U.S. News & World Report has released its third annual World’s Best Universities rankings, based on the 2010 QS World University Rankings, developed by QS Quacquarelli Symonds. The methodology is:

• 40%:  academic peer reputation (15,050 responses)
• 20%:  citations per faculty member
• 20%:  student-faculty ratio
• 10%:  employer survey (5007 responses)
• 5%:    proportion of international faculty
• 5%:    proportion of international students

Here are the Top 50 World’s Best Universities, along with their ranking in the Times Higher Education  seventh annual World University Rankings released earlier this month:

US News Rank	Score	School	THE Rank
1	100	University of Cambridge	6
2	99.2	Harvard University	1
3	98.7	Yale University	10
4	98.5	University College London	22
5	98.0	MIT	3
6	98.2	University of Oxford	6
7	97.8	Imperial College London	9
8	97.5	University of Chicago	12
9	96.5	Cal-Tech	2
10	96.0	Princeton University	5
11	96.0	Columbia University	18
12	96.0	University of Pennsylvania	19
13	93.6	Stanford University	4
14	92.3	Duke University	24
15	92.2	University of Michigan	15
16	90.4	Cornell University	14
17	89.7	Johns Hopkins University	13
18	89.3	McGill University	35
19	89.3	Swiss Institute of Technology	15
20	88.6	Australian  National University	43
21	88.5	Kings College London	n/r
22	88.0	University of Edinburgh	40
23	87.3	University of Hong Kong	21
24	86.8	University of Tokyo	26
25	85.9	Kyoto University	57
26	86.4	Northwestern University	25
27	85.3	University of Bristol	68
28	85.2	University of California, Berkeley	8
29	84.3	University of Toronto	17
30	83.4	University of Manchester	87
31	82.8	National University of Singapore	34
32	82.3	École Polytechnique, Lausanne	48
33	82.1	École Normale Supérieure, Paris	42
34	81.9	Carnegie Mellon University	20
35	81.5	UCLA	11
36	81.3	École Polytechnique, Paris Tech	39
37	81.3	University of Sydney	n/r
38	80.6	University of Melbourne	36
39	80.5	Brown university	55
40	78.7	Hong Kong University of Science	41
41	78.5	New York University	60
42	77.9	Chinese University of Hong Kong	n/r
43	77.6	University of Queensland	81
44	77.4	University of British Columbia	30
45	76.8	University of Copenhagen	177
46	76.7	University of New South Wales	n/r
47	76.4	Peking University	37
48	76.3	University of Wisconsin	43
49	76.2	Osaka University	130
50	76.1	Seoul National University	109