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List of 50 best universities in the world by QS World University Rankings 2012

QS WUR evaluate schools in countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, China, and more, and identified these to be the world’s top universities.

 

These new 2012 best universities rankings are based on data from the QS World University Rankings, which were produced in association with QS Quacquarelli Symonds. QS, one of the world’s leading networks for careers and education, has been publishing international rankings since 2004.

The 2012 U.S. News World’s Best Universities rankings enable our readers to more fully understand how American institutions are performing when compared with other institutions of higher learning. The bottom line is that U.S.-based universities perform very well: Eighty-three of the top 400 universities worldwide, or 21 percent, are in the United States.

The United Kingdom comes in second place with 45 universities, or 11 percent of the worldwide total. Germany was third with 35 universities, or 9 percent; Australia was fourth with 22 universities, or 6 percent; and France was fifth with 19 schools, or 5 percent.

Canada and Japan were tied at sixth place with 16 universities, or 4 percent each; Netherlands finished eighth with 12 universities, or 3 percent; South Korea was in ninth place with 11 schools, or 3 percent; and China came in at 10th place with 9 schools, at 2 percent.

These top 10 countries accounted for 67 percent of the top 400, or 268 schools. In total, there are schools from 45 different countries represented in the top 400. The other 35 countries accounted for 33 percent of the total number of universities, or 132 schools.

Original source: US News. Original article and link are here.

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TOP 50 Best Universities in the world – list of ranking and scores of elite schools

Rank	School	Overall Score	Academic Reputation Score	Employer Reputation Score	Faculty-Student Ratio Score	International Faculty Score	International Students Score	Citations per Faculty Score
#1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)United States	100	100	100	99.9	86.4	96.5	99.3
#2	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	99.8	100	100	98.3	98.2	96	97
#3	Harvard UniversityUnited States	99.2	100	100	98.6	90	78.4	100
#4	UCL (University College London)United Kingdom	98.7	99.6	95.6	98.4	96.3	99.9	94
#5	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	98.6	100	100	100	98	95.8	89.4
#6	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	98.3	99.8	100	99.8	99.8	99.6	87.3
#7	Yale UniversityUnited States	97.5	100	100	100	92.7	63.9	93.3
#8	University of ChicagoUnited States	96.3	99.9	96	95.6	68.9	77.8	96.4
#9	Princeton UniversityUnited States	95.4	100	88.5	90.7	85.5	63.5	99.8
#10	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)United States	95.1	99	51.3	100	96	91.1	100
#11	Columbia UniversityUnited States	94.7	99.9	100	97.2	16.2	84.9	96.3
#12	University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)United States	94.5	98.5	96.2	99.6	55.7	66.8	92.4
#13	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)Switzerland	92.8	99.3	94	67	100	98.7	97.2
#14	Cornell UniversityUnited States	92.1	99.7	96.4	73.9	74.3	67.4	98.8
#15	Stanford UniversityUnited States	91.7	100	100	72.4	41.9	83.5	100
#16	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	91.2	94.6	60.2	100	56.8	74.7	99.1
#17	University of MichiganUnited States	91.2	99.8	96.1	92	50.6	46.5	87.3
#18	McGill UniversityCanada	90.4	98.5	95.1	89.6	86	91.3	69.1
#19	University of TorontoCanada	89.6	99.9	94.3	73.8	96.1	74.8	80.2
#20	Duke UniversityUnited States	89.5	95.1	81.9	99.7	16.4	44.5	96.9
#21	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom	89.2	99.1	96.8	72.1	89.6	93.8	77.1
#22	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)United States	88.1	100	100	47	86.1	78.8	97.9
#23	University of Hong Kong (HKU)Hong Kong	87.9	99.3	83.8	94.2	100	99.1	50.5
#24	Australian National University (ANU)Australia	87.6	99.7	82.5	79.6	100	96.3	64.3
#25	National University of Singapore (NUS)Singapore	87.2	100	99.4	81.4	100	98.2	51.1

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Rank	School	Overall Score	Academic Reputation     Score	Employer Reputation Score	Faculty-Student Ratio Score	International Faculty Score	International Students Score	Citations per Faculty Score
#26	King’s College London (University of London)   United Kingdom	87.1	92.6	83.8	89.1	93.8	90.6	68.9
#27	Northwestern UniversityUnited States	85.4	90.7	88.6	82.3	11.9	55.9	97.9
#28	University of BristolUnited Kingdom	85.4	91	96	74.8	85.8	75.6	77.3
#29	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)Switzerland	85.1	79.1	75.8	95.1	100	100	79.9
#30	The University of TokyoJapan	85	100	97.6	89.3	11.1	25.8	73.1
#31	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)United States	84.6	100	96	62.3	1.6	34.4	99.5
#32	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom	84.2	98.5	100	63.2	85.2	91.4	62.2
#33	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)Hong Kong	83.5	92.5	79.7	83.9	100	98.9	54.7
#34	École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS Paris)France	83.3	90.8	66.9	92.4	26.2	66.2	81.6
#35	Kyoto UniversityJapan	83.3	99.8	81.1	92.6	15.5	21.9	70
#36	University of MelbourneAustralia	83.2	99.8	100	46.8	68.9	92.3	74.9
#37	Seoul National University (SNU)South Korea	82.2	98.8	83.4	90.7	47.8	61	49.6
#38	University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States	81.4	97.1	68.6	85.2	52.4	32.9	68
#39	University of SydneyAustralia	81.3	99.3	93.5	50.4	99.7	91.3	58.9
#40	Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)Hong Kong	80.1	93.5	72.4	79.8	95.7	83.1	48.7
#41	Ecole PolytechniqueFrance	79.6	73.3	95.9	100	72.4	92.6	57.9
#42	Brown UniversityUnited States	79.5	81.5	68.8	76.7	32	54.7	97.8
#43	New York University (NYU)United States	78.9	97.7	85.3	92.7	23.2	55.7	40.2
#44	Peking UniversityChina	78.8	99.7	96.6	82.6	55.7	35	36.8
#45	University of British Columbia (UBC)Canada	78.6	99.1	77.8	25.9	61.4	73.2	92.1
#46	University of Queensland (UQ)Australia	78.2	95.3	83.3	45.3	95.5	90.5	63.1
#47	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)Singapore	77.7	90.4	84.5	85.3	100	97.9	26.7
#48	Tsinghua UniversityChina	77.5	98.8	97.6	86	50.6	26.3	32
#49	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)United States	77.4	86	81	55.4	17.7	97.1	86.5
#50	Osaka UniversityJapan	76.8	91.4	69.6	91.7	15.4	20.3	62.1

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