By on April 8th, 2014
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014, powered by Thomson Reuters, are the only global university performance tables to judge world-class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. Here are the top 20 Universities
| Rank | University | Location |
| 1 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States |
| 2 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 2 | Harvard University | United States |
| 4 | Stanford University | United States |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
| 6 | Princeton University | United States |
| 7 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 8 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
| 9 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 10 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 11 | Yale University | United States |
| 12 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States |
| 13 | Columbia University | United States |
| 14 | ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich | Switzerland |
| 15 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 16 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 17 | Duke University | United States |
| 18 | University of Michigan | United States |
| 19 | Cornell University | United States |
| 20 | University of Toronto | Canada |