article_snippet: ’s top 100 universities, with Oxbridge rivalling Harvard, it has been revealed.
article_snippet: UK now has 12 UK universities listed in the Times Higher Education Reputation Rankings - up from 10 last year and nine in 2013 - the second highest of any individual country.
article_snippet: The rankings also show that Oxbridge rates higher than prestigious US universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford.
article_snippet: Harvard took first place again, followed by Cambridge which has moved up from fourth, and Oxford, which has risen from fifth to third.
article_snippet: Other UK universities in the top 100 include Imperial College London, which falls one place to 14th, University College London, which is up eight places to 17th, and the London School of Economics and Political Science which has moved from 24th to 22nd.
article_snippet: Soaring up the rankings are Edinburgh, which has moved from 46th place to 29th, and King’s College London, which has gone from 43rd to 31st.
article_snippet: Manchester takes the 50th position and Bristol – which had dropped out the rankings last year - and the London Business School are in the 91-100 band.
article_snippet: Top: Harvard was named number one, but  Cambridge and Oxford came second and third respectively .
article_snippet: Across the world, London and Paris have the highest number of prestigious universities in the world.
article_snippet: Each have five universities in the top 100.
article_snippet: Harvard, U.S. 2   Cambridge, UK .
article_snippet: ’s top six institutions (and seven of all 11 English universities in the ranking) are all in the Oxbridge-London
highlights_snippet: There are now 12 UK institutions in the the list of world's best universities .
  
highlights_snippet: Oxford and Cambridge are the only non-American universities in top ten .