US News released rankings for Universities in the world. According to its survey, University of Cambridge acquired 100 out of 100 points, occupied first place. US PhD King – Harvard got 2nd place(99.3 score) in the best universities of the world. MIT(99.2) – which is the best engineering school in USA placed in 3rd position in World University rankings of US News. ETH Zurich, University of Hong kong and The University of Tokyo are the schools in the top 25 world universities. Unfortunately there is not even a single IIT or any other Indian institution listed in the Top 25 universities of the world. Most of the top unviersities are the ones from USA. Indian students apply to these top US schools for MS in US and PhD.
Here is the list of top 25 rankings by US News.
| 1 | University of Cambridge |
| 2 | Harvard University |
| 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 4 | Yale University |
| 5 | University of Oxford |
| 6 | Imperial College London |
| 7 | UCL (University College London) |
| 8 | University of Chicago |
| 9 | University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) |
| 10 | Columbia University |
| 11 | Stanford University |
| 12 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 13 | Princeton University |
| 14 | University of Michigan |
| 15 | Cornell University |
| 16 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 17 | McGill University |
| 18 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) |
| 19 | Duke University |
| 20 | University of Edinburgh |
| 21 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 22 | University of Hong Kong (HKU) |
| 23 | University of Toronto |
| 24 | Northwestern University |
| 25 | The University of Tokyo |
