The 2013 version of the most widely read university comparison rankings have been released.

by region, subject, academic field, research, reputation, and other criteria.


The QS World University Rankings® consider more than 2,000 schools and evaluates more than 700 to rank the world's best andHere's the overall top 15 (along with their university profile):

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - 100.0

2. Harvard - 99.2

3. Cambridge - 99

4. University College London (UCL) - 98.9

5. Imperial College London - 98.8

6. Oxford - 98.7

7. Stanford - 96.8

8. Yale - 96.5

9. University of Chicago - 96.2

10. California Institute of Technology (CalTech) - 96.1

10. Princeton - 96.1

12. ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) - 94.3

13. University of Pennsylvania - 93.8

14. Columbia - 93.6

15. Cornell - 92.5

Notable changes from last year are that

Harvard overtook Cambridge at #2, Imperial College London passed Oxford at #6, and Stanford jumped from #15 to #7.


There are currently 200 schools ranked, and a full list of 800 will be released at 9 a.m.