Harvard university has once again topped the Times Higher Education's world reputation ranking of universities. The 2013 rankings, show the US dominating the list with more than 40 institutions in the top 100.

Following Harvard are Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Cambridge university, taking second and third place respectively. Oxford university has climbed two places since the 2012 rankings, to take fourth place and Stanford university has dropped down to sixth.

The rankings also highlight a big improvement for Australia which now has six universities represented in the top 100 - the third highest representation in the list behind the US and the UK. Australia has two new entries: the university of New South Wales and Monash university.

With nine universities in the top 100, the UK has the second highest number of representatives after the US. University College London (UCL) has moved up one place to 20th and the London School of Economics (LSE) has jumped up to 25th in the latest rankings. Manchester university has entered the top 50 for the first time and Edinburgh university, the only Scottish institution in the list, has moved up three places to 46th place. It's not such good news for Leeds university though, the university has dropped out of the top 100 since the 2012 rankings placed them within the 81-90 band.

Overall, the UK's representation in the top 100 has declined since 2011. Phil Baty, rankings editor at Times Higher Education magazine, said:

There is some good news for the UK, but only for a handful of its elite institutions. Outside the chosen few, there is cause for alarm: the UK has lost three institutions from the world top 100 list since the reputation rankings were first published in 2011. Traditionally, the strength in depth of the UK system has been one of its great features. Having a large number of institutions with truly world-class standing has delivered huge returns for the whole sector and the wider economy. However, it now seems that a gap is opening up between the very best and the rest, with even household name institutions like Sheffield and Leeds losing their lustre and falling down the rankings.

In total, 20 countries are represented in the list. The chart above shows the rankings broken down by country for 2012 and 2013.

The visualisation below shows how 2013's top 25 institutions by reputation have switched positions since the 2011 edition of this report. Harvard, MIT and Cambridge have been first, second and third respectively every year, while LSE, UCLA and Columbia University (NY) have seen the largest rises over that period.

The annual world reputation rankings, a subsidiary of the Times Higher Education world university rankings, are based based on the results of the Academic Reputation Survey carried out by Ipsos MediaCT for Thomson Reuters. The full methodology for the rankings along with the individual scores by university can be found on the Times Higher Education site.

The latest release by Times Higher Education ranking brings to attention a group that the university ranking specialists have dubbed the 'super-brands' - a collection of elite Anglo-American universities making up the top six. According to the latest release the 'super-brands', headed by Harvard and including MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University are "heads and shoulders above the rest". Here are some other findings from the release:

• Five countries are represented in the top 20: the US, UK, Japan, Canada and Switzerland

• The University of Tokyo at 9th place, is the highest ranking university outside of the UK or US

• Six countries (compared with only four last year) have one representative in the top 100: Brazil, Taiwan, Belgium, Israel, Russia and Turkey

• Japan, the Netherlands and Germany each have five top 100 institutions, with Germany gaining a new entrant in 2013 (Freie Universität Berlin)

You can see the full 2013 world reputation rankings below, we have also included the 2012 and 2011 positions. The downloadable spreadsheet also contains breakdowns by country. What can you do with the data?

Times Higher Education world reputation rankings Click heading to sort table. Download this data 2013 Rank 2012 Rank 2011 Rank Institution Country 1 1 1 Harvard University US 2 2 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 3 3 3 University of Cambridge UK 4 6 6 University of Oxford UK 5 5 4 University of California, Berkeley US 6 4 5 Stanford University US 7 7 7 Princeton University US 8 9 12 University of California, Los Angeles US 9 8 8 University of Tokyo Japan 10 10 9 Yale University US 11 11 10 California Institute of Technology US 12 12 13 University of Michigan US 13 15 23 Columbia University US 14 14 15 University of Chicago US 14 13 11 Imperial College London UK 16 16 17 University of Toronto Canada 17 16 16 Cornell University US 18 19 22 University of Pennsylvania US 19 18 14 Johns Hopkins University US 20 21 19 University College London UK 20 22 24 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich Switzerland 22 23 27 National University of Singapore Singapore 23 20 18 Kyoto University Japan 24 23 21 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign US 25 29 37 London School of Economics and Political Science UK 26 37 28 Carnegie Mellon University US 27 32 31 University of Texas at Austin US 27 28 26 University of Washington US 29 34 51-60 New York University US 30 27 25 University of Wisconsin-Madison US 31 25 31 University of British Columbia Canada 31 33 36 Duke University US 31 25 29 McGill University Canada 34 36 30 University of California, San Diego US 35 30 35 Tsinghua University China 36 39 42 The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 37 35 40 Northwestern University US 38 41 39 Georgia Institute of Technology US 39 43 45 University of Melbourne Australia 40 31 34 University of California, San Francisco US 41 51-60 51-60 Seoul National University Korea, Republic Of 42 44 51-60 Australian National University Australia 42 39 19 University of Massachusetts US 44 42 48 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany 45 38 43 Peking University China 46 49 45 University of Edinburgh UK 47 51-60 61-70 University of Manchester UK 48 44 38 University of California, Davis US 49 50 51-60 The University of Sydney Australia 50 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian Federation 50 47 47 Purdue University US 51-60 51-60 49 Delft University of Technology Netherlands 51-60 61-70 71-80 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland 51-60 91-100 Middle East Technical University Turkey 51-60 47 43 University of Minnesota US 51-60 46 41 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill US 51-60 51-60 51-60 The Ohio State University US 51-60 51-60 50 Osaka University Japan 51-60 51-60 61-70 Pennsylvania State University US 51-60 51-60 51-60 University of California, Santa Barbara US 51-60 61-70 81-90 National Taiwan University Taiwan 61-70 61-70 91-100 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 61-70 51-60 51-60 Karolinska Institute Sweden 61-70 61-70 61-70 King's College London UK 61-70 81-90 91-100 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Korea, Republic Of 61-70 81-90 81-90 Leiden University Netherlands 61-70 61-70 University of São Paulo Brazil 61-70 61-70 71-80 University of Southern California US 61-70 61-70 61-70 Technische Universität München Germany 61-70 51-60 51-60 Tohoku University Japan 61-70 51-60 51-60 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 71-80 61-70 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 71-80 61-70 71-80 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany 71-80 81-90 81-90 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium 71-80 71-80 71-80 Michigan State University US 71-80 81-90 91-100 Nanyang Technological University Singapore 71-80 71-80 Université Paris-Sorbonne France 71-80 61-70 51-60 University of Pittsburgh US 71-80 71-80 81-90 The University of Queensland Australia Australia 71-80 71-80 81-90 Universität Heidelberg Germany 81-90 71-80 81-90 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 81-90 91-100 61-70 Boston University US 81-90 81-90 Brown University US 81-90 81-90 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 81-90 91-100 61-70 École Polytechnique France 81-90 81-90 61-70 University of Florida US 81-90 The University of New South Wales Australia 81-90 91-100 Université Pierre et Marie Curie France 81-90 91-100 71-80 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey US 81-90 71-80 71-80 Utrecht University Netherlands 81-90 71-80 71-80 Washington University in St Louis US 91-100 91-100 81-90 University of Bristol UK 91-100 Freie Universität Berlin Germany 91-100 81-90 71-80 Lund University Sweden 91-100 University of Maryland, College Park US 91-100 Monash University Australia 91-100 91-100 Université Paris-Sud France 91-100 71-80 81-90 Texas A&M University US 91-100 71-80 61-70 Uppsala University Sweden 91-100 91-100 Wageningen University and Research Center Netherlands

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