
21	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	23	22
22	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	20=	23
23	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	24	26
24	University of Tokyo, The	Japan	22	19
25	Kyoto University	Japan	25	25
26	Northwestern University	United States	32=	33
27	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	34	32
28	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	39	36
29	University of Toronto	Canada	29	41
30	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	26	29
31	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	30	30
32	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (E...	Switzerland	42	50
33	École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS Paris)	France	28	28
34	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)	United States	27	21
35	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	32=	30
36	École Polytechnique, ParisTech	France	36=	34
37	University of Sydney	Australia	36=	37
38	University of Melbourne	Australia	36=	38
39	Brown University	United States	31	27
40	Hong Kong University of Science and Technolog...	Hong Kong	35	39
41	New York University (NYU)	United States	52=	40
42	Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	46	42
43	University of Queensland (UQ)	Australia	41	43
44	University of British Columbia (UBC)	Canada	40	34
45	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	51	48
46	University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	47=	45
47	Peking University	China	52=	50
48	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	61=	55
49	Osaka University	Japan	43=	44
50	Seoul National University (SNU)	Korea, South	47=	50
51	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	57	57
52	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	43=	49
53	University of Warwick	United Kingdom	58	69
54	Tsinghua University	China	49=	56
55	University of Washington	United States	80	59
56	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	49=	53
57	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	78	102
58	Technische Universität München (TUM)	Germany	55=	78
59	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	66	75
60	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	55=	61
61	Monash University	Australia	45	47
62	Uppsala University	Sweden	75	63
63	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U...	United States	63=	71
64	Boston University	United States	54	46
65	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	76=	58
66	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)	Germany	98	93
67	University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)	United States	76=	70
68	University of Auckland	New Zealand	61=	65
69	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	82	76
70	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	94	137
71	University of Geneva	Switzerland	72	68
72	Lund University	Sweden	67=	88
73	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	91	86
74	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	73=	77
75	University of Helsinki	Finland	108=	91
76	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	73=	60
77	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	79	73
78	University of Alberta	Canada	59	74
79	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science &...	Korea, South	69	95
80	London School of Economics and Political Scie...	United Kingdom	67=	66
81	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	95=	99
82	Leiden University	Netherlands	60	64
83	Utrecht University	Netherlands	70=	67
84	Aarhus University	Denmark	63=	81
85	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	99	104
86	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	65	72
87	Purdue University	United States	87=	99
88	University of York	United Kingdom	70=	81
89	University of Western Australia (UWA)	Australia	84	83
90	Dartmouth College	United States	85	54
91	Nagoya University	Japan	92=	120
92	Durham University	United Kingdom	103=	122
93	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	101=	183
94	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	95=	124
95	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	87=	83
96	University of Minnesota	United States	105	87
97	Universität Freiburg	Germany	122=	147
98	Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)	United States	120=	105
99	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	108=	126
100	University of Oslo	Norway	101	177

In a association table of the world's top educational institutions Harvard today surrenders first place to the Cambridge University. Cambridge university was voted best for research superiority in a survey of 15,000 academics and took overall first place though Harvard was still most admired among the 5,000 employers polled global.From here one can visit to his desired universities following to the link.If any body want to know about details about these universities and download universities information please check the given link now.