Top 25 Universities: THE World Reputation Rankings 2015

The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2015 employ the world's largest invitation-only academic opinion survey to provide the definitive list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands.

A spin-off of the annual Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the reputation league table is based on nothing more than subjective judgement - but it is the considered expert judgement of senior, published academics - the people best placed to know the most about excellence in our universities.

The following is the list of top 25 universities in the world featured in the 'THE World Reputation Rankings 2015':

Rank	Institution	Location
1	Harvard University	USA
2	University of Cambridge	UK
3	University of Oxford	UK
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA
5	Stanford University	USA
6	University of California, Berkeley	USA
7	Princeton University	USA
8	Yale University	USA
9	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	USA
10	Columbia University	USA
11	University of Chicago	USA
12	The University of Tokyo	Japan
13	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	USA
14	Imperial College London	UK
15	ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland
16	University of Toronto	Canada
17	University College London (UCL)	UK
18	Johns Hopkins University	USA
19	University of Michigan	USA
20	Cornell University	USA
21	New York University (NYU)	USA
22	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	UK
23	University of Pennsylvania	USA
24	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore
25	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russian Federation