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King’s is ranked in the top 25 universities worldwide* and based in the heart of London. With nine Schools and six Medical Research Council centres, King’s ofers world-class teaching and research. Our extensive range of subjects includes humanities, huma nities, law law,, medicine, medicin e, psychiatry psychiatr y, dentistry, nursing, mathematics; natural, biomedical, social and management sciences. *QS World University Rankings, 2010
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A shift in power John O’Leary looks at the top performers in this year’ year’ss QS World University Rankings®
Cambridge has replaced Harvard at the pinnacle o global higher education in the first change o leadership in seven years o the QS World University Rankings®*. Te 2010 rankings show a growing European challenge to the domination o US universities, with leading institutions in the UK, Germany and Switzerland in particular, improving their positions. More than 50 countries have at least one university in the top 500. Some 5,000 employers and over 15,000 academics and university administrators rom around the world offered expert opinion on the top universities or the latest QS World
Yale University and University College London (UCL) hold on to third and ourth places respectively in the 2010 rankings, with the Massachusetts Institute o echnology (MI) moving up rom ninth place to complete the top five. Tis year’s top 20 contains 13 US and our UK universities, but Switzerland, Canada and Australia are also represented. EH Zurich, the Swiss technological university, is the leading representative o Continental Europe, as it was last year. It is joined in the top 50 by the Ecoles Polytechniques in Lausanne and Paris, the Ecole Normale Superieure also in Paris, and
On the evidence o this year’s rankings, the US remains the dominant orce in higher education, but the balance o power is shifing to some extent. Tere are 53 US universities in the top 200, compared with 58 two years ago. Many US universities are eeling the effects o budget cuts and sharp drops in their endowment. Similar or more serious constraints are on the way in the UK and it remains to be seen whether the leading universities can remain as competitive. Te beneficiaries o recession in the West, in ranking terms, may be the rising academic powers o Asia. Hong Kong, okyo and Kyoto universities are all just outside the top 20
University Rankings®. Universities were also judged on their research citations, staffing levels and internatio international nal activity. Te academic survey is by ar the largest since QS first compiled the rankings in 2004. Almost hal o the respondents were proessors or assistant proessors proessors and the survey includes the views o more than t han 700 university presidents, vice-chancellors and deputy vice-chancellor vice-chancellors. s. Te expanded employer survey is a unique eature o the QS rankings that will be o particular interest to prospective students. Based on their direct experience o graduates, employers ofen differ rom academics in their views o the leading universities, all o which are clear in the detailed tables
the University o Copenhagen. As in 2009, the UK has Imperial College, London, and Oxord University in the top ten, as well as UCL and Cambridge. King’s College London, Edinburgh, Bristol and Manchester universities are all in the top 30.
this year, while the National University o Singapore, Hong Kong University o Science and echnology (HKUS) and the Chinese University o Hong Kong, as well as Peking, Osaka and Seoul National universities all make the top 50. Australia Austr alia has the other main group o leading universities, with the Australian National University 20th and Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland all in the top 50. Tis is the seventh edition o the QS World University Rankings®, which are the most widely-read o the global comparisons o universities. Te rankings are used by governments and employers, as well as universities seeking international partners, but
available at www.topuniversities.com Cambridge’s rise rom second place in the ranking was uelled by significant growth in the number o citations per aculty member and a smaller improvement in staffing levels. Harvard, by contrast, has taken more students since the last rankings were compiled without an equivalent increase in the number o academics. Cambridge remained the academics’ top choice, while Harvard was the employers’ avourite. As was the case in 2009, less than one point out o 100 separates the two universities. Cambridge remains top in the natural sciences, while Harvard continues to head the rankings in both lie sciences and social sciences. www.qs.com
the most numerous users are to be ound among am ong the growing number o students choosing courses outside their home country. Since 2000, the student numbers studying abroad have risen rom below 2 million to more than 3 million and the increased pressure on university places in a number o countries this year is likely to accelerate the trend. Te main ranking, as well as separate tables or the subject groupings: arts and humanities, engineering and technology,, lie sciences and medicine, technology natural sciences, and social sciences and management, are available online at www.topuniversities.com, the home o the QS World University Rankings®. Te results o the rankings are also available as an iPhone app, and through QS’ international media partners. *Formerly known as THE-QS World University Rankings 2004-2009 QS World University Rankings 2010 3
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University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) University of Auckland University of Sheffield Freie Universität Berlin University of Geneva Lund University University of Nottingham Nanyang Technological University (NTU) University of Helsinki Washington University in St. Louis University of Glasgow University of Alberta KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Sci. & Tech. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) University of Southampton Leiden University Utrecht University Aarhus University University of Leeds Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Purdue University University of York University of Western Australia (UWA) Un Dartmouth College Nagoya University Durham University Lomonosov Moscow State University National Taiwan University (NTU) University of St Andrews University of Minnesota Universität Freiburg
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Ohio State University Eindhoven University of Technology (TU Eindhoven) Case Western Reserve University Ca University of Rochester City University of Hong Kong University of Virginia Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Queen's University University of Bergen Vanderbilt University University of Otago Université de Montréal University of Basel Tel Aviv University École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon) Newcastle University Technical University of Denmark Yonsei University University of Vienna University of Bath University of Waterloo University of California, Irvine Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) Qu Universitat de Barcelona Radboud University Nijmegen KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) Sh University of Lausanne Kyushu University University of Science and Technology of China Georgetown University University of Sussex Tufts University
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173= 301+ 301+ 137= 245= 292= 301+ 301+ 91= 135= 301+ 79= 301+ 301+ 301+ 287= 265 301+ 301+ 301+ 29= 214= 301+
52.6 52.4 52.4 52.0 51.9 51.9 51.8 51.7 51.7 51.7 51.5 51.5 51.5 51.4 51.4 51.3 51.2 51.1 50.9 50.6 50.4 50.3 50.2
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181 182 183 184
11662 148 185 207=
Lancaster University Waseda University University of Gothenburg University College Cork (UCC)
GB JP SE IE
M XL L L
FC CO FC FC
VH VH VH HI
43 70 46 46
238 112 223 219
60 88 26 26 68
150 45= 301+ 112
56 39 35 57
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33 8 64 27
285= 301+ 125 301+
77 32 81 81 85
112 255= 97 80=
85 33 90 54
79= 301+ 58= 200=
50.2 50.1 50.1 50.1
185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217
11991= 228 163 225 188 205 2 11= 21 136 201= 20 173 233 223= 201= 179 200 237= 215= 181 204 198 206 142 180 222 191= 168= 264= 26 214 215= 196= 19 309= 30 183 211=
University of Reading Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris 4 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) University of Iowa University of Canterbury Sapienza Università di Roma Korea University University of Ghent University of Florida Stony Brook University Universität Frankfurt am Main National Tsing Hua University Queen's University of Belfast Texas A&M University University of Twente Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn University of Dundee Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) Sciences Po, Paris Chalmers University of Technology Universität Stuttgart Keio University Universiti Malaya (UM) Michigan State University (MSU) Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) St.-Petersburg University University of Turku Dalhousie University Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Simon Fraser University Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Technische Universität Berlin
GB FR IN US NZ IT KR BE US US DE TW GB US NL DE GB IN FR SE DE JP MY US BE RU FI CA ES CA DE US DE
L L M L L XL XL L XL L XL M L XL M L M M M M L XL L XL L L M L L L M XL L
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VH VH VH VH VH VH VH VH VH VH VH VH HI VH VH VH VH VH VH VH VH VH HI VH HI HI VH VH VH VH VH VH VH
46 86 62 37 54 82 67 54 51 40 55 60 39 51 41 55 31 55 33 46 42 55 50 51 51 49 37 39 65 53 28 54 61
225 62 138 289= 173= 75 119 173= 194 258 165 146 267 190 251 164 301+ 162 301+ 220= 242 163 198 191= 191= 207 280 270 126 178 301+ 171= 139
57 57 56 87 28 74 40 39 39 39 35 35 26 26 37 39 68 52 52 41 21 24 78 82 39 48 85 55 55 57 44 51 29 29 36 36 38 37 37 15 26 41
163 167= 50 301+ 83 258= 263= 265 301+ 301+ 280 262 113= 195 252= 301+ 301+ 74 59= 267 211= 52 177 162 235 196 301+ 297 273= 279 301+ 301+ 252=
47 47 17 39 54 21 11 59 61 61 31 42 33 25 54 21 21 51 64 64 41 89 47 79 59 59 68 68 29 34 98 74 46 15 18 18 78 38 34
243= 301+ 301+ 205= 301+ 301+ 173= 158= 301+ 286= 301+ 301+ 199= 301+ 221= 150= 145= 292= 65 249= 94= 173= 127= 301+ 301+ 31 108= 257= 301+ 301+ 97= 301+ 301+
38 1 33 84 28 37 17 37 75 68 55 64 35 73 39 32 61 41 1 46 14 14 4 54 29 3 53 65 54 48 66 50 16
257= 301+ 291 51 301+ 261 301+ 265 81 105 164 123 275 85 253 297= 134 238 301+ 213 301+ 301+ 301+ 166 301+ 301+ 171 120 170 207 116 195= 301+
81 7 3 32 99 3 16 20 20 18 55 55 16 18 98 21 83 16 80 1 45 42 36 15 68 23 75 3 34 34 38 38 15 83 83 31 31 39 41
98= 301+ 301+ 259= 18 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 179 301+ 301+ 33 301+ 90= 301+ 102= 301+ 200= 209= 238= 301+ 141 301+ 120= 301+ 251= 228= 301+ 87 264 222= 216
80 78 2 24 78 18 15 27 29 81 81 67 11 38 31 83 53 55 2 97 70 86 9 57 57 41 96 16 9 50 17 52 39 20 80
98 104 301+ 301+ 105= 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 96= 142= 301+ 281= 301+ 87= 205= 195= 301+ 32= 133= 74 301+ 190= 260= 36 301+ 301+ 222= 301+ 211 278= 301+ 101
50.0 50 4499.0 48.8 48.7 48.5 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.3 48.2 48.2 47.9 47.9 47.9 47.7 47.5 47.5 47.4 47.4 47.3 47.2 47.2 47.1 47.1 46.7 46.7 46.4 46.4 46.1 45.9 45.9 45.6 45.5
218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240
247= 199 189 247= 190 209 223= 229= 218= 193= 220= 277= 237= 226 243 237= 218= 244= 24 201= 270 227 295= 264=
Zhejiang University UUnniversity of Notre Dame Macquarie University King Saud University (KSU) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Re RMIT University Victoria University of Wellington Université Paris 11, Sud Indiana University Bloomington Mahidol University Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Ottawa National University of Ireland, Galway Na Wake Forest University Kobe University University of Miami University of Indonesia Norwegian University of Science and Technology Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Tulane University Vienna University of Technology
CN US AU SA MX US AU NZ FR US TH FR US CA IE US JP US ID NO BE US AT
XL M L XL XL M XL L L XL L XL L XL M M L L XL L M M M
FC CO FC FC FC CO CO CO FO FC FC FO CO FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FC FO
VH VH HI LO VH VH VH VH VH VH HI VH VH VH HI VH VH VH LO VH VH VH VH
65 37 50 50 63 30 52 54 40 50 45 69 53 44 35 5 45 21 59 38 36 15 34
127 288 200 196 134 301+ 187 171= 257 201 229 114 182 232 301+ 301+ 230 301+ 149 276= 293 301+ 301+
23 61 63 37 67 34 77 63 8 56 46 61 31 30 58 43 55 22 59 51 43 46 33
301+ 147 136 284= 116 301+ 76 135 301+ 164 226 144 301+ 301+ 159 241 179= 301+ 152 197 243 224 301+
43 50 12 75 51 47 21 19 55 25 84 18 27 18 61 100 57 72 58 49 73 88 65
278= 232= 301+ 106= 221= 249= 301+ 301+ 195= 301+ 79= 301+ 301+ 301+ 158= 9 183= 114= 181= 240= 111= 66= 141=
33 58 32 2 4 82 7 15 50 51 11 3 55 68 14 75 30 58 1 33 31 52 28
284 143 301+ 301+ 301+ 65= 301+ 301+ 192= 186= 301+ 301+ 162= 104 301+ 82 301+ 141 301+ 285= 301+ 178= 301+
14 11 84 89 16 24 99 100 46 18 16 17 30 76 93 2 10 69 69 12 60 9 17 47
301+ 301+ 83 67 301+ 301+ 20 17 198 301+ 301+ 301+ 268= 114= 50 301+ 301+ 134 301+ 161= 301+ 301+ 191=
8 27 100 9 4 40 100 77 63 34 8 83 15 18 68 17 20 40 40 3 44 40 48 78
301+ 301+ 14 301+ 301+ 274= 4 109= 156= 299= 301+ 87= 301+ 301+ 141 301+ 301+ 266= 301+ 245= 266= 228= 103
45.5 45.0 45.0 44.9 44.9 44.8 44.8 44.4 44.2 44.1 43.7 43.7 43.6 43.5 43.5 43.2 43.0 43.0 42.9 42.8 42.8 42.7 42.7
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241 242 243 244
22441= 272 249 259=
University of Victoria Universität Hamburg University of Surrey Universität Mannheim
CA DE GB DE
L XL M M
CO FC CO FO
VH HI VH VH
32 57 31 27
301+ 158 301+ 301+
36 26 56 70
290 301+ 165 105
1111 50 39 5
301+ 232= 301+ 301+
83 15 32 99
54 301+ 294= 12
74 19 89 11
122 301+ 68 301+
5577 50 95 49
186 218= 45 225
42.6 42.6 42.4 42.4
245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267= 267= 269 270 271 272 273 274 275= 275= 277
3 01 30 254= 279= 27 291= 237= 2 10 21 254= 25 207= 259= 266= 266= 26 232 234= 266= 317 312= 284 291= 262= 254= 288= 229= 251 252= 229= 22 258 269 281= 244= 288= 330 273=
Universität Köln Université de Strasbourg Universität Ulm University of Liege Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) Aalto University Flinders University University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) Universidad de São Paulo Hiroshima University King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) University of Newcastle University of Technology, Sydney SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies University of Exeter Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD) I ndian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) In Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) George Washington University University of Strathclyde Technische Universität Darmstadt Charles University University of Wollongong Universidad Complutense de Madrid Loughborough University Laval University North Carolina State University Université Grenoble, Joseph Fourier Curtin University of Technology University of Cincinnati Iowa State University University of Hawaii at Mānoa
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XL XL M L S L L L XL L M L L S L L XL S L L L L XL L XL L L L L L L L L
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HI MD VH VH VH VH MD VH VH VH VH HI VH VH HI VH VH VH MD HI VH VH VH HI HI VH VH VH VH VH VH VH VH
52 59 11 32 43 31 33 26 58 34 27 46 43 39 33 33 54 45 46 42 37 30 50 31 68 36 35 24 38 37 22 30 29
184 148 301+ 301+ 239 301+ 301+ 301+ 153 301+ 301+ 222 237 262= 301+ 301+ 170 226= 224 244 281= 301+ 197 301+ 118 296 301+ 301+ 275 281= 301+ 301+ 301+
35 33 19 31 58 38 36 8 39 34 31 52 52 74 47 67 16 30 67 37 53 71 31 29 69 40 78 78 31 43 31 63 33 22 -
301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 158 271 293= 301+ 261 301+ 301+ 194 84 217 117 301+ 301+ 120 281 185= 100 301+ 301+ 108 258= 70= 301+ 239= 301+ 137 301+ 301+ 301+
23 21 99 24 40 89 93 45 38 81 92 16 16 21 50 31 39 9 36 61 40 38 78 52 37 20 34 11 29 41 26 54 25 61
301+ 301+ 24= 301+ 301+ 61= 50 263= 301+ 90 51= 301+ 301+ 232= 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 165= 300= 301+ 97= 217= 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 292= 301+ 205= 301+ 158=
46 25 57 79 51 15 10 94 24 31 31 5 33 11 1 32 65 65 41 3 39 21 15 15 21 17 19 78 86 43 11 69 69 56
217 301+ 145 71 185 301+ 301+ 32 301+ 301+ 301+ 288= 301+ 301+ 301+ 121 119 239 301+ 252 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 73 49 231= 301+ 100 103 151=
24 29 30 30 19 39 5 6 20 9 100 78 99 98 78 62 62 3 72 3 71 44 9 92 15 75 57 57 12 18 100 11 61 23
301+ 277= 271= 301+ 301+ 224= 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 2 111 28 31 108 155= 301+ 301+ 123= 301+ 126 203 301+ 51 301+ 120= 172= 301+ 301+ 9 301+ 158= 301+
47 72 42 75 1 42 71 34 7 19 51 72 72 92 100 78 35 13 37 38 52 80 60 93 14 63 25 26 48 100 24 47 42
234= 123 256= 116= 301+ 253= 130 299= 301+ 301+ 214= 124= 53 8 105= 292= 301+ 301+ 287= 281= 208= 102 173= 52 301+ 156= 301+ 301+ 228= 9 301+ 231 256=
42.3 4422.1 42.1 42.0 42.0 41.9 41.9 41.9 41.7 41.7 41.5 41.5 41.4 41 41.3 41.1 41.0 40.9 40.9 40.8 40.8 40.7 40.7 40 40.7 4 0.7 40 40.6 40.3 39.8 39.5 39.2 39.2 39.1 39.1 39 39.1
278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286= 286= 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300=
33661= 271 234= 23 295= 334 281= 252= 285 177= 241= 288= 244= 306 316 295= 302= 328= 286 2 87 28 318= 300 302= 322
Universität Innsbruck ÉÉccole des Ponts, ParisTech Brandeis University University of South Australia Université Paris 7, Diderot Un National Cheng Kung University University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Riverside University of Athens La Trobe University Université Montpellier 2, Sciences et Techniques Queensland University of Technology National Yang Ming University Royal Holloway University of London Ro Universidade Estadual de Campinas University of Tromsø Universität Leipzig Politecnico di Milano Aston University Umeå University University of Southern Denmark Un University of East Anglia (UEA) Università di Pisa Un
AT FR US AU FR TW US US GR AU FR AU TW GB BR NO DE IT GB SE DE GB IT
L S M L L L L L XL L M L S M L S L L M L M L XL
FC FO CO CO FC FC CO FC FC CO FO CO FC CO FC FC FC SP CO FC FO FC FC
MD VH VH VH HI VH VH HI VH VH VH VH VH VH VH VH VH VH VH HI VH HI VH
45 20 28 37 47 37 39 33 47 41 24 47 12 32 46 16 39 47 28 29 24 27 56
226= 301+ 301+ 285 213 281= 272 301+ 215 250 301+ 214 301+ 301+ 220= 301+ 265 218 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 161
19 64 26 66 12 42 19 35 47 47 23 70 24 21 25 28 20 83 83 74 17 20 25 22
301+ 130 301+ 124 301+ 244 301+ 301+ 301+ 221 301+ 104 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 55= 86 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+
9 100 34 28 46 54 13 15 21 21 21 66 21 98 41 40 100 19 19 20 20 40 66 40 10
301+ 13 301+ 301+ 257= 199= 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 137= 301+ 34 292= 301+ 11 301+ 301+ 301+ 300= 137= 301+ 301+
35 6 70 9 25 30 96 92 43 18 45 18 46 22 34 23 66 20 27 48 32 40 47
272= 301+ 95 301+ 301+ 301+ 28= 39 231= 301+ 220 301+ 218 301+ 280 301+ 114 301+ 301+ 202 293 245 209=
87 26 11 100 38 10 7 10 91 13 12 13 94 26 39 15 11 88 90 49 76 1
72 292= 301+ 10 228= 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 60 301+ 301+ 301+ 48 294= 219= 301+ 301+ 69= 62 186= 114= 301+
98 25 61 82 31 23 5 16 46 85 55 63 13 98 7 25 31 35 93 25 25 63 71 9
21 301+ 169= 91= 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 236= 81= 195= 160= 301+ 26= 301+ 301+ 301+ 298 51 301+ 158= 126= 301+
39.0 38.8 38.8 38.8 38.5 38.5 38.5 38.4 38.3 38.3 38.2 38.1 38.0 38.0 37.9 37.8 37.8 37.7 37.7 37.5 37.4 37.3 37.2
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300= 302 299 29 303 44001-450 304 302= 30
Tokyo Medical and Dental University Massey University University of Jyväskylä Jagiellonian University
JP NZ FI PL
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FO CO CO CO
VH VH VH VH
7 38 31 48
301+ 274 301+ 209
39 28 31 31
301+ 263= 301+ 301+
100 32 84 55
2 301+ 81 195=
61 19 13 10
132 301+ 301+ 301+
4 95 23 5
301+ 41 301+ 301+
22 45 14 11
301+ 241= 301+ 301+
37.2 37.0 37.0 36.9
305 273= 27 306 25 2 59= 307 234= 308 328= 309 314= 310 346= 311 335 312 346= 313 331= 314 262= 315 357= 316= 342 316= 314= 318 307= 319 345 320 326= 321 250 322 281= 323 291= 324 324= 32 325 401-450 326 298 327 389= 328 377= 329 364= 330 27 2 79= 331 277= 332 360 333 273= 334 363 335 309= 336 324= 337 323
University of Essex University of Utah Ateneo de Manila University University of Eastern Finland Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Ruhr-Universität Bochum Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP) Universität Konstanz University of Oulu University of the Philippines Universität des Saarlandes Universität Bielefeld University of Waikato Chiba University Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) University of Tasmania Universitas Gadjah Mada Technische Universität Dresden Griffith University Universität Düsseldorf Westfälische Wilhelms-Universitat Münster Universidad de Buenos Aires National Chiao Tung University Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI) Université Paris 5, Descartes Dublin City University Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Bilkent University York University Colorado State University Arizona State University Universitat Pompeu Fabra Ben Gurion University of The Negev Be
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VH VH LO VH HI HI VH VH VH LO HI VH VH VH HI VH LO HI HI VH VH HI VH VH VH VH HI VH VH VH VH VH VH
37 16 53 11 48 36 30 40 22 57 23 42 35 22 39 30 54 39 33 14 31 49 21 53 29 25 39 41 48 26 44 38 41
287 301+ 180 301+ 211 291 301+ 259 301+ 160 301+ 241 299 301+ 269 301+ 167= 266 301+ 301+ 301+ 202 301+ 181 301+ 301+ 271 253= 212 301+ 235 276= 252
23 23 26 60 23 41 26 52 13 13 63 12 36 33 40 34 55 35 52 16 17 69 36 13 17 59 61 9 56 26 33 8 16
301+ 301+ 149 301+ 254 301+ 191 301+ 301+ 139 301+ 301+ 293= 301+ 255= 301+ 175 301+ 189 301+ 301+ 111 291 301+ 301+ 154 145 301+ 171 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+
28 51 35 87 40 36 42 42 86 29 26 11 28 89 61 34 29 37 16 43 61 24 50 12 28 37 37 31 57 16 14 16 39 33
301+ 221= 301+ 71= 300= 301+ 286= 286= 74= 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 61= 158= 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 278= 158= 301+ 232= 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 183= 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+
19 70 1 49 6 34 48 30 31 2 72 58 13 18 3 25 1 24 18 74 26 3 45 39 51 15 19 7 13 82 38 28 40
301+ 99 301+ 200 301+ 279 201 301+ 301+ 301+ 87 144 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 84 301+ 301+ 223 251 190 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 58 256 301+ 250
95 30 12 23 27 38 58 23 3 67 32 94 5 9 68 22 29 92 10 29 14 38 8 19 86 19 68 45 12 13 55 12
42 270 301+ 301+ 288= 226= 301+ 169= 301+ 301+ 144= 257= 47 301+ 301+ 135= 301+ 273= 58 301+ 275= 301+ 228= 301+ 301+ 74 301+ 142 199 301+ 301+ 180 301+
96 2211 12 13 33 50 22 9 1 59 31 91 20 42 90 5 38 92 92 66 27 26 20 17 82 65 25 4 18 9 20 24 5
37 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 218= 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 178= 301+ 56= 301+ 256= 60 301+ 284= 55 151 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 94= 152 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+
36.7 36.5 36.4 36.3 36.2 36.1 36.1 36.1 35.9 35.9 35.8 35.7 35.7 35.6 35.5 35.5 35.3 35.2 35.0 35.0 34.9 34.7 34.5 34.5 34.4 34.4 34.2 34.2 34.2 34.1 34.0 34.0 33.9
US DE US LB HK KR DE KR FR US KR AT US US US ES KR AU GB CA AR US ZA
L L XL M M L XL L L XL L L L L L M L M M L S L L
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21 34 32 23 4 22 26 24 27 32 33 38 11 25 29 20 28 14 17 28 19 29 33
301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 279 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+
17 28 45 29 66 22 11 15 25 33 23 26 26 24 22 27 38 24 30 49 22 56 28 40
301+ 301+ 233 301+ 121 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 276= 301+ 301+ 210 301+ 169 301+ 260
38 30 31 58 64 80 11 82 51 28 56 10 45 19 37 58 66 27 29 38 82 32 13
301+ 301+ 301+ 176= 145= 91= 301+ 85= 225= 301+ 191= 301+ 263= 301+ 301+ 176= 137= 301+ 301+ 301+ 85= 301+ 301+
66 31 33 15 21 16 82 7 16 51 12 45 75 67 30 22 13 49 26 44 3 23 32
117 301+ 288= 301+ 301+ 301+ 64 301+ 301+ 186= 301+ 222 79 112 301+ 301+ 301+ 198= 301+ 227= 301+ 301+ 297=
24 34 32 40 94 16 17 19 28 2 15 38 38 11 46 70 20 18 92 82
301+ 244= 259= 217 46 301+ 301+ 301+ 279= 301+ 301+ 226= 301+ 195= 131 301+ 301+ 52= 92
7 97 68
301+ 36 135=
21 54 24 83 58 35 40 57 87 13 43 33 17 12 20 59 26 63 98 33 25 27 31
301+ 200= 301+ 90 185 292= 266= 190= 70= 301+ 251= 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+ 182= 301+ 158= 23 301+ 301+ 301+ 301+
33.9 33.8 33.6 33.4 33.4 33 33.4 33.3 33.1 33.1 33.1 32.8 32.7 32.7 32.6 32.6 32.4 32.3 32.3 32.1 32.1 32.1 31.9 31.9
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361 362 363 364
318= 355= 401-450 349
Brunel University Deakin University Università degli Studi di Pavia (UNIPV) Warsaw University
GB AU IT PL
L L L XL
CO FC FC CO
VH MD HI VH
20 36 34 45
301+ 292 301+ 226=
55 48 17 48
174 214 301+ 211=
23 19 16 29
301+ 301+ 301+ 301+
22 14 60 9
301+ 301+ 136 301+
90 25 6 6
64= 296 301+ 301+
86 86 15 6
76= 75 301+ 301+
31.9 31.9 31.8 31.6
365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397
320 350 3 43= 34 3 94= 39 401-450 351= 291= 374= 386= 38 392= 312= 357= 401-450 40 354 401-450 3 86= 38 383= 371= 337= 401-450 380 361= 339= 401-450 40 401-450 401-450 346= 371= 401-450 383= 326= 366= 379
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Behind the scenes Martin Ince looks Ince looks at the methodology behind ranking the world’s universities
How can we rank the world’s universities? Te sheer number of them, their diversity, and the vast range range of nations nations and and cultures cultures of of which they form a part, all point to the difficulty of this task. But we also know that universities are the original global industry. Tey have been exchanging scholars, students and ideas for centuries. Now this activity has grown into a major world industry. Tis means that global universities have some features in common, and these provide the starting point for the t he QS World University Rankings®. Our most important insight is that academics know where the best academic work is being
We also know that people who employ graduates are astute observers of universities so we survey them to ask where they like to recruit. Tis year (again counting unique results from 2008 and 2009), 5,007 people took part in our employer review. Tey cast 15,087 valid votes.
carried out. So we ask them, by means of a carefully-designed survey in which named and approved individuals within universities are asked to name up to 30 top universities in the subject they know about. Nobody can vote for their own institution institution..
the concentration of high-quality research at each institution. Construction / Property 182 3.6% A further 20% of a university’s possible Consulting / Professional 550 11.0% score comes from its faculty/student ratio, Services in an attempt to capture its commitment to Electronics / High 131 2.6% Technology teaching. Tis is an indirect measure whose Energy 144 2.9% imperfections we acknowledge. One advantage of using it is that a university which reported Financial Services / Banking 513 10.2% a dubiously low number of staff to enhance its FMCG 220 4.4% citations per person count would suffer on this IT / Computer Services 393 7.8% measure, and vice versa. Law 64 1.3% Finally we allot 5% to each of two Manufacturing / Engineering 517 10.3% measures of globalization, the percentage of Media / Entertainment & international staff and international students 104 2.1% Arts at each university. Tis tells us whether Metals / Mining 64 1.3% universities are serious about being global. Pharmaceuticals / Biotech & 224 4.5% More importantly, it tells us whether people Healthcare Public Sector / Govt. / Nonwant to cross borders to be there. We limit the 313 6.3% profit size of these measures so that a poor university Recruitment / HR services 348 7.0% cannot achieve a high ranking by filling itself Retail 131 2.6% with indifferent foreign staff and students. Tis process uses data on student and Telecoms 131 2.6% staff numbers, and on international staff and Transportation / Distribution 95 1.9% students, which is gathered from universities Travel / Leisure / Hospitality 75 1.5% themselves and from national agencies using Utilities 58 1.2% agreed definitions. It is also checked and Other 564 11.3% verified by QS. QS. We create the rankings by generating the A look at the nations represented in our results for each criterion, weighting them employer and academic surveys shows the US is according to their Z score, essentially a the biggest contributor to our academic survey, measure of their distance from the average
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Tese two elements make up half of a university’s possible score in the QS World University Rankings®: 40% for the academic review and 10% for the employer review. he next 20% is derived from academic journal citati citations, ons, the class classic ic measure of research impact. We use data from Scopus, part of the Elsevier Els evier publishing group, running back five years and covering over 18,000 journals, journal s, alongs alongside ide data on the number of academic staff at each university, to produce the number of citations per person. his reduces bias in favour of high-citation subjects such as medicine, instead measuring
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and India to our employer survey. Mainland China contributes 1.8% of our academic respondents and 1% of the employers. Tere are more significant contributions from Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of China.
score. Tis removes the severe effects of outliers. We display each column with the score for the top institution normalised to 100, and aggregate all six into the final column to yield the overall ranking.
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Top university systems By Martin Ince, convenor of the QS Academic Advisory Board
Higher education is a global industry. Every university wants more oreign students and over three million people are now studying outside their home country. Te QS World University Rankings® are one way o looking at the world’s universities; this makes them an essential part o the global higher education enterprise. enterprise. But what do these rankings, which gauge the perormance o specific institutions, tell us about national university systems? Te world economic crisis has given this question extra importance. All university systems are dependent upon state spending, and there is about to be less o it. We know too
and the UK are the only nations with more universities in the top 200 places in 2010 than in 2009. But even this is a message o stability rather than radical change. Only one o these countries, Germany, had two new institutions in the top 200. he rest had one new entrant each. Germany’s rise rom 10 to 12 top-200 universities may reflect the success o the Excellence Initiative, which is unnelling several billion Euros o research cash into a select group o universities. Te contrast is with Japan, down rom 11 to 10 top-200 universities. Tese are nations o similar size and wealth. But
that governments are very aware o national perormance in world ranking systems. Tey may regard international success in their universities as a sign they are worth investing in – or as proo they have enough money already. his year’s QS World World University Rank ings® show a comparatively small number o countries gaining ground as world powers in higher education. France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, aiwan
Japan is subject to ar worse policy paralysis, both regarding universities and concerning its uture overall. A more thorough look at national university capacity is provided by the table o University System Strength. Tis uses our equallyweighted measures to grasp the comparative power o different university systems, basing its findings on the top 500 universities in the QS World University Rankings®.
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Te first measure we show, System, is derived rom the number o universities which a country has in the top 500 and their average position. Te second, Access, looks at each nation’s success at getting people into college. It is a measure o the size o its university population divided by the square root o its population. We use the square root rather than the absolute figure to avoid a ew tiny outliers, such as Hong Kong, dominating the results. Our third measure, Flagship, uses the position o each nation’s top university in the rankings. Tis is important because many nations (aiwan is an example) regard it as vital
to have at least one university which is highlyplaced on the world stage. Te final criterion, Economic, acknowledges countries that have created a viable university system in difficult economic circumstances. It awards five points or any university in the top 100, our or one between 101 and 200, and three, two or one respectively or each university between 201 and 300, 301 and 400, and 401 and 500. Tis score is divided by the country’s gross domestic product per capita. University System Strength In previous years, the US has won all our categories and come top overall. But in 2010, System Access Flagship Economic Overall Cambridge University’s top position in the QS Score Ra Rank Sc Score Ra Rank Sc Score Ra Rank Sc Score Ra Rank Sc Score Ra Rank ± World University Rankings® means the UK won 100 1 100 1 100 2 100 1 100 1 0 98 2 96 5 100 1 98 3 98 2 0 the Flagship group. Despite this, the US was top on the other three measures and overall, 94 3 96 6 95 13 95 5 95 3 0 90 6 98 2 98 5 86 7 93 4 0 with the UK in second place despite being fifh 86 8 96 3 98 4 83 10 91 5 0 in terms o Access. Tis ranking shows the 93 4 78 12 97 9 83 8 88 6 1 university systems o continental Europe in a 93 5 70 19 98 7 87 6 87 7 1 positive light, with eight o the top 20 places. 89 7 83 9 94 15 76 12 85 8 0 Tere are inevitably imperections in this 77 9 73 16 95 12 75 13 80 9 0 analysis. Italy appears in ourth spot or Access, 75 12 96 4 74 27 66 15 78 10 4 but observers o its university system claim it is 76 11 71 18 98 3 60 19 76 11 1 a bloated mess with too many students. Getting 72 13 79 11 93 16 60 16 76 12 1 77 10 18 42 95 11 98 4 72 13 2 rid o some would lower its position here. 62 17 76 15 90 19 55 24 71 14 2 It is also notable that China and India come 53 20 82 10 92 17 56 22 71 15 2 in 42nd and 44th position respectively in terms 67 15 83 8 79 25 53 26 71 16 3 o Access, so their university systems have a 70 14 61 22 98 6 49 27 69 17 1 long way to go beore they gain the scale that 52 21 77 14 94 14 46 29 67 18 1 these massive nations deserve. But they are also 64 16 58 24 89 21 56 23 67 19 3 50 46 62 46 62 42
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One o the main criticisms o global university rankings has been that they compare universities o such varying sizes and types. Small, specialist institutions, however eminent, will struggle to achieve the reputation enjoyed by the best o the big generalist universities, while those whose ocus is on the arts or social sciences cannot hope to match the citations generated in science and medicine. he classiications that appear in the QS World University Rankings® a llow readers to take such dierences into account without departing rom the principle o a single set o comparisons.
placed o the new ‘extra large’ universities is Michigan, in 15th position, while the largest o all – UNAM, in Mexico, with more than 150,000 students – has dropped out o the top 200 this year. Both third-placed Yale and the Massachusetts Institute o echnology (MI), in fifh place, are classified as ‘medium’, having ewer than 12,000 students. he classiications, which were introduced in 2009, have been improved or the latest rankings. he new ‘extra large’ (XL) category has been introduced to identiy universities that have more than 30,000 students, while more intuitive abbreviations have replaced
five aculty areas without a medical school (comprehensive, (compre hensive, or CO). Tose operating in three or our aculty areas are categorized as ocused (abbreviated as FO) while those operating in only one or two areas are considered specialist (or SP).
Te system is based loosely on the Carnegie C arnegie classifications that divide US universities into different categories. But, since Carnegie uses no ewer than 33 different types o institution, the QS system has been devised to be more accessible to the general reader. Universities are divided by size, subject ocus and research intensity, with no more than our categories or each. Prospective students or research partners partner s are thus able to see at a glance which universities have broadly similar characteristics. As might be expected, all the universities in this year’s top 50 are categorized at the top level o research activity, but even at the top o the ranking,there are differences both in size and the spread o subjects. Te École Normale Supérieure, in Paris, 33rd in the overall ranking, emerges as the top small, specialist institution in the world, or example. With ewer than 1,000 highly-selected students, ENS is a very different type o university to the National University o Singapore, two places above it, which has 30,000 students but a similar level o research intensity intensity.. Te London School o Economics and Political Science (LSE), although only 80th in the overall ranking, is the next highest among the specialist universities. echnological universities, such as EH Zurich, have a somewhat wider spread o aculties and are
the previous numerical classiications or easier use.
Te ability to distinguish between different types o universities is one o the Berlin Principles drawn up by academics and ranking organizations to guide the compilation o international league tables. Te QS World University Rankings® continue to provide the single point o comparison that many readers demand, but the classifications offer an easy way to place the results in context.
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The specialists up close Martin Ince reveals who the specialists are at faculty level
Arts & Humanities Our analysis o university perormance in the five main areas o academic lie – the natural sciences, engineering and technology, lie sciences and medicine, the social sciences, and the arts and humanities – is one o the most eagerly awaited parts o the QS World World University Rankings®. Ranki ngs®. Tese rankings are produced by taking the score rom our academic reputation review or each o these aculty-level areas. Tere were 15,050 respondents to the
those rom Japan or the UK. We may think research is truly global, but people are still more likely to cite people they know or who work at amiliar institution institutions. s. Probably no university is as envied around the world as the Massachusetts Institute o echnology (MI). Institutions such as KAIS in Korea are deliberately modelled on it, and the European Commission has considered what it might take to create a European MI.
academic review in 2010, including a small number o participants rom previous years whose data was counted provided they had not voted since.
Here MI comortably wins the poll or the world’s top engineering and technology university, deeating both its big Caliornian rivals and UK competition rom the University o Cambridge and Imperial College London. Te UK has prominence in our arts and humanities survey. Te universities o Oxord and Cambridge are in the top slots, and the UK occupies ten o the top 50 positions. London’s School o Oriental and Arican Studies appears at 50th position despite being 258th in the overall QS World University Rankings®. In uture years it will be interesting to see whether Asia’s growing economic power is reflected by increased prestige in the arts and humanities. Meanwhile, note the column o citations data. Most papers here are cited less than once, highlighting the very different publication style o the arts and humanities. Harvard also wins the reputation battle in the social sciences. Tis table also shows the London School o Economics and Political Science (LSE), whose specialist nature puts
Subject specific In this analysis we include specialist institutions (such as Rockereller University, a prestigious medical school in New York) but not postgraduate-only, single-aculty colleges such as the London Business School. Despite Harvard’s all rom top spot in our overall rankings, it won our poll o academic opinion or biology and medical institutions comortably. Its papers are the most-cited, apart rom the much smaller biomedical outputs o MI and Caltech. Te US has seven o the top ten lie sciences universities, with the UK and Japan taking the other three spots. Our top ten in the natural sciences looks similar to the overall result or the QS World University Rankings®, with Harvard edged into an unamiliar second spot by Cambridge, and only narrowly
ahead o Oxord. Te small but it 80th in the world overall, in well-regarded output o Caltech ourth place, just behind Oxord makes it the top institution or and Cambridge. citations. Tis table demonstrates the “big country effect” in action as US papers get more citations than
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Tere have been many discussions and much research around the notion o a “World Class University”; the importance o it to governments, employers, investors, alumni, students, applicants and the universities themselves. Tereore the measurement o a world class university is critical. Tere is general agreement that the main actors to consider when looking at a world class university are: the excellence in education o its students; its research, development and dissemination o knowledge; and its activities contributing to the cultural, scientific, and civic lie o society. i According to the paper rom Columbia University, What is a World Class University? , excellence in education reers to the resources and organization o undergraduate, graduate, and proessional instruction and educational opportunities or students. Tey go on to discuss urther that this goal requires outstanding aculty, high quality teaching and other instructional activities, as well as availability o good libraries, laboratories, and other pertinent acilities. aking these actors into consideration, what do students require to make the necessary decision on where to spend the most important years o their education? How do they find out about the level o research or the cultural society o an institution? Many o these questions have been answered in recent years with the birth o the QS World University Rankings®. Tese rankings identified our key pillars upon which a “World Class University” can be built, and as a basis or evaluation, used them as criteria under which indicators have been chosen to evaluate universities globally. Tese pillars are research quality, teaching quality, graduate employability
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