Global university rankings are hard. Caltech is top-notch but niche (I get to say that because I'm a physicist which is exactly Caltech's niche). UCLA is a great school (I have friends and collaborators thrre) with a fantastic research program but it's not really considered that prestigious for undergrad (partially because it's so big I guess). Also maybe I'm a little biased against UC's and Caltech since I went to their rivals for undergrad and grad school :-p.
Paris has the cream of the crop of francophone schools (Saclay, Sorbonne, Science Po, Ecole Polytechnique, etc.).
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