The California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology, an educational cost based school with just 2,200 understudies in Pasadena, CA, takes the most clear opening again this year in the twelfth yearly World University Rankings, put out by Times Higher Education (THE), a London magazine that tracks the higher ed market. Four years back Caltech thump Harvard out of the lead position. For this present year Harvard has slipped to 6th spot, down from second in 2014. Second place this year goes to the most prepared school in the English-talking world, University of Oxford in the U.K., which dates its beginning stages to 1069. Stanford, America's mind blowing incubator of tech capacity (Google creators Sergey Brin and Larry Page are graduated class), has moved to third from fourth place, trailed by another British establishment, University of Cambridge, and STEM-focused Massachusetts Institute of Technology. See our slideshow above for the primary 10 schools and snap here for THE's situating of 800 universities.