World University Ranking in 2011-2012
2011-09-07
UK’s company QS Quacquarelli Symonds reveals their the 8th annual QS World University Rankings (2011 - 2012).
QS was founded in 1990 and has established itself as the leading global provider of specialist higher education and careers information and solutions. The world's most highly referenced global ranking of universities since 2004. – From QS website
This year the No. 1 university is University of Cambridge, No.2 university is Harvard University United States and the No. 3 is Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). We don’t know whether there is another similar company can give the similar top 3 names but we know if a company comes from US but not UK, they should have a different ranking list whatever.
**The following is Top 10 World Universities** (All from UK and US):
1 University of Cambridge United Kingdom
2 Harvard University United States
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States
4 Yale University United States
5 University of Oxford United Kingdom
6 Imperial College London United Kingdom
7 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom
8 University of Chicago United States
9 University of Pennsylvania United States
10 Columbia University United States
**The following is Rank 20~50 World Universities**:.
11 Stanford University United States
12 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States
13 Princeton University United States
14 University of Michigan United States
15 Cornell University United States
16 Johns Hopkins University United States
17 McGill University Canada
18 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland
19 Duke University United States
20 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
21 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States
22 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
23 University of Toronto Canada
24 Northwestern University United States
25 The University of Tokyo Japan
26 Australian National University Australia
27 King?s College London (University of London) United Kingdom
28 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore
29 The University of Manchester United Kingdom
30 University of Bristol United Kingdom
31 The University of Melbourne Australia
32 Kyoto University Japan
33 école Normale Supérieure, Paris France
34 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States
35 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
36 école Polytechnique France
37 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
38 The University of Sydney Australia
39 Brown University United States
40 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong
41 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States
42 Seoul National University Korea, South
43 Carnegie Mellon University United States
44 New York University (NYU) United States
45 Osaka University Japan
46 Peking University China
47 Tsinghua University China
48 The University of Queensland Australia
49 The University of New South Wales Australia
50 The University of Warwick United Kingdom
We can see Canada’s McGill University is No. 17 and University of Toronto is No. 23; There are 5 Universities of China are in Top 50 but 3 of them are in Hongkong, other 2 are Beijing University (Peking University) and Tsinghua University which located at No. 46 and No. 47, Beijing University and Tsinghua University are the Top 2 Universities in China mainland, but we can see both of them are behind Hongkong’s Universities.
More ranking information please read QS University Ranking.