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California Institute of Technology has been ranked the world's best university for 2011-2012 in a list published in the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine in early October. It is the first time that CIT has outranked Harvard University on the list, as the latter slipped to joint-second with Stanford after having topped the list since 2004.

In order to capture the full range of university activities across the globe, the rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators which are grouped into five headline categories: teaching — the learning environment (worth 30 percent of the overall ranking score), research — volume, income and reputation (worth 30 percent), citations — research influence (worth 30 percent), industry income — innovation (worth 2.5 percent) and international outlook — staff, students and research (worth 7.5 percent).

In this year's rankings, U.S. universities continued to fare strongly, taking 14 of the top 20 spots and 75 of the top 200. Outside the U.S., UK universities had the most top 200 successes with 32, followed by the Netherlands and Germany with 12 each, and Canada with nine.

The top 5 Asian universities this time include: University of Tokyo, Japan (30th), University of Hong Kong, China (34th), National University of Singapore (40th), Peking University, China (49th), and Kyoto University, Japan (52nd).

China has eight universities in the top 200 this year, with three from the mainland, four from Hong Kong and one from Taiwan. Among the three mainland universities, Peking University ranks highest, taking 49th spot, followed by Tsinghua University (71st) and the University of Science and Technology of China (192nd).

? Top universities by region: Europe, Asia, North America

The following are the Times Higher Education magazine's top 400 universities for 2011-12:

Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Overall Score
1	California Institute of Technology	United States	94.8
2	Harvard University	United States	93.9
2	Stanford University	United States	93.9
4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	93.6
5	Princeton University	United States	92.9
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	92.4
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	92.3
8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	90.7
9	University of Chicago	United States	90.2
10	University of California, Berkeley	United States	89.8
11	Yale University	United States	89.1
12	Columbia University	United States	87.5
13	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	87.3
14	Johns Hopkins University	United States	85.8
15	ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	85
16	University of Pennsylvania	United States	84.9
17	University College London	United Kingdom	83.2
18	University of Michigan	United States	82.8
19	University of Toronto	Canada	81.6
20	Cornell University	United States	80.5
21	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	78.4
22	University of British Columbia	Canada	77.4
22	Duke University	United States	77.4
24	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	77
25	University of Washington	United States	76.5
26	Northwestern University	United States	76.2
27	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	75.8
28	McGill University	Canada	75.5
29	University of Texas at Austin	United States	74.9
30	University of Tokyo	Japan	74.3
31	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	74.2
32	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	73.1
33	University of California, San Diego	United States	73
34	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, China	72.3
35	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	72.1
36	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	72
37	University of Melbourne	Australia	71.9
38	Australian National University	Australia	71.2
38	University of California, Davis	United States	71.2
40	National University of Singapore	Singapore	70.9
41	Washington University in St Louis	United States	70.5
42	University of Minnesota	United States	70
43	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	69.3
44	New York University	United States	69
45	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t München	Germany	67.6
46	école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	66.3
47	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	66
48	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	65.7
49	Brown University	United States	65.6
49	Peking University	Chinese mainland	65.6
51	Pennsylvania State University	United States	64.9
52	Kyoto University	Japan	64.8
53	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	64.6
54	Boston University	United States	64.2
55	University of Southern California	United States	64
56	King's College London	United Kingdom	63.2
57	Ohio State University	United States	63
58	University of Sydney	Australia	62.4
59	école Normale Supérieure	France	62
59	University of Pittsburgh	United States	62
61	University of Zürich	Switzerland	61.9
62	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong, China	61.7
63	école Polytechnique	France	61.5
64	University of Massachusetts	United States	61.1
65	McMaster University	Canada	61
66	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	60.9
67	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	60.8
68	Utrecht University	Netherlands	60.4
69	Georg-August-Universit?t G?ttingen	Germany	60.3
70	Vanderbilt University	United States	59.6
71	Tsinghua University	Chinese mainland	59.5
72	Rice University	United States	59
73	Universit?t Heidelberg	Germany	58.7
74	University of Queensland Australia	Australia	58.6
75	Emory University	United States	57.4
75	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands	57.4
77	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	57.3
77	Tufts University	United States	57.3
79	Leiden University	Netherlands	57
80	Lund University	Sweden	56.9
81	University of Rochester	United States	56.8
81	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	United States	56.8
83	Durham University	United Kingdom	56.4
84	Université Pierre et Marie Curie	France	56
85	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	55.7
86	University of California, Irvine	United States	55.4
87	Uppsala University	Sweden	55.2
88	Technische Universit?t München	Germany	55.1
89	University of Notre Dame	United States	55
90	Dartmouth College	United States	54.9
91	University of Helsinki	Finland	54.8
92	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	54.7
93	Case Western Reserve University	United States	54.6
94	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	54.5
94	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	54.5
96	Michigan State University	United States	54.4
97	University of Arizona	United States	54.2
98	Purdue University	United States	54
99	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	53.9
100	University of Alberta	Canada	53.7