The Times Higher Education (THE) magazine has today published its 2014/15 world university rankings, placing the California Institute of Technology in top place for the fourth consecutive year.Harvard University has retained second place, while the University of Oxford has slipped one place from joint second to third, Stanford University holds fourth place and the University of Cambridge has moved up two places to fifth.The global league table uses 13 separate performance indicators to examine a university’s strengths; including research, knowledge transfer, international outlook and, uniquely among global rankings, the teaching environment.While the UK has lost three universities from the top 200 list - the University of Reading, the University of Dundee and Newcastle University - London continues to dominate with the greatest concentration of first class universities. Four feature in the top 40 - more than any other city in the world.The top 100 universities are shown here:1 California Institute of Technology, United States2 Harvard University, United States3 University of Oxford, United Kingdom4 Stanford University, United States5 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States7 Princeton University, United States8 University of California, Berkeley, United States9= Imperial College London, United Kingdom9= Yale University, United States11 University of Chicago, United States12 University of California, Los Angeles United States13 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland14 Columbia University, United States15 Johns Hopkins University, United States16 University of Pennsylvania, United States17 University of Michigan, United States18 Duke University, United States19 Cornell University, United States20 University of Toronto, Canada21 Northwestern University, United States22 University College London, United Kingdom23 University of Tokyo, Japan24 Carnegie Mellon University, United States25 National University of Singapore, Singapore26 University of Washington, United States27 Georgia Institute of Technology, United States28 University of Texas at Austin, United States29= University of Illinois - Urbana, United States29= Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany29= University of Wisconsin Madison, United States32 University of British Columbia, Canada33 University of Melbourne, Australia34= École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland34= London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom36 University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom37 University of California, Santa Barbara, United States38 New York University, United States39 McGill University, Canada40 King's College London, United Kingdom41 University of California, San Diego, United States42 Washington University Saint Louis, United States43 University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong44 Karolinska Institute, Sweden45 Australian National University, Australia46= University of Minnesota, United States46= University of North Carolina, United States48 Peking University, China49 Tsinghua University, China50 Seoul National University, Republic of Korea51 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong52= Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea52= University of Manchester, United Kingdom54 Brown University, United States55= University of California Davis, United States55= Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium57 Boston University, United States58 Pennsylvania State University, United States59 Kyoto University, Japan60 University of Sydney, Australia61= École Polytechnique, France61= Nanyang Technological University, Singapore63 Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy64 Leiden University, Netherlands65 University of Queensland Australia, Australia66 Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea67 University of Göttingen, Germany68 Ohio State University, United States69 Rice University, United States70 Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany71 Delft University of Technology, Netherlands72 Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands73 Wageningen University and Research Center, Netherlands74 University of Bristol, United Kingdom75= University of Basel, Switzerland75= University of Southern California, United States77 University of Amsterdam, Netherlands78 École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France79 Utrecht University, Netherlands80 Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany81 Free University of Berlin, Germany82 Michigan State University, United States83= Durham University, United Kingdom83= Monash University, Australia85 Middle East Technical University, Turkey86= University of Arizona, United States86= University of Notre Dame, United States88= University of California, Irvine, United States88= Tufts University, United States90 Ghent University, Belgium91= University of Massachusetts, United States91= University of Pittsburgh, United States93 Emory University, United States94= University of Glasgow, United Kingdom94= McMaster University, Canada96 Vanderbilt University, United States97 University of Colorado, United States98= Stockholm University, Sweden98= Technical University of Munich, Germany98= Uppsala University, Sweden101 Maastricht University, Netherlands(telegraph.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az