Catatan Farid

"Times Higher Education" merilis daftar World Reputation Rankings yang menunjukkan universitas-universitas dengan reputasi akademik terbaik di dunia untuk tahun 2013. Universitas-universitas ini dinilai memiliki nama baik yang dipercaya oleh para akademisi senior dan berpengalaman di dunia.

Pemeringkatan ini, menurut laman resmi THE, didasarkan pada penilaian para ahli dan akademisi terhadap universitas-universitas di dunia berdasarkan pengalaman mereka soal penelitian dan pengajaran sesuai dengan disiplin ilmu masing-masing selama minimal 17 tahun.

Ada sekitar 16.639 akademisi yang terlibat sepanjang berlangsungnya survei pada Maret sampai April 2012. Salah satu yang ditanyakan adalah pertanyaan action-based, seperti "Universitas mana yang Anda pilih untuk mengirimkan sarjana terbaik Anda untuk memperoleh bimbingan terbaik dalam meraih gelar master?" Total, ada 11 indikator yang digunakan dalam survei.

Di peringkat pertama dan kedua, duduk dua perguruan tinggi ternama dari Amerika Serikat, Harvard University dan Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Sementara itu, peringkat ketiga dan keempat diduduki oleh University of Cambridge dan University of Oxford dari Inggris.

Berikut ini adalah perguruan tinggi yang masuk dalam daftar ranking 100 reputasi terbaik di dunia.

1-50
1. Harvard University
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology   
3. University of Cambridge
4. University of Oxford
5. University of California, Berkeley   
6. Stanford University
7. Princeton University
8. University of California, Los Angeles   
9. University of Tokyo
10. Yale University
11. California Institute of Technology   
12. University of Michigan
13. Columbia University
14. University of Chicago
14. Imperial College London
16. University of Toronto
17. Cornell University
18. University of Pennsylvania
19. Johns Hopkins University
20. University College London
20. ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
22. National University of Singapore   
23. Kyoto University
24. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
25. London School of Economics and Political Science
26. Carnegie Mellon University     United States
27. University of Texas at Austin   
27. University of Washington
29. New York University
30. University of Wisconsin-Madison
31. University of British Columbia Canada
31. Duke University
31. McGill University
34. University of California, San Diego   
35. Tsinghua University China   
36. The University of Hong Kong   
37. Northwestern University
38. Georgia Institute of Technology   
39. University of Melbourne
40. University of California, San Francisco
41. Seoul National University
42. Australian National University   
42. University of Massachusetts   
44. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
45. Peking University China   
46. University of Edinburgh
47. University of Manchester
48. University of California, Davis   
49. University of Sydney
50. Lomonosov Moscow State University
50. Purdue University

51-60
Delft University of Technology
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Middle East Technical University Turki
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ohio State University
Osaka University
Pennsylvania State University
University of California, Santa Barbara
National Taiwan University

61-70
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Karolinska Institute
King's College London
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Leiden University
University of São Paulo
University of Southern California
Technische Universität München
Tohoku University
Tokyo Institute of Technology

71-80
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
KU Leuven
Michigan State University
Nanyang Technological University
Université Paris-Sorbonne
University of Pittsburgh
University of Queensland Australia
Universität Heidelberg

81-90
University of Amsterdam
Boston University
Brown University
Chinese University of Hong Kong
École Polytechnique
University of Florida
University of New South Wales
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Utrecht University
Washington University in St Louis

91-100
University of Bristol
Freie Universität Berlin
Lund University
University of Maryland, College Park
Monash University
Université Paris-Sud
Texas A&M University
Uppsala University
Wageningen University and Research Center