倫敦時間當地3月11日，英國泰晤士高等教育發佈《2015世界大學聲譽排行榜》。排在榜單前十名的大學毫無懸念地被美、英兩國壟斷，形成強大的“精英陣容”。哈佛大學仍然高居榜首;劍橋大學緊隨其後;牛津大學則取代去年斯坦福的位置，位列榜單第三。麻省理工從去年的第二名掉至第四名。第五至第十名分別爲斯坦福大學、加州大學伯克利分校、普林斯頓大學、耶魯大學、加州理工學院、哥倫比亞大學。以下爲本次排行榜的七大變化：
- 哈佛大學和往年一樣依舊蟬聯榜首
- 日本仍然保持亞洲第一強國的地位，但東京大學仍未進入榜單前十
- 中國大學中，北京大學和清華大學進步較多，但一定程度上香港大學有所退步
- 歐洲強國中的倫敦和巴黎並列第一，成爲上榜大學最多的城市
- 英國的劍橋大學和牛津大學有所進步，以第二位和第三位的成績取代了去年的麻省理工學院和斯坦福大學
- 此次排行榜中，澳洲大學有五所院校進入前100名
- 排在前50名的大學中沒有韓國以及臺灣大學的一席之地
此次發佈的世界大學聲譽排行榜與以往榜單相比較，最顯著的變化體現在“金磚四國”大學表現出的巨大進步：中國的清華和北大兩所高校都躋身榜單前40名;引領亞洲大學先鋒的是日本東京大學，排在榜單第十二位;不太利好的一方面是：香港大學的排名今年掉出榜單前五十強，僅排在51-60這個區間內。此外，俄羅斯和巴西的高校也表現強勁。
如果說《泰晤士世界大學聲譽排行榜》是學生及家長在選擇大學時不可或缺的參考標準之一，那一定和它在世界範圍的公允度息息相關，即泰晤士高等教育發佈的榜單的權威性毋庸置疑。談到這一點，主編Baty提到，泰晤士高等教育《2015世界大學聲譽排行榜》採用世界規模最大的學術聲譽調查，從10507份數據調查中取樣完成。榜單調查結合了聯合國的最新數據、由不同學科領域的知名學者及頂尖專家參與調查並提供支持，榜單所列大學的排名具有權威性和準確性。
面對市面上已有的、種類繁多的'大學排行榜，學生及家長會經常疑惑到底該參照哪個榜單來選擇自己心儀的大學，泰晤士高等教育主編Baty爲大家分享的經驗是：“你肯定希望自己未來進入的大學一定是一所世界知名的領先大學。因爲只有這些院校能夠確保爲大學畢業生提供一個全世界範圍被認可的學位證書，並且通過在這裏的學習你能接受到良好的教育、感受到世界教育的領先水平。針對這一點，參照此次發佈的世界大學聲譽排行榜會是一個不錯的選擇，正如之前我們提到的，該榜單上所列大學的全部數據都是來自世界各地的資深學者，而不是所謂的記者或報刊雜誌。”
2015世界大學聲譽排行榜
2015 reputation rank | Institution | Country / region |
1 | Harvard University | United States |
2 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
3 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
5 | Stanford University | United States |
6 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
7 | Princeton University | United States |
8 | Yale University | United States |
9 | California Institute of Technology | United States |
10 | Columbia University | United States |
11 | University of Chicago | United States |
12 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
13 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
14 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
15 | ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
16 | University of Toronto | Canada |
17 | University College London | United Kingdom |
18 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
19 | University of Michigan | United States |
20 | Cornell University | United States |
20 | New York University | United States |
22 | London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom |
23 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
24 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
25 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russian Federation |
26 | Tsinghua University | China |
27 | Kyoto University | Japan |
28 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
29 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
30 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
31 | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
32 | Peking University | China |
33 | University of Washington | United States |
34 | Duke University | United States |
35 | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | Germany |
35 | McGill University | Canada |
37 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
38 | University of California, San Francisco | United States |
38 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
41 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
41 | Humboldt University of Berlin | Germany |
41 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
44 | University of California, Davis | United States |
45 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
46 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
47 | Northwestern University | United States |
48 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
49 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
50 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
51-60 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
Australian National University | Australia | |
Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | |
Free University of Berlin | Germany | |
University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | |
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium | |
Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1 | France | |
Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris 4 | France | |
University of São Paulo | Brazil | |
Seoul National University | Republic of Korea | |
University of Sydney | Australia | |
61-70 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States |
École Normale Supérieure | France | |
Leiden University | Netherlands | |
National Taiwan University | Taiwan | |
University of North Carolina* | United States | |
Pennsylvania State University | United States | |
University of Southern California | United States | |
Technical University of Munich | Germany | |
Wageningen University and Research Center | Netherlands | |
71-80 | Boston University | United States |
Brown University | United States | |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong | |
Michigan State University | United States | |
University of Minnesota | United States | |
National Autonomous University of Mexico | Mexico | |
University of Pittsburgh | United States | |
Purdue University | United States | |
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | United States | |
Saint Petersburg State University | Russian Federation | |
Utrecht University | Netherlands | |
81-90 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
Durham University | United Kingdom | |
University of Helsinki | Finland | |
Ohio State University | United States | |
University of Queensland | Australia | |
Texas A&M University | United States | |
University of Warwick | United Kingdom | |
Washington University in St Louis | United States | |
Uppsala University | Sweden | |
91-100 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
École Polytechnique | France | |
London Business School | United Kingdom | |
University of Maryland, College Park | United States | |
University of Massachusetts | United States | |
Mayo Medical School | United States | |
Monash University | Australia | |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | |
Pasteur Institute | France | |
RWTH Aachen University | Germany |