English-speaking universities continue to dominate the world, according to a new ranking from the Times Higher Education (THE) supplement released on Thursday.

The top universities rankings employ 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. This year’s ranking includes 800 universities from 70 different countries, compared with the 400 universities from 41 countries in last year’s table.

The rankings are based on the teaching, research and citations of every university, with each category weighted at 30% of the overall mark.

Industry income and international outlook were also taken into account, but given a much smaller weighting in the eventual score.

1. California Institute of Technology, USA
2. University of Oxford, UK
3. Stanford University, USA
4. University of Cambridge, UK
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
6. Harvard, USA
7. Princeton University, USA
8. Imperial College London, UK
9. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
10. University of Chicago, USA
11. John Hopkins University, USA
12. Yale University, USA
13. University of California, Berkeley, USA
14. University College London, UK
15. Columbia University, USA
16. University of California, Los Angeles, USA
17. University of Pennsylvania, USA
18. Cornell University, USA
19. University of Toronto, Canada
20. Duke University, USA
21. University of Michigan, USA
22. Carnegie Melon University, USA
23. London School of Economics, UK
24. University of Edinburgh, UK

source: Business Insider