World University Rankings Results 2010

2010-09-10


Rank 2010 Rank 2009 School Name Country

1 2 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 2 1 Harvard University United States 3 3 Yale University United States 4 4 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom 5 9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 6 5= University of Oxford United Kingdom 7 5= Imperial College London United Kingdom 8 7 University of Chicago United States 9 10 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States 10 8 Princeton University United States 11 11 Columbia University United States 12 12 University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) United States 13 16 Stanford University United States 14 14 Duke University United States 15 19 University of Michigan United States 16 15 Cornell University United States 17 13 Johns Hopkins University United States 18 20= ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) A* Switzerland 19 18 McGill University Canada 20 17 Australian National University (ANU) A* Australia 21 23 King's College London (KCL) United Kingdom 22 20= University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 23 24 University of Hong Kong (HKU) Hong Kong 24 22 University of Tokyo, The Japan 25 25 Kyoto University Japan 26 32= Northwestern University United States 27 34 University of Bristol United Kingdom 28 39 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 29 29 University of Toronto Canada 30 26 University of Manchester United Kingdom 31 30 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 32 42 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland 33 28 École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS Paris) France 34 27 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) United States 35 32= University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) A* United States 36 36= École Polytechnique, ParisTech France 37 36= University of Sydney Australia 38 36= University of Melbourne Australia 39 31 Brown University United States 40 35 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Hong Kong 41 52= New York University (NYU) United States 42 46 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Hong Kong 43 41 University of Queensland (UQ) A* Australia 44 40 University of British Columbia (UBC) Canada 45 51 University of Copenhagen A* Denmark 46 47= University of New South Wales (UNSW) A* Australia 47 52= Peking University China 48 61= University of Wisconsin-Madison United States 49 43= Osaka University Japan 50 47= Seoul National University (SNU) Korea, South 51 57 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Germany 52 43= Trinity College Dublin A* Ireland 53 58 University of Warwick A* United Kingdom 54 49= Tsinghua University China 55 80 University of Washington United States 56 49= University of Amsterdam A* Netherlands 57 78 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill United States 58 55= Technische Universität München (TUM) Germany 59 66 University of Birmingham United Kingdom 60 55= Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 61 45 Monash University Australia 62 75 Uppsala University Sweden 63 63= University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) United States 64 54 Boston University United States 65 76= University of California, San Diego (UCSD) United States 66 98 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) Germany 67 76= University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) United States 68 61= University of Auckland New Zealand 69 82 University of Sheffield United Kingdom 70 94 Freie Universität Berlin A* Germany 71 72 University of Geneva Switzerland 72 67= Lund University Sweden 73 91 University of Nottingham A* United Kingdom 74 73= Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore 75= 73= Washington University in St. Louis United States 75= 108= University of Helsinki Finland 77 79 University of Glasgow United Kingdom 78 59 University of Alberta Canada 79 69 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology Korea, South 80 67= London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) United Kingdom 81 95= University of Southampton United Kingdom 82 60 Leiden University Netherlands 83 70= Utrecht University Netherlands 84 63= Aarhus University A* Denmark 85 99 University of Leeds United Kingdom 86 65 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium 87 87= Purdue University United States 88 70= University of York United Kingdom 89 84 University of Western Australia (UWA) Australia 90 85 Dartmouth College United States 91 92= Nagoya University Japan 92 103= Durham University United Kingdom 93 101= Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia 94 95= National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan 95 87= University of St Andrews United Kingdom 96 105 University of Minnesota United States 97 122= Universität Freiburg Germany 98 120= Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) United States 99 108= Erasmus University Rotterdam A* Netherlands 100 101 University of Oslo Norway 101 92= University of Zurich Switzerland 102 97 Tohoku University Japan 103 81 University of Adelaide Australia 104 122= University of Maryland, College Park United States 105 103= Fudan University China 106 86 Georgia Institute of Technology United States 107 90 Emory University United States 108 83 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) Netherlands 109 102 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 110 108= University of California, Davis (UCD) United States 111 116 Maastricht University A* Netherlands 112 134 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) Korea, South 113 112 University of Southern California (USC) United States 114 89 University College Dublin (UCD) A* Ireland 115 100 Rice University United States 116 106 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) United States 117 129= University of Aberdeen A* United Kingdom 118 117 Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) France 119 114= University of Pittsburgh United States 120 138= University of Groningen Netherlands 121 137 University of Liverpool United Kingdom 122 135 Cardiff University United Kingdom 123 146= Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany 124 126= Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) Belgium 125 129= Ohio State University United States 126 120= Eindhoven University of Technology (TU Eindhoven) Netherlands 127= 119 Case Western Reserve University United States 127= 141 University of Rochester United States 129 124 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 130 128 University of Virginia United States 131 149= Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany 132 118 Queen's University Canada 133 144= University of Bergen Norway 134 140 Vanderbilt University United States 135 125 University of Otago New Zealand 136 107 Université de Montréal Canada 137 108= University of Basel Switzerland 138 114= Tel Aviv University Israel 139 126= École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon) France 140 158 Newcastle University United Kingdom 141 159 Technical University of Denmark Denmark 142 151= Yonsei University Korea, South 143 132= University of Vienna Austria 144 144= University of Bath United Kingdom 145 113 University of Waterloo Canada 146 161 University of California, Irvine United States 147 164 Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) United Kingdom 148 171= Universitat de Barcelona A* Spain 149 220= Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands 150 174= KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Sweden 151 153 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) China 152 168= University of Lausanne Switzerland 153 155= Kyushu University Japan 154 154 University of Science and Technology of China China 155 129= Georgetown University United States 156 166= University of Sussex United Kingdom 157 160 Tufts University United States 158 182 RWTH Aachen Germany 159 132= Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel 160 166= University of Arizona United States 161 146= University of Cape Town South Africa 162= 143 McMaster University Canada 162= 193= University of Bern Switzerland 164 151= University of Western Ontario Canada 165 149= University of Calgary Canada 166= 195 Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong 166= 184 Universität Karlsruhe Germany 168 215= Stockholm University Sweden 169 196= University of Leicester United Kingdom 170 186= University of Colorado at Boulder United States 171 165 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) A* Netherlands 172 174= University of Tsukuba Japan 173 211= Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona A* Spain 174 186= Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Germany 175 171= Hokkaido University Japan 176 174= Università di Bologna Italy 177 168= Nanjing University China 178 155= Wageningen University Netherlands 179 177= University of Antwerp Belgium 180 138= Chulalongkorn University Thailand 181 162 Lancaster University United Kingdom 182 148 Waseda University Japan 183 185 University of Gothenburg Sweden 184 207= University College Cork (UCC) Ireland 185 191= University of Reading United Kingdom 186 228 Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris 4 France 187 163 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) India 188 225 University of Iowa United States 189 188 University of Canterbury New Zealand 190 205 Sapienza Università di Roma Italy 191 211= Korea University Korea, South 192 136 University of Ghent Belgium 193 201= University of Florida United States 194 173 Stony Brook University United States 195 233 Universität Frankfurt am Main Germany 196 223= National Tsing Hua University Taiwan 197 201= Queen's University of Belfast United Kingdom 198 179 Texas A&M University United States 199 200 University of Twente Netherlands 200 237= Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Germany

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