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California Institute of Technology has been ranked the world's best university for 2011-2012 in a list published in the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine in early October. It is the first time that CIT has outranked Harvard University on the list, as the latter slipped to joint-second with Stanford after having topped the list since 2004.

Top Asian universities for 2011-12

the best three universities in Asia for 2011-12

In order to capture the full range of university activities across the globe, the rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators which are grouped into five headline categories: teaching — the learning environment (worth 30 percent of the overall ranking score), research — volume, income and reputation (worth 30 percent), citations — research influence (worth 30 percent), industry income — innovation (worth 2.5 percent) and international outlook — staff, students and research (worth 7.5 percent).

Apart from an overall ranking of the world's top 400 universities, the magazine also lists the best universities by region and subject.

? Full list: Top 400 universities in the world 2011-12

? Top universities by region: Europe, North America

The following are the Times Higher Education magazine's top Asian universities for 2011-12:

Rank	World Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Overall Score
1	30	University of Tokyo	Japan	74.3
2	34	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, China	72.3
3	40	National University of Singapore	Singapore	70.9
4	49	Peking University	Chinese mainland	65.6
5	52	Kyoto University	Japan	64.8
6	53	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	64.6
7	62	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	61.7
8	71	Tsinghua University	Chinese mainland	59.5
9	94	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	54.5
10	108	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	52.8
11	119	Osaka University	Japan	51
12	120	Tohoku University	Japan	50.8
13	121	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	50.4
14	124	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea	50.1
15	151	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, China	46.6
16	154	National Taiwan University	Taiwan, China	46.2
17	166	Tel Aviv University	Israel	45.4
18	169	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	45
19	192	University of Science and Technology of China	Chinese mainland	42.7
20	193	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, China	42.6