Stanford, UC Berkeley named as two of the world's most reputable universities for 2017

15. University of Michigan Full time equivalent enrollment: 41,912 Student-staff ratio: 8.8 International students: 16 percent Female-male ratio: 48:52 15. University of Michigan Full time equivalent enrollment: 41,912 Student-staff ratio: 8.8 International students: 16 percent Female-male ratio: 48:52 Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images Image 1 of / 18 Caption Close Stanford, UC Berkeley named as two of the world's most reputable universities for 2017 1 / 18 Back to Gallery

Stanford University and UC Berkeley have once again been named as two of the most reputable universities in the world by Times Higher Education, an organization that compiled invitation-only surveys completed by senior-level and established academics.

The survey asked participants to name no more than 15 universities that they felt were the "best for research and teaching in their field, based on their own experience," or, which school names tend to carry the most clout.

In short, they found the results were overall pretty similar to last year's findings.

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Two of the universities among the top six ranked are right here in the Bay Area, in the same position they were in last year. At number 6 is UC Berkeley, beating out more than a couple ivy league-caliber schools, and at number 3 is Stanford, bested only by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard.

Other Northern California schools made the top 50 of the list as well. Graduate school UC San Francisco came in tied for 42nd with LMU Munich, and UC Davis landed at 49th.

See the top 15 most reputable schools in the above gallery, and all ranked schools here at Times Higher Education.

Alyssa Pereira is an SFGATE staff writer. Email her at apereira@sfchronicle.com or find her on Twitter at @alyspereira.