Top universities by reputation (Times Reuters) 01-05

The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 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 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.

Top universities by reputation 2012

Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Overall score
1	Harvard University	United States	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	87.2
3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	80.7
4	Stanford University	United States	72.1
5	University of California, Berkeley	United States	71.6
6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	71.2
7	Princeton University	United States	37.9
8	University of Tokyo	Japan	35.6
9	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	33.8
10	Yale University	United States	32.4
11	California Institute of Technology	United States	29.6
12	University of Michigan	United States	23.2
13	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	22.2
14	University of Chicago	United States	21.0
15	Columbia University	United States	20.7
16	Cornell University	United States	20.0
16	University of Toronto	Canada	20.0
18	Johns Hopkins University	United States	17.8
19	University of Pennsylvania	United States	16.3
20	Kyoto University	Japan	15.9
21	University College London	United Kingdom	15.7
22	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	15.0
23	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	13.9
23	National University of Singapore	Singapore	13.9
25	McGill University	Canada	11.8
25	University of British Columbia	Canada	11.8
27	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	11.5
28	University of Washington	United States	11.3
29	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	11.1
30	Tsinghua University	China	10.9
32	University of Texas at Austin	United States	10.3
33	Duke University	United States	10.1
34	New York University	United States	9.8
35	Northwestern University	United States	9.6
36	University of California, San Diego	United States	9.4
37	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	9.3
38	Peking University	China	8.9
39	University of Massachusetts	United States	8.7
39	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	8.7
41	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	8.5
42	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	8.4
43	University of Melbourne	Australia	8.1
44	Australian National University	Australia	7.4
44	University of California, Davis	United States	7.4
46	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	7.2
47	Purdue University	United States	7.1
47	University of Minnesota	United States	7.1
49	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	7.0
50	University of Sydney	Australia	6.9