This web page contain a ranking of best universities worldwild (Take time to read the “About the ranking” to understand what they call “best”) :
http://www.webometrics.info/top6000.asp

Here is a copy-paste of the top10 (July 09):

1 ) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 ) Harvard University
3 ) Stanford University
4 ) University of California Berkeley
5 ) Cornell University
6 ) University of Wisconsin Madison
7 ) University of Minnesota
8 ) California Institute of Technology
9 ) University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
10 ) University of Michigan

Only American Universities… In fact the 21 firsts universities are American according to their ranking method.

As a French guy, I notice that the first French university (Université Paris 6 Pierre and Marie Curie) was ranked 129th. Wow, that’s far…