<p>Ask yourself this… how many top British universities (other than Oxford and Cambridge) could the average American name? I doubt you’d get many names. </p>
<p>The same thing would happen if you went outside North America and asked “How many top US universities apart from Harvard could you name?” I doubt Dartmouth would get mentioned much. </p>
<p>So far as worldwide reputations go, it’s pretty much Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard in a league of their own. Other schools are well known in certain fields or locations, but none have the same level of ‘worldwide recognition.’</p>