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Top 100 universities in the world

LONDON - US and British universities dominate the top of a league table of universities worldwide published Thursday, but Asian seats of learning are moving up the global rankings.

While still struggling to break into the top 20, Asian universities are moving upwards, with numbers in the top 200 growing in Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Malaysia. » More...

 

2009 World Rank School Name Country
Source: QS Intelligence Unit (www.topuniversities.com) 
Copyright - 2004-2009 QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd.
1 HARVARD University United States
2 University of CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom
3 YALE University United States
4 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom
5= IMPERIAL College London United Kingdom
5= University of OXFORD United Kingdom
7 University of CHICAGO United States
8 PRINCETON University United States
9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
10 California Institute of Technology United States
11 COLUMBIA University United States
12 University of PENNSYLVANIA United States
13 JOHNS HOPKINS University United States
14 DUKE University United States
15 CORNELL University United States
16 STANFORD University United States
17 AUSTRALIAN National University Australia
18 MCGILL University Canada
19 University of MICHIGAN United States
20= University of EDINBURGH United Kingdom
20= ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland
22 University of TOKYO Japan
23 KING'S College London United Kingdom
24 University of HONG KONG Hong Kong
25 KYOTO University Japan
26 University of MANCHESTER United Kingdom
27 CARNEGIE MELLON University United States
28 École normale supérieure - Paris France
29 University of TORONTO Canada
30 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore
31 BROWN University United States
32= University of California, Los Angeles United States
32= NORTHWESTERN University United States
34 University of BRISTOL United Kingdom
35 HONG KONG University of Science and Technology Hong Kong
36= University of SYDNEY Australia
36= ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE France
36= University of MELBOURNE Australia
39 University of California, BERKELEY United States
40 University of BRITISH COLUMBIA Canada
41 University of QUEENSLAND Australia
42 Ecole Polytechnique Frale de LAUSANNE Switzerland
43= TRINITY College Dublin Ireland
43= OSAKA University Japan
45 MONASH University Australia
46 The CHINESE University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
47= SEOUL National University Korea, South
47= University of NEW SOUTH WALES Australia
49= University of AMSTERDAM Netherlands
49= TSINGHUA University China
51 University of COPENHAGEN Denmark
52= PEKING University China
52= NEW YORK University (NYU) United States
54 BOSTON University United States
55= TOKYO Institute of Technology Japan
55= Technische Universitaet Muenchen Germany
57 HEIDELBERG University Germany
58 University of WARWICK United Kingdom
59 University of ALBERTA Canada
60 LEIDEN University Netherlands
61= The University of AUCKLAND New Zealand
61= University of Wisconsin-Madison United States
63= AARHUS University Denmark
63= University of ILLINOIS, Urbana-Champaign United States
65 Katholieke Universiteit LEUVEN Belgium
66 University of BIRMINGHAM United Kingdom
67= LUND University Sweden
67= London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom
69 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology Korea, South
70= University of YORK United Kingdom
70= UTRECHT University Netherlands
72 University of GENEVA Switzerland
73= Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore
73= WASHINGTON University in St. Louis United States
75 UPPSALA University Sweden
76= University of TEXAS at Austin United States
76= University of CALIFORNIA, San Diego United States
78 University of NORTH CAROLINA, Chapel Hill United States
79 University of GLASGOW United Kingdom
80 University of WASHINGTON United States
81 University of ADELAIDE Australia
82 University of SHEFFIELD United Kingdom
83 DELFT University of Technology Netherlands
84 University of WESTERN AUSTRALIA Australia
85 DARTMOUTH College United States
86 GEORGIA Institute of Technology United States
87= PURDUE University United States
87= University of ST ANDREWS United Kingdom
89 University College DUBLIN Ireland
90 EMORY University United States
91 University of NOTTINGHAM United Kingdom
92= University of ZURICH Switzerland
92= NAGOYA University Japan
94 Freie Universitaet BERLIN Germany
95= University of SOUTHAMPTON United Kingdom
95= National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan
97 TOHOKU University Japan
98 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Germany
99 University of LEEDS United Kingdom
100 RICE University United States

 

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