article_snippet: U.S. has 43 colleges in the list of the top 100 universities in the world it has been revealed, far outstripping the U.K. with 12, and Germany with six.
article_snippet: American institutions take up eight of the top ten positions, with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford rounding out the top five.
article_snippet: University of California at Berkeley, Princeton, Yale, California Institute of Technology and Columbia rank six to ten respectively.
article_snippet: While Harvard took first place again, Cambridge moved up from fourth, and Oxford, rose from fifth to third.
article_snippet: Cambridge University (left) and Oxford University (right) were the only two non-American institutions in the top 10 of the newly released rankings .
article_snippet: Other American universities that just missed out on a place in the top 10 are the University of Chicago (11), John Hopkins University (18), University of Michigan (19) and Cornell University (20).
article_snippet: The U.K. with 12 representatives, up from 10 in 2014, has had a strong year and remains firmly entrenched as the world number two when it comes to global university brands.
article_snippet: Aside from Oxford and Cambridge, other U.K. 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: 1   Harvard, U.S. 2   Cambridge, U.K. 3   
article_snippet: Oxford, U.K. 4   Massachusetts Institute of Technology,        U.S. 5   Stanford, U.S. 6   University of California, Berkeley, U.S. 7   Princeton, U.S. 8   
article_snippet: Yale, U.S. 9   California Institute of Technology, U.S. 10 Columbia, U.S. 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: There has also been a marked improvement by universities in Brazil, Russia and China, and a continued solid performance from academic institutions across Europe, as well as in Canada, Australia, and across Asia.
article_snippet: the school has the global academy's largest financial endowment and boasts more than 40 Nobel laureates.
article_snippet: MIT's campus at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
highlights_snippet: U.S. institutions dominate the list of world's best universities leaving other countries trailing far behind in terms of numbers .
  
highlights_snippet: Oxford and Cambridge are the only non-American universities in top ten .
  
highlights_snippet: The top 20 is rounded out by universities from Japan, Switzerland and Canada joining those from the U.S. and U.K. 