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Education
The World's 11 Most Influential Universities
Institutions with exceptional research, teaching, global impact, and enduring intellectual influence.
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This ranking is illustrative. The eleven entries are real, but the order they appear in was not produced by testing, scoring, voting or measurement of any kind, and Top11 publishes no scores, view counts or reach figures because it has never recorded any.
The short answer
The best institutions combine craft with lasting influence.
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The complete ranking.
- #2
Stanford University
- #3
University of Oxford
- #4
Harvard University
- #5
University of Cambridge
- #6
ETH Zurich
- #7
Caltech
- #8
Imperial College London
- #9
UCL
- #10
National University of Singapore
- #11
Tsinghua University
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