World's Top 15 Universities 2006

1) Harvard University (US)
2) University of Cambridge (Britain)
3) University of Oxford (Britain)
4) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
5) Yale University (US)
6) Stanford University (US)
7) California Institute of Technology (US)
8) University of California at Berkeley (US)
9) Imperial College London (Britain)
10) Princeton University (US)
11) University of Chicago (US)
12) Columbia University (US)
13) Duke University (US)
14) Beijing University (China)
15) Cornell University (US)

The Universities were rated on a few parameters. The weightages are as below:

Peer Review Score - 40%

Recruiter Review - 10%

Int’l Faculty Score - 5%

Int’l Students Score – 5%

Faculty/Student Score – 20%

Citations/Faculty Score – 20%

source: thes.co.uk, image: iop.harvard.edu