Top research universities, 2012-13

Times Higher Education, a London-based magazine, compiles World University Rankings using 13 performance indicators to judge institutions “across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.” Here are the rankings for 2012-13:

Top Research Universities1 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 2 (tie) University of Oxford Oxford, UK 2 (tie) Stanford University Palo Alto, CA 4 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 6 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 7 University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK 8 Imperial College London London, UK 9 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 10 University of Chicago Chicago, IL Source: Times Higher Education