Top 100 Universities Worldwide

According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2011, Harvard University is ranked No. 1 a few of the global's first-rate universities, in advance of Stanford University (2nd global), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (third global).

In Europe, the pinnacle rated college is Cambridge (ranked fifth the world over), observed with the aid of the University of Oxford (second inside the area and 10th within the global) and University College London (3rd in the location and 20th within the worldwide).

In Asia, the excellent ranked agency is The University of Tokyo in Japan (rated 21st globally), observed by Kyoto University (second regionally and 27th globally).

The Top one hundred Universities in the World:

1. Harvard University

2. Stanford University

three. MIT

4. University of California, Berkeley

5. University of Cambridge

6. California Institute of Technology

7. Princeton University

eight. Columbia University

9. University of Chicago

10. University of Oxford

eleven. Yale University

12. University of California, Los Angeles

13. Cornell University

14. University of Pennsylvania

15. University of California, San Diego

16. University of Washington

17. University of California, San Francisco

18. The Johns Hopkins University

19. University of Wisconsin - Madison

20. University College London

21. The University of Tokyo

22. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

23. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

24. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

25. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

26. University of Toronto

27. Kyoto University

28. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

29. New York University

30. Northwestern University

31. Washington University in St. Louis

32. University of Colorado at Boulder

33. Rockefeller University

33. University of California, Santa Barbara

35. Duke University

35. The University of Texas at Austin

37. University of British Columbia

38. University of Manchester

38. University of Maryland, College Park

forty. University of Paris Sud (Paris eleven)

forty one. Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6

forty two. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

forty three. University of Copenhagen

forty four. Karolinska Institute

forty five. Pennsylvania State University - University Park

forty six. University of Southern California

forty seven. Technical University Munich

48. University of California, Davis

forty eight. University of California, Irvine

forty eight. Utrecht University

fifty one. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

fifty two. Vanderbilt University

fifty 3. University of Edinburgh

54. University of Munich

fifty 5. Carnegie Mellon University

56. University of Zurich

fifty seven. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

fifty seven. University of Pittsburgh

fifty nine. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick

60. University of Melbourne

sixty one. Purdue University - West Lafayette

sixty two. University of Heidelberg

sixty three. The Ohio State University - Columbus

64. McGill University

65. Brown University

sixty 5. Leiden University

sixty seven. Uppsala University

68. King's College London

sixty nine. Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris

70. Australian National University

70. University of Bristol

seventy . University of Florida

seventy three. University of Geneva

seventy 4. University of Helsinki

75. University of Oslo

76. Boston University

seventy seven. Moscow State University

78. Arizona State University - Tempe

seventy nine. University of Utah

80. University of Arizona

eighty one. Stockholm University

eighty two. Indiana University Bloomington

eighty . Osaka University

80 4. University of Rochester

80 five. University of Nottingham

86. Aarhus University

86. University of Queensland

86. University of Goettingen

89. Ghent University

89. McMaster University

89. University of Basel

ninety . Michigan State University

ninety three. Rice University

94. Nagoya University

90 4. University of Bonn

ninety six. University of Sydney

ninety seven. Case Western Reserve University

ninety seven. University of Sheffield

90 seven. Tohoku University

100. Texas A&M University - College Station

100. University of Frankfurt

Source: ARWU 2011

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