That's bs. Most of the top 100 lists from the last few years barely had any UK schools in the top 10.
It's common knowledge that US education has long surpassed UK's.
Here're two of the recent alternate lists:
http://acmsolver.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/top-100-universities-in-the-world-2008-arwu-by-shanghai-jiao-tong-university-china/1. Harvard University, USA
2. Stanford University, USA
3. University of California, Berkeley, USA
4. University of Cambridge, UK
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
6. California Institute of Technology, USA
7. Columbia University, USA
8. Princeton University, USA
9. University of Chicago, USA
10. Oxford University, U.K
11. Yale University, USA
12. Cornell University, USA
13. University of California, Los Angeles, USA
14. University of California, San Diego, USA
15. University of Pennsylvania, USA
16. University of Washington, Seattle, USA
17. University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
18. University of California, San Francisco, USA
19. Tokyo University, Japan
20. John Hopkins University, USA
21. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
22. University College of London, UK
23. Kyoto University, Japan
24. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
25. University of Toronto, Canada
26. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
27. Imperial College of London, UK
28. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
29. Washington University, St Louis, USA
30. Northwestern University, USA
31. New York University, USA
32. Duke University, USA
33. Rockefeller University, USA
34. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
35. University of British Colombia, Canada
36. University of California, Santa Barbara,USA
37. University of Maryland, Coll Park, USA
38. University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill, USA
39. University of Texas, Austin, USA
40. University of Manchester, UK
41. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
42. Pennsylvania State University, USA
43. University of Paris 06, France
44. Vanderbilt University, USA
45. University of Copenhagen, Denmark
46. University of California, Irvine, USA
47. University of Utrecht, Netherlands
48. University of California, Davis
49. University of Paris 11, USA
50. University of Southern California, USA
51. Karolinska Institute of Stockholm, Sweden
52. University of Pittsburgh, USA
53. University of Zurich, Switzerland
54. Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, USA
55. University of Edinburgh, UK
56. University of Munich, Germany
57. Technical University of Munich, Germany
58. University of Florida, USA
59. Australian National University, Australia
60. McGill University, Canada
61. University of Bristol, UK
62. Carnegie Mellon University, USA
63. Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
64. University of Oslo, Norway
65. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
66. Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
67. University of Heidelberg, Germany
68. Osaka University, Japan
69. University of Helsinki, Finland
70. Moscow State University, Russia
71. Brown University, USA
72. Uppsala University, Sweden
73. Ecole Normale Super Paris, France
74. University of Melbourne, Australia
75. University of Rochester, USA
76. University of Leiden, Netherlands
77. University of Arizona, USA
78. University of Sheffield, UK
79. Tohoku University, Japan
80. University of Utah, USA
81. King’s College London, UK
82. University of Nottingham, UK
83. Boston University, USA
84. Case Western Reserve University, USA
85. Michigan State University, USA
86. Stockholm University, Sweden
87. University Basel, Switzerland
88. Texas A&M University, Coll Station, USA
89. McMaster University, Canada
90. University of Goettingen, Germany
91. University of Birmingham, UK
92. Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
93. Aarhus University, Denmark
94. Arizon State University, Tempe, USA
95. University of Virginia, USA
96. University Freiburg, Germany
97. Lund University, Sweden
98. Rice University, USA
99. University of Bonn, Germany
Don't know where this 2nd one is from but I've seen it before and know that it's legit.
1 Harvard University USA
2 Stanford University USA
3 University Cambridge UK
4 University California - Berkeley
5 Massachusetts Institute Tech (MIT) USA
6 California In stTech USA
7 Princeton University USA
8 University Oxford UK
9 Columbia University USA
10 University Chicago USA
11 Yale University USA
12 Cornell University USA
13 University California - San Diego USA
14 Tokyo University Japan
15 University Pennsylvania USA
16 University California - Los Angeles USA
17 University California - San Francisco USA
18 University Wisconsin - Madison USA
19 University Michigan - Ann Arbor USA
20 University Washington - Seattle USA
21 Kyoto University Japan
22 Johns Hopkins University USA
23 Imperial College London UK
24 University Toronto Canada
25 University College London UK
25 University Illinois - Urbana Champaign USA
27 Swiss Fed InstituteTech - Zurich Switzerland
28 Washington University - St. Louis USA
29 Rockefeller University USA
30 Northwestern University USA
31 Duke University USA
32 New York University USA
33 University Minnesota - Twin Cities USA
34 University Colorado - Boulder USA
35 University California - Santa Barbara USA
36 University British Columbia Canada
36 University Texas Southwestern Med Center USA
38 Vanderbilt University USA
39 University Utrecht Netherlands
40 University Texas - Austin USA
41 University Paris 06 France
42 University California - Davis USA
43 Pennsylvania State University - University Park USA
44 Rutgers State University - New Brunswick USA
45 Tech University Munich Germany
46 Karolinska InstituteStockholm Sweden
47 University Edinburgh UK
48 University Paris 11 France
49 University Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh USA
50 University Southern California USA
51 University Munich Germany
52 University Rochester USA
53 Australian Natl University Australia
54 Osaka University Japan
55 University California - Irvine USA
56 University North Carolina - Chapel Hill USA
57 University Maryland - CollegePark USA
57 University Zurich Switzerland
59 University Copenhagen Denmark
60 University Bristol UK
61 McGill University Canada
62 Carnegie Mellon University USA
63 University Leiden Netherlands
64 University Heidelberg Germany
65 Case Western Reserve University USA
66 Moscow State University Russia
67 University Florida USA
68 University Oslo Norway
69 Tohoku University Japan
69 University Sheffield UK
71 Purdue University - West Lafayette USA
72 University Helsinki Finland
73 Ohio State University - Columbus USA
74 Uppsala University Sweden
75 Rice University USA
76 University Arizona USA
77 Kings College London UK
78 University Manchester UK
79 University Goettingen Germany
80 Michigan State University USA
80 University Nottingham UK
82 Brown University USA
82 University Melbourne Australia
82 University Strasbourg 1 France
85 Ecole Normale Super Paris France
86 Boston University USA
86 University Vienna Austria
88 McMaster University Canada
88 University Freiburg Germany
90 Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel
91 University Basel Switzerland
92 Lund University Sweden
93 University Birmingham UK
93 University Roma - La Sapienza Italy
95 Humboldt University Berlin Germany
95 University Utah USA
97 Nagoya University Japan
97 Stockholm University Sweden
99 Tufts University USA
99 University Bonn Germany
