3. Stanford University

Stanford University, US is ranked third.

Established in 1891 by a businessman and politician Leland Stanford, it is also known as Leland Stanford Junior University or Stanford.

It has an annual enrollment of about 15,000 students in its undergraduate and post graduate programmes ably supported by an academic staff of about 1,900 members.

Among its notable alumni include entrepreneurs like William Hewlett and David Packard, founders of Hewlett-Packard and Azim Premji of Wipro Technologies among others.