Caltech named best research university in the world -- again

... The Pasadena institution retained its ranking as the world’s best research university in the 2012-13 World University Rankings released this week by the Times Higher Education magazine in London.

The University of Oxford and Stanford tied for second place. Harvard, last year’s runner-up, placed fourth.

University of California campuses at Berkeley and Los Angeles maintained their top 20 positions despite massive state funding cuts to higher education.

The rest of the top 10 in order were: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago ...

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