Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Selected Top Ten Universities In The World

The Times Higher World University Rankings, compiled by QS Quacquarelli Symonds Network, represent a first attempt to compare the world's top universities.The ranking is available on the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) website or on the QS Network and is based on the following multiple indicators:

• Peer reviewing, based on a poll of 1,300 academics in 88 countries.
• The Teachers/Students ratio.
•The internationalization rate, given by the percentage of the academic staff and of the students coming from other countries.
• The number of research citations, based on the Essential Science Indicators edited by Thomson Scientific.

Reported tables contain data available on the Times Higher Education Supplement website and edited by QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd.

The World's Top 10 Universities

Rank Name Country Score
1 Harvard University US 100
2 Yale University US 99.8
3 University of Cambridge UK 99.5
4 University of Oxford UK 98.9
5 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US 98.6
6 Imperial College London UK 98.4
7 University College London (UCL) UK 98.1
8 University of Chicago US 98.0
9 Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) US 96.7
10 Columbia University US 96.3

The World's Top 10 natural science universities

Rank Name Country Score
1 Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) US 100
2 University of California, Berkeley US 99.5
3 University of Cambridge UK 98.3
4 Harvard University US 96.1
5 University of Oxford UK 92.3
6 Princeton University US 91.1
7 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US 90.7
8 Stanford University US 88.0
9 University of Toronto Canada 79.2
10 University of Tokyo Japan 77.2

Top 10 European universities

Rank Name Country Score
1 University of Cambridge UK 99.5
2 University of Oxford UK 98.9
3 Imperial College London UK 98,4
4 UCL (University College London) UK 98.1
5 King's College London UK 89,5
6 University of Edinburgh UK 89,3
7 EHT Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland 89.1
8 Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris France 84.8
9 University of Manchester UK 84.4
10 University of Bristol UK 84.1

Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement and QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd, 2008, published february 2009

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