"The Top Universities across the world 2014/15-QS rankings"

The QS annual world university rankings were published today, with MIT maintaining its position as the top-ranked university worldwide












Six of the 10 top universities were American, with MIT taking top honors, and the remaining four were British, the QS World University Rankings said. The rankings judge colleges by research, teaching, employability and internationalization.

Tied for No. 2 were the University of Cambridge and London's Imperial College, which was the biggest climber in the top 10, leapfrogging Harvard, University College London and the University of Oxford.

"In the wake of the recession, both governments and private sector funding sources are placing greater emphasis on high-impact STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) research, much of which takes place in specialist institutions," QS head of research Ben Sowter said in a news release.

"Tech-focused institutions are increasingly the focal point of a global race for innovation. With budgets from public sources increasingly coming under strain, institutions seem more focused than ever on potentially lucrative research in science, technology and medicine."

The other universities in the top 10 were Stanford, the California Institute of Technology, Princeton and Yale.

Students focused on finding a job post-college might want to consider heading to the U.K. The study found that Cambridge and Oxford turned out the most "employable" graduates.

Those more concerned with getting rich might want to consider Harvard. In an earlier report, Wealth-X ranked it top for number of billionaire alumni. An incredible 52 of its former students are billionaires, including Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and Swiss-Brazilian banker Jorge Lemann.

Here are the list of top 20 universities in the world

RANK	UNIVERSITY	LOCATION
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
2	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
4	Harvard University	United States
5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
5	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom
7	Stanford University	United States
8	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States
9	Princeton University	United States
10	Yale University	United States
11	University of Chicago	United States
12	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland
13	University of Pennsylvania	United States
14	Columbia University	United States
14	Johns Hopkins University	United States
16	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom
17	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
17	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
19	Cornell University	United States
20	University of Toronto	Canada