University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

University of Cambridge [uk.tiandaoedu.com]

World rank: 6

Reputation rank: 3

Overall Reputation score: 80.7

Reputation for teaching: 82.7

Reputation for research: 79.7

Cambridge alumni loom large in the making of the modern world: Newton on laws and motion; Rutherford splitting the atom; Darwin on evolution; Turing's prototypical computer; Crick and Watson with DNA. Founded in 1209 by Oxford scholars who quit after a dispute with the local citizenry, Cambridge now employs more than 8,500 staff and has over 18,300 students.