Monitoring Desk
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-2015 listed the best global universities on the basis of international university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators. Following is the list of top 20 universities.

Ranking

1. California Institute of Technology United States
2. Harvard University United States
3. University of Oxford UK
4. Stanford University United States
5. University of Cambridge United Kingdom
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
7. Princeton University United States
8. University of California, Berkeley, United States
9. Imperial College London United Kingdom
10.  Yale University United States