Ok. So here goes.

Haha as the Nobel Prizes (one of them, Andrew Fire, is an adjunct faculty of JHU's Biology department) are announced the THES university ranking is announced too. So here goes:

1. Harvard
2. Cambridge
3. Oxford
4. MIT
4. Yale
6. Stanford
7. Caltech
8. Berkeley
9. Imperial
10. Princeton
11. Chicago
12. Columbia
13. Duke
14. Beijing
15. Cornell
16. Australian National
17. LSE
18. Ecole Normale Superieure (France)
19. NUS
19. Tokyo
21. McGill
22. Melbourne
23. Johns Hopkins
24. ETH Zurich
25. UCL
26. UPenn
27. Toronto
28. Tsing Hua
29. Kyoto
29. Michigan
31. UCLA