Harvard University tops latest ranking
The ranking which was based on results from an invitation-only opinion survey of 10,000 top scholars around the world also saw MIT and Stanford beat the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.
The top 10 featured British and American institutions. While the United States secured eight spots, United Kingdom earned two. The survey also revealed that Asian Universities are becoming more prestigious.
Records suggest that countries other than the US and UK have not made it to the top ten for the past five years.
The University of Tokyo in Japan which is the only institution to have made the cut by placing eighth in 2011 and 2012, and ninth in 2013 came twelfth in the latest ranking.
US dominated the overall rankings as forty-three Universities were among the top hundred while eighteen Asian Universities also made the list.
Germany saw a drop in four of its six universities, and four out of five universities in the Netherlands have slipped to lower positions.
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