Top Tangking Perguruan Tinggi di Dunia 2012

QS World University kembali merilis top perguruan tinggi berdasarkan 6 penilaian yaitu
- Academic Reputation
- Employer Reputation
- Citations per Faculty
- Faculty Student Ratio
- International Faculty Ratio
- International Student Ration

Kali ini di tahun 2012 yang berhasil menjadi terbaik versi QS World University adalah

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)  - United States
2. University of Cambridge - United Kingdom
3. Harvard University - United States
4. UCL (University College London) - United Kingdom
5. University of Oxford - United Kingdom
6. Imperial College London - United Kingdom
7. Yale University -  United States
8. University of Chicago  -  United States
9. Princeton University  -  United States
10. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - United States

Sementara Indonesia mendapatkan peringkat 

273 Universitas Indonesia

401-450 Universitas Gajah Mada

451-500 Institut Technology Bandung

Sementara tetangga terdekat kita Malaysia 

156 Universiti Malaya (UM) 

261 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)