http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/reputation-rankings.html
check out the ranking:


RANK INSTITUTION COUNTRY / REGION REPUTATION change
1 Harvard University United States
100.0
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
85.0
3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom
80.7
4 University of California Berkeley United States
74.7
5 Stanford University United States
71.5
6 University of Oxford United Kingdom
68.6
7 Princeton University United States
36.6
8 University of Tokyo Japan
33.2
9 Yale University United States
28.3
10 California Institute of Technology United States
23.5
11 Imperial College London United Kingdom
22.6
12 University of California Los Angeles United States
22.4
13 University of Michigan United States
19.8
14 Johns Hopkins University United States
19.4
15 University of Chicago United States
17.8
16 Cornell University United States
17.5
17 University of Toronto Canada
17.0
18 Kyoto University Japan
15.5
19 University College London United Kingdom
14.2
19 University of Massachusetts United States
14.2
21 University of Illinois - Urbana United States
13.6
22 University of Pennsylvania United States
13.4
23 Columbia University United States
13.3
24 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland
12.3
25 University of Wisconsin United States
11.7
26 University of Washington United States
11.2
27 National University of Singapore Singapore
10.4
28 Carnegie Mellon University United States
10.0
29 McGill University Canada
9.9
30 University of California San Diego United States
9.8
31 University of British Columbia Canada
9.3
31 University of Texas at Austin United States
9.3
33 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian Federation
9.0
34 University of California San Francisco United States
8.9
35 Tsinghua University China
8.7
36 Duke University United States
8.5
37 London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom
8.4
38 University of California Davis United States
7.6
39 Georgia Institute of Technology United States
7.5
40 Northwestern University United States
7.4
41 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill United States
7.0
42 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
6.9
43 Peking University China
6.6
43 University of Minnesota United States
6.6
45 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
6.5
45 University of Melbourne Australia
6.5
47 Purdue University United States
6.4
48 University of Munich Germany
6.3
49 Delft University of Technology Netherlands
6.2
50 Osaka University Japan

Harvard and University of California , Berkeley,
the best universities in US. when it come to job , general ranking the better. NYU, Columbia, Georgetown,UPenn.... there also great.

This to me appears a bit misguided. I don't know the criteria it was based on but Columbia is most certainly not down there in the list when it comes to real life, and neither is Yale..