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LONDON, England - 03/02/05 - When it comes to ranking institutions of higher learning worldwide, US universities - particularly those in California - dominate.

That's the word from a new list of the world's most prestigious and famous universities created by The Times of London annual Higher Education Supplement.
 
Led by Harvard University, fully seven of the top 10 schools are in the US, with three of those leading institutions located in California.
 
The University of California - Berkeley ranked 2nd on the international list, while the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) in Pasadena and Stanford University in Palo Alto came in at 4th and 7th, respectively.
 
Oxford and Cambridge are the only British universities to make the cut in the Top 10, although two other schools - the London School of Economics and Imperial College came in at 11th and 14th, respectively.
 
Rounding out the Top Ten are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (3rd); Yale University (8th); Princeton University (9th); and ETH Zurich (10th).

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are based on the opinions of 1,300 academics in 88 countries, as well as the latest measures of research excellence and teaching.

Of the top 200 universities, all are located in 29 countries. Leading the list are the US with 62, the United Kingdom with 30, Germany with 17, and Australia with 14.

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