It’s nice to see a California school on a list for something good for a change!

Times Higher Education has named the California Institute for Technology (Caltech) as the best university in the world for the third year in a row.

The UK Guardian offers more details:

Harvard University jumps two places to join Oxford at joint second place whilst Standford university drops two to fourth. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University and Cambridge retain their positions from the 2012 rankings with the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago both climbing one place to eighth and ninth place respectively. Imperial College London has slipped to tenth place from eighth in last year’s rankings.

The US continues to dominate with 46 of the top 100 places being taken by an American university – seven make it into the top ten. The UK remains the second best represented country behind the US with 11 institutions in the top 100 whilst the Netherlands boast eight.

…The highest-ranked institution outside the US and the UK is Switzerland’s ETH Zürich ­- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, which slips two places to 14th in the latest rankings.