University of Cambridge came in sixth, trailed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley and Yale.
American universities contributed seven universities to the top 10 and 51 to the top 100 in the Times rankings for 2011-12.
The Times rankings use metrics such as teaching quality, research volume and citations, industry income and international outlook to make their selections, according to their website. This year the organization changed the category that considers international outlook by including an indicator that looks at the proportion of research papers each institution publishes that have at least one international co-author. Previously, the international category was based “only on the proportion of international staff and students at institutions in the field,” the website said.
Meanwhile, the Times has stopped using public and total research income as an indicator because of a lack of comparable data between countries.
Earlier this year, the U.S. News and World Report put the University in first place, tied with Harvard, in its list of America’s best national universities for 2011-12.
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