Feeling competitive today? Well the U.S. News & World Report has released its ranking of the World’s Best Colleges and Universities: Top 200, based on the following six criteria:

• Academic Peer Review (40%)
• Employer Review (10%)
• Student/Faculty Ratio (20%)
• Citations per Faculty Member (20%)
• Proportion of International Faculty (5%)
• Proportion of International Students (5%)

Before you go debating bragging rights with your colleagues and legal peers, bear in mind that this is not a ranking of the top Law schools…

Here are the Top 25:

1. Harvard (U.S.)
2. Yale (U.S.)
3. Cambridge (U.K.)
4. Oxford (U.K.)
5. Cal Tech (U.S.)
6. Imperial College London (U.K.)
7. University College London (U.K.)
8. Chicago (U.S.)
9. MIT (U.S.)
10. Columbia (U.S.)…………11-25 over…
11. Penn (U.S.)
12. Princeton (U.S.)
13. Duke (U.S.)
14. Johns Hopkins (U.S.)
15. Cornell (U.S.)
16. Australian National University (Australia)
17. Stanford (U.S.)
18. Michigan (U.S.)
19. Tokyo (Japan)
20. McGill (Canada)
21. Caenegie Mellon (U.S.)
22. King’s College London (U.K.)
23. Edinburgh (U.K.)
24. ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
25. Kyoto (Japan)