Results for the 2012/2013 QS World University Rankings have been released. Below is a snapshot of the top 20 universities in the world. For the full list, visit www.topuniversities.com.
| 2012 | QS World University Rankings |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 2 | University of Cambridge |
| 3 | Harvard University |
| 4 | UCL (University College London) |
| 5 | University of Oxford |
| 6 | Imperial College London |
| 7 | Yale University |
| 8 | University of Chicago |
| 9 | Princeton University |
| 10 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 11 | Columbia University |
| 12 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 13 | ETH Zurich |
| 14 | Cornell University |
| 15 | Stanford University |
| 16 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 17 | University of Michigan |
| 18 | McGill University |
| 19 | University of Toronto |
| 20 | Duke University |
