What are the best universities in the world?

[Roman]

Here is the list of the best universities in the world. See if your university make it to the top.

World's Top 20 Universities

1st Harvard University US
2nd Cambridge University UK
3rd Oxford University UK
4th Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
5th Yale University US
6th Stanford University US
7th California Institute of Technology US
8th University of California , Berkeley US
9th Imperial College London UK
10th Princeton University US
11th University of Chicago US
12th Columbia University US
13th Duke University US
14th Beijing University China
15th Cornell University US
16th Australian National University Australia
17th London School of Economics UK
18th Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris France
19th National University of Singapore Singapore
19th Tokyo University Japan
20th McGill University Canada

Source : Times Higher Education Supplement

You may post your comments and ideas here why you think these universities make it to the top 20.

[Lupin]

Established
1636

Faculty
About 2497 non-medical faculty
And about 10,674 medical school faculty

Students
For academic year 2006-07
Undergraduates - 6,715
Graduate and professional students - 12,424
Extension - 975
Total - 20,042
(with 72 dual-degree students)

School color
crimson

Living alumni
More than 270,000

Nobel Laureates
43 current and former faculty members

Motto
Veritas
(Latin for "truth")

Real estate holdings
4938 acres

Library collection
More than 15.5 million volumes

Faculties
10 principal academic units; 9 faculties oversee 11 schools and colleges

Undergraduate cost
For academic year 2006-07
$30,275 Tuition
$ 9,946 Room and board
$ 3,434 Fees
$43,655 Total

Financial aid
For academic year 2006-07
$30,000 average undergraduate aid package


President Drew Faust

Harvard University President
Drew Faust

University income
Fiscal Year 2006
$3 billion

University expenses
Fiscal Year 2006
$3 billion

Endowment
Fiscal Year 2006
$29.2 billion


Harvard seal

Harvard Veritas shield with leaves circling a red shield with open books, each book has letters on it and together they spell Veritas


Naming Harvard
The name Harvard comes from the college's first benefactor, the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown. Upon his death in 1638, he left half his estate to the institution established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

source -http://www.news.harvard.edu/glance/

"if only i can afford to study there! sigh!"

[Michelle]

I believe that the greatest measure of the success of a University is the quality of graduates that it is able to produce. And if that's the case, Harvard University deserves to be in the number 1 slot and be named as the Best University in the world. Its graduates have made their own names in the fields that they are into.Walter Isaacson (former CNN chairman and CEO and managing editor of TIME), John F. Kennedy(Former President of the United States), Theodore Roosevelt(President of the United States), Chris Wallace (Famous Television host), and Mark Zuckerberg (Founder & CEO of Facebook, Inc.) are some of the Harvardians who end up successful in their respective careers.