Is there an informal requirement in the World Universities Ranking that the top spot go to an institution with a Cambridge postal code? While in past years that’s been Cambridge or Harvard, for the past three years, MIT has swept the top spot. As usual, the school boasted the top departments in a wide variety of science and mathematics fields, including chemistry, computer science, engineering, and physics. Those departments have helped the school churn out 81 Nobel laureates, 45 Rhodes Scholars, and 38 MacArthur fellows.
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