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The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016-2017 list the 980 top universities in the world, making it the biggest international league table to date. It is the only global university performance table to judge world class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

The top universities rankings use 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments. The calculation of the rankings for 2016-2017 has been subject to independent audit by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

The top ten universities include:

1. University of Oxford - United Kingdom
2. California Institute of Technology - United States of America
3. Stanford University - United States of America
4. University of Cambridge - United Kingdom
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - United States of America
6. Harvard University - United States of America
7. Princeton University - United States of America
8. Imperial College London - United Kingdom
9. ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich - Switzerland (The Home for Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr)
10. University of California, Berkeley - United States of America
    See more: The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016-2017

Africa universities ranking include:

• 1. University of Cape Town - World ranking: 148
  2. University of the Witwatersrand - World ranking: 182
  3. Makerere University - World ranking: 401-500
  3. Stellenbosch University - World ranking: 401-500
  5. University of KwaZulu-Natal - World ranking: 501-600
  See more: Top universities in Africa by Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2017.