The world's top 200 universities by Times High Education 2006

		The world’s top 200 universities    2006 rank 2005 rank Name Country Peer review score (40%) Recruiter review (10%) Int'l faculty score (5%) Int'l students score (5%) Faculty / student score (20%) Citations / faculty score (20%) Overall score   1 1 Harvard University US 93 100 15 25 56 55 100.0   2 3 Cambridge University UK 100 79 58 43 64 17 96.8   3 4 Oxford University UK 97 76 54 39 61 15 92.7   4= 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 81 93 11 39 42 54 89.2   4= 7 Yale University US 72 81 45 26 93 24 89.2   6 5 Stanford University US 82 85 9 34 32 55 85.4   7 8 California Institute of Technology US 53 21 24 40 67 100 83.8   8 6 University of California, Berkeley US 92 75 6 13 22 39 80.4   9 13 Imperial College London UK 65 44 55 56 88 12 78.6   10 9 Princeton University US 68 61 21 29 53 34 74.2   11 17 University of Chicago US 57 67 19 30 73 17 69.8   12 20 Columbia University US 57 64 9 32 74 17 69.0   13 11 Duke University US 39 78 11 21 100 19 68.3   14 15 Beijing University China 70 55 5 11 69 2 67.9   15 14 Cornell University US 60 74 10 25 44 26 65.9   16 23 Australian National University Australia 72 30 48 33 38 13 64.8   17 11 London School of Economics UK 42 85 89 100 53 1 63.9   18 24 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France 46 30 22 28 69 37 63.3   19= 22 National University of Singapore Singapore 70 44 82 47 22 8 63.1   19= 16 Tokyo University Japan 72 29 8 10 35 27 63.1   21 24 McGill University Canada 57 61 31 33 52 10 62.3   22 19 Melbourne University  Australia 72 44 51 36 25 7 61.6   23 27 Johns Hopkins University US 49 37 15 20 65 29 61.3   24 21 ETH Zurich Switzerland 51 25 84 45 44 23 59.7   25 28 University College London UK 46 28 39 47 70 12 58.7   26 32 Pennsylvania University US 45 64 17 26 52 22 57.8   27 29 University of Toronto Canada 63 51 37 17 15 25 57.7   28 62 Tsing Hua University China 45 34 22 9 84 1 56.1   29= 31 Kyoto University Japan 61 20 15 7 44 18 56.0   29= 36 University of Michigan US 50 61 15 19 46 15 56.0   31 37 University of California, Los Angeles US 58 42 2 12 34 25 55.9   32 26 University of Texas at Austin US 44 56 24 14 19 53 55.0   33= 30 Edinburgh University UK 54 42 28 29 42 11 54.8   33= 41 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 48 40 84 27 46 6 54.8   35= 44 Carnegie Mellon University US 44 64 28 40 48 11 54.6   35= 38 Sydney University Australia 65 26 56 31 23 8 54.6   37 10 Ecole Polytechnique France 37 40 18 40 64 17 53.0   38 33 Monash University Australia 57 40 61 51 21 5 52.6   39 88 Geneva University Switzerland 26 13 69 58 81 7 49.9   40 35 Manchester University UK 44 50 42 29 38 6 49.0   41 40 University of New South Wales Australia 56 36 23 37 20 7 48.2   42 46 Northwestern University US 32 71 12 20 44 19 47.9   43 56 New York University US 39 51 8 16 55 6 47.6   44 42 University of California, San Diego US 46 16 3 9 26 42 47.5   45 47 Queensland University Australia 52 26 51 31 18 12 47.2   46= 52 Auckland University New Zealand 51 17 44 21 38 2 46.8   46= 73 King’s College London UK 42 28 42 30 44 7 46.8   48= 73 Rochester University US 21 26 8 23 91 12 46.7   48= 58 Washington University, St Louis US 25 32 5 18 73 22 46.7   50= 38 University of British Columbia Canada 51 38 23 15 19 16 46.4   50= 51 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 39 38 62 24 41 7 46.4   52 69 Sciences Po France 21 29 22 53 86 – 45.6   53 114 Vanderbilt University US 22 37 2 14 81 14 45.3   54= 71 Brown University US 32 32 34 20 50 18 45.0   54= 66 Copenhagen University Denmark 44 21 12 13 51 5 45.0   56 141 Emory University US 19 38 1 14 84 15 44.9   57 50 Indian Institutes of Technology India 45 34 0 1 27 24 44.5   58= 45 Heidelberg University Germany 43 28 17 28 36 11 44.3   58= 43 Hong Kong University Sci & Technol Hong Kong 40 41 74 21 17 16 44.3   60 109 Case Western Reserve University US 19 34 3 24 77 19 44.2   61= 117 Dartmouth College US 22 56 13 17 59 16 43.7   61= 48 Nanyang Technological University Singapore 40 37 77 56 21 3 43.7   63 93 Seoul National University South Korea 43 13 2 7 57 4 43.6   64= 49 Bristol University UK 36 44 37 26 34 10 43.2   64= 34 Ecole Polytech Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland 28 13 70 66 47 11 43.2   66 54 Boston University US 35 38 9 21 47 10 42.9   67 70 Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands 19 18 21 11 92 3 42.1   68 84 Indian Institutes of Management India 31 46 0 10 60 2 41.6   69 58 Amsterdam University Netherlands 42 20 30 10 28 15 41.3   70= 103 School of Oriental and African Studies UK 23 9 48 74 64 0 40.4   70= 105 Osaka University Japan 39 0 4 9 45 17 40.4   72 92 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon France 21 18 15 19 50 34 40.1   73 77 Warwick University UK 39 40 38 41 22 4 40.0   74 95 National Autonomous Univ of Mexico Mexico 29 36 3 1 65 0 39.8   75 127 Basel University Switzerland 21 0 76 28 63 10 39.7   76 88 Catholic University of Louvain (French) Belgium 37 25 29 25 29 11 39.4   77 58 University of Illinois US 39 31 10 16 32 9 39.3   78 111 Trinity College Dublin Ireland 37 34 58 29 17 9 39.1   79=   186 Otago University New Zealand 26 17 94 20 45 3 38.5   79= 73 University of Wisconsin US 39 11 0 14 35 16 38.5   81 101 Glasgow University UK 35 33 17 16 35 9 38.4   82= 67 Macquarie University Australia 32 40 100 51 10 5 38.3   82= 105 Technical University Munich Germany 30 26 22 30 42 10 38.3   84 88 Washington University US 31 23 13 10 38 20 38.2   85 97 Nottingham University UK 34 37 34 29 28 6 38.1   86 53 Delft University of Technology Netherlands 34 13 52 18 37 7 38.0   87 65 Vienna University Austria 43 22 23 26 10 15 37.8   88 193 Pittsburgh University US 22 19 20 10 62 11 37.6   89 133 Lausanne University Switzerland 20 21 54 33 53 9 37.3   90= 143 Birmingham University UK 34 27 34 29 28 9 37.2   90= 138 Leiden University Netherlands 33 21 33 11 20 26 37.2   92 57 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands 22 49 24 31 11 38 37.1   93= 79 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia 42 28 1 7 30 3 37.0   93= 88 Pierre and Marie Curie University France 31 0 29 35 49 6 37.0   95 120 Utrecht University Netherlands 37 12 24 9 25 18 36.7   96 95 Catholic University of Leuven (Flemish) Belgium 37 35 11 20 18 13 36.6   97 108 Wageningen University Netherlands 16 9 16 45 61 17 36.5   98 55 Munich University Germany 35 23 19 21 29 9 36.4   99= 112 Queen Mary, University of London UK 26 9 44 40 47 4 36.3   99= 64 Pennsylvania State University US 33 43 7 8 31 6 36.3   101 124 University of Southern California US 27 28 7 28 45 9 36.2   102= 159 Georgetown University US 19 65 6 17 41 11 36.1   102= 150 Rice University US 20 31 12 23 50 15 36.1   102= 143 Sheffield University UK 31 22 32 28 33 8 36.1   105= 80 University of Adelaide Australia 38 0 47 44 14 14 35.9   105= 112 Humboldt University Berlin Germany 32 15 18 18 43 5 35.9   105= 100 Sussex University UK 27 18 42 27 41 6 35.9   108 114 National Taiwan University Taiwan 40 0 1 0 43 4 35.8   109= 136 St Andrews University UK 26 20 40 53 33 9 35.7   109= 85 Zurich University Switzerland 26 0 69 23 41 11 35.7   111= 133 Maryland University US 27 33 16 15 35 14 35.6   111= 180 Uppsala University Sweden 36 0 17 8 41 9 35.6   111= 199 Wake Forest University US 10 32 2 6 80 10 35.6   111= 80 University of Western Australia Australia 34 11 61 28 19 13 35.6   115 217 University of Twente Netherlands 23 15 29 16 59 3 35.5   116= 72 Fudan University China 39 47 11 8 18 2 35.4   116= 62 Helsinki University Finland 38 20 7 5 16 20 35.4   118 99 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 29 18 3 14 39 16 35.3   119 77 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 41 0 14 5 22 16 35.2   120 215 Keio University Japan 28 25 18 4 48 2 35.1   121 103 Leeds University UK 32 33 28 25 25 7 35.0   122 180 Lund University Sweden 35 0 26 9 36 10 34.8   123 143 University of North Carolina US 23 38 7 8 36 19 34.6   124= 68 University of Massachusetts Amherst US 32 28 1 10 20 23 34.5   124= 109 York University UK 28 22 31 30 33 8 34.5   126 138 Aarhus University Denmark 30 15 38 13 33 9 34.4   127 61 Purdue University US 32 42 20 15 21 6 34.2   128= 222 Kyushu University Japan 21 17 8 8 59 7 34.1   128= 129 Nagoya University Japan 29 11 4 9 41 13 34.1   130= 164 Tufts University US 17 31 12 17 42 22 33.9   130= 105 Virginia University US 20 57 6 11 34 14 33.9   132 83 Durham University UK 25 41 43 25 23 10 33.8   133= 149 University of Alberta Canada 32 11 40 21 17 18 33.6   133= 259 Brussels Free University (Flemish) Belgium 16 15 21 17 72 – 33.6   133= 157 Hokkaido University Japan 29 0 8 6 52 8 33.6   133= 168 Newcastle upon Tyne University UK 25 24 33 32 36 7 33.6   137 177 Nijmegen University Netherlands 21 9 33 10 55 7 33.5   138 86 Vienna Technical University Austria 29 17 27 34 36 3 33.3   139 119 Liverpool University UK 26 26 32 21 32 8 33.2   140 234 Cranfield University UK 14 26 31 62 52 2 33.0   141= 159 University of California, Santa Barbara US 31 11 7 8 22 24 32.9   141= 228 Cardiff University UK 29 13 27 23 36 4 32.9   141= 219 Ghent University Belgium 29 9 20 10 43 4 32.9   141= 206 Southampton University UK 26 16 38 25 34 7 32.9   145 147 Georgia Institute of Technology US 30 36 2 27 19 13 32.8   146 82 RMIT University Australia 34 26 31 65 9 1 32.5   147= 166 Chalmers University of Technology Sweden 27 9 17 8 46 5 32.4   147= 188 Tel Aviv University Israel 35 22 0 3 13 21 32.4   148 172 Free University Berlin Germany 37 0 27 17 25 6 32.3   150= 184 Korea University South Korea 25 8 5 19 55 1 32.2   150= 125 Texas A&M University US 30 39 12 13 16 13 32.2   152 179 Notre Dame University  US 19 51 17 14 35 9 32.0   153 130 Bath University UK 21 36 34 35 32 5 31.8   154 178 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 28 11 75 14 25 5 31.7   155 184 McMaster University Canada 29 24 9 13 18 19 31.6   156= 101 Curtin University of Technology Australia 28 18 71 70 12 – 31.5   156= 114 Göttingen University Germany 32 0 17 17 31 8 31.5   158= 194 Technion — Israel Inst of Technology Israel 31 17 6 6 23 16 31.4   158= 240 University of Ulm Germany 12 0 22 16 70 9 31.4   158= 202 Waseda University Japan 27 24 11 6 42 1 31.4   161= 121 Chulalongkorn University Thailand 33 18 9 1 33 0 31.2   161= 131 University Louis Pasteur Strasbourg France 25 15 22 34 28 12 31.2   163 121 Michigan State University US 28 39 10 12 21 9 31.1   164 219 Saint Petersburg State University Russia 26 18 1 9 47 1 30.7   165= 76 Brussels Free University (French) Belgium 30 19 15 39 13 12 30.5   165= 93 China University of Sci & Technol  China 36 14 3 0 24 5 30.5   165= 175 State Univ of New York, Stony Brook US 26 16 6 15 30 14 30.5   168= 199 George Washington University US 24 46 3 13 30 5 30.4   168= 136 Tohoku University Japan 26 0 8 7 31 21 30.4   170= 206 University of California, Davis US 30 0 2 8 30 17 30.3   170= 260 University of Tubingen Germany 21 21 21 19 37 9 30.3   172= 172 Aachen RWT  Germany 23 37 24 24 28 4 30.2   172= 157 Maastricht University Netherlands 18 28 34 46 24 13 30.2   172= 196 Royal Institute of Technology Sweden 24 11 17 12 43 4 30.2   172= 254 Yeshiva University US 7 0 9 6 70 20 30.2   176 261 Queen’s University Canada 21 36 38 8 28 7 30.0   177 138 Oslo University Norway 30 0 17 9 34 5 29.9   178 228 University of Bern Switzerland 17 9 1 16 54 9 29.8   179 169 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 31 37 13 5 19 1 29.7   180 150 Nanjing University China 35 20 24 2 16 3 29.6   181= 172 Kobe University Japan 25 17 8 7 38 5 29.4   181= 132 Université de Montréal Canada 25 25 48 11 13 14 29.4   183= 192 Jawaharlal Nehru University India 32 14 2 6 27 4 29.3   183= 186 Free University of Amsterdam Netherlands 25 9 19 8 36 8 29.3   185 289 University of Kebangsaan Malaysia Malaysia 32 22 9 6 25 0 29.2   186 165 Innsbruck University Austria 23 0 30 48 32 6 29.1   187= 213 Brandeis University US 19 23 7 23 34 13 29.0   187= 142 Frankfurt University Germany 30 17 22 17 19 7 29.0   187= 150 University of Minnesota US 26 20 8 10 20 16 29.0   190= 240 University of Barcelona Spain 31 16 2 11 26 4 28.9   190= 248 Reading University UK 21 19 32 25 30 6 28.9   192= 169 Malaya University Malaysia 33 14 10 7 24 1 28.6   192= 118 Queensland University of Technology Australia 33 8 51 19 13 2 28.6   194 154 Technical University of Denmark Denmark 25 0 19 19 25 17 28.5   195 267 Aberdeen University UK 20 9 37 25 33 7 28.3   196 308 University of Wollongong Australia 23 8 69 64 15 3 28.2   197 125 La Sapienza University, Rome Italy 37 15 2 6 11 5 28.1   198= 254 University of California, Irvine US 24 16 2 10 19 21 28.0   198= 143 Korea Advanced Inst Science & Technol South Korea 24 11 14 6 29 12 28.0   200 305 University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) France 32 29 6 29 13 0 27.9   © QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. 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