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Report Ranks Harvard, MIT As World's Top Two Universities

BOSTON (CBS) – A recent report ranked the best universities around the globe, and two of them can be found without leaving Massachusetts.

U.S. News & World Report released a list of its top 500 global universities, based on 21 subject areas that include economics and business, engineering, computer science, social sciences and public health.

Harvard University topped the list as the best school in the world, while Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in second, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Each of the top 10 schools on the list are based in the United States, and the 134 U.S. universities chosen marked the most by one country in the report.

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