University of Oxford tops the list to replace Caltech in this year’s World University Rankings

The 2017 ranking contains universities from almost 80 countries, and represents an elite 5 per cent of the world’s higher education institutions. Judges from The Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2016-2017 looked at world class universities across all of their core missions which are: Teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
Here are the top 25 universities in the world: