source: HuffingtonPost

The top two universities in the world are both in Cambridge — but on different sides of the world.

University of Cambridge in England occupies the No. 1 spot in QS’s list of the world’s best universities. Following it is Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

American universities dominate the list, with University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania and MIT, among others, earning top grades.

Research company QS has been ranking universities worldwide since 2004. Their global survey of 2,000 colleges takes into account reputation, faculty citations, student-faculty ratio and international population. See more on their methodology here.

Top 20 Universities in the World

1. University of Cambridge  UK
2. Harvard University   USA
   
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)   USA
   
4. Yale University  USA
   
5. Universtiy of Oxford  UK
   
6. Imperial College London  UK
   
7. University College of London  UK
   
8. University of Chicago  USA
   
9. University of Pennsylvania  USA
10. Columbia University   USA
11. Stanford University  USA
    
12. California Institute of Technology  USA
    
13. Princeton University  USA
    
14. University of Michigan  USA
    
15. Cornell University  USA
    
16. John Hopkins University  USA
    
17. McGill University  Canada
    
18. ETH Zurich  Switzerland
    
19. Duke University  USA
    
20. University of Edinburgh UK