The 2017 ranking contains universities from almost 80 countries, and represents an elite 5 per cent of the world’s higher education institutions. Judges from The Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2016-2017 looked at world class universities across all of their core missions which are: Teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
Here are the top 25 universities in the world:
1. University of Oxford, England
2. California Institute of Technology
3. Stanford University
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4. University of Cambridge
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5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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