My favorite Universities are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley Columbia. ( generally well known )
look it in world wide rankings of universities.
http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2010.jsp
1 Harvard University
2 University of California, Berkeley
3 Stanford University
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 Cambridge University
6 California Institute of Technology
7 Princeton University
8 Columbia University
9 University of Chicago
10 Oxford University