American colleges have dominated again in the latest global university rankings with eight U.S. institutions coming in the top 10.

Forty-four of the world's 100 best-regarded universities were American, according to a reputation survey, including 28 of the top 50.

Harvard came top of the Times Higher Education league table for the eighth year in a row, with MIT second and Stanford University third.

Pennsylvania State University jumped more than 10 places to make the top 50 alongside other prestigious institutions as Duke and Columbia.

Harvard University (pictured) came top of the Times Higher Education league table for the eighth year in a row, with MIT second and Stanford University third

Princeton, Yale and the University of California, Berkeley, were also in the top ten along with UCLA and the University of Chicago who were tied for ninth place.

UCLA made the top ten for the first time since 2014 after jumping four places in the standings.

Phil Baty, the magazine's editorial director of global rankings, said America had improved its position with more top 100 institutions than last year, University World News reports.

He said: 'What is particularly striking is that the U.S. has actually strengthened its position in the world... despite fears that the U.S. is suffering a "Trump slump" in terms of its global reputation.

Pennsylvania State University (pictured) jumped more than 10 places to make the top 50 alongside other prestigious institutions as Duke and Columbia

'While we have seen evidence that some international students are seeing the U.S. as a less attractive option, with declining applications, this data from the global academic community suggests the top U.S. universities remain the most highly regarded in the world by a mile.'

Oxford and Cambridge in the UK were the only non-American entries in the top 10, while the University of Tokyo was the highest-ranked Asian college in 13th place.

Top American colleges 'earned their reputations over the whole 20th century and beyond and have not slipped in standard, so they are difficult to displace,' said analyst Simon Marginson.

Universities in South Korea and Singapore 'only really showed themselves as strong in the 1990s, and China's rise is essentially post-2000,' he said.

Other U.S. schools in the top 20 were the California Institute of Technology, Columbia, the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell.

Johns Hopkins and New York University also ranked in the top 25.

The University of Washington was among those to improve its position, climbing from tied 34th to 28th.

The rankings look at each institution's reputation for research and teaching, based on a survey of more than 10,000 academics in 138 countries.