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Click here for an alternative ranking of the top universities on reputation by timeshighereducation.com ranked on "best in their field in research" according to a select group of experts and with endowment grants at far higher levels than we can perhaps expect to see here in Australia. Their Top 20 list excluded UCL London, Pennsylvania, Nanyang Singapore, Hong Kong, and the three Australian universities, replacing them with seven additional universities.
- Princeton New Jersey 80 km SW of New York
- Yale New Haven Connecticut 130 km NE of New York
- University of Tokyo
- UCLA (Los Angeles)
- University of Chicago
- Columbia Upper Manhattan New York
- University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1000 km West of New York
Below is the full Top 20 list from www.TopUniversities.com
- MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology Boston 350 km NE of New York
- Imperial College London
- Oxford 90 km NW of London
- Harvard Boston 350 km NE of New York
- Cambridge 100 km North of London
- Stanford at PaloAlto, 44 km SE of San Francisco. It is 20 km NW of San Jose with Mountain View, Google's location, mid-way between them
- ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- NUS National University of Singapore
- UCL University College London
- Caltech California Institute of Technology Los Angeles
- University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia 150 km SW of New York
- University of California, Berkeley 20km NE of San Francisco over the bay
- University of Melbourne Parkville Melbourne
- Peking University Beijing
- NTU Nanyang Technological University Singapore
- Cornell Ithaca 350 km NW of New York
- University of Hong Kong
- University of Sydney Camperdown Sydney
- University of New South Wales Kensington Sydney
- Tsinghua (Qinghua) University Beijing
78. UQ University of Queensland St Lucia Brisbane
86. Australian National University Canberra
201. QUT Queensland University of Technology Brisbane
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