Powered by Thomson Reuters, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings identify 400 universities as the world's best. The top 10 for 2015-16 are:

1. California Institute of Technology (United States, California)
2. University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
3. Stanford University (United States, California)
4. University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States, Massachusetts)
6. Harvard University (United States, Massachusetts)
7. Princeton University (United States, New Jersey)
8. Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
9. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Switzerland)
10. University of Chicago (United States, California)