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QS World University Rankings 2013: Top 20 World Universities

Massachusetts Institute of Technology tops QS World University Rankings in 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology tops the world’s top 20 universities, according to the new QS World University rankings.

Harvard University comes second and UK’s University of Cambridge is in third position.

University College London (UCL) and Imperial occupied fourth and fifth places, with Oxford in sixth.

Universities in the United States made up the rest of the top 10.

Top 20 universities:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2. Harvard University

3. University of Cambridge

4. University College London (UCL)

5. Imperial College London

Massachusetts Institute of Technology tops QS World University Rankings in 2013

6. University of Oxford

7. Stanford University

8. Yale University

9. University of Chicago

10=. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

10=. Princeton University

12. Eth Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

13. University of Pennsylvania

14. Columbia University

15. Cornell University

16. Johns Hopkins University

17=. University of Edinburgh

17=. University of Toronto

19=. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

19=. King’s College London

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