2012时代周刊世界大学排名前五十。在进行留学英国院校选择的过程中，学校的世界排名情况也是众多申请者关注的重点。下面是2012时代周刊世界大学排名前五十的学校介绍。

全球排名 World Ranking	学校名称Institutions	所属国家/地区 County/Region	综合评分 Overall Score
1	California Institute of Technology	United States	94.8
2	Harvard University	United States	93.9
2	Stanford University	United States	93.9
4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	93.6
5	Princeton University	United States	92.9
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	92.4
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	92.3
8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	90.7
9	University of Chicago	United States	90.2
10	University of California Berkeley	United States	89.8
11	Yale University	United States	89.1
12	Columbia University	United States	87.5
13	University of California Los Angeles	United States	87.3
14	Johns Hopkins University	United States	85.8
15	ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	85
16	University of Pennsylvania	United States	84.9
17	University College London	United Kingdom	83.2
18	University of Michigan	United States	82.8
19	University of Toronto	Canada	81.6
20	Cornell University	United States	80.5
21	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	78.4
22	University of British Columbia	Canada	77.4
22	Duke University	United States	77.4
24	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	77
25	University of Washington	United States	76.5
26	Northwestern University	United States	76.2
27	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	75.8
28	McGill University	Canada	75.5
29	University of Texas at Austin	United States	74.9
30	University of Tokyo	Japan	74.3
31	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	74.2
32	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	73.1
33	University of California San Diego	United States	73
34	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	72.3
35	University of California Santa Barbara	United States	72.1
36	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	72
37	University of Melbourne	Australia	71.9
38	Australian National University	Australia	71.2
38	University of California Davis	United States	71.2
40	National University of Singapore	Singapore	70.9
41	Washington University in St Louis	United States	70.5
42	University of Minnesota	United States	70
43	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	69.3
44	New York University	United States	69
45	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	67.6
46	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	66.3
47	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	66
48	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	65.7
49	Brown University	United States	65.6
49	Peking University	China	65.6