Building on data provided by the universities and analyzed by Thomson Reuters, the British education magazine Times Higher Education has compiled its yearly list of the world's 200 best universities. The magazine based its rankings on 13 performance indicators divided into five major categories. The categories are: teaching (30% of the total score), research (30% of total score), citations (30% of total score), international outlook (7.5% of total score), and industry income (2.5% of total score).

In 2013, American universities dominated the list. The top 5 are Harvard University, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, and Princeton University. Many high-performing institutions made the list from the U.K., Canada, Japan, Korea, and other countries.

According to the Times Higher Education rankings, here are the top 20 non-U.S. universities (listed in order of appearance):