Here are the top 50 universities in the world according to www.webometrics.info released on january 2011:
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Harvard University
3 Stanford University
4 University of California Berkeley
5 Cornell University
6 University of Wisconsin Madison
7 University of Michigan
8 University of Minnesota
9 University of Washington
10 University of Pennsylvania
11 Pennsylvania State University **
12 National Taiwan University
13 University of Texas Austin
14 Texas A&M University
15 University of Maryland *
16 University of Tokyo
17 University of California Los Angeles UCLA
18 Columbia University New York
19 University of Cambridge
20 Purdue University
21 Carnegie Mellon University
22 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign *
23 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
24 Kyoto University
25 California Institute of Technology CalTech
26 Michigan State University
27 University of Chicago
28 University of Florida
29 Rutgers University
30 University of California San Diego
31 University College London
32 University of Southampton
33 Duke University
34 University of British Columbia
35 Princeton University
36 New York University
37 Simon Fraser University
38 Yale University
39 University of Toronto
40 University of Arizona
41 University of Oxford
42 University of California Irvine
43 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology / Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich
44 Georgia Institute of Technology
45 University of Pittsburgh
46 University of Utah
47 University of Virginia
48 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
49 Johns Hopkins University **
50 North Carolina State University
www.webometrics.info publishes the ranks only twice a year, on January and July. It ranks until 12000 universities all over the world.
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Harvard University
3 Stanford University
4 University of California Berkeley
5 Cornell University
6 University of Wisconsin Madison
7 University of Michigan
8 University of Minnesota
9 University of Washington
10 University of Pennsylvania
11 Pennsylvania State University **
12 National Taiwan University
13 University of Texas Austin
14 Texas A&M University
15 University of Maryland *
16 University of Tokyo
17 University of California Los Angeles UCLA
18 Columbia University New York
19 University of Cambridge
20 Purdue University
21 Carnegie Mellon University
22 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign *
23 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
24 Kyoto University
25 California Institute of Technology CalTech
26 Michigan State University
27 University of Chicago
28 University of Florida
29 Rutgers University
30 University of California San Diego
31 University College London
32 University of Southampton
33 Duke University
34 University of British Columbia
35 Princeton University
36 New York University
37 Simon Fraser University
38 Yale University
39 University of Toronto
40 University of Arizona
41 University of Oxford
42 University of California Irvine
43 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology / Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich
44 Georgia Institute of Technology
45 University of Pittsburgh
46 University of Utah
47 University of Virginia
48 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
49 Johns Hopkins University **
50 North Carolina State University
www.webometrics.info publishes the ranks only twice a year, on January and July. It ranks until 12000 universities all over the world.

