US News & World Report - February 25, 2010
U.S.News & World Report's World's Best Universities rankings, based on the QS World University Rankings, identified these to be the world's top universities in 2009. 1 MIT 2. University of California, Berkeley 3 Stanford University 4 University of Cambridge, UK 5 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 6 University of Tokyo 6 Imperial College London 8 University of Toronto 9 Carnegie Mellon University 10 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) 11 University of Oxford 12 Georgia Institute of Technology.