Caltech Named World's Top University

Caltech has been rated the world's number one university in the 2011–2012 Times Higher Education global ranking of the top 200 universities, knocking Harvard University out of the top spot for the first time in the survey's eight-year history. In last year's survey the EAS Division was ranked as the number one engineering and technology university in the world, the 2011-2012 results for this category have not yet been released. [Caltech Press Release]