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Welcome
to the 2012/13 QS World University Rankings
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Report
T
he ninth annual QS World University
Rankings arrive at a time of seismic
change in global higher education.
The boom in international study continues
to reconfgure the landscape, with well over
3.5 million students currently taking degrees
abroad. The central importance of human
capital to 21st century economies is underlined
by a global drive to expand the proportion of
university graduates, while the competition
to innovate through R&D intensifes every
year. And as government budgets are squeezed
in the aftermath of the recession, in many
countries students and parents are being made
to contribute ever more to the cost of funding
this expansion.
All of these changes and many more besides
mean that a reliable, trusted and rigorous
way of comparing universities worldwide has
become indispensible. This year’s QS World
University Rankings draw on record survey
responses from over 46,000 academics and
25,000 graduate employers, the largest ever
snapshot of expert global opinion on compara-
tive university performance.
As in previous years this information is
counterbalanced by citations data sourced
from Scopus, the world’s most comprehensive
database of research citations. The rankings also
incorporate fgures on student/faculty ratios
and international students and faculty, collected
and verifed by a multilingual team of analysts
working within QS Intelligence Unit.
As the need for greater and more nuanced
information increases, QS has continued to
adapt. Rather than cramming a greater num-
ber of indicators into a single ranking table
– which in our view simply creates a mess –
since 2009 QS has introduced a series of more
targeted exercises: QS University Rankings:
Asia; QS University Rankings: Latin America;
QS World University Rankings by Subject; QS
Best Student Cities; QS 50 Under 50; and QS
Stars, a new, comprehensive university rating
system.
Yet despite this innovation, the QS World
University Rankings remain the centerpiece of
our research output. Though no ranking pro-
vides a magic answer for everyone, QS World
University Rankings are a valuable reference
tool for millions of students worldwide, and
bring vital comparative information into the
public domain. We are confdent that this year’s
rankings provide the most detailed yet source
of information in areas of central importance
to students and parents: research, employability,
teaching and internationalization.
Danny Byrne, editor of TopUniversities.com
John O’Leary
John O’Leary is the editor of the
Times Good University Guide
and a member of the QS Global Aca-
demic Advisory Board
Danny Byrne
Danny Byrne is the editor of
TopUniversities.com
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New-look rankings show
the unstoppable rise of
student mobility
MIT overtakes Cambridge and Harvard, as leading universities report a
remarkable surge in international student numbers. ByJohn O’Leary
The latest
rankings show
an extraordinary
rise of almost
10 per cent in
international
student numbers
at the top 100
universities.
T
his year’s QS World University Rankings
are notable not only for the changes in
standing of individual institutions, but for what
they say about the increasingly international
nature of higher education at the top level.
Global student mobility is on a seemingly
unstoppable rise, with those seeking an overseas
education targeting the leading universities.
Even after considerable growth in recent years,
the latest rankings show an extraordinary rise
of almost 10% in international student numbers
at the top 100 universities.
As a result, even those universities recording
a modest increase, or simply maintaining their
previous recruitment, are being overtaken on
this measure. Cambridge, for example, has seen
a signifcant increase in international students,
but has dropped fve places in this measure,
contributing to its fall from frst to second
place in the overall ranking.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) is the new leader, overtaking both Cam-
bridge and Harvard to top the institutional table
for the frst time. The signs of MIT’s rise were
visible in the subject rankings published by QS
in June, when it topped 11 of the 28 tables.
MIT has attracted attention over the past
year mainly for its development
of massively open online
courses (MOOCs), which
it pioneered. The MITx
project has been launched
to make more courses available
globally and the university is one
of the lead players in a collaboration
with other US and overseas institu-
tions. Recent months have also seen the
announcement that Susan Hockfeld, the
President, would be stepping down and the
remarkably speedy appointment of Rafael
Reif, the Provost, to succeed her.
MIT would have been higher in previous
years were it not for a relatively low propor-
tion of international faculty. A sharp rise in
this measure is the biggest factor behind its
rise to overtake both Harvard and Cambridge
and take top place. Although it is still not in
the top 100 for the proportion of foreign
academics, the increase was
enough for
its consist-
ently strong
showing in other
measures to capture
frst place.
Harvard, in third place,
remains the favourite of
both academics and employ-
ers, who responded in record
numbers to QS polling this year.
It also tops four of the fve broad
faculty rankings published today.
Overall, the institutional ranking is more
stable than it has ever been. There is only one
new entrant to the top 20 – the University of
Toronto. The average movement in the top 100
is 4.6 places, while in the top 200 the average
is 9.1.
Universities from the United States continue
to dominate, although four of the top six are
from the UK this year. US institutions occupy
the remaining six places in the top ten, plus 13
of the top 20 and 31 of the top 100 – the same
numbers as last year.
The UK is again the next most successful
country, although it has lost one university
from the top 20, one from the top 100 and one
from the top 200. Its four universities in the
top ten and 18 in the top 100 show a system
continuing to punch well above its weight.
Leading universities in other countries ex-
perience mixed fortunes. Canada, for example,
has two universities in the top 20 for the frst
time since the QS World University Rankings
were launched in 2004, with both Toronto and
McGill among that elite group. The University
of British Columbia has also joined the top 50,
but several other universities have slipped down
the ranking.
Switzerland is another country with reason
to celebrate, as two of its small cadre of uni-
versities feature in the top 30. ETH Zurich,
at 13th, is easily the highest-placed university
in continental Europe, while EPFL Lausanne
is the only other continental institution in the
top 30.
There is little good news for the rest of
Europe, although France has two institutions
– ENS Paris and the École Polytechnique, also
in Paris - in the top 50. The mergers of several
institutions in and around Paris may improve
matters in future years.
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Some countries that have invested in the
promotion of world-class universities are yet
to see an impact on their results in the QS
rankings, however. Germany, which recently
announced a second round of its Excellence
Initiative, has no universities in the top 50,
while the top six universities in Japan have all
dropped marginally.
In China, however, seven of the top ten
universities have gone up, and both Peking and
Tsinghua universities remain in the top 50.
Hong Kong also has three universities in the
top 40, including Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology, the
youngest institution in the
top 150.
South Korea is another Asian country to see
its universities fourish, with three in the top
100. Seoul National University has moved into
the top 40, while the Korea Advanced Institute
of Science and Technology has registered the
biggest rise in the top 100.
Australia again has more universities in the
top 100 than any country outside the US and
UK, although the total is down from eight to
seven. Japan has six universities in
the top 100 and the Nether-
lands four.
The new rankings also see the
emergence of Latin American uni-
versities, albeit not yet in the higher
positions. Sao Paulo University is up
30 places and into the top 150, where
it is joined by UNAM, of Mexico City.
A dozen feature in the top 400 – much
the highest total since the QS rankings
began.
Some Middle Eastern universities are also
making their mark, particularly those in Saudi
Arabia, where King Saud University is in the
top 200 and King Fahd University of Petro-
leum and Minerals is only eight places outside
it. Eleven Middle Eastern countries are repre-
sented at some level in the ranking.
African universities remain largely absent,
however. The University of Cape Town is by
far the highest-placed, just outside the top 150.
When the individual placings have been
digested, experts are likely to see the new edi-
tion of the rankings as confrming the growing
mobility of both academics and (especially)
students. Inevitably, the demand for places is
strongest at the leading universities, while the
fnancial constraints on higher education institu-
tions around the world mean that there is also
intense competition for the best candidates.
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1 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US M CO VH 5 100.0 6 100.0 5 99.9 19 99.3 15 86.4 108 96.5 38 100.0
2 1 University of Cambridge GB L FC VH 5 100.0 2 100.0 3 98.3 37 97.0 29 98.2 41 96.0 43 99.8
3 2 Harvard University US L FC VH 5 100.0 1 100.0 1 98.6 31 100.0 5 90.0 90 78.4 112 99.2
4 7 UCL (University College London) GB L FC VH 5 99.6 22 95.6 32 98.4 36 94.0 37 96.3 50 99.9 11 98.7
5 5 University of Oxford GB L FC VH 5 100.0 4 100.0 2 100.0 17 89.4 50 98.0 43 95.8 45 98.6
6 6 Imperial College London GB L FC VH 5 99.8 15 100.0 7 99.8 21 87.3 55 99.8 28 99.6 19 98.3
7 4 Yale University US M FC VH 5 100.0 10 100.0 11 100.0 6 93.3 39 92.7 72 63.9 178 97.5
8 8 University of Chicago US L FC VH 5 99.9 13 96.0 28 95.6 52 96.4 33 68.9 175 77.8 117 96.3
9 13 Princeton University US M CO VH 5 100.0 11 88.5 42 90.7 68 99.8 9 85.5 115 63.5 180 95.4
10 12 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US S CO VH 5 99.0 28 51.3 191 100.0 14 100.0 2 96.0 53 91.1 62 95.1
11 10 Columbia University US L FC VH 5 99.9 12 100.0 12 97.2 45 96.3 34 16.2 301+ 84.9 86 94.7
12 9 University of Pennsylvania US L FC VH 5 98.5 32 96.2 26 99.6 26 92.4 41 55.7 213 66.8 165 94.5
13 18 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) CH L FO VH 5 99.3 25 94.0 36 67.0 154 97.2 28 100.0 4 98.7 24 92.8
14 15 Cornell University US L FC VH 5 99.7 20 96.4 24 73.9 123 98.8 19 74.3 154 67.4 163 92.1
15 11 Stanford University US L FC VH 5 100.0 5 100.0 6 72.4 134 100.0 3 41.9 264 83.5 91 91.7
16 16 Johns Hopkins University US L FC VH 5 94.6 45 60.2 164 100.0 10 99.1 17 56.8 203 74.7 129 91.2
17 14 University of Michigan US XL FC VH 5 99.8 17 96.1 27 92.0 63 87.3 54 50.6 234 46.5 259 91.2
18 17 McGill University CA L FC VH 5 98.5 33 95.1 33 89.6 71 69.1 114 86.0 112 91.3 61 90.4
19 23 University of Toronto CA XL FC VH 5 99.9 14 94.3 35 73.8 124 80.2 70 96.1 51 74.8 128 89.6
20 19 Duke University US L FC VH 5 95.1 43 81.9 61 99.7 23 96.9 30 16.4 301+ 44.5 270 89.5
21 20 University of Edinburgh GB L FC VH 5 99.1 27 96.8 19 72.1 136 77.1 79 89.6 94 93.8 51 89.2
22 21 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US XL FC VH 5 100.0 3 100.0 8 47.0 279 97.9 22 86.1 109 78.8 109 88.1
23 22 University of Hong Kong (HKU) HK L FC VH 5 99.3 24 83.8 49 94.2 54 50.5 215 100.0 16 99.1 22 87.9
24 26 Australian National University (ANU) AU L CO VH 4 99.7 21 82.5 56 79.6 109 64.3 134 100.0 18 96.3 40 87.6
25 28 National University of Singapore (NUS) SG XL FC VH 5 100.0 9 99.4 14 81.4 102 51.1 212 100.0 11 98.2 25 87.2
26 27 King's College London (KCL) GB L FC VH 5 92.6 51 83.8 48 89.1 78 68.9 116 93.8 66 90.6 66 87.1
27 24 Northwestern University US L FC VH 5 90.7 58 88.6 39 82.3 100 97.9 21 11.9 301+ 55.9 203 85.4
28 30 University of Bristol GB L FC VH 5 91.0 56 96.0 30 74.8 122 77.3 78 85.8 114 75.6 123 85.4
29 35 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) CH M FO VH 5 79.1 86 75.8 82 95.1 53 79.9 71 100.0 3 100.0 4 85.1
30 25 The University of Tokyo JP L FC VH 5 100.0 7 97.6 18 89.3 74 73.1 99 11.1 301+ 25.8 301+ 85.0
31 34 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US XL FC VH 4 100.0 8 96.0 29 62.3 173 99.5 11 1.6 301+ 34.4 301+ 84.6
32 29 The University of Manchester GB XL FC VH 5 98.5 31 100.0 10 63.2 170 62.2 142 85.2 117 91.4 59 84.2
33 40 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology HK M CO VH 2 92.5 52 79.7 67 83.9 93 54.7 192 100.0 10 98.9 23 83.5
34 33 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS Paris) FR S SP 5 90.8 57 66.9 127 92.4 61 81.6 63 26.2 301+ 66.2 167 83.3
35 32 Kyoto University JP L FC VH 5 99.8 18 81.1 63 92.6 60 70.0 110 15.5 301+ 21.9 301+ 83.3
36 31 The University of Melbourne AU XL FC VH 5 99.8 16 100.0 9 46.8 282 74.9 92 68.9 176 92.3 57 83.2
37 42 Seoul National University (SNU) KR L FC VH 4 98.8 29 83.4 50 90.7 67 49.6 222 47.8 245 61.0 188 82.2
38 41 University of Wisconsin-Madison US XL FC VH 5 97.1 39 68.6 120 85.2 89 68.0 120 52.4 227 32.9 301+ 81.4
39 38 The University of Sydney AU XL FC VH 5 99.3 23 93.5 37 50.4 248 58.9 162 99.7 29 91.3 60 81.3
40 37 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) HK L FC VH 3 93.5 48 72.4 95 79.8 108 48.7 225 95.7 54 83.1 93 80.1
41 36 Ecole Polytechnique ParisTech FR S CO VH 5 73.3 113 95.9 31 100.0 13 57.9 170 72.4 161 92.6 54 79.6
42 39 Brown University US M FC VH 5 81.5 76 68.8 118 76.7 117 97.8 23 32.0 301+ 54.7 208 79.5
43 44 New York University (NYU) US XL FC VH 5 97.7 35 85.3 45 92.7 57 40.2 280 23.2 301+ 55.7 205 78.9
44 46 Peking University CN L FC VH 5 99.7 19 96.6 21 82.6 97 36.8 301+ 55.7 214 35.0 301+ 78.8
45 51 University of British Columbia CA XL FC VH 5 99.1 26 77.8 72 25.9 301+ 92.1 42 61.4 187 73.2 136 78.6
46 48 The University of Queensland (UQ) AU XL FC VH 5 95.3 42 83.3 51 45.3 296 63.1 138 95.5 55 90.5 68 78.2
47 58 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG L CO VH 2 90.4 59 84.5 47 85.3 88 26.7 301+ 100.0 5 97.9 30 77.7
48 47 Tsinghua University CN XL FC VH 5 98.8 30 97.6 17 86.0 86 32.0 301+ 50.6 235 26.3 301+ 77.5
49 43 Carnegie Mellon University US M FC VH 5 86.0 67 81.0 65 55.4 212 86.5 56 17.7 301+ 97.1 37 77.4
50 45 Osaka University JP L FC VH 4 91.4 54 69.6 111 91.7 64 62.1 143 15.4 301+ 20.3 301+ 76.8
51 52 University of Copenhagen DK L FC VH 5 83.5 73 71.5 100 99.8 20 48.6 226 71.8 163 41.3 282 76.7
52 49 The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU XL FC VH 4 95.0 44 95.1 34 39.8 301+ 52.8 204 98.8 35 97.6 31 76.6
53 54 Technische Universität München DE L CO VH 5 86.4 66 91.0 38 97.9 40 34.3 301+ 48.1 244 63.0 183 76.4
54 59 University of Glasgow GB L FC VH 5 82.4 75 70.7 105 60.3 182 78.3 75 78.5 141 76.7 120 76.3
55 53 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg DE L FC VH 5 93.3 49 42.8 244 86.5 84 49.7 221 52.6 226 65.2 171 75.5
56 61 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US XL FC VH 5 97.7 34 66.7 130 23.5 301+ 90.0 47 56.2 209 68.8 154 75.5
57 55 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill US L FC VH 5 80.9 81 63.2 153 75.8 119 90.7 45 30.1 301+ 22.2 301+ 75.4
58 50 The University of Warwick GB L FC VH 3 89.4 62 100.0 13 52.3 234 37.5 297 90.3 89 98.0 29 73.9
59 56 University of Washington US XL FC VH 5 93.6 47 47.4 214 46.9 281 99.5 12 8.8 301+ 21.0 301+ 73.7
60 62 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE XL FC VH 5 97.0 40 71.9 97 33.6 301+ 75.6 89 35.7 289 50.0 236 72.9
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SIZE FOCUS RES. AGE SCORE RANK SCORE RANK SCORE RANK SCORE RANK SCORE RANK SCORE RANK SCORE
61 60 Monash University AU XL FC VH 4 95.4 41 96.5 22 33.6 301+ 41.6 268 77.0 149 94.5 48 72.2
62 63 University of Amsterdam NL XL FC VH 5 89.8 60 74.6 89 43.4 301+ 75.7 88 54.4 219 28.8 301+ 72.1
63 90 KAIST KR M CO VH 3 85.1 68 51.7 188 90.0 69 54.0 197 36.6 284 24.1 301+ 71.8
64 70= Boston University US L FC VH 5 72.5 116 77.0 76 73.2 128 74.8 93 29.4 301+ 63.2 182 71.7
65 57 Tokyo Institute of Technology JP M CO VH 5 76.1 102 74.5 90 79.8 107 70.8 107 14.3 301+ 38.0 301+ 71.4
66 72 The University of Shefeld GB L FC VH 5 77.7 91 75.3 83 58.8 194 60.2 153 79.6 138 84.5 87 71.3
67 65 Trinity College Dublin (TCD) IE L FC HI 5 79.6 85 75.0 85 54.1 221 57.0 175 99.1 33 80.4 103 71.3
68 76 University of Texas at Austin US XL FC VH 5 97.4 37 81.0 64 21.1 301+ 74.7 94 58.3 200 27.4 301+ 71.2
69 64 London School of Economics and Political Science GB M SP 5 88.0 64 100.0 4 58.6 197 17.4 301+ 100.0 15 100.0 1 71.1
70 77 University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US L FC VH 4 97.5 36 35.7 301+ 31.7 301+ 100.0 6 3.0 301+ 23.1 301+ 70.9
71 86 Lund University SE L FC VH 5 84.7 69 82.2 58 41.9 301+ 76.6 83 33.3 299 53.7 215 70.9
72 74 The University of Nottingham GB L FC VH 5 76.6 96 96.2 25 55.2 214 51.1 211 85.3 116 83.5 92 70.7
73 75 University of Southampton GB L FC VH 5 73.3 114 69.8 109 60.0 186 65.9 127 88.2 102 81.0 102 70.7
74 69 University of Geneva CH L FC VH 5 65.7 138 23.7 301+ 58.9 193 97.5 26 100.0 18 99.2 21 70.6
75= 88 Leiden University NL L FC VH 5 83.8 71 47.2 216 33.3 301+ 98.3 20 80.4 135 24.1 301+ 70.5
75= 70= Tohoku University JP L FC VH 5 76.4 100 66.0 136 96.8 46 54.4 193 22.3 301+ 25.3 301+ 70.5
77 67 University of Birmingham GB L FC VH 5 77.3 94 80.5 66 50.1 249 64.5 132 82.6 129 70.6 149 70.3
78 89 University of Helsinki FI L CO VH 5 80.9 80 43.2 239 86.2 85 62.1 145 46.2 250 14.2 301+ 70.1
79 73 The University of Western Australia (UWA) AU L FC VH 5 77.8 90 70.9 103 39.9 301+ 70.1 109 99.3 32 81.7 96 70.0
80 87 National Taiwan University (NTU) TW XL FC VH 4 97.3 38 70.3 107 38.0 301+ 69.7 111 19.4 301+ 15.1 301+ 69.9
81 83 Uppsala University SE L FC VH 5 84.3 70 51.5 190 42.7 301+ 85.0 58 52.7 224 39.9 292 69.8
82 68 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE XL FC VH 5 88.5 63 70.1 108 22.7 301+ 81.7 62 71.0 167 43.5 277 69.7
83 82 The University of Auckland NZ L FC VH 5 92.8 50 78.2 71 27.0 301+ 45.5 246 91.1 84 91.8 58 69.3
84 78 Washington University in St. Louis US L FC VH 5 60.4 153 22.0 301+ 99.7 22 96.8 31 3.6 301+ 51.9 227 69.1
85 80= Utrecht University NL XL FC VH 5 81.4 77 48.4 206 45.8 293 88.2 52 56.1 210 18.9 301+ 68.7
86 80= Nagoya University JP L FC VH 5 69.5 128 64.2 148 88.0 81 68.6 119 17.7 301+ 29.0 301+ 68.6
87 66 Freie Universität Berlin DE L FC HI 4 91.0 55 44.6 228 29.4 301+ 80.7 69 43.7 257 56.0 201 68.6
88 84 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) US L CO VH 5 70.7 122 76.9 77 19.3 301+ 99.4 13 73.7 157 85.9 82 68.4
89 79 Aarhus University DK L FC VH 4 70.5 124 48.6 205 69.9 142 72.5 103 66.5 183 56.0 199 68.4
90= 91 Fudan University CN L FC VH 5 92.5 53 84.8 46 42.4 301+ 51.4 209 18.0 301+ 49.8 238 68.3
90= 106 University of Zurich CH L FC VH 5 76.6 98 47.7 211 53.8 223 68.9 115 100.0 17 53.6 218 68.3
92 95 Durham University GB L FC HI 5 71.1 120 96.8 20 45.0 298 60.0 155 91.0 85 70.4 150 67.9
93 97 University of St Andrews GB M FC VH 5 64.7 143 69.2 117 60.9 178 61.1 148 95.3 57 99.8 16 67.6
94 93 University of Leeds GB L FC VH 5 81.2 79 78.9 69 46.9 280 46.6 239 77.0 148 73.2 137 67.3
95= 110 City University of Hong Kong HK M CO VH 3 73.2 115 42.8 243 72.6 130 45.3 247 100.0 12 81.2 101 66.9
95= 85 Purdue University US XL FC VH 5 75.8 103 83.2 53 34.6 301+ 60.9 150 95.0 58 74.2 130 66.9
97 98 Pohang University of Science and Technology KR S FO VH 3 57.5 166 37.4 289 99.2 29 77.4 77 67.7 180 13.4 301+ 66.8
98 116 University of Pittsburgh US L FC VH 5 53.4 188 26.3 301+ 93.3 55 87.8 53 68.6 177 36.4 301+ 66.1
99 103 Erasmus University Rotterdam NL L FO VH 4 50.5 206 82.2 59 58.9 191 93.6 38 69.7 170 56.0 200 65.9
100 101 University of California, Davis (UCD) US XL FC VH 5 74.6 107 38.0 284 35.4 301+ 96.7 32 60.0 193 42.5 280 65.9
101 94 Pennsylvania State University US XL FC VH 5 77.3 93 83.3 52 33.8 301+ 81.5 65 17.1 301+ 37.3 301+ 65.7
102 92 The University of Adelaide AU L FC VH 5 73.8 110 69.5 113 41.0 301+ 54.8 187 86.9 107 92.6 53 65.3
103 104 Delft University of Technology NL L FO VH 5 74.8 106 72.3 96 39.6 301+ 55.7 182 89.9 92 75.4 124 65.1
104 102 University of Minnesota US XL FC VH 5 82.9 74 41.8 250 29.9 301+ 97.5 25 7.2 301+ 20.5 301+ 64.9
105 111 Ohio State University US XL FC VH 5 73.7 111 66.9 128 35.1 301+ 74.4 95 78.6 140 39.9 294 64.7
106 105 Universität Freiburg DE L FC VH 5 72.3 117 21.6 301+ 72.4 132 64.1 135 60.0 195 48.1 248 64.4
107 109 Maastricht University NL L CO VH 3 39.1 293 69.5 114 78.5 111 79.2 72 91.8 80 99.9 14 64.4
108 100 University of Alberta CA XL FC VH 5 71.6 118 46.6 217 58.1 199 52.8 203 90.8 87 71.0 146 64.2
109 115 University of Groningen NL L FC VH 5 62.4 146 43.2 240 72.4 131 56.6 177 89.9 91 79.1 108 64.2
110 96 University of York GB L FC HI 3 69.2 130 69.5 112 48.7 260 52.2 206 84.5 120 81.4 99 63.8
111 108 University of Oslo NO L FC VH 5 69.9 127 38.1 283 73.6 126 62.6 140 30.0 301+ 51.4 228 63.7
112 129 Yonsei University KR L FC VH 5 80.0 83 65.3 140 83.7 94 25.5 301+ 12.6 301+ 38.0 301+ 63.5
113 99 Dartmouth College US M FC VH 5 41.3 271 67.3 124 85.6 87 97.3 27 10.6 301+ 49.8 237 63.5
114 137 Université de Montréal CA XL FC VH 5 69.3 129 37.9 285 38.5 301+ 76.2 85 83.4 126 84.1 88 63.5
115 136 University of Lausanne CH M CO VH 5 48.0 222 26.8 301+ 64.3 165 90.0 48 92.4 75 87.2 80 62.4
116 112 Lomonosov Moscow State University RU XL FC VH 5 77.1 95 71.6 99 100.0 12 5.3 301+ 6.0 301+ 36.1 301+ 61.8
117 113 University of Maryland, College Park US XL FC VH 5 66.4 136 39.5 268 60.9 177 73.4 97 37.7 282 31.7 301+ 61.5
118 118 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) US L CO VH 5 76.6 97 27.2 301+ 14.5 301+ 99.8 10 60.9 190 29.1 301+ 61.3
119 149 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen DE L FC VH 5 70.6 123 27.3 301+ 77.9 113 48.6 227 42.4 260 37.6 301+ 60.9
120 117 Rice University US M FC VH 5 46.5 234 26.3 301+ 71.5 139 93.1 40 48.3 242 71.6 143 60.8
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121 151 University of Basel CH L FC VH 5 51.6 201 31.2 301+ 75.0 121 60.2 154 100.0 14 82.5 95 60.5
122 114 Emory University US L FC VH 5 38.7 295 40.4 259 86.8 83 98.8 18 18.1 301+ 45.7 263 60.4
123 126 University of Virginia US L FC VH 5 52.4 194 70.7 104 66.2 155 75.3 91 29.3 301+ 39.9 293 60.4
124 123 University of Liverpool GB L FC VH 5 54.8 182 66.6 131 60.6 180 55.0 186 80.9 134 73.4 134 60.0
125 124 Shanghai Jiao Tong University CN XL FC VH 5 80.0 84 82.3 57 42.4 301+ 43.3 258 20.6 301+ 17.5 301+ 59.9
126 127 Newcastle University GB L FC VH 4 45.8 236 73.8 91 61.8 176 62.1 144 82.3 130 90.5 69 59.7
127 125 Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) BE L FC HI 5 70.4 126 55.8 175 30.1 301+ 60.9 149 74.2 155 67.8 159 59.7
128 122 Kyushu University JP L FC VH 5 59.8 157 67.3 123 97.7 42 34.6 301+ 15.3 301+ 22.3 301+ 59.6
129 119 Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) FR L CO VH 5 63.6 144 27.7 301+ 58.7 195 70.2 108 32.8 301+ 67.0 164 59.6
130 132 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DE L FC HI 5 94.3 46 37.1 291 29.2 301+ 34.2 301+ 46.4 248 47.1 253 59.4
131 134 University College Dublin (UCD) IE L FC VH 5 59.8 156 68.6 119 53.1 231 38.5 289 92.4 74 94.6 47 59.1
132 150 Technical University of Denmark DK M FO VH 5 38.6 296 36.3 298 97.3 44 57.9 168 93.1 70 73.4 133 59.0
133 130 University of Otago NZ L FC HI 5 65.8 137 60.2 165 31.0 301+ 54.0 198 100.0 9 79.8 105 58.9
134 107 University of Southern California US XL FC VH 5 59.2 160 45.5 224 64.0 167 62.9 139 20.4 301+ 71.4 144 58.8
135 128 University of Rochester US M FC VH 5 40.1 282 12.5 301+ 100.0 16 73.7 96 43.1 258 78.5 111 58.7
136 138 Radboud University Nijmegen NL L FC VH 4 41.2 272 39.8 264 84.9 90 76.9 81 68.5 178 33.6 301+ 58.5
137 190 Korea University KR L FC VH 5 76.4 101 57.4 172 70.4 141 22.3 301+ 23.8 301+ 34.7 301+ 58.4
138 139 Hokkaido University JP L FC VH 5 56.6 173 64.7 144 80.3 105 54.7 191 13.9 301+ 18.1 301+ 58.3
139 169= Universidade de São Paulo (USP) BR XL FC VH 4 86.8 65 76.2 80 37.9 301+ 33.6 301+ 11.3 301+ 5.3 301+ 58.1
140 120 Hebrew University of Jerusalem IL L FC VH 4 60.9 151 25.0 301+ 76.2 118 67.6 122 26.2 301+ 9.6 301+ 58.0
141 147 KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie DE L CO VH 4 55.4 179 76.5 78 83.1 96 25.6 301+ 55.8 212 58.6 196 57.9
142 180 KTH, Royal Institute of Technology SE L CO VH 5 55.3 180 63.5 150 63.7 168 38.1 294 74.4 153 91.0 64 57.7
143 135 Cardif University GB L FC VH 5 54.5 183 64.4 145 56.1 211 51.6 208 71.7 164 71.0 147 57.5
144 152 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen DE L FC VH 5 57.0 170 40.6 257 80.7 104 46.3 242 49.9 238 40.2 289 57.4
145 121 University of Bergen NO L FC VH 4 47.7 227 29.1 301+ 59.7 189 81.5 64 87.9 103 36.4 301+ 57.0
146 169= Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) MX XL FC VH 5 89.6 61 67.0 126 56.3 210 4.9 301+ 23.2 301+ 5.0 301+ 56.8
147 172 Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) GB L FC VH 5 57.0 169 38.8 277 67.4 151 33.2 301+ 98.5 36 88.8 74 56.7
148 165 University of Ghent BE L FC VH 5 59.3 159 47.6 212 77.2 116 43.3 259 39.8 273 28.1 301+ 56.6
149 143 University of Bern CH L CO VH 5 37.5 301+ 29.5 301+ 77.6 114 76.4 84 98.4 39 45.1 267 56.5
150 140 Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen DE XL FC VH 5 66.9 134 86.7 43 47.0 278 32.9 301+ 32.1 301+ 54.8 207 56.3
151 154 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn DE L FC VH 5 66.7 135 24.3 301+ 72.8 129 41.9 267 18.2 301+ 55.7 206 56.3
152 159 McMaster University CA L FC VH 5 57.2 167 35.4 301+ 30.5 301+ 84.7 59 67.2 181 54.2 212 56.1
153 133 Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon FR S CO VH 5 55.7 176 9.9 301+ 100.0 7 35.7 301+ 55.1 217 47.1 252 56.1
154 156 University of Cape Town ZA L FC HI 5 60.1 155 65.3 141 33.7 301+ 55.8 181 69.7 171 63.5 181 55.7
155 148 University of California, Irvine (UCI) US L FC VH 3 61.8 147 25.8 301+ 25.9 301+ 97.6 24 33.9 298 27.8 301+ 55.7
156 167 Universiti Malaya (UM) MY L FC HI 5 61.1 149 54.4 179 83.4 95 5.6 301+ 77.4 145 70.2 151 55.6
157 142 University of Colorado at Boulder US L CO VH 5 48.7 215 61.4 161 60.0 185 78.5 73 21.3 301+ 10.8 301+ 55.5
158 146 Eindhoven University of Technology NL M FO VH 4 44.1 248 38.2 282 99.6 25 33.0 301+ 98.0 42 28.7 301+ 54.9
159 177 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK L CO VH 2 60.9 150 39.2 273 48.4 264 33.5 301+ 99.9 26 88.2 76 54.6
160 155 Universität Wien AT XL FC HI 5 79.0 87 46.1 219 15.7 301+ 33.1 301+ 70.5 169 91.0 63 54.6
161 175 Wageningen University NL M FO VH 4 44.2 246 27.0 301+ 100.0 11 36.2 301+ 30.8 301+ 97.4 33 54.6
162 141 University of Aberdeen GB L FC HI 5 43.2 255 49.7 199 54.9 216 57.1 173 89.0 96 92.5 55 54.3
163 153 Lancaster University GB M FC VH 3 55.4 178 63.8 149 40.0 301+ 44.1 252 77.3 146 84.0 89 54.0
164 145 Case Western Reserve University US M FC VH 5 27.4 301+ 7.1 301+ 95.9 51 91.0 44 25.1 301+ 59.4 192 53.8
165 158 Texas A&M University US XL FC VH 5 64.9 142 62.3 156 19.6 301+ 72.8 101 20.2 301+ 29.6 301+ 53.7
166 193 Queen's University of Belfast GB L FC HI 5 45.4 240 73.0 93 53.5 227 40.2 281 97.7 44 78.1 115 53.5
167 131 Vanderbilt University US L FC VH 5 41.4 270 35.8 301+ 100.0 8 53.5 201 13.3 301+ 28.7 301+ 53.5
168 186= Nanjing University CN L FC VH 5 70.8 121 39.4 270 49.3 255 40.9 273 41.8 265 5.8 301+ 53.2
169 161 University of Florida US XL FC VH 5 60.7 152 40.9 252 44.8 300 65.9 128 11.8 301+ 25.7 301+ 52.9
170 191 Zhejiang University CN XL FC VH 5 70.5 125 59.5 167 29.5 301+ 55.1 184 16.3 301+ 6.9 301+ 52.8
171 178 Stockholm University SE L CO VH 5 74.2 108 48.8 204 36.3 301+ 35.6 301+ 39.2 275 23.8 301+ 52.6
172 196 Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) BE L FC HI 5 55.8 175 44.2 230 40.1 301+ 40.1 282 89.4 95 96.3 39 52.6
173 157 The University of Western Ontario CA L FC VH 5 49.3 212 66.1 134 28.2 301+ 76.9 82 56.2 208 38.0 301+ 52.6
174 164 Michigan State University US XL FC VH 5 58.1 164 67.3 125 28.9 301+ 54.1 196 60.0 194 43.9 275 52.3
175 144 Queen's University CA L FC VH 5 47.8 226 69.8 110 28.0 301+ 72.3 104 77.3 147 30.6 301+ 52.1
176 194 Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona ES L FC VH 3 75.1 105 30.1 301+ 37.1 301+ 41.2 271 22.8 301+ 31.9 301+ 52.0
177 179 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam NL L FC VH 5 65.0 141 49.3 201 44.5 301+ 41.9 266 45.2 255 16.9 301+ 51.8
178 168 University of Bath GB L CO VH 3 47.0 231 77.5 74 31.8 301+ 46.3 243 88.9 97 93.5 52 51.8
179 259 Sungkyunkwan University KR L FC VH 5 55.1 181 53.7 181 84.5 91 20.1 301+ 18.9 301+ 38.8 301+ 51.7
180 162 University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) US L FC VH 5 45.4 238 33.3 301+ 53.8 224 82.5 61 26.2 301+ 19.4 301+ 51.6
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181 174 Tufts University US M FC VH 5 27.4 301+ 23.6 301+ 60.5 181 96.0 35 92.9 71 34.9 301+ 51.5
182 207 University of Exeter GB L FC HI 4 47.2 229 65.9 137 32.4 301+ 50.2 217 88.3 100 89.0 73 51.4
183= 166 Georgetown University US L FC HI 5 48.1 220 67.9 122 53.3 229 46.1 245 47.6 246 46.8 255 51.2
183= 163 University of Arizona US XL FC VH 5 58.3 161 20.5 301+ 39.3 301+ 75.9 87 25.3 301+ 19.2 301+ 51.2
185 195 University of Leicester GB L FC HI 4 37.9 301+ 26.4 301+ 47.2 276 73.1 98 84.0 122 90.2 70 51.1
186 188= University of Science and Technology of China CN L CO VH 4 57.9 165 32.1 301+ 56.3 209 61.5 147 9.3 301+ 1.6 301+ 51.0
187 176 Universitat de Barcelona (UB) ES XL FC VH 5 77.5 92 40.4 258 30.3 301+ 38.7 287 8.7 301+ 21.8 301+ 50.9
188 197= University of Sussex GB M FC VH 4 51.9 200 25.5 301+ 31.6 301+ 57.9 169 92.4 76 85.2 85 50.6
189 204 Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) BE M FC VH 5 36.0 301+ 59.0 169 92.1 62 27.9 301+ 50.3 237 62.8 184 50.5
190 181 University College Cork (UCC) IE L FC HI 5 51.9 199 62.0 158 42.3 301+ 37.5 298 90.5 88 45.8 262 50.2
191 160 University of Waterloo CA L CO VH 4 56.1 174 71.5 101 20.8 301+ 48.2 231 80.1 136 45.6 264 50.2
192 213= National Tsing Hua University TW M CO VH 4 58.1 163 27.0 301+ 30.8 301+ 71.3 105 53.7 221 11.9 301+ 50.2
193 184 University of Gothenburg SE L FC VH 5 51.2 205 34.9 301+ 46.1 291 59.5 158 46.4 249 42.5 281 50.0
194 183 Università di Bologna (UNIBO) IT XL FC VH 5 80.2 82 56.4 173 19.9 301+ 30.1 301+ 12.4 301+ 18.4 301+ 49.8
195 250 Pontifcia Universidad Católica de Chile CL L FC HI 5 71.4 119 75.9 81 42.0 301+ 16.6 301+ 17.8 301+ 7.8 301+ 49.7
196 197= University of Antwerp BE L FC HI 3 35.6 301+ 32.5 301+ 98.0 39 31.0 301+ 64.3 185 49.7 239 49.5
197 200 King Saud University (KSU) SA XL FC HI 4 56.7 172 22.6 301+ 89.1 77 2.6 301+ 93.3 69 19.8 301+ 49.4
198 185 Waseda University JP XL CO VH 5 73.9 109 78.8 70 34.5 301+ 8.1 301+ 32.5 301+ 22.7 301+ 49.2
199 192 University of Iowa US L FC VH 5 44.3 244 20.9 301+ 53.9 222 75.5 90 28.3 301+ 31.5 301+ 49.2
200 188= Keio University JP XL FC HI 5 61.4 148 75.1 84 59.7 188 17.5 301+ 15.0 301+ 7.7 301+ 49.1
201= 171 Chulalongkorn University TH XL FC HI 4 79.0 88 66.3 132 36.8 301+ 8.4 301+ 24.0 301+ 2.8 301+ 49.1
201= 182 Universität Frankfurt am Main DE XL FC VH 4 57.2 168 45.5 223 40.0 301+ 46.2 244 23.1 301+ 55.8 204 49.1
203 186= University of Tsukuba JP L FC VH 3 50.1 207 22.3 301+ 89.2 75 31.4 301+ 14.6 301+ 27.2 301+ 49.0
204 199 University of Dundee GB M FC VH 5 34.3 301+ 23.9 301+ 68.0 150 57.4 171 82.8 128 61.8 186 48.9
205 203 Universität Hamburg DE XL FC VH 4 65.4 139 27.6 301+ 54.4 217 25.6 301+ 26.1 301+ 43.3 278 48.9
206 222 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ES L FC VH 3 68.8 133 47.7 210 29.2 301+ 43.8 254 11.1 301+ 17.0 301+ 48.8
207 205 Technische Universität Berlin DE L CO VH 5 63.1 145 52.4 186 46.7 284 14.5 301+ 35.5 291 68.6 157 48.4
208 221 King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals SA M FO VH 3 43.1 257 36.9 293 90.0 70 5.8 301+ 100.0 6 56.0 202 48.4
209 173 Tel Aviv University IL L FC VH 4 51.4 203 24.9 301+ 14.5 301+ 99.1 16 30.8 301+ 8.2 301+ 48.2
210 216 Indiana University Bloomington US XL FC VH 5 58.2 162 54.1 180 29.7 301+ 48.4 229 14.3 301+ 52.7 223 48.2
211 224 University of Turku FI L FC HI 4 41.0 274 48.9 203 78.4 112 43.8 253 26.3 301+ 9.5 301+ 48.0
212 218= Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) IN M CO VH 4 53.4 187 79.4 68 35.4 301+ 54.1 195 1.3 301+ 1.6 301+ 47.8
213 201 Sciences Po Paris FR M SP 5 35.6 301+ 74.8 88 89.4 73 1.5 301+ 52.2 228 96.3 41 47.8
214 218= University of Calgary CA L FC VH 3 49.9 208 40.7 254 15.2 301+ 80.9 67 33.0 300 48.3 246 47.8
215 215 University of Reading GB M CO VH 5 44.1 249 34.4 301+ 50.9 246 38.4 290 84.3 121 80.1 104 47.6
216 210 Sapienza - Università di Roma IT XL FC VH 5 78.8 89 42.9 242 9.4 301+ 40.6 277 5.3 301+ 20.7 301+ 47.6
217 206 Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) FR L SP 5 83.6 72 60.7 163 15.7 301+ 1.4 301+ 6.9 301+ 72.2 140 47.4
218= 213= Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne FR XL FO HI 5 76.5 99 77.7 73 10.2 301+ 4.1 301+ 32.7 301+ 74.9 126 47.1
218= 208 Université Paris-Sud 11 FR L CO VH 5 41.6 266 18.3 301+ 58.9 192 55.1 185 41.9 263 64.9 173 47.1
220 220 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology IL L FC VH 4 44.8 242 24.1 301+ 38.6 301+ 78.5 74 49.3 240 6.8 301+ 47.0
221 212 University of Canterbury NZ L CO HI 5 52.0 198 63.4 151 20.9 301+ 33.4 301+ 100.0 18 70.8 148 47.0
222 232 Aalto University FI L SP 5 40.0 284 45.5 222 95.9 50 15.5 301+ 49.3 241 24.8 301+ 47.0
223 202 Chalmers University of Technology SE M CO VH 5 42.5 261 61.3 162 45.1 297 42.3 264 61.3 188 50.1 235 46.7
224 226 University of Twente NL M FO VH 4 40.6 277 30.4 301+ 45.7 294 49.7 220 77.5 144 74.8 127 46.5
225 262 Universidad de Chile CL XL FC HI 5 75.1 104 66.1 135 21.0 301+ 20.7 301+ 11.1 301+ 6.3 301+ 46.3
226 253 Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) ES XL FC VH 5 73.6 112 62.1 157 27.3 301+ 15.1 301+ 4.8 301+ 27.6 301+ 46.2
227 225 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) IN M CO VH 4 59.5 158 82.7 55 28.9 301+ 38.2 293 3.2 301+ 1.2 301+ 46.2
228 235 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) BR L FC VH 3 65.1 140 44.9 227 35.5 301+ 31.1 301+ 26.3 301+ 7.2 301+ 46.0
229 209 Universität Stuttgart DE L CO VH 5 43.1 258 50.5 195 72.0 138 13.9 301+ 37.2 283 71.3 145 45.4
230 270= Universidad de Buenos Aires AR XL FC HI 5 81.3 78 81.9 60 13.8 301+ 5.2 301+ 6.3 301+ 45.3
231 230 University of Miami US L FC VH 4 26.4 301+ 18.0 301+ 90.9 66 54.7 190 28.2 301+ 35.8 301+ 45.1
232 227 Université de Strasbourg FR XL FC HI 5 69.1 131 21.5 301+ 18.6 301+ 30.4 301+ 27.2 301+ 67.7 160 44.8
233 211 Macquarie University AU L FC HI 3 47.4 228 71.2 102 13.5 301+ 28.2 301+ 98.5 37 98.2 26 44.7
234 238 Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 FR L FC VH 5 60.3 154 34.0 301+ 42.8 261 40.2 271 49.4 241 44.4
235 223 University of Notre Dame US M CO VH 5 35.9 301+ 66.8 129 44.3 301+ 63.3 136 10.5 301+ 17.1 301+ 44.4
236 261 University of East Anglia (UEA) GB L FC HI 3 40.2 280 26.7 301+ 41.2 301+ 44.7 248 81.4 132 78.1 114 44.4
237 237 Victoria University of Wellington NZ L CO HI 5 52.9 190 63.0 154 18.8 301+ 18.0 301+ 100.0 18 78.6 110 44.2
238 306= National Chiao Tung University TW M CO VH 5 35.4 301+ 23.0 301+ 49.6 251 58.2 166 58.9 199 47.8 250 43.8
239 274 University of Liege BE L FC HI 5 34.8 301+ 30.7 301+ 46.2 290 59.8 156 31.2 301+ 67.7 161 43.6
240 256= University of Ottawa CA XL FC VH 5 41.0 273 23.6 301+ 14.3 301+ 76.0 86 87.1 104 36.8 301+ 43.5
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241 252 Yeshiva University US M FC VH 5 6.1 301+ 4.1 301+ 97.4 43 89.0 51 1.8 301+ 48.7 245 43.1
242 264 Loughborough University GB L FO VH 3 37.5 301+ 71.8 98 39.2 301+ 22.4 301+ 88.3 101 71.9 142 43.0
243 234 Dalhousie University CA L FC HI 5 35.0 301+ 24.7 301+ 33.1 301+ 68.6 118 77.9 143 35.1 301+ 42.9
244 277= Politecnico di Milano IT L SP 5 56.8 171 83.0 54 18.2 301+ 23.1 301+ 22.2 301+ 41.1 285 42.9
245 280 Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster DE XL FC HI 5 48.6 217 39.3 272 53.5 226 30.1 301+ 24.6 301+ 21.0 301+ 42.8
246 228 RMIT University AU XL CO HI 2 46.9 233 77.2 75 21.7 301+ 7.7 301+ 100.0 18 100.0 8 42.8
247 247= Universität Köln DE XL FC HI 5 51.4 204 52.9 183 18.3 301+ 47.4 237 29.8 301+ 37.3 301+ 42.8
248 254 Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 FR L CO VH 5 44.9 241 24.2 301+ 42.3 301+ 50.9 213 18.6 301+ 46.5 258 42.7
249 314 Hanyang University KR L FC VH 4 37.2 301+ 31.2 301+ 88.0 80 13.7 301+ 24.8 301+ 49.0 244 42.5
250 300= American University of Beirut (AUB) LB M FC HI 5 25.8 301+ 59.3 168 65.8 159 17.3 301+ 88.6 98 89.7 72 42.2
251 233 Universität Ulm DE M CO VH 3 14.4 301+ 27.3 301+ 96.2 48 56.2 178 29.7 301+ 25.9 301+ 42.2
252 300= Beijing Normal University CN L CO VH 5 53.9 185 28.1 301+ 47.4 275 16.7 301+ 71.0 166 15.8 301+ 42.0
253 251 Saint-Petersburg State University RU L FC HI 5 43.6 252 26.7 301+ 97.8 41 3.5 301+ 3.2 301+ 18.5 301+ 41.9
254 270= University of Strathclyde GB L CO VH 5 43.1 256 53.2 182 35.8 301+ 25.4 301+ 81.3 133 50.4 233 41.8
255 229 Mahidol University TH L FC HI 4 48.6 216 21.9 301+ 82.0 101 10.8 301+ 12.9 301+ 7.5 301+ 41.6
256= 275 Università degli Studi di Milano IT XL FC VH 4 55.5 177 37.8 286 16.7 301+ 53.4 202 12.2 301+ 10.7 301+ 41.6
256= 288 University of Utah US L FC VH 5 23.5 301+ 22.3 301+ 57.1 204 77.0 80 28.4 301+ 25.5 301+ 41.6
258 258 Curtin University AU XL CO VH 3 41.5 268 65.1 142 27.3 301+ 12.6 301+ 100.0 13 99.8 15 41.5
259 241 University of Surrey GB L CO VH 5 34.4 301+ 48.3 209 34.0 301+ 30.7 301+ 92.2 77 96.0 44 41.4
260 236 Rutgers - New Brunswick US XL CO VH 5 49.2 214 22.6 301+ 35.4 301+ 48.0 236 27.1 301+ 18.4 301+ 41.3
261 279 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) MY L FC HI 3 48.0 223 26.6 301+ 57.6 200 4.2 301+ 85.9 113 45.8 261 41.2
262 304 University of Oulu FI M FC VH 4 27.9 301+ 19.8 301+ 91.2 65 32.3 301+ 41.1 267 18.0 301+ 41.2
263 244 Universität Mannheim DE M FO VH 5 25.4 301+ 75.0 86 12.5 301+ 91.9 43 3.0 301+ 40.3 288 41.1
264 269 University of Wollongong AU L FC HI 3 29.5 301+ 73.4 92 35.7 301+ 26.5 301+ 99.5 30 82.8 94 41.1
265 283 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel DE L FC VH 5 34.8 301+ 24.2 301+ 21.0 301+ 81.0 66 56.6 205 22.3 301+ 41.1
266 308 Universitat Pompeu Fabra ES M CO VH 2 39.6 289 28.2 301+ 51.2 241 25.8 301+ 91.6 81 40.5 287 41.1
267 293 Royal Holloway University of London GB M CO VH 5 33.9 301+ 30.8 301+ 36.5 301+ 35.9 301+ 94.8 60 95.8 46 41.1
268 291 University of Newcastle AU L FC HI 3 47.9 225 39.5 266 18.4 301+ 28.7 301+ 92.2 78 68.8 155 41.0
269 239 Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg DE XL FC VH 5 36.4 301+ 21.6 301+ 48.7 259 54.7 188 39.7 274 23.1 301+ 41.0
270 245 Kyung Hee University KR L FC HI 4 32.4 301+ 60.1 166 82.5 98 8.9 301+ 19.2 301+ 46.3 260 40.9
271= 243 Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) HK M FC HI 2 27.0 301+ 36.1 300 69.4 144 22.5 301+ 88.4 99 65.2 172 40.9
271= 285= National Cheng Kung University TW L FC VH 4 45.5 237 27.3 301+ 42.6 301+ 40.8 274 35.9 288 21.2 301+ 40.9
273 217 University of Indonesia ID XL FC MD 5 52.8 191 64.4 146 54.2 220 1.5 301+ 28.4 301+ 4.2 301+ 40.7
274 231 Technische Universität Wien AT L FO VH 5 43.6 253 52.7 184 26.6 301+ 24.1 301+ 56.6 204 89.7 71 40.6
275 240 Technische Universität Darmstadt DE L FO VH 5 30.4 301+ 66.2 133 48.5 263 26.0 301+ 59.9 196 66.1 168 40.4
276 290 Universität Innsbruck AT L FC HI 5 48.1 221 24.1 301+ 15.9 301+ 28.1 301+ 92.2 79 98.1 27 40.4
277 282 Tokyo Medical and Dental University JP S FO VH 4 12.3 301+ 6.6 301+ 100.0 15 65.1 130 6.9 301+ 19.7 301+ 40.3
278 306= Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) IN M CO VH 4 44.1 247 50.6 194 28.2 301+ 57.2 172 1.5 301+ 1.1 301+ 40.3
279 297 Universität Konstanz DE M CO VH 3 42.4 262 29.7 301+ 48.6 261 27.3 301+ 56.0 211 39.8 295 40.3
280 249 Hiroshima University JP L FC VH 4 36.5 301+ 21.7 301+ 82.4 99 27.4 301+ 6.9 301+ 16.1 301+ 40.3
281 267 Queensland University of Technology (QUT) AU L CO VH 2 44.0 251 65.6 138 21.9 301+ 20.1 301+ 85.0 118 59.8 191 40.2
282 260 Simon Fraser University CA L CO VH 3 37.3 301+ 34.1 301+ 11.9 301+ 55.1 183 95.0 59 64.4 175 40.1
283 295 University of Hawaii at Mānoa US L FC VH 5 25.0 301+ 1.0 301+ 58.5 198 62.5 141 56.5 207 51.2 230 40.1
284 268 University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) AU L CO VH 2 41.6 267 69.3 116 21.8 301+ 12.7 301+ 93.4 68 88.6 75 40.0
285 302 National Yang Ming University TW S FC VH 3 17.1 301+ 25.4 301+ 98.5 34 46.4 240 12.3 301+ 11.4 301+ 40.0
286 276 Charles University CZ XL FC VH 5 51.5 202 36.6 296 43.1 301+ 17.6 301+ 13.6 301+ 47.8 249 39.9
287 298 National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) IE L FC HI 5 32.6 301+ 43.8 233 51.5 239 20.4 301+ 93.6 67 59.3 193 39.9
288 340 Technische Universität Dresden DE L FC VH 5 42.8 260 39.4 271 38.7 301+ 36.8 301+ 29.1 301+ 33.7 301+ 39.7
289 266 Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO L FC VH 5 37.8 301+ 29.8 301+ 46.4 287 36.8 301+ 61.0 189 29.6 301+ 39.7
290 255 University of Massachusetts, Amherst US L CO VH 5 48.0 224 27.7 301+ 26.2 301+ 52.3 205 12.2 301+ 15.0 301+ 39.4
291 277= North Carolina State University US L CO VH 5 32.4 301+ 40.4 260 27.9 301+ 72.8 100 10.5 301+ 26.8 301+ 39.4
292 246 Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg DE L FC VH 5 26.2 301+ 17.1 301+ 51.0 243 69.7 112 35.6 290 16.7 301+ 39.3
293 256= University of South Australia (UniSA) AU L CO VH 2 38.3 299 49.9 198 36.3 301+ 12.5 301+ 100.0 2 75.8 122 39.3
294 303 SOAS - University of London GB S SP 4 39.1 291 26.5 301+ 49.4 253 2.9 301+ 99.8 27 100.0 9 39.1
295 247= Kobe University JP L FC HI 4 38.2 300 43.6 234 62.2 174 26.9 301+ 8.9 301+ 16.5 301+ 39.1
296 294 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute US M CO VH 5 21.4 301+ 25.3 301+ 34.4 301+ 89.6 49 11.5 301+ 44.1 273 39.1
297 273 Umeå University SE L FC HI 3 32.8 301+ 18.4 301+ 51.0 244 48.5 228 69.0 174 6.0 301+ 39.0
298 263 Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD) IT XL FC VH 5 53.5 186 30.3 301+ 17.0 301+ 50.1 218 3.7 301+ 11.1 301+ 39.0
299 292 University of Victoria CA L CO VH 3 30.6 301+ 28.9 301+ 14.6 301+ 72.7 102 91.3 82 27.5 301+ 38.9
300 242 Stony Brook University US L FC VH 4 29.3 301+ 3.9 301+ 41.9 301+ 63.2 137 53.6 222 54.2 211 38.9
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301 285= École des Ponts ParisTech FR S FO HI 5 17.6 301+ 51.3 192 100.0 5 4.8 301+ 30.9 301+ 76.7 119 38.9
302 305 University of Eastern Finland FI M CO VH 3 19.8 301+ 26.5 301+ 79.4 110 49.1 224 31.9 301+ 12.3 301+ 38.9
303 325 University of California, Riverside (UCR) US L FC HI 4 30.0 301+ 12.9 301+ 19.1 301+ 83.6 60 52.6 225 35.2 301+ 38.6
304 313 University of Tromso NO M FC HI 3 20.4 301+ 5.8 301+ 98.6 33 29.4 301+ 44.7 256 31.3 301+ 38.5
305 388 Pontifcal Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) AR L FC LO 4 48.2 219 58.8 170 56.6 207 1.2 301+ 28.2 301+ 38.5
306= 320 Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) MX L FC MD 4 41.0 275 74.9 87 52.1 237 2.9 301+ 34.8 292 29.7 301+ 38.5
306= 309 Université Bordeaux 1, Sciences Technologies FR M FO VH 5 32.0 301+ 27.7 301+ 52.7 233 37.4 300 36.0 287 54.6 210 38.5
308 329= Massey University NZ L CO VH 4 41.8 265 36.4 297 32.5 301+ 20.6 301+ 95.5 56 41.0 286 38.2
309= 284 Tulane University US M FC VH 5 19.3 301+ 21.5 301+ 66.2 156 59.0 161 23.4 301+ 33.8 301+ 38.2
309= 310 University of Jyväskylä FI M CO VH 4 30.0 301+ 23.1 301+ 92.6 59 13.9 301+ 31.9 301+ 11.3 301+ 38.2
311 287 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) US L CO VH 3 39.1 292 18.2 301+ 90.1 46 3.8 301+ 4.5 301+ 38.1
312 281 Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) IN M CO VH 4 40.0 283 73.0 94 30.9 301+ 40.3 279 2.1 301+ 1.2 301+ 38.1
313 337 University at Bufalo SUNY US L FC VH 5 29.9 301+ 8.2 301+ 18.7 301+ 86.4 57 9.2 301+ 68.3 158 38.1
314 322 Università di Pisa IT XL FC HI 5 52.7 192 27.4 301+ 7.7 301+ 54.7 189 12.7 301+ 10.4 301+ 37.8
315 319 Université Paris Descartes FR L FC VH 5 32.1 301+ 20.3 301+ 26.5 301+ 64.6 131 7.5 301+ 75.9 121 37.6
316 321 Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz DE XL FC HI 5 37.4 301+ 18.0 301+ 13.0 301+ 70.8 106 34.6 293 39.0 300 37.6
317 272 Wake Forest University US M FC VH 5 5.5 301+ 99.7 24 67.0 124 13.0 301+ 15.9 301+ 37.4
318 311 University of Southern Denmark DK L FO VH 3 25.8 301+ 27.5 301+ 57.3 202 34.2 301+ 49.4 239 61.2 187 37.3
319 289 Iowa State University US L CO VH 5 30.2 301+ 28.4 301+ 29.6 301+ 60.2 152 42.4 261 37.3 301+ 37.2
320 333 Universität Leipzig DE L FC VH 5 37.0 301+ 19.9 301+ 16.4 301+ 69.4 113 14.6 301+ 31.9 301+ 36.7
321 315 University of Essex GB M CO VH 3 34.0 301+ 16.7 301+ 32.2 301+ 23.3 301+ 98.2 40 99.5 20 36.6
322 265 Tokyo University of Science JP L FO VH 4 40.5 278 27.5 301+ 6.7 301+ 77.6 76 2.5 301+ 36.3
323 373= Taipei Medical University TW M FO VH 4 28.9 301+ 23.5 301+ 47.9 269 50.1 219 30.5 301+ 17.5 301+ 36.3
324= 326= Dublin City University (DCU) IE M CO VH 2 23.8 301+ 62.9 155 41.0 301+ 20.4 301+ 86.1 110 64.2 176 36.0
324= 316 Laval University CA XL FC HI 5 32.7 301+ 18.6 301+ 22.8 301+ 64.5 133 23.9 301+ 40.2 290 36.0
326 335 Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) MY L FC HI 4 52.5 193 29.7 301+ 28.0 301+ 10.0 301+ 26.3 301+ 53.1 220 35.9
327= 356 City University London GB L CO HI 5 31.3 301+ 54.5 178 28.2 301+ 14.3 301+ 83.6 125 97.6 32 35.9
327= 353 Universidad Austral AR S CO MD 2 26.4 301+ 47.3 215 89.6 72 3.2 301+ 9.7 301+ 23.8 301+ 35.9
329 349 Boston College US L CO HI 5 32.0 301+ 39.1 275 30.1 301+ 27.4 301+ 91.2 83 54.1 213 35.8
330 336 Arizona State University US XL CO VH 5 47.2 230 26.1 301+ 13.1 301+ 48.4 230 13.2 301+ 18.3 301+ 35.7
331 351 Brunel University GB L CO VH 3 25.2 301+ 47.6 213 24.1 301+ 32.4 301+ 94.6 61 87.7 79 35.6
332 318 Brandeis University US M CO HI 4 20.5 301+ 13.4 301+ 38.0 301+ 66.2 125 20.8 301+ 74.9 125 35.5
333 381 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro BR XL FC VH 4 52.4 195 22.9 301+ 40.4 301+ 15.6 301+ 7.8 301+ 3.9 301+ 35.4
334 370 King Abdul Aziz University (KAU) SA XL FC MD 3 38.6 297 19.8 301+ 57.1 203 1.7 301+ 72.7 159 44.2 271 35.4
335 401-450 Universidad de Los Andes Colombia CO L FC MD 4 49.9 209 56.3 174 26.9 301+ 9.3 301+ 38.3 280 5.1 301+ 35.4
336 380 Universitá degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata IT XL CO VH 3 49.7 210 23.0 301+ 9.3 301+ 50.3 216 3.2 301+ 13.8 301+ 35.3
337 326= Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) US XL FC VH 5 37.5 301+ 40.2 261 34.1 301+ 33.1 301+ 25.8 301+ 21.9 301+ 35.2
338 331 Ruhr-Universität Bochum DE XL FC HI 4 33.4 301+ 27.4 301+ 39.4 301+ 31.0 301+ 40.6 270 52.1 226 35.2
339 296 George Washington University US L FC HI 5 37.1 301+ 34.6 301+ 36.2 301+ 36.8 301+ 2.5 301+ 35.1 301+ 35.1
340 401-450 Linköping University SE L CO VH 3 34.0 301+ 36.6 295 38.0 301+ 36.8 301+ 38.4 279 10.6 301+ 35.0
341 344 Ewha Womans University KR L FC HI 5 40.1 281 29.2 301+ 50.0 250 14.3 301+ 21.6 301+ 33.8 301+ 34.9
342 299 Flinders University AU L FC HI 3 27.7 301+ 24.8 301+ 67.1 152 17.9 301+ 13.8 301+ 63.9 177 34.8
343 347 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ES L FO VH 2 38.1 301+ 44.1 231 49.1 256 5.2 301+ 47.4 247 27.0 301+ 34.6
344 324 Université Paris Dauphine FR M SP 3 33.6 301+ 88.6 40 22.6 301+ 5.3 301+ 34.3 295 92.5 56 34.6
345 334 Aston University GB M CO VH 3 21.3 301+ 65.5 139 24.5 301+ 23.9 301+ 94.4 62 93.9 49 34.5
346= 367 Universität Bremen DE L CO VH 3 37.8 301+ 22.9 301+ 43.6 301+ 24.9 301+ 20.5 301+ 39.6 297 34.5
346= 350 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 FR XL FC HI 5 38.7 294 28.9 301+ 27.2 301+ 38.7 286 10.1 301+ 41.1 283 34.5
348 332 University of the Philippines PH XL FC MD 5 49.2 213 63.2 152 37.3 301+ 2.3 301+ 1.0 301+ 2.7 301+ 34.5
349 341 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP) IN M FO VH 4 34.6 301+ 42.3 247 32.7 301+ 47.1 238 1.1 301+ 34.4
350 373= Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ES L CO VH 3 34.0 301+ 21.9 301+ 64.7 164 11.8 301+ 14.1 301+ 43.7 276 34.3
351 345 Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III FR L CO VH 5 40.0 285 54.3 219 18.8 301+ 30.9 301+ 32.7 301+ 34.2
352= 362 Aalborg University DK L FC HI 5 26.6 301+ 43.6 235 42.1 301+ 21.6 301+ 73.6 158 47.3 251 34.1
352= 379 Bauman Moscow State Technical University RU L FO HI 5 22.2 301+ 42.7 246 99.9 18 1.0 301+ 1.0 301+ 8.1 301+ 34.1
354 - Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies KR L CO MD 4 19.6 301+ 70.3 106 71.0 140 1.7 301+ 51.0 232 36.2 301+ 34.1
355 312 Universität Düsseldorf DE L FC HI 3 20.0 301+ 22.7 301+ 39.8 301+ 65.7 129 8.5 301+ 39.3 299 34.1
356 354 Washington State University US L FC HI 5 32.0 301+ 28.0 301+ 32.2 301+ 34.6 301+ 72.6 160 20.3 301+ 34.0
357 343 University of Tasmania AU L CO VH 5 27.7 301+ 27.4 301+ 38.3 301+ 24.7 301+ 51.9 230 87.8 77 33.8
358 401-450 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) MY L CO VH 5 34.1 301+ 29.7 301+ 58.7 196 2.5 301+ 17.1 301+ 72.1 141 33.7
359 375 Universidad de Navarra ES M FC VH 4 22.2 301+ 35.3 301+ 60.1 184 24.7 301+ 27.5 301+ 51.1 231 33.6
360 358 Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) MY L FC HI 3 41.4 269 29.3 301+ 50.4 247 4.2 301+ 17.4 301+ 40.0 291 33.6
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361 382 Xi'an Jiaotong University CN L FC VH 5 29.9 301+ 40.6 255 69.8 143 11.7 301+ 6.9 301+ 10.2 301+ 33.5
362 352 James Cook University (JCU) AU M FC VH 3 21.7 301+ 23.4 301+ 30.4 301+ 44.2 249 93.8 64 50.4 234 33.5
363 399 University of The Witwatersrand ZA L FC HI 5 37.2 301+ 30.6 301+ 19.3 301+ 29.9 301+ 74.6 152 28.9 301+ 33.3
364 328 Universität des Saarlandes DE L FC HI 4 22.4 301+ 34.7 301+ 58.6 164 45.6 251 60.8 189 33.3
365 363 Colorado State University US L CO VH 5 24.7 301+ 36.8 294 11.9 301+ 80.7 68 6.4 301+ 9.7 301+ 33.2
366 365 University of Connecticut US L FC VH 5 20.5 301+ 20.3 301+ 31.5 301+ 62.0 146 59.3 197 18.2 301+ 33.1
367 389 Moscow State Institute of International Relations RU M FO LO 4 16.0 301+ 32.3 301+ 98.4 35 1.0 301+ 7.3 301+ 56.4 198 33.0
368 346 Grifth University AU XL FC HI 3 29.6 301+ 39.8 263 23.3 301+ 15.8 301+ 89.9 93 90.8 65 33.0
369 401-450 L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University KZ L CO LO 2 24.3 301+ 17.7 301+ 99.3 28 1.0 301+ 15.3 301+ 6.9 301+ 33.0
370 338 United Arab Emirates University AE L FC MD 3 29.1 301+ 23.8 301+ 35.9 301+ 10.4 301+ 100.0 1 87.0 81 33.0
371 400 Novosibirsk State University RU M FC HI 4 26.7 301+ 22.6 301+ 89.1 79 4.0 301+ 4.1 301+ 16.9 301+ 32.9
372 348 Universität Regensburg DE L CO VH 4 19.1 301+ 16.9 301+ 60.2 183 43.8 256 34.6 294 14.4 301+ 32.9
373 366 Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz AT L FO VH 5 40.2 279 18.1 301+ 16.2 301+ 34.1 301+ 59.0 198 32.8 301+ 32.9
374 357 University of Waikato NZ M CO HI 3 28.8 301+ 36.9 292 27.2 301+ 14.9 301+ 96.0 52 81.6 98 32.8
375 317 La Trobe University AU L CO VH 3 35.6 301+ 26.8 301+ 21.6 301+ 15.8 301+ 83.9 123 77.1 118 32.8
376 376 Universität Jena DE L FC HI 5 29.1 301+ 17.1 301+ 42.6 301+ 43.0 260 17.9 301+ 18.4 301+ 32.6
377 385 Ben Gurion University of The Negev IL L FC HI 3 30.1 301+ 8.6 301+ 47.6 272 31.0 301+ 67.1 182 5.7 301+ 32.6
378 329= Université Montpellier 2, Sciences et Techniques FR L FO VH 5 26.9 301+ 3.1 301+ 43.8 301+ 46.4 241 17.1 301+ 44.2 272 32.5
379 369 Birkbeck College, University of London GB M FO VH 5 35.4 301+ 15.0 301+ 20.1 301+ 31.2 301+ 92.5 73 32.3 301+ 32.5
380 - Bond University AU S FC HI 2 11.9 301+ 43.5 236 63.7 169 6.3 301+ 86.0 111 93.8 50 32.4
381= 323 Chiba University JP L FC HI 5 24.7 301+ 9.4 301+ 66.1 157 32.6 301+ 6.8 301+ 18.0 301+ 32.1
381= 451-500 Universidad Nacional de Colombia CO XL FC HI 5 52.3 196 55.4 176 19.2 301+ 4.3 301+ 11.4 301+ 1.5 301+ 32.1
383 401-450 University of Kent GB L CO HI 3 30.6 301+ 21.4 301+ 33.1 301+ 12.7 301+ 90.9 86 72.8 138 32.1
384 355 Universität Bielefeld DE L CO HI 3 36.3 301+ 28.9 301+ 19.5 301+ 42.7 263 13.7 301+ 23.2 301+ 32.0
385= 394 University of Coimbra PT L FC HI 5 42.2 264 19.8 301+ 22.0 301+ 27.6 301+ 12.8 301+ 44.7 269 32.0
385= 371 University of Missouri, Columbia US L FC VH 5 21.5 301+ 23.9 301+ 46.7 283 41.2 272 48.3 243 13.5 301+ 32.0
387 386 The University of Georgia US XL FC VH 5 31.9 301+ 31.1 301+ 27.3 301+ 48.2 232 2.1 301+ 10.1 301+ 31.9
388 401-450 Heriot-Watt University GB M CO VH 3 17.7 301+ 30.4 301+ 29.6 301+ 29.7 301+ 94.1 63 97.2 36 31.9
389 339 University of Cincinnati US XL FC VH 5 16.7 301+ 19.6 301+ 46.3 289 58.7 163 20.7 301+ 16.1 301+ 31.8
390 401-450 Al-Farabi Kazakh National University KZ L CO MD 4 25.7 301+ 20.4 301+ 84.4 92 1.1 301+ 24.6 301+ 14.9 301+ 31.7
391 392 Sogang University KR M CO VH 4 33.3 301+ 32.9 301+ 53.6 225 8.7 301+ 20.2 301+ 24.7 301+ 31.6
392 551-600 American University in Cairo EG M CO HI 4 30.3 301+ 49.4 200 43.6 301+ 3.2 301+ 97.5 45 31.6
393= - University of Saskatchewan CA L FC HI 5 21.9 301+ 43.4 237 38.9 301+ 33.6 301+ 26.1 301+ 45.4 265 31.5
393= 368 University of St Gallen (HSG) CH M SP 5 17.2 301+ 85.8 44 18.0 301+ 11.2 301+ 99.5 31 98.0 28 31.5
395 390 University of Tampere FI M CO VH 4 27.1 301+ 27.2 301+ 53.3 228 27.0 301+ 21.5 301+ 8.6 301+ 31.4
396= 401-450 National Taiwan University of Science and Technology TW M FO VH 3 31.1 301+ 22.6 301+ 54.9 215 18.1 301+ 13.2 301+ 22.1 301+ 31.4
396= 395 Université Lille 1, Sciences et Technologie FR L FO VH 5 28.3 301+ 31.5 301+ 35.6 301+ 19.8 301+ 30.6 301+ 79.6 106 31.4
398 401-450 University of Warsaw PL XL CO HI 5 45.4 239 39.4 269 32.0 301+ 8.8 301+ 8.3 301+ 7.1 301+ 31.4
399 396 Universität Bayreuth DE M CO VH 3 24.0 301+ 23.2 301+ 51.3 240 28.8 301+ 41.0 268 20.5 301+ 31.3
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401-450 551-600 Al-Imam Mohamed Ibn Saud Islamic University SA XL CO LO 4
401-450 601+ American University of Sharjah AE M FC MD 2
401-450 401-450 Bilkent University TR M CO VH 3
401-450 401-450 Deakin University AU L FC HI 3
401-450 451-500 Drexel University US L FC HI 5
401-450 401-450 Florida State University US XL FC HI 5
401-450 401-450 Goldsmiths, University of London GB M FO HI 5
401-450 - Harbin Institute of Technology CN L FO VH 4
401-450 378 Illinois Institute of Technology US M CO VH 5
401-450 401-450 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR) IN S FO VH 5
401-450 451-500 International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) MY L FC MD 3
401-450 393 Jagiellonian University PL XL CO VH 5
401-450 451-500 Leibniz Universität Hannover DE L CO VH 5
401-450 501-550 Murdoch University AU M CO VH 3
401-450 401-450 National Central University TW M CO VH 4
401-450 401-450 NUST Islamabad PK M CO HI 2
401-450 401-450 Oregon State University US L CO VH 5
401-450 401-450 Oxford Brookes University GB L CO HI 5
401-450 359 Philipps-Universität Marburg DE L FC HI 5
401-450 451-500 Politecnico di Torino IT L FO VH 5
401-450 501-550 Pontifcia Universidad Javeriana CO L FC MD 5
401-450 401-450 Pusan National University KR L FC HI 4
401-450 401-450 Renmin (People’s) University of China CN L FO HI 4
401-450 451-500 Shanghai University CN XL CO VH 2
401-450 401-450 Stellenbosch University ZA L FC HI 5
401-450 377 Sultan Qaboos University OM L FC MD 3
401-450 401-450 Swansea University GB L FC HI 4
401-450 401-450 Tilburg University NL M FO VH 4
401-450 401-450 Tokyo Metropolitan University JP M CO VH 4
401-450 451-500 Universidad Nacional de La Plata AR XL FC HI 5
401-450 451-500 Universidad Politecnica de Valencia ES L CO VH 3
401-450 401-450 Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) BR M FC VH 4
401-450 401-450 Universidade Nova de Lisboa PT L FC HI 3
401-450 360= Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI) IT XL FC VH 4
401-450 384 Università degli Studi di Pavia (UNIPV) IT L FC HI 5
401-450 451-500 Università degli Studi di Torino (UNITO) IT XL FC HI 5
401-450 342 Universitas Gadjah Mada ID XL FC LO 4
401-450 451-500 Université de Lorraine FR L CO HI 5
401-450 451-500 Université du Québec CA XL FC HI 3
401-450 501-550 Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2) FR L SP 5
401-450 451-500 University of Delaware US L CO VH 5
401-450 398 University of Delhi IN XL FC HI 4
401-450 401-450 University of Guelph CA L CO VH 3
401-450 401-450 University of Kansas US L FC VH 5
401-450 383 University of Kentucky US L FC VH 5
401-450 397 University of Manitoba CA L FC VH 5
401-450 401-450 University of Porto PT XL FC HI 5
401-450 391 University of Tennessee US L FC VH 5
401-450 364 York University CA XL CO HI 4
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451-500 401-450 Aberystwyth University GB M CO HI 5
451-500 451-500 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki GR XL FC HI 4
451-500 360= Ateneo de Manila University PH M FC LO 5
451-500 - Auckland University of Technology NZ M CO HI 2
451-500 451-500 Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) ID L CO MD 4
451-500 401-450 Bangor University GB M FC HI 5
451-500 - Beijing Institute of Technology CN L FO VH 4
451-500 - Chang Gung University TW M FO VH 3
451-500 401-450 City University of New York US XL CO VH 5
451-500 401-450 Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) IE M CO HI 3
451-500 - Huazhong University of Science and Technology CN XL FC VH 4
451-500 401-450 Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (JKU) AT L CO HI 3
451-500 501-550 Middle East Technical University TR L CO VH 4
451-500 401-450 Nankai University CN L FC VH 4
451-500 401-450 National Sun Yat-sen University TW M CO VH 3
451-500 451-500 National Taiwan Normal University TW L CO HI 4
451-500 451-500 Northeastern University US L CO VH 5
451-500 401-450 Okayama University JP L FC HI 5
451-500 451-500 Politécnica de Madrid ES XL SP 3
451-500 451-500 Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey US M CO HI 4
451-500 451-500 Sun Yat-sen University CN XL FC VH 4
451-500 401-450 Swinburne University of Technology AU L CO HI 5
451-500 501-550 Syracuse University US L CO HI 5
451-500 501-550 Technische Universität Dortmund DE L CO VH 3
451-500 - The Catholic University of Korea KR M FC VH 5
451-500 - Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology JP M FO VH 4
451-500 401-450 Tongji University CN XL FC VH 5
451-500 501-550 Universidad de Antioquia CO XL FC MD 5
451-500 501-550 Universidad de Granada ES XL FC HI 5
451-500 451-500 Universidad de Salamanca ES XL FC HI 5
451-500 451-500 Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) CL L FC MD 5
451-500 551-600 Universidad Nacional de Córdoba AR XL CO HI 5
451-500 451-500 Universidad ORT Uruguay UY S FO LO 4
451-500 401-450 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ES L CO VH 5
451-500 501-550 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais BR XL FC HI 5
451-500 501-550 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore IT XL CO VH 4
451-500 401-450 Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II IT XL FC VH 5
451-500 451-500 Università degli Studi di Trento IT L CO VH 4
451-500 451-500 Universitat de Valencia ES XL FC HI 5
451-500 401-450 Universität Duisburg-Essen DE XL FC HI 3
451-500 501-550 Université Montpellier 1 FR L FO VH 5
451-500 401-450 University of Alabama US L CO VH 5
451-500 451-500 University of Crete GR L FC HI 3
451-500 451-500 University of Limerick (UL) IE M FC HI 3
451-500 401-450 University of Nebraska US L CO VH 5
451-500 401-450 University of Oklahoma US L FC VH 5
451-500 451-500 University of Vermont US M FC VH 5
451-500 451-500 Ural Federal University RU XL CO MD 4
451-500 451-500 Wuhan University CN XL FC VH 5
451-500 551-600 Xiamen University CN XL FC HI 4
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THE MAKING
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T
he cornerstone of QS World University
Rankings is its distinctive surveys of the
world’s academics and graduate recruiters,
expanded this year to encompass the views of
some 70,000 respondents. While some may
conjecture that blending ‘objective’ data with
‘opinion’ is risky, there are three major reasons
why this is a preferred approach.
First, objective measurements, while valuable,
do not capture the entire variance of university
performance. The ‘subjective intangibles’ (but
not ‘unmeasurables’) - such as how academ-
ics and employers feel about a university—are
critical components to understanding the com-
plete picture and to forming comprehensive
comparisons among complex institutions.
Second, while it is true that subjective
measures—or in the worst case, uneducated
opinions—can adversely color one’s view of
an event, if enough educated opinions are col-
lected, and they do not vary that much, then
we have to conclude that either (a) all of these
people have colluded to think a certain way, or,
(b) the relatively large-scale opinion held by
this many people just can’t be all that wrong.
Given that the QS World University Rankings
have beneftted, again, from record response
rates, the latter causal argument is likely the
case.
Third, let’s face it—these rankings aren’t
about the rankers. They’re about the consum-
ers of the rankings, and in the case of the QS
exercise these consumers are primarily inter-
nationally mobile students. Just like sports fans,
who form opinions and allegiances based on a
combination of ‘hard’ facts (stats, percentages,
and the like) and more subjective measure-
ments (opinions of coaches, managers, owners,
facilities, etc.), so, too, do the consumers of uni-
versity rankings information. To exclude such
insights—especially from another key rankings
customer segment, the employers—would
likely create more questionable inferences and,
possibly, university application and matricula-
tion errors.
The approach of properly blending both
objective/quantitative data and subjective (yet
informed) opinion data is not only well-doc-
umented in market research literature but also
refects the way our consumers think, feel, and
behave when it comes to choosing a university.
Thus, QS’ supply matches its market’s demand
quite nicely, using sound statistical principles
that have been established for well over 50 years.
gROWINg STaBILITy
Observing the development of the QS
World University Rankings over time, a strik-
ing feature is the longitudinal stability of the
rankings; that is, how consistent the rankings
have become from year to year. In fact, our
analyses indicate that, among the major rank-
ings/ratings methodologies that are available
to students, academics, and employers, the QS
World University Rankings are among the
most stable and consistent over time, with
volatility decreasing consistently every year.
In 2011 the average year-on-year movement
of universities within the top 100 of the
rankings was 5.9 places. In 2012,
the fgure is just 4.6.
But why is
this? Is this
consistency or
lack of ‘wobble’
over time a func-
tion of our math —
the proprietary calculus
behind our rankings cal-
culations — or is this due to
something more exogenous,
or outside our spreadsheets,
statistics packages, and
algorithms?
Since QS World University Rankings has the
largest sample size of any rankings organization,
this is clearly one reason why our rankings move
less over time. The more pitches you see as a
batter, the better –and more consistent or less
variable—you become. However, even if we
account for this statistically, why do we still see
more consistency in our rankings year-over-year?
We contend that it is precisely our use of
information beyond the cold facts of faculty-
student ratios, citations, etc. that create not
only more stable but also simply more useful
rankings. These ‘subjective intangibles’ give a
university its true character or ‘look and feel’
much in the same way an in-person interview
helps us learn more about a person than just
his or her test scores, GPA, or IQ. And, ironi-
cally, the ones we capture in the QS World
University Rankings tend to be some of their
most stable elements, not necessarily the ratios
and objective measures.
A recent addition to the QS offerings, QS
Stars, is a terrifc example of both of these key
points in action. This ratings program, which
universities are encouraged to participate in
with QS, allows them to effectively bench-
mark themselves on
a number of key
quantitative and
qualitative di-
mensions.
‘Subjective intangibles’:
the case for QS reputational
surveys
Colombia University professor Paul Thurman is a leading data analyst and
a member of the QS academic advisory Board. He discusses the rankings’
distinctive blend of qualitative and quantitative data.
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These dimensions range from the basic career
services support and research faculty presence
to more contemporary assessments focused on
issues such as com-
munity engagement,
innovation and how
globally diverse (and
mobile) the students
and faculty are.
As we have rolled
this product out in
2012, we continue to
see the same outcomes
as we have in our long-
standing QS World
University Rankings:
QS Stars participants
beneft greatly from
qualitative insights into
their programs and
especially those from
current and prospective
students who continue
to be more geographi-
cally, ethnically, and
culturally diverse and
mobile. Again, while
one might think that
such diversity would dictate high variability in
outcomes, we again see exactly the opposite
with this more comprehensive rating system.
Bottom line—at QS, we have not only
created the most robust, large sample-size
rankings database, but we have built one that
is consistent and stable over time. And we
have done this not with uber-sophisticated
supercomputers and statistical algorithms
built internally but though the focused,
mobile, internationally diverse reader and
user input from you, our audience. Our
clients. Our customers. Not our statisticians
or sales force!
And in a world where subjectivity often
leads to large variability and lack of consist-
ency, in the case of the QS World University
Rankings—and our new QS Stars offering—
we have seen exactly the opposite: a consist-
ent, long-term view of
the true character and
look-and-feel of leading
universities and of their
programs. And for that,
we thank the people
who really made it hap-
pen: YOU!
Bottom line - at
QS, we have not
only created
the most robust,
large sample-
size rankings
database, but we
have built one that
is consistent and
stable over time.
At the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) we are continually enhancing
our standing as a leading, student-focused, higher education institution whose
graduates are superbly equipped to thrive in the global economy. We provide
outstanding teaching for outstanding students, backed up by world-leading
research with real world impact. With our culture of innovation and enterprise,
we aim to help today’s raw talent become tomorrow’s skilled workforce.
The last UK-wide Research Assessment Exercise highlighted 17 areas of our
research as world-leading or of international significance. Our researchers
collaborate with experts across the world from space scientists at NASA, through
to nanotechnologists in Shenzhen. Working with deaf communities in Africa
and Asia and improving midwifery and stroke care across the globe are just some
of the ways our researchers are tackling real world issues.
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At the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) we are continually enhancing
our standing as a leading, student-focused, higher education institution whose
graduates are superbly equipped to thrive in the global economy. We provide
outstanding teaching for outstanding students, backed up by world-leading
research with real world impact. With our culture of innovation and enterprise,
we aim to help today’s raw talent become tomorrow’s skilled workforce.
The last UK-wide Research Assessment Exercise highlighted 17 areas of our
research as world-leading or of international significance. Our researchers
collaborate with experts across the world from space scientists at NASA, through
to nanotechnologists in Shenzhen. Working with deaf communities in Africa
and Asia and improving midwifery and stroke care across the globe are just some
of the ways our researchers are tackling real world issues.
Visit our website to find out more:
www.uclan.ac.uk
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QS rankings since 2004:
changes to the global order
Martin Ince looks back over nine years of QS World University Rankings to
see what we can learn about the state of global higher education.
Q
S Quacquarelli Symonds has been
ranking the world’s top universities
since 2004. In the intervening years, we have
improved the way we do things and the scale
on which we operate. But the rankings have
remained suffciently consistent over time to
allow a direct comparison between 2004 and
2012.
As the table shows, the world’s top universi-
ties in 2004 are still pretty good.
WHeRe aRe THey NOW?
The big loser is plainly the University of
California at Berkeley, the victim of a com-
paratively poor faculty/student ratio and low
attractiveness for international faculty and
students. But its departure from the top ten
does little to reduce the dominance of Cali-
fornia, the Northeastern US and South East
England at the top of these rankings. Seven of
2004’s top ten have retained this status, being
joined in 2012 by University College London,
Imperial College London and the University of
Chicago, the only geographical outlier in this
company.
The rankings for 2004 provided an analysis
of just 200 universities, from Harvard at the top
to Rennslaer Polytechnic Institute in last place.
Now we provide information on over 700
institutions. Data on academic citations suggests
that this group encompasses essentially all the
‘world-class’ universities of interest to glob-
ally minded students, employers and research
organisations (with the exception of a few
excellent institutions that either do not offer
undergraduate programs, or specialize in too
narrow a range of academic disciplines).
Despite this growth in our scope and ambi-
tion, we have been careful to stay consistent in
the way we measure the world’s top universi-
ties. In 2004, we used just fve measures to do
so, focusing then as now on criteria that would
help ambitious students to fnd the university
they need.
Of these, the most remarked-upon was the
academic survey, not least because it accounted
for half the possible score for the universities
we measured. Although some observers never
have got to like it, we regard it as a simple and
robust approach to uncovering good universi-
ties. At the beginning, it simply involved asking
people to name the top universities in the felds
they knew about. They could choose between
science, biomedicine, technology, the social sci-
ences, and the arts and humanities. In year one,
we asked 1,300 people.
Now the survey has grown dramatically, draw-
ing on over 46,000 respondents in 2012. It also
asks more questions, about national as well as
local favourites and about detailed subject areas.
In addition, the 2012 rankings have one
measure that began in 2005 and has grown in
strength since. This is our survey of employers,
with data this year from over 25,000 individu-
als active in graduate recruitment.
Between them, these two surveys offer a
unique insight into the universities where the best
research and scholarship go on, and where re-
cruiters are happiest with the graduates they hire.
We support these indicators with four others
that add up to half of the potential score for
each university. One involves surveying fve
years of academic citations for papers produced
there. We look at the number of citations per
academic staff member, so as to give potential
students an idea of the density of academic
frepower on campus. We measure international
staff and student numbers, to see whether
universities are internationally attractive to the
brightest people. And we add staff/student ratio
to see whether universities have enough people
to teach their students.
Throughout their existence, and in common
with other rankings, the QS World University
Rankings have shown that the leading US
and UK institutions are also the world’s top
universities. But in 2004, we also found that
the world’s top 200 institutions were in 29
nations and territories. This year, our top 200
come from 31 countries and over 70 nations
are represented in our total ranking of 700
institutions. This diversity reassures us about the
validity of our approach. It also suggests that
academic excellence is spread throughout the
world. This means that although many users
of the rankings cross time zones to further
their studies, they can also use them to make
sure that a nearby university is taken seriously
around the world.
Despite their overall stability, there have been
some changes to the rankings over time. We
now use a new, more comprehensive source of
citations data, having switched from Thomson
Reuters to Scopus Elsevier. More importantly,
we now calculate and display the results using
a proportional method called the Z-score, not
in arithmetical order as we did in 2004. This
smoothes out the effect of extreme performers.
In 2004, when Harvard was top, Berkeley was
second with a score of 88%. In other words, the
gap between the top two made up 12% of all
the possible variation between every univer-
sity on Earth. The Z-score approach cures this
problem.
Institution 2004 2012
Harvard 1 3
Berkeley 2 22
MIT 3 1
Caltech 4 10
Oxford 5 5
Cambridge 6 2
Stanford 7 15
Yale 8 7
Princeton 9 9
ETH Zurich 10 13
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But these changes to the rankings over time
are less important than the growing sophis-
tication with which we produce them. The
rankings are now supported by a deep database
of information on the world’s universities and
by experts within and around QS who know
how to interpret it. This gives us a high level of
confdence in their validity.
Perhaps because of their stability, the rank-
ings contain some common themes through
time. Looking beyond the Anglo-American
dominance of the top spots, ETH Zurich is
consistently the top university in continental
Europe, 10th in 2004 and 13th now. The Ecole
Normale Supérieure in Paris is always the top
French institution, 27 in 2004 and 34 today.
The top German institution is always more
modestly placed: Heidelberg in 47th place in
2004
and the
Techni-
cal University
of Munich 53rd in
2012. Australia is consistently well-represented,
with the Australian National University leading
the pack at 16 in 2004 and 24 here.
The story becomes more interesting in Asia.
In 2004, the top 200 contained 23 Asian insti-
tutions, led by University of Tokyo at number
12 and dominated by six Japanese and six
Chinese entrants. The National University of
Singapore, 18 in 2004 and 25 today, has been
well-placed throughout.
Since 2004, Hong Kong University (23 this
year) has replaced University of Tokyo, now in
30th place, as the top Asian university. How-
ever, there has also been a general rise in Asian
visibility in these rankings. South Korea has six
top-200 institutions, up from three in 2004,
and the best placed, Seoul National University,
has risen from 118 in 2004 to 37 today. Na-
tional Taiwan University has risen from 102 to
80 and has been joined by a second Taiwanese
university, National Tsinghua (ranked 192).
However, there is little sign here of China
taking over the world. Its six top-200 uni-
versities of 2004 have grown to just seven in
2012, and the top-ranked
Chinese institution,
Peking University, has
collapsed from 17 in
the world to 44.
The deeper rank-
ings that we publish
today allow us to see
excellence across Asia,
Latin America, Eastern
Europe and other areas
of the world which does
not emerge from a smaller
listing. It shows rising higher
education ambitions in the Middle
East, where King Saud University is
now a top-200 institution and many others are
close behind. We hope that the rankings will
continue to supply insights such as these for
many years to come.
The deeper
rankings that we
publish today
allow us to
see excellence
across Asia, Latin
America, Eastern
Europe and other
areas of the world
which does not
emerge from a
smaller listing.
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ince 2005 QS has published reputational
rankings in fve core faculty areas as a
companion to the overall QS World University
Rankings.
These rankings are based entirely on the
responses of the QS academic reputation
survey, which this year drew on the views of a
record 48,000 academics worldwide. As such,
they offer an undiluted insight into the expert
views of the global academic community, who
were asked to identify the universities that are
currently producing world-leading research
within their feld and region of expertise. They
are distinct from the QS World University
Rankings by Subject, now published annually,
which cover 29 individual disciplines using a
combination of three indicators.
The rationale behind the survey is sim-
ple: academics are by defnition those
best qualifed to judge the quality
of research within their feld of
expertise. Whereas citations
operate at an inevitable
time lag, surveying
informed opinion
in this way means
we are receptive
to year-on-year
developments
within a given
feld. Another
advantage is
the discipline-
independent
nature of the
survey, weigh-
ing all disci-
plines equally
in a way in that
citations alone do
not. The results are
adjusted to coun-
teract any distorting
effect caused by differences in response levels
by country.
Reputation by faculty area provides a com-
plementary perspective to the overall rankings.
Interestingly, whereas Harvard University is
ranked third once the other fve indicators are
added to the equation, in terms of academic
reputation it heads the feld. As well as ranking
number one in the survey overall, Harvard
comes top in four of the fve faculty areas: arts
and humanities, life sciences and medicine, nat-
ural sciences, and social sciences and manage-
ment. MIT retains its now customary number
one spot for engineering and technology.
As was the case in the 2011 QS World Uni-
versity Rankings
by Subject, the performance of University
of California, Berkeley is far stronger than in
the overall rankings, refecting its undoubted
strength in research. Berkeley makes the top
ten in all of the fve faculty areas, ranking as
high as second in engineering and technology.
Berkeley is the third best-performing univer-
sity in the survey as a whole, behind Harvard
and Cambridge, with the rest of the top ten
made up by Oxford, Stanford, MIT, Univer-
sity of Tokyo, UCLA, National University of
Singapore, and Yale.
Specialist institutions, naturally disadvantaged
by the comprehensive nature of the overall
rankings, also come to the fore at faculty level.
London School of Economics ranks 4th in its
specialist feld of social sciences and manage-
ment, while California Institute of Technol-
ogy makes the top fve in engineering and
technology. The prominence of Johns
Hopkins University as an internation-
ally recognized center of biomedi-
cal research is refected in its
ffth-placed ranking in life
sciences and medicine.
Other noteworthy
performances from
specialist institutions
include Geor-
gia Institute of
Technology (12th
in engineering
and technology),
Delft University of
Technology (18th
in engineering
and technology),
Tokyo Institute of
Technology (19th in
engineering and tech-
nology), and Karolinska
Institute (20th in life
sciences and medicine).
academics give their verdict:
reputational rankings
by faculty area
By Danny Byrne
www.qs.com
QS World University Rankings 2012/13 23
A key point of divergence with the overall
results is the greater geographic diversity of
institutions judged to be producing world-
class work at faculty level. This year we have
ranked the top 400 universities in each of the
fve faculty areas (the top 50 of which are
printed here – full listings are available at www.
topuniversities.com). Whereas the overall top
400 universities are spread over 45 countries,
this total is exceeded in all of the faculty areas.
A remarkable 53 countries are represented in
the top 400 for arts and humanities, followed
by engineering and technology (50), social sci-
ences and management (49), life sciences (48),
and natural sciences (47).
Global mobility of students and academics
means competition to produce cutting-edge
research grows more intense each year. Whereas
the overall top ten is dominated by Anglophone
comprehensive universities that are strong
in a range of disciplines, there are numerous
examples of institutions outside of this tradi-
tional power nexus that prove themselves to be
world-leading in a given feld. For example, in
the strategically important feld of engineering
and technology – a key battleground for gov-
ernments worldwide – there are fve different
countries represented in the top ten: the US,
UK, Japan, Switzerland, and Singapore.
The advantage of universities whose primary
language is English is diluted at a faculty-area
level. Switzerland’s ETH Zurich is consistently
the best-performing non-Anglophone institu-
tion in the overall rankings (placed 13th this
year), and it makes the top ten in engineering
and technology (8), and life sciences and medi-
cine (9). However, in terms of overall academic
reputation it is surpassed by Japan’s University
of Tokyo, which places 7th in the survey overall
and makes the top ten in engineering and
technology (7), life sciences and medicine (9),
and natural sciences (9).
Whereas just three non-Anglophone univer-
sities make the top 30 in the overall rank-
ings (ETH, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne and University of Tokyo), this total is
exceeded in all of the faculty areas except social
sciences and management. Again, engineer-
ing and technology is the most internationally
competitive feld, with nine non-Anglophone
institutions making the top 30, though the total
is matched in natural sciences. Seven institu-
tions make the top 30 for arts and humanities,
four for life sciences and medicine, and just two
for social sciences and management, a feld still
dominated by the US and UK.
Whereas University of Toronto is second-
placed to McGill nationally in the overall
rankings, its research output is prodigious, with
Scopus data showing that it produced a greater
volume of cited research than any other univer-
sity in the past year. Perhaps unsurprisingly then,
it ranks ahead of its national rival for academic
reputation. A similar reversal in the overall order
is seen in Australia. University of Melbourne
fnishes ahead of ANU, ranking 16th overall in
the survey. However, ANU ranks frst nationally
in three of the fve faculty areas.
China’s recent investments in research at
its leading universities are well documented,
and though the survey provides no evidence
of their imminent assumption of world
dominance, progress is nonetheless apparent.
Tsinghua University is regarded as a world
leader in engineering and technology, in which
it ranks 11th, while Peking University makes
the top 20 in natural sciences (17) and arts and
humanities (19).
Continental European universities (ETH
aside) have continued to struggle to break into
the upper echelons of the overall rankings this
year, yet in the faculty area rankings there are
top-20 performances from institutions from
France, Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland.
Germany’s best performance comes from Tech-
nische Universität München (21 in engineer-
ing and technology), Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin (22 in arts and humanities), and
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (23
in natural sciences).
Despite not having a single university in the
top 200 in the overall rankings, India’s con-
certed focus on engineering and technology
is refected in the appearance of IIT Bombay
in the top 50. And Latin America’s growing
prominence within international higher educa-
tion sees top-40 rankings for Universidad de
Buenos Aires (37 in arts and humanities, 39 in
social sciences and management) and Universi-
dad Nacional Autónoma de México (40 in arts
and humanities).
Global mobility
of students and
academics means
competition to
produce cutting-
edge research
grows more
intense each year.
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QS World University Rankings 2012/13 25
QS has been now publishing the QS World University Rankings® for the last nine years. QS Stars is a
complementary companion to rankings – a rating system that facilitates the evaluation of universities across a much
broader range of criteria and in relation to established thresholds rather than the performance of other institutions.
The objectives are to allow institutions to shine, irrespective of their size, shape and mission and to shine a light on
excellence that may otherwise remain in the shade. QS Stars are awarded based on the university’s performance in an
extensive audit. Over 30 criteria contribute towards the overall assessment, grouped into ten categories:
Research, Employability, Teaching, Facilities, Internationalization, Innovation, Engagement, Access, Culture and
the institution’s standing in specialist subjects.
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Bertil Andersson President, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
“NTU is a relatively young university,
which has been developing rapidly in
the last few years. The current ranking
from QS is an affrmation that NTU
today has a high international standing.
The new QS Stars rating system further
recognizes NTU’s strengths as a world-
class university across a broader set of
criteria than can be measured in any
ranking system and provides valuable
information for our many stakeholders
- current students, prospective students,
parents, teachers, employers, fellow
academics and our local community.”
Jennie Lang Pro-Vice-Chancellor -
UNSW International, University of
New South Wales, Australia
“From now on all of our promotional
material, our website, and our
publications, will include the QS
Stars rating alongside the Australian
government’s ERA analysis”
“Compared to an international ranking,
QS Stars offers more of a framework
for benchmarking. It’s something where
criteria that are important can be
measured over time, not just with our
colleagues in Australia but with likeminded
universities anywhere in the world, and
that’s what really attracted us.”
“I think most universities will use QS
Stars. Increasingly, discerning students
who are much more knowledgeable
about their opportunities, say ‘show
me the evidence’. I sense that this is
what the future is going to be - students
wanting us not just to make assertions,
but to back them up.”
Edilio Mazzoleni Head of Operations
- International Offce, Università
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
“QS Stars is a mechanism for us
to project our specifc strengths to
the world. It has given us a better
understanding of what are our
weaknesses, as well as our strengths,
within the university.”
Ailsa Lamont Executive Director
- International, RMIT University,
Australia
“QS Stars actually drills down to further
detail, which will give students the
choice to compare us more usefully with
other institutions”
“We can use it to highlight the many
diverse areas of strength that we have,
and it will help us with our planning in
areas such as branding, positioning, and
telling us which areas to focus on.”
27 countries represented among the 132
institutions that have been evaluated by QS Stars:
Australia
Canada
Ecuador
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Italy
Jordan
Lithuania
Mexico
Russia
Saudi Arabia
South Korea
Spain
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26 QS World University Rankings 2012/13
www.qs.com
Reputational Rankings by Faculty area
aRTS & HUMaNITIeS
2012
rank
2011
rank
Institution Country/Territory Overall
SCORE
1 1 Harvard University United States 100.0
2 2 University of Oxford United Kingdom 97.7
3 3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 95.2
4 4 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 85.4
5 5 Yale University United States 79.6
6 7 Stanford University United States 74.3
7 6 Princeton University United States 73.1
8 8 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 69.4
9 10 Columbia University United States 69.1
10 9 University of Chicago United States 65.4
11 12 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 59.4
12 11 The University of Tokyo Japan 58.7
13 13 Australian National University (ANU) Australia 58.3
14 15 New York University (NYU) United States 56.4
15 14 University of Toronto Canada 55.6
16 20 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom 54.6
17 17 Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) France 54.1
18 19 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 53.6
19 18 Peking University China 53.5
20 16 University of Michigan United States 53.1
21 22 The University of Melbourne Australia 52.6
22 27 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany 50.8
23 25 University of Hong Kong (HKU) Hong Kong 48.8
24 23 The University of Sydney Australia 48.7
25 21 Cornell University United States 47.9
26 30 Freie Universität Berlin Germany 47.0
27 28 Kyoto University Japan 46.6
28 26 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 46.3
29 34 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne France 46.0
30 24 University of Pennsylvania United States 45.7
31 38 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany 45.1
32 29 McGill University Canada 44.3
33 36 University of Texas at Austin United States 42.5
34 35 King's College London (KCL) United Kingdom 42.0
35 39 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Germany 42.0
36 31 University of British Columbia Canada 41.1
37 51 Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina 41.1
38 32 Duke University United States 41.0
39 37 Leiden University Netherlands 41.0
40 50 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Mexico 40.7
41 42 The University of Manchester United Kingdom 39.9
42 43 Seoul National University (SNU) South Korea 39.6
43 41 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 39.2
44 40 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) United Kingdom 39.2
45 45 National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan 38.8
46 33 Brown University United States 38.4
47 49 Fudan University China 38.3
48 44 Monash University Australia 38.3
49 47 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Hong Kong 38.0
50 53 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States 37.8
www.qs.com
QS World University Rankings 2012/13 27
eNgINeeRINg & TeCHNOLOgy
2012
rank
2011
rank
Institution Country/Territory Overall
SCORE
1 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 100.0
2 2 Stanford University United States 80.2
3 3 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 79.3
4 4 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 66.5
5 5 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States 65.8
6 6 Imperial College London United Kingdom 64.5
7 7 The University of Tokyo Japan 62.8
8 8 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland 59.9
9 9 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 57.4
10 11 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States 55.2
11 10 Tsinghua University China 54.8
12 13 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) United States 52.8
13 12 University of Oxford United Kingdom 52.7
14 14 Carnegie Mellon University United States 49.7
15 15 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 48.9
16 19 University of Michigan United States 47.3
17 16 Harvard University United States 46.1
18 18 Delft University of Technology Netherlands 45.3
19 20 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 44.5
20 17 Kyoto University Japan 44.1
21 29 Technische Universität München Germany 43.6
22 28 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland 43.1
23 24 University of Texas at Austin United States 42.7
24 27 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea 42.4
25 21 University of Toronto Canada 42.4
26 23 Princeton University United States 41.7
27 22 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Hong Kong 41.7
28 26 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore 41.3
29 25 Cornell University United States 40.6
30 35 Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen Germany 39.2
31 30 The University of Melbourne Australia 39.0
32 33 Seoul National University (SNU) South Korea 38.9
33 31 Purdue University United States 38.9
34 37 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 38.0
35 32 The University of Manchester United Kingdom 37.7
36 36 Ecole Polytechnique ParisTech France 36.1
37 38 National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan 35.9
38 34 Peking University China 35.6
39 39 The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia 35.1
40 40 The University of Sydney Australia 35.1
41 43 University of California, San Diego (UCSD) United States 34.2
42 45 University of Hong Kong (HKU) Hong Kong 34.1
43 53 KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Sweden 34.0
44 47 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom 33.1
45 46 Technische Universität Berlin Germany 32.9
46 42 McGill University Canada 32.5
47 41 University of British Columbia Canada 32.2
48 48 Politecnico di Milano Italy 32.2
49 49 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) India 31.8
50 44 Australian National University (ANU) Australia 31.7
28 QS World University Rankings 2012/13
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LIFe SCIeNCeS & MeDICINe
2012
rank
2011
rank
Institution Country/Territory Overall
SCORE
1 1 Harvard University United States 100.0
2 2 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 82.7
3 3 University of Oxford United Kingdom 78.1
4 4 Stanford University United States 68.4
5 5 Johns Hopkins University United States 64.3
6 6 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 61.7
7 7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 60.9
8 9 Yale University United States 59.9
9 8 The University of Tokyo Japan 59.3
10 10 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 58.6
11 12 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 56.4
12 11 Imperial College London United Kingdom 54.2
13 13 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) United States 54.2
14 14 University of California, San Diego (UCSD) United States 49.3
15 17 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom 49.0
16 15 The University of Melbourne Australia 46.6
17 21 Columbia University United States 45.6
18 16 University of Toronto Canada 44.9
19 19 Cornell University United States 44.4
20 22 Karolinska Institute Sweden 43.9
21 18 The University of Sydney Australia 43.9
22 20 Kyoto University Japan 43.4
23 23 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 43.1
24 25 King's College London (KCL) United Kingdom 41.6
25 24 Peking University China 41.0
26 29 Duke University United States 40.7
27 28 University of Hong Kong (HKU) Hong Kong 39.9
28 27 University of Washington United States 39.8
29 26 McGill University Canada 38.8
30 30 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland 38.4
31 31 University of Pennsylvania United States 37.4
32 37 The University of Queensland (UQ) Australia 36.8
33 34 University of Michigan United States 35.6
34 32 University of British Columbia Canada 35.5
35 43 The University of Manchester United Kingdom 35.4
36 38 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Germany 35.2
37 35 Princeton University United States 35.0
38 47 National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan 34.8
39 33 Monash University Australia 34.7
40 44 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany 34.3
41 41 Seoul National University (SNU) South Korea 34.3
42 40 University of Chicago United States 34.2
43 36 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States 32.8
44 39 Australian National University (ANU) Australia 32.8
45 51 Osaka University Japan 32.8
46 45 Washington University in St. Louis United States 32.4
47 42 University of California, Davis (UCD) United States 32.2
48 46 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States 31.9
49 49 Tsinghua University China 31.0
50 50 The University of Auckland New Zealand 30.5
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QS World University Rankings 2012/13 29
NaTURaL SCIeNCeS
2012
rank
2011
rank
Institution Country/Territory Overall
SCORE
1 2 Harvard University United States 100.0
2 1 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 98.5
3 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 95.1
4 4 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 93.6
5 5 University of Oxford United Kingdom 89.8
6 6 Stanford University United States 82.5
7 8 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States 75.8
8 7 Princeton University United States 75.7
9 9 The University of Tokyo Japan 71.4
10 10 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland 67.2
11 11 Imperial College London United Kingdom 66.1
12 12 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 59.4
13 16 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 56.0
14 13 Kyoto University Japan 55.9
15 14 Yale University United States 55.8
16 15 University of Chicago United States 55.6
17 17 Peking University China 52.0
18 18 Cornell University United States 51.6
19 21 University of Toronto Canada 49.6
20 19 Australian National University (ANU) Australia 49.4
21 20 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS Paris) France 48.6
22 23 Columbia University United States 47.9
23 24 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany 47.6
24 26 Tsinghua University China 45.4
25 28 Technische Universität München Germany 45.1
26 22 University of British Columbia Canada 44.8
27 35 Seoul National University (SNU) South Korea 44.7
28 25 The University of Melbourne Australia 43.3
29 27 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States 42.6
30 29 University of Michigan United States 42.5
31 30 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Germany 41.1
32 42 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 40.8
33 39 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom 40.2
34 41 The University of Manchester United Kingdom 39.5
35 34 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) United States 39.1
36 32 University of California, San Diego (UCSD) United States 39.0
37 37 University of Texas at Austin United States 38.9
38 36 McGill University Canada 38.9
39 33 The University of Sydney Australia 38.8
40 44 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States 38.7
41 46 University of Hong Kong (HKU) Hong Kong 37.9
42 43 National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan 37.8
43 40 Ecole Polytechnique ParisTech France 37.6
44 38 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia 37.2
45 31 Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) France 37.0
46 50 University of Bristol United Kingdom 36.0
47 52 Tohoku University Japan 35.7
48 57 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea 35.7
49 47 Osaka University Japan 35.7
50 45 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland 35.6
30 QS World University Rankings 2012/13
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SOCIaL SCIeNCeS & MaNageMeNT
2012
rank
2011
rank
Institution Country/Territory Overall
SCORE
1 1 Harvard University United States 100.0
2 2 University of Oxford United Kingdom 76.5
3 3 Stanford University United States 76.1
4 6 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) United Kingdom 75.1
5 4 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 75.1
6 5 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 73.0
7 7 University of Chicago United States 66.3
8 8 Yale University United States 65.4
9 9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 64.6
10 13 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 61.5
11 10 Columbia University United States 61.0
12 11 Princeton University United States 58.3
13 12 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 57.3
14 14 The University of Tokyo Japan 53.0
15 17 University of Michigan United States 51.7
16 16 Australian National University (ANU) Australia 51.2
17 15 University of Pennsylvania United States 50.6
18 18 New York University (NYU) United States 49.2
19 19 The University of Melbourne Australia 48.7
20 23 University of Hong Kong (HKU) Hong Kong 46.7
21 20 University of Toronto Canada 44.8
22 21 Peking University China 43.1
23 27 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom 42.2
24 25 The University of Sydney Australia 41.4
25 26 Northwestern University United States 41.3
26 22 University of British Columbia Canada 41.0
27 24 Cornell University United States 39.6
28 28 The University of Warwick United Kingdom 39.6
29 32 Seoul National University (SNU) South Korea 38.8
30 29 The University of Manchester United Kingdom 38.8
31 35 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States 37.2
32 39 University of Texas at Austin United States 37.1
33 34 Kyoto University Japan 37.0
34 36 The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia 36.9
35 31 Duke University United States 36.6
36 33 McGill University Canada 36.4
37 45 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Hong Kong 35.7
38 40 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Hong Kong 35.6
39 50 Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina 34.3
40 37 Monash University Australia 34.3
41 41 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 34.2
42 42 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 34.0
43 44 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne France 33.5
44 43 The University of Auckland New Zealand 33.3
45 53 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Mexico 33.1
46 48 Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Italy 33.0
47 49 The University of Queensland (UQ) Australia 32.8
48 51 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany 32.3
49 46 Tsinghua University China 32.2
50 47 Fudan University China 32.1
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