Newsweek top 100 global universities

Newsweek released their list of the top 100 global universities in August 2006, based on the following criteria: Fifty percent of the score came from equal parts of three measures used by Shanghai Jiatong: the number of highly-cited researchers in various academic fields, the number of articles published in Nature and Science, and the number of articles listed in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities indices. Another 40 percent of the score came from equal parts of fourmeasures used by the Times: the percentage of international faculty, the percentage of international students, citations per faculty member (using ISI data), and the ratio of faculty to students. The final 10 percent camefrom library holdings (number of volumes).

Newsweek top 100 global universities 2006

1. Harvard University

2. Stanford University

3. Yale University

4. California Institute of Technology

5. U of California at Berkeley

6. U of Cambridge

7. Massachusetts Institute Technology

8. Oxford Univ

9. U of California at San Francisco

10. Columbia Univ

11. Uof Michigan at Ann Arbor

12. U of California at Los Angeles

13. U of Pennsylvania

14. Duke Univ

15. Princeton Univ

16. Tokyo Univ

17. Imperial College London

18. U of Toronto

19. Cornell Uni

20. U of Chicago

21. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich

22. U of Washington at Seattle

23. U of California at San Diego

24. Johns Hopkins Uni

25. Uni College London

26. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne

27. U Texas at Austin

28. U of Wisconsin at Madison

29. Kyoto Uni

30. U of Minnesota Twin Cities

31. U of British Columbia

32. U of Geneva

33. Washington Uni in St. Louis

34. London School of Economics

35. Northwestern Uni

36. National Uni of Singapore

37. U of Pittsburgh

38. Australian National U

39. New York U

40. Pennsylvania State U

41. U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

42. McGill Univ

43. Ecole Polytechnique

44. U of Basel

45. U of Maryland

46. U of Zurich

47. U of Edinburgh

48. U of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

49. U of Bristol

50. U of Sydney

51. U of Colorado at Boulder

52. Utrecht U

53. U of Melbourne

54. U of Southern California

55. U of Alberta

56. Brown U

57. Osaka U

58. U of Manchester

59. U of California at Santa Barbara

60. Hong Kong U of Science and Technology

61. Wageningen U

62. Michigan State U

63. U of Munich

64. U of New South Wales

65. Boston U

66. Vanderbilt U

67. U of Rochester

68. Tohoku U

69. U of Hong Kong

70. U of Sheffield

71. Nanyang Technological U

72. U of Vienna

73. Monash U

74. U of Nottingham

75. Carnegie Mellon U

76. Lund U

77. Texas A&M U

78. U of Western Australia

79. Ecole Normale Super Paris

80. U of Virginia

81. Technical U of Munich

82. Hebrew U of Jerusalem

83. Leiden U

84. U of Waterloo

85. King's College London

86. Purdue U

87. U of Birmingham

88. Uppsala U

89. U of Amsterdam

90. U of Heidelberg

91. U of Queensland

92. U of Leuven

93. Emory U

94. Nagoya U

95. Case Western Reserve U

96. Chinese U of Hong Kong

97. U of Newcastle

98. Innsbruck U

99. U of Massachusetts at Amherst

100. Sussex U

Source: Newsweek