Q. Where can I find a list of the top 500 universities in the world?

The 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities is released by the Center for World Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Harvard University remains the number one in the world for the 12th year, other Top 10 universities are: Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Cambridge, Princeton, Caltech, Columbia, Chicago and Oxford. ETH Zurich (19^th) takes first place in Continental Europe, followed by Pierre & Marie Curie (35^th), University of Copenhagen (39^th) overtakes Paris-Sud (42^nd) in France as the third best university in Continental Europe...