World University Rankings 2012
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World University Rankings 2012-2013
Rank 1 2 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 25 27 28 29 30 31 Institution California Institute of Technology Stanford University University of Oxford Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Princeton University University of Cambridge Imperial College London University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago Yale University ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich University of California, Los Angeles Columbia University University of Pennsylvania Johns Hopkins University University College London Cornell University Northwestern University University of Michigan University of Toronto Carnegie Mellon University Duke University University of Washington University of Texas at Austin Georgia Institute of Technology University of Tokyo University of Melbourne National University of Singapore University of British Columbia University of Wisconsin-Madison Country / Region United States United States United Kingdom United States United States United States United Kingdom United Kingdom United States United States United States Switzerland United States United States United States United States United Kingdom United States United States United States Canada United States United States United States United States United States Japan Australia Singapore Canada United States Overall score change criteria 95.5 93.7 93.7 93.6 93.1 92.7 92.6 90.6 90.5 90.4 89.2 87.8 87.7 87.0 86.6 85.6 85.5 83.3 83.1 82.6 82.2 81.5 81.2 79.9 78.8 78.8 78.3 77.9 77.5 77.3 76.9
Rank 32 33 34 35 35 37 38 39 40 41 42 42 44 44 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 54 56 57 58 59 59 61 62 62 64 65
Institution University of Edinburgh University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign McGill University The University of Hong Kong University of California, Santa Barbara Australian National University University of California, San Diego London School of Economics and Political Science École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne New York University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Karolinska Institute University of California, Davis Washington University in St Louis Peking University University of Minnesota Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München University of Manchester
Country / Region United Kingdom United States Canada Hong Kong United States Australia United States
Overall score change criteria 76.1 75.8 75.7 75.6 75.6 75.4 75.2
United Kingdom 73.1 73.0 72.8 72.4 72.4 71.8 71.8 70.7 70.5 70.4 70.1 69.4 68.9 67.1 67.0 66.8 66.8 66.3 66.2 66.1 65.9 65.9 65.8 65.7 65.7 65.1 64.4
Switzerland United States United States Sweden United States United States China United States Germany United Kingdom Republic of Pohang University of Science and Technology Korea Brown University United States Tsinghua University China Ohio State University United States Boston University United States Kyoto University Japan University of Southern California United States King's College London United Kingdom KU Leuven Belgium École Normale Supérieure France Republic of Seoul National University Korea Pennsylvania State University United States École Polytechnique France University of Sydney Australia Leiden University Netherlands University of Queensland Australia Australia
Rank 65 67 68 69 70 70 72 72 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 89 91 92 93 94 94 96 97 98 99 99
Institution Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Utrecht University Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Purdue University Wageningen University and Research Center Georg-August-Universität Göttingen University of Massachusetts Erasmus University Rotterdam University of Bristol Rice University University of Pittsburgh Delft University of Technology Universität Heidelberg Emory University Durham University Université Pierre et Marie Curie Lund University University of Amsterdam University of Montreal University of New South Wales Nanyang Technological University Tufts University McMaster University University of Zürich University of Groningen University of Colorado Boulder Université Paris-Sud Ghent University University of Notre Dame Michigan State University University of California, Irvine University of Maryland, College Park University of Arizona Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Country / Region Hong Kong Netherlands Republic of Korea United States Netherlands Germany United States Netherlands United Kingdom United States United States Netherlands Germany United States United Kingdom France Sweden Netherlands Canada Australia Singapore United States Canada Switzerland Netherlands United States France Belgium United States United States United States United States United States United States Germany
Overall score change criteria 64.4 64.1 64.0 63.8 63.2 63.2 62.9 62.9 62.5 62.0 61.7 61.6 61.4 61.3 60.7 60.5 60.3 60.1 59.8 59.6 59.4 59.1 59.0 58.8 58.8 58.7 58.6 58.4 58.3 58.3 58.2 57.9 57.7 57.5 57.5
Rank 99 102 103 104 105 106 106 108 109 110 110 110 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 122 124 124 124 127 128 128 130 130 130 133 134 134
Institution Monash University University of Rochester University of York Case Western Reserve University Technische Universität München Vanderbilt University Uppsala University University of St Andrews University of Helsinki University of Sussex University of Sheffield Trinity College Dublin University of Cape Town Eindhoven University of Technology Maastricht University Aarhus University Stockholm University University of Virginia Royal Holloway, University of London University of Nottingham University of Alberta University of California, Santa Cruz University of Florida University of Warwick Dartmouth College Chinese University of Hong Kong Radboud University Nijmegen Freie Universität Berlin Tokyo Institute of Technology University of Southampton Université de Lausanne University of Copenhagen University of Geneva National Taiwan University University of Utah
Country / Region Australia United States United Kingdom United States Germany United States Sweden United Kingdom Finland United Kingdom United Kingdom Republic of Ireland South Africa Netherlands Netherlands Denmark Sweden United States United Kingdom United Kingdom Canada United States United States United Kingdom United States Hong Kong Netherlands Germany Japan United Kingdom Switzerland Denmark Switzerland Taiwan United States
Overall score change criteria 57.5 57.2 57.1 56.9 56.8 56.6 56.6 56.5 56.4 56.2 56.2 56.2 55.8 55.6 55.5 55.3 55.2 55.0 54.9 54.8 54.7 54.5 54.5 54.4 54.4 54.4 54.0 53.7 53.7 53.6 53.6 53.6 53.5 53.2 53.2
Rank 134 137 137 139 140 140 142 142 144 145 145 147 148 149 150 151 151 153 154 154 156 156 158 158 158 161 162 162 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171
Institution Indiana University Tohoku University Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of Glasgow KTH Royal Institute of Technology VU University Amsterdam Universität Basel University of Leeds Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Queen Mary, University of London Lancaster University Osaka University Arizona State University Technical University of Denmark Boston College University of Bern Karlsruhe Institute of Technology University of Exeter RWTH Aachen University University of California, Riverside Yeshiva University Texas A&M University Tel Aviv University University of Birmingham University of São Paulo University of Auckland University of Vienna Stony Brook University Université Catholique de Louvain University of Delaware Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 University of Texas at Dallas George Washington University University of Iowa École Normale Supérieure de Lyon University of Ottawa
Country / Region United States Japan Israel United Kingdom Sweden Netherlands Switzerland United Kingdom Germany United Kingdom United Kingdom Japan United States Denmark United States Switzerland Germany United Kingdom Germany United States United States United States Israel United Kingdom Brazil New Zealand Austria United States Belgium United States France United States United States United States France Canada
Overall score change criteria 53.2 53.1 53.1 53.0 52.9 52.9 52.8 52.8 52.3 52.1 52.1 52.0 51.9 51.7 51.6 51.5 51.5 51.3 51.1 51.1 50.9 50.9 50.5 50.5 50.5 50.3 50.2 50.2 50.0 49.7 49.6 49.5 49.4 49.3 49.2 49.0
Rank 171 171 174 174 176 176 176 176 180 180 182 183 184 184 184 187 187 189 190 190 192 193 193 193 196 196 198 199 200
Institution Universität Bonn University of Liverpool Georgetown University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Adelaide University of East Anglia University of Aberdeen University of Reading Newcastle University Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble City University of Hong Kong Yonsei University Colorado School of Mines University of Illinois at Chicago William & Mary University of Twente University College Dublin
Medical University of South Carolina Wake Forest University University of Western Australia University of Antwerp Technion Israel Institute of Technology Iowa State University University of Miami University of Victoria University of Leicester University at Buffalo Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Germany am Main Birkbeck, University of London United Kingdom
Country / Region Germany United Kingdom United States United States Australia United Kingdom United Kingdom United Kingdom United Kingdom France Hong Kong Republic of Korea United States United States United States Netherlands Republic of Ireland United States United States Australia Belgium Israel United States United States Canada United Kingdom United States
Overall score change criteria 49.0 49.0 48.9 48.9 48.8 48.8 48.8 48.8 48.6 48.6 48.5 48.2 48.0 48.0 48.0 47.9 47.9 47.7 47.3 47.3 47.1 46.9 46.9 46.9 46.7 46.7 46.6 46.4 46.2
Rank 1 2 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 25 27 28 29 30 31 Institution California Institute of Technology Stanford University University of Oxford Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Princeton University University of Cambridge Imperial College London University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago Yale University ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich University of California, Los Angeles Columbia University University of Pennsylvania Johns Hopkins University University College London Cornell University Northwestern University University of Michigan University of Toronto Carnegie Mellon University Duke University University of Washington University of Texas at Austin Georgia Institute of Technology University of Tokyo University of Melbourne National University of Singapore University of British Columbia University of Wisconsin-Madison Country / Region United States United States United Kingdom United States United States United States United Kingdom United Kingdom United States United States United States Switzerland United States United States United States United States United Kingdom United States United States United States Canada United States United States United States United States United States Japan Australia Singapore Canada United States Overall score change criteria 95.5 93.7 93.7 93.6 93.1 92.7 92.6 90.6 90.5 90.4 89.2 87.8 87.7 87.0 86.6 85.6 85.5 83.3 83.1 82.6 82.2 81.5 81.2 79.9 78.8 78.8 78.3 77.9 77.5 77.3 76.9
Rank 32 33 34 35 35 37 38 39 40 41 42 42 44 44 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 54 56 57 58 59 59 61 62 62 64 65
Institution University of Edinburgh University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign McGill University The University of Hong Kong University of California, Santa Barbara Australian National University University of California, San Diego London School of Economics and Political Science École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne New York University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Karolinska Institute University of California, Davis Washington University in St Louis Peking University University of Minnesota Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München University of Manchester
Country / Region United Kingdom United States Canada Hong Kong United States Australia United States
Overall score change criteria 76.1 75.8 75.7 75.6 75.6 75.4 75.2
United Kingdom 73.1 73.0 72.8 72.4 72.4 71.8 71.8 70.7 70.5 70.4 70.1 69.4 68.9 67.1 67.0 66.8 66.8 66.3 66.2 66.1 65.9 65.9 65.8 65.7 65.7 65.1 64.4
Switzerland United States United States Sweden United States United States China United States Germany United Kingdom Republic of Pohang University of Science and Technology Korea Brown University United States Tsinghua University China Ohio State University United States Boston University United States Kyoto University Japan University of Southern California United States King's College London United Kingdom KU Leuven Belgium École Normale Supérieure France Republic of Seoul National University Korea Pennsylvania State University United States École Polytechnique France University of Sydney Australia Leiden University Netherlands University of Queensland Australia Australia
Rank 65 67 68 69 70 70 72 72 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 89 91 92 93 94 94 96 97 98 99 99
Institution Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Utrecht University Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Purdue University Wageningen University and Research Center Georg-August-Universität Göttingen University of Massachusetts Erasmus University Rotterdam University of Bristol Rice University University of Pittsburgh Delft University of Technology Universität Heidelberg Emory University Durham University Université Pierre et Marie Curie Lund University University of Amsterdam University of Montreal University of New South Wales Nanyang Technological University Tufts University McMaster University University of Zürich University of Groningen University of Colorado Boulder Université Paris-Sud Ghent University University of Notre Dame Michigan State University University of California, Irvine University of Maryland, College Park University of Arizona Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Country / Region Hong Kong Netherlands Republic of Korea United States Netherlands Germany United States Netherlands United Kingdom United States United States Netherlands Germany United States United Kingdom France Sweden Netherlands Canada Australia Singapore United States Canada Switzerland Netherlands United States France Belgium United States United States United States United States United States United States Germany
Overall score change criteria 64.4 64.1 64.0 63.8 63.2 63.2 62.9 62.9 62.5 62.0 61.7 61.6 61.4 61.3 60.7 60.5 60.3 60.1 59.8 59.6 59.4 59.1 59.0 58.8 58.8 58.7 58.6 58.4 58.3 58.3 58.2 57.9 57.7 57.5 57.5
Rank 99 102 103 104 105 106 106 108 109 110 110 110 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 122 124 124 124 127 128 128 130 130 130 133 134 134
Institution Monash University University of Rochester University of York Case Western Reserve University Technische Universität München Vanderbilt University Uppsala University University of St Andrews University of Helsinki University of Sussex University of Sheffield Trinity College Dublin University of Cape Town Eindhoven University of Technology Maastricht University Aarhus University Stockholm University University of Virginia Royal Holloway, University of London University of Nottingham University of Alberta University of California, Santa Cruz University of Florida University of Warwick Dartmouth College Chinese University of Hong Kong Radboud University Nijmegen Freie Universität Berlin Tokyo Institute of Technology University of Southampton Université de Lausanne University of Copenhagen University of Geneva National Taiwan University University of Utah
Country / Region Australia United States United Kingdom United States Germany United States Sweden United Kingdom Finland United Kingdom United Kingdom Republic of Ireland South Africa Netherlands Netherlands Denmark Sweden United States United Kingdom United Kingdom Canada United States United States United Kingdom United States Hong Kong Netherlands Germany Japan United Kingdom Switzerland Denmark Switzerland Taiwan United States
Overall score change criteria 57.5 57.2 57.1 56.9 56.8 56.6 56.6 56.5 56.4 56.2 56.2 56.2 55.8 55.6 55.5 55.3 55.2 55.0 54.9 54.8 54.7 54.5 54.5 54.4 54.4 54.4 54.0 53.7 53.7 53.6 53.6 53.6 53.5 53.2 53.2
Rank 134 137 137 139 140 140 142 142 144 145 145 147 148 149 150 151 151 153 154 154 156 156 158 158 158 161 162 162 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171
Institution Indiana University Tohoku University Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of Glasgow KTH Royal Institute of Technology VU University Amsterdam Universität Basel University of Leeds Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Queen Mary, University of London Lancaster University Osaka University Arizona State University Technical University of Denmark Boston College University of Bern Karlsruhe Institute of Technology University of Exeter RWTH Aachen University University of California, Riverside Yeshiva University Texas A&M University Tel Aviv University University of Birmingham University of São Paulo University of Auckland University of Vienna Stony Brook University Université Catholique de Louvain University of Delaware Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 University of Texas at Dallas George Washington University University of Iowa École Normale Supérieure de Lyon University of Ottawa
Country / Region United States Japan Israel United Kingdom Sweden Netherlands Switzerland United Kingdom Germany United Kingdom United Kingdom Japan United States Denmark United States Switzerland Germany United Kingdom Germany United States United States United States Israel United Kingdom Brazil New Zealand Austria United States Belgium United States France United States United States United States France Canada
Overall score change criteria 53.2 53.1 53.1 53.0 52.9 52.9 52.8 52.8 52.3 52.1 52.1 52.0 51.9 51.7 51.6 51.5 51.5 51.3 51.1 51.1 50.9 50.9 50.5 50.5 50.5 50.3 50.2 50.2 50.0 49.7 49.6 49.5 49.4 49.3 49.2 49.0
Rank 171 171 174 174 176 176 176 176 180 180 182 183 184 184 184 187 187 189 190 190 192 193 193 193 196 196 198 199 200
Institution Universität Bonn University of Liverpool Georgetown University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Adelaide University of East Anglia University of Aberdeen University of Reading Newcastle University Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble City University of Hong Kong Yonsei University Colorado School of Mines University of Illinois at Chicago William & Mary University of Twente University College Dublin
Medical University of South Carolina Wake Forest University University of Western Australia University of Antwerp Technion Israel Institute of Technology Iowa State University University of Miami University of Victoria University of Leicester University at Buffalo Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Germany am Main Birkbeck, University of London United Kingdom
Country / Region Germany United Kingdom United States United States Australia United Kingdom United Kingdom United Kingdom United Kingdom France Hong Kong Republic of Korea United States United States United States Netherlands Republic of Ireland United States United States Australia Belgium Israel United States United States Canada United Kingdom United States
Overall score change criteria 49.0 49.0 48.9 48.9 48.8 48.8 48.8 48.8 48.6 48.6 48.5 48.2 48.0 48.0 48.0 47.9 47.9 47.7 47.3 47.3 47.1 46.9 46.9 46.9 46.7 46.7 46.6 46.4 46.2
