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

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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.