World's top 100 universities 2012: their reputations ranked by Times Higher Education

The top 100 list of world universities shows Harvard at number one again, UK's leading universities have dropped several places since last year and China's universities have improved. Find out what else this list reveals

Harvard University tops The Times higher education reputation list, as it did in 2011. Photograph: Chris Ison/PA

Harvard University is number one in the top 100 list of most reputable Universities as it did last year, according to data put together by The Times Higher Education and Thomson Reuters.

The country with the most reputable universities in the world is the US according to the global reputation ranking out today.
But what's interesting are the subtle changes from last year's list.
As the Guardian's Jessica Shepherd observes:

Some of the UK's leading universities have dropped several places since last year, while China's universities have improved their performance. China is expanding its higher education system faster than most other countries in the world.

These trends have not yet changed the overall results of the countries producing the most reputable universities. Taking the top 50 universities from the list we can see that America still has the largest number of higher quality universities, followed by the UK.