Cambridge and Oxford remain in the top five, at fourth and fifth place respectively, but both have moved down two places on their 2015 ranking.

The US continues to dominate the Times Higher Education (THE) world reputation rankings, with Harvard top.

Asia has 17 universities in the top 100 - up from 10 in last year's rankings.

Three London universities stay in the top third of the table - Imperial College London at 15, University College London at 20 and the London School of Economics and Political Science at 24 - but each has fallen slightly on last year's ranking.

University of Edinburgh (38th), King's College London (43rd), University of Manchester (joint 49th), London Business School (between 81st and 90th) and University of Warwick (between 81st and 90th) also made the top 100 global reputation ranking.

London Business School was the only UK institution that improved its ranking; Edinburgh, King's and Manchester slipped down from their 2015 ranking, while Warwick stayed the same.

The University of Bristol and Durham University have fallen out of the top 100, bringing the UK's total number of universities in the rankings to 10 for 2016 - down from 12 last year.

The rankings are based on an invitation-only survey of leading academics.

The 10 top institutions by reputation are:
Harvard University, US
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
Stanford University, US
University of Cambridge, UK
University of Oxford, UK
University of California, Berkeley, US
Princeton University, US
Yale University, US
Columbia University, US
California Institute of Technology,

(BBC News)