Times je ocjenjivao sveučilišta diljem svijeta te objavio listu 100 najboljih. Neki od kriterija prema kojima su rangirali fakultete bili su okruženje za učenje, važnost istraživanja koja provode sveučilišta, utjecaj i zarada u industriji od inovacija pojedinih sveučilišta te međunarodno okruženje i povezanost.
Lista sastavljena prema spomenutim kriterijima ima neočekivanog pobjednika, a riječ je o Tehnološkom institutu u Kaliforniji, koji je nadmašio Harvard, Stanford i ostale poznate fakultete.
1. California Institute of Technology 94,8 2. Harvard University 93,9 3. Stanford University 93,9 4. University of Oxford 93,6 5. Princeton University 92,9 6. University of Cambridge 92,4 7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 92,3 8. Imperial College London 90,7 9. University of Chicago 90,2 10. University of California, Berkeley 89,8 11. Yale University 89,1 12. Columbia University 87,5 13. University of California, Los Angeles 87,3 14. Johns Hopkins University 85,8 15. ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich 85,0 16. University of Pennsylvania 84,9 17. University College London 83,2 18. University of Michigan 82,8 19. University of Toronto 81,6 20. Cornell University 80,5 21. Carnegie Mellon University 78,4 22. University of British Columbia 77,4 22. Duke University 77,4 24. Georgia Institute of Technology 77,0 25. University of Washington 76,5 26. Northwestern University 76,2 27. University of Wisconsin-Madison 75,8 28. McGill University 75,5 29. University of Texas at Austin 74,9 30. University of Tokyo 74,3 31. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 74,2 32. Karolinska Institute 73,1 33. University of California, San Diego 73,0 34. University of Hong Kong 72,3 35. University of California, Santa Barbara 72,1 36. University of Edinburgh 72,0 37. University of Melbourne 71,9 38. Australian National University 71,2 38. University of California, Davis 71,2 40. National University of Singapore 70,9 41. Washington University in St Louis 70,5 42. University of Minnesota 70,0 43. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 69,3 44. New York University 69,0 45. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 67,6 46. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 66,3 47. London School of Economics and Political Science 66,0 48. University of Manchester 65,7 49. Peking University 65,6 49. Brown University 65,6 51. Pennsylvania State University 64,9 52. Kyoto University 64,8 53. Pohang University of Science and Technology 64,6 54. Boston University 64,2 55. University of Southern California 64,0 56. King's College London 63,2 57. Ohio State University 63,0 58. University of Sydney 62,4 59. University of Pittsburgh 62,0 59. École Normale Supérieure 62,0 61. University of Zürich 61,9 62. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 61,7 63. École Polytechnique 61,5 64. University of Massachusetts 61,1 65. McMaster University 61,0 66. University of Bristol 60,9 67. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 60,8 68. Utrecht University 60,4 69. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 60,3 70. Vanderbilt University 59,6 71. Tsinghua University 59,5 72. Rice University 59,0 73. Universität Heidelberg 58,7 74. University of Queensland Australia 58,6 75. Wageningen University and Research Center 57,4 76. Emory University 57,4 77. Tufts University 57,3 78. University of Colorado Boulder 57,3 79. Leiden University 57,0 80. Lund University 56,9 81. University of Rochester 56,8 82. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 56,8 83. Durham University 56,4 84. Université Pierre et Marie Curie 56,0 85. University of St Andrews 55,7 86. University of California, Irvine 55,4 87. Uppsala University 55,2 88. Technische Universität München 55,1 89. University of Notre Dame 55,0 90. Dartmouth College 54,9 91. University of Helsinki 54,8 92. University of Amsterdam 54,7 93. Case Western Reserve University 54,6 94. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Korea 54,5 95. University of Maryland, College Park 54,5 96. Michigan State University 54,4 97. University of Arizona 54,2 98. Purdue University 54,0 99. University of Sussex 53,9 100. University of Alberta 53,7
