US News released rankings for Universities in the world. According to its survey, University of Cambridge acquired 100 out of 100 points, occupied first place. US PhD King - Harvard got 2nd place(99.3 score) in the best universities of the world. MIT(99.2) - which is the best engineering school in USA placed in 3rd position in World University rankings of US News. ETH Zurich, University of Hong kong and The University of Tokyo are the schools in the top 25 world universities. Unfortunately there is not even a single IIT or any other Indian institution listed in the Top 25 universities of the world. Most of the top unviersities are the ones from USA. Indian students apply to these top US schools for MS in US and PhD.

Top 25 Universities in the World

Here is the list of top 25 rankings by US News.

1	University of Cambridge
2	Harvard University
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
4	Yale University
5	University of Oxford
6	Imperial College London
7	UCL (University College London)
8	University of Chicago
9	University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
10	Columbia University
11	Stanford University
12	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
13	Princeton University
14	University of Michigan
15	Cornell University
16	Johns Hopkins University
17	McGill University
18	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
19	Duke University
20	University of Edinburgh
21	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
22	University of Hong Kong (HKU)
23	University of Toronto
24	Northwestern University
25	The University of Tokyo