The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings employ the world's largest invitation-only academic opinion survey to provide the definitive list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands. A spin-off of the annual World University Rankings, the reputation league table is based on nothing more than subjective judgement - but it is the considered expert judgement of senior, published academics - the people best placed to know the most about excellence in our universities.

Top universities by reputation 2012

Rank Institution Location Overall score
91-100 Wageningen University and Research Center Netherlands
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91-100 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey United States
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91-100 Université Pierre et Marie Curie France
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91-100 Université Paris-Sud France
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91-100 Middle East Technical University Turkey
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91-100 Indiana University United States
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91-100 École Polytechnique France
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91-100 University of Bristol United Kingdom
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91-100 Boston University United States
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91-100 University of Arizona United States
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81-90 Tel Aviv University Israel
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81-90 Nanyang Technological University Singapore
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81-90 Lund University Sweden
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81-90 Leiden University Netherlands
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81-90 University of Leeds United Kingdom
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81-90 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Republic of Korea
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81-90 KU Leuven Belgium
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81-90 University of Florida United States
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81-90 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
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81-90 Brown University United States
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71-80 University of Zürich Switzerland
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71-80 Washington University in St Louis United States
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71-80 Utrecht University Netherlands
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71-80 Uppsala University Sweden
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71-80 Texas A&M University United States
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71-80 University of Queensland Australia Australia
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71-80 Université Paris-Sorbonne France
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71-80 Michigan State University United States
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71-80 Universität Heidelberg Germany
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71-80 University of Amsterdam Netherlands
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61-70 National Taiwan University Taiwan
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61-70 University of Southern California United States
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61-70 University of São Paulo Brazil
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61-70 University of Pittsburgh United States
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61-70 Technische Universität München Germany
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61-70 King's College London United Kingdom
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61-70 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany
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61-70 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong
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61-70 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel
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61-70 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
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51-60 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
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51-60 Tohoku University Japan
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51-60 Seoul National University Republic of Korea
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51-60 University of California, Santa Barbara United States
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51-60 Pennsylvania State University United States
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51-60 Osaka University Japan
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51-60 Ohio State University United States
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51-60 University of Manchester United Kingdom
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51-60 Karolinska Institute Sweden
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51-60 Delft University of Technology Netherlands
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