UCLA rated world's No. 2 public university in new international rankings
The top 10 institutions this year, in order, are Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, UC Berkeley, Princeton University, Yale University, the California Institute of Technology and UCLA.
The 2014 reputation rankings were based on survey responses from 10,536 senior academics around the world who reported an average of 18 years working in higher education. The academics — all published scholars who were selected to be statistically representative of their geographical region and academic discipline — were asked their views on the excellence of research and teaching in their particular field at universities throughout the world. Since its establishment in 2011, the survey has garnered 58,117 responses from scholars in more than 150 countries.