World's Best Universities: Top 50

World's Best Universities: Top 50

The U.S. News World's Best Universities rankings, based on the QS World University Rankings, evaluated schools in countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, China, and more, and identified these to be the world's top universities in 2011. See the methodology.

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	University of Cambridge United Kingdom	100.0	100.0	100.0	98.9	98.4	96.6	92.7
2	Harvard University United States	99.3	100.0	100.0	96.4	76.9	86.0	100.0
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	99.2	100.0	100.0	99.9	50.0	97.9	99.6
4	Yale University United States	98.8	100.0	100.0	100.0	84.3	65.6	97.2
5	University of Oxford United Kingdom	98.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	98.2	95.9	82.0
6	Imperial College London United Kingdom	97.6	99.8	100.0	99.7	99.7	99.9	79.6
7	UCL (University College London) United Kingdom	97.3	99.4	82.0	99.0	96.2	99.7	89.5
8	University of Chicago United States	96.1	99.9	90.0	95.8	71.5	81.4	92.3
9	University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) United States	95.7	98.7	90.0	99.5	64.1	66.3	94.9
10	Columbia University United States	95.3	99.9	100.0	95.8		86.2	95.8
11	Stanford University United States	93.4	100.0	100.0	74.9	36.6	96.5	100.0
12	California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States	93.0	99.0	25.8	97.0	99.0	93.9	100.0
13	Princeton University United States	91.9	100.0	67.9	75.3	96.5	69.3	100.0
14	University of Michigan United States	91.3	99.8	90.0	91.5	53.6	51.2	85.3
15	Cornell University United States	90.7	99.8	90.0	74.7	44.7	70.2	96.8
16	Johns Hopkins University United States	90.0	95.9	55.9	99.3		70.9	99.8
17	McGill University Canada	89.6	98.8	90.0	89.9	82.0	94.2	62.6
18	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland	89.5	99.2	74.6	54.4	100.0	99.1	99.0
19	Duke University United States	89.2	95.4	65.0	99.8		55.5	96.3
20	University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	87.8	98.9	90.0	73.7	88.8	92.7	68.8
21	University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States	87.6	100.0	100.0		95.2	62.2	95.7
22	University of Hong Kong (HKU) Hong Kong	87.0	98.9	59.4	95.1	100.0	98.9	54.5
23	University of Toronto Canada	86.2	99.9	90.0	65.3	91.3	49.0	77.3
24	Northwestern University United States	85.9	91.5	77.1	82.8		80.9	93.6
25	The University of Tokyo Japan	85.9	100.0	90.0	92.2			74.0

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	Australian National University (ANU) Australia	85.7	99.8	59.4	71.7	100.0	96.8	70.0
27	King's College London (KCL) United Kingdom	85.0	92.0	59.4	87.5	95.3	92.4	68.5
28	National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore	84.1	100.0	92.6	72.2	100.0	99.4	43.9
29	University of Manchester United Kingdom	84.0	98.4	100.0	66.0	89.2	90.1	54.1
30	University of Bristol United Kingdom	83.6	89.3	90.0	77.1	87.7	73.0	69.3
31	University of Melbourne Australia	83.6	99.8	100.0		80.7	95.2	78.4
32	Kyoto University Japan	82.9	99.8	59.4	96.5			70.9
33	École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS Paris) France	82.4	93.5	59.4	94.3		72.3	67.8
34	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States	81.9	100.0	90.0	48.7			99.9
35	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland	81.8	78.6	52.1	97.7	100.0	100.0	69.9
36	École Polytechnique, ParisTech France	80.5	75.5	90.0	100.0	73.4	94.8	56.9
37	Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Hong Kong	79.5	92.0	55.9	80.8	98.2	75.0	53.8
38	University of Sydney Australia	79.3	99.5	74.7	53.4	99.7	94.3	50.6
39	Brown University United States	79.2	85.0	55.9	68.5	44.0	49.1	98.8
40	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Hong Kong	79.1	91.7	47.5	83.5	100.0	98.6	47.5
41	University of Wisconsin-Madison United States	79.0	96.4	55.9	78.4	46.2		67.6
42	Seoul National University (SNU) South Korea	78.6	98.3	55.9	93.0	43.1	60.5	42.2
43	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) United States	78.5	88.0	59.4	71.4	38.1	94.4	74.5
44	New York University (NYU) United States	77.7	97.0	63.5	91.7		58.6	43.0
45	Osaka University Japan	77.6	89.7	55.9	91.9			70.1
46	Peking University China	77.4	99.8	82.6	90.4	35.5	39.4
47	Tsinghua University China	76.2	98.7	86.5	86.1	52.8
48	University of Queensland (UQ) Australia	75.9	94.4	59.4		97.5	92.0	67.6
49	The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia	75.7	96.1	78.6		92.4	95.7	56.3
50	University of Warwick United Kingdom	74.9	89.9	100.0	59.4	90.0	98.7

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