The World University Rankings 2011-2012

World University Rankings 2011-2012 

	World Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Overall score change criteria	Teaching change criteria	International mix change criteria	Industry income change criteria	Research change criteria	Citations change criteria
	1	California Institute of Technology	United States	94.8	95.7	56	97	98.2	99.9
	2	Harvard University	United States	93.9	95.8	67.5	35.9	97.4	99.8
	2	Stanford University	United States	93.9	94.8	57.2	63.8	98.9	99.8
	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	93.6	89.5	91.9	62.1	96.6	97.9
	5	Princeton University	United States	92.9	91.5	49.6	81	99.1	100
	6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	92.4	90.5	85.3	55.5	94.2	97.3
	7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	92.3	92.7	79.2	94.4	87.4	100
	8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	90.7	88.8	92.2	93.1	88.7	93.9
	9	University of Chicago	United States	90.2	89.4	58.8	Data withheld by THE	90.8	99.4
	10	University of California Berkeley	United States	89.8	82.8	50.4	62.5	99.4	99.4
	11	Yale University	United States	89.1	92.3	55.5	34.7	91.2	96.7
	12	Columbia University	United States	87.5	89.1	67.6	Data withheld by THE	81.8	97.8
	13	University of California Los Angeles	United States	87.3	85.9	41	Data withheld by THE	92.5	97.3
	14	Johns Hopkins University	United States	85.8	78.9	59.9	100	86.5	97.3
	15	ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	85	79.1	97.5	Data withheld by THE	85.8	87.2
	16	University of Pennsylvania	United States	84.9	87	34.3	41.9	86.1	97.9
	17	University College London	United Kingdom	83.2	77.8	91.8	41.4	84.3	89
	18	University of Michigan	United States	82.8	75.4	47.2	53.3	90	94.3
	19	University of Toronto	Canada	81.6	76.9	69	44.9	87.4	86.5
	20	Cornell University	United States	80.5	70.4	53.4	Data withheld by THE	87.2	93.5
	21	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	78.4	65.7	55	60.7	79.5	97.4
	22	University of British Columbia	Canada	77.4	68.6	88.7	40.6	78.6	85.2
	22	Duke University	United States	77.4	62.6	46.9	100	77.9	97.4
	24	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	77	66.6	65	99.2	73.8	91.9
	25	University of Washington	United States	76.5	70.8	36.9	31.8	74	98.2
	26	Northwestern University	United States	76.2	66.3	35.3	56.6	75.5	98.6
	27	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	75.8	74.3	23.8	55.3	77.3	90.6
	28	McGill University	Canada	75.5	72.8	81.4	35.1	78.4	77.1
	29	University of Texas at Austin	United States	74.9	69.5	38.8	57.7	76.1	89.6
	30	University of Tokyo	Japan	74.3	86.1	23	76.6	80.3	69.1
	31	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	74.2	67.9	50.7	Data withheld by THE	81.3	81.5
	32	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	73.1	69.9	82	78.5	73.8	73.1
	33	University of California San Diego	United States	73	61.4	31.5	51.8	72	97.8
	34	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	72.3	74	83.7	64.1	80.1	60.5
	35	University of California Santa Barbara	United States	72.1	55	52.6	85	65.3	99.9
	36	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	72	63	79.8	41.3	61.4	92.3
	37	University of Melbourne	Australia	71.9	62.2	82.5	44.4	72.4	80.7
	38	Australian National University	Australia	71.2	62.8	93.8	41.7	75.1	72.6
	38	University of California Davis	United States	71.2	68	51.4	52.5	68.7	83.4
	40	National University of Singapore	Singapore	70.9	65.7	93	60.7	79	63.4
	41	Washington University in St Louis	United States	70.5	64	45.7	Data withheld by THE	58.9	96.1
	42	University of Minnesota	United States	70	66.1	25.6	Data withheld by THE	72.5	85.4
	43	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	69.3	67.6	20.2	35.5	62.6	92.6
	44	New York University	United States	69	60.2	38.1	30.9	65.4	92.3
	45	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	67.6	63.8	54.3	40.7	59.9	84.6
	46	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	66.3	53.1	98.9	46.7	43.9	95.3
	47	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	66	66.4	96	41.1	75.4	50.6
	48	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	65.7	59	80.4	37.7	61.1	75.6
	49	Brown University	United States	65.6	59.8	33.4	34.9	53.6	93.9
	49	Peking University	China	65.6	82.3	51.7	99.9	64.1	51
	51	Pennsylvania State University	United States	64.9	53.5	29.5	61.6	66.7	83.4
	52	Kyoto University	Japan	64.8	76.4	21.1	71.7	72	56.3
	53	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	64.6	56.4	25	100	51.9	92.3
	54	Boston University	United States	64.2	60.7	37.2	27.6	46.2	95.6
	55	University of Southern California	United States	64	65.8	41.1	99.3	48.7	80.2
	56	King's College London	United Kingdom	63.2	49.8	90	40.8	54.2	80.9
	57	Ohio State University	United States	63	61.8	42.2	49.9	56.2	77.5
	58	University of Sydney	Australia	62.4	55.4	88.1	92.1	65.7	57.2
	59	École Normale Supérieure	France	62	56.6	66.2	44.7	33.5	96.4
	59	University of Pittsburgh	United States	62	54.3	26.5	37.5	53.9	88.7
	61	University of Zürich	Switzerland	61.9	56.7	87.4	43.5	45.9	78.4
	62	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	61.7	51	80.1	59	58.6	71
	63	École Polytechnique	France	61.5	50.4	86.1	63	38.8	89.1
	64	University of Massachusetts	United States	61.1	54	27.3	53.2	58.3	80.1
	65	McMaster University	Canada	61	41.9	72	97.5	49.9	85.5
	66	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	60.9	44.2	73.7	34.8	47.7	89.9
	67	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	60.8	52.5	56.7	99.9	64.7	63
	68	Utrecht University	Netherlands	60.4	42.8	58.1	59.3	53.2	85.7
	69	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	60.3	51.4	48	32.7	50.9	84.1
	70	Vanderbilt University	United States	59.6	52.1	26.8	64.4	47.6	86.8
	71	Tsinghua University	China	59.5	74.1	33.4	99.8	70.1	37.4
	72	Rice University	United States	59	45.9	39.7	36.2	38	99.9
	73	Universität Heidelberg	Germany	58.7	57.1	62.3	37.6	41.5	78.5
	74	University of Queensland Australia	Australia	58.6	47.5	80.8	62.6	52.3	70.2
	75	Emory University	United States	57.4	48.4	37.3	34.4	39.8	90.9
	75	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands	57.4	50.1	75.9	100	47.6	66.3
	77	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	57.3	39.5	30.8	Data withheld by THE	42.6	98.2
	77	Tufts University	United States	57.3	45.8	41.3	35.4	37.4	94.5
	79	Leiden University	Netherlands	57	45.4	54.4	48.6	55.3	71.7
	80	Lund University	Sweden	56.9	40.4	61.2	32.6	58.5	72.8
	81	University of Rochester	United States	56.8	47	45.7	36.4	33.5	94.5
	81	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	United States	56.8	51.6	25.3	Data withheld by THE	60	69
	83	Durham University	United Kingdom	56.4	32.5	75.8	30.5	37.9	96.2
	84	Université Pierre et Marie Curie	France	56	56.3	66.7	26.2	30.5	81.1
	85	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	55.7	37.1	89.1	34.1	40.2	83
	86	University of California Irvine	United States	55.4	36.2	36.3	45.6	42.3	93.5
	87	Uppsala University	Sweden	55.2	47.2	59.1	43.4	65.1	53.3
	88	Technische Universität München	Germany	55.1	50	65.2	47.2	37.1	76.3
	89	University of Notre Dame	United States	55	42.6	33.1	27.3	36.2	94.1
	90	Dartmouth College	United States	54.9	44.8	30.6	Data withheld by THE	38.7	89.9
	91	University of Helsinki	Finland	54.8	39.3	46.8	28.9	54.2	75.1
	92	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	54.7	41.7	56.4	42.5	54.7	68.3
	93	Case Western Reserve University	United States	54.6	54.2	29.9	Data withheld by THE	40.2	78.4
	94	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	54.5	64.2	29.3	100	54.6	47.1
	94	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	54.5	41.1	35.3	28.5	43.6	85.8
	96	Michigan State University	United States	54.4	47.4	34	28	49.6	73.6
	97	University of Arizona	United States	54.2	45.1	28.4	86	43	78.3
	98	Purdue University	United States	54	56.6	52.6	Data withheld by THE	49.4	57.8
	99	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	53.9	30.6	79.8	28.1	34.8	92
	100	University of Alberta	Canada	53.7	50.6	71.9	53.7	54.4	51.7
	101	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	53.6	44.6	68.2	40.2	46	67.5
	102	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	53.4	37.5	68.1	61.4	41	77.5
	103	University of Cape Town	South Africa	53.2	34.3	73.9	97.5	41.1	75.3
	104	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	53.1	53.5	71.3	100	66.1	31.2
	104	University of Montreal	Canada	53.1	54.5	79.5	81.3	47	48.7
	106	Ghent University	Belgium	53	41.1	47.3	97.8	52.2	63.4
	107	Royal Holloway, University of London	United Kingdom	52.9	28.6	93.3	25.9	24.1	98.2
	108	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	52.8	56	24.9	66.3	58.9	49.5
	109	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	52.6	51.3	64.5	Data withheld by THE	54.5	50.1
	110	University of California Santa Cruz	United States	52.5	28.5	29.8	29.5	36.6	99.9
	111	Universität Basel	Switzerland	52.2	38.9	92.4	48.6	21.9	86
	112	University of Bern	Switzerland	52.1	43	77.6	38.2	34.6	73.5
	113	University of Utah	United States	51.9	42.1	23.3	Data withheld by THE	41	82.3
	114	Stony Brook University	United States	51.4	37.7	56.5	29.2	28.7	88.3
	115	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	51.3	35.6	67.3	100	48	62.1
	116	Université de Lausanne	Switzerland	51.2	27.5	86.7	40.3	40.4	77.8
	117	Monash University	Australia	51.1	40.5	75.8	62.2	48.5	57.1
	117	Trinity College Dublin	Republic of Ireland	51.1	30.3	89.4	29.7	23.5	91.7
	119	Osaka University	Japan	51	61.8	21.1	75	56.5	40
	120	Tohoku University	Japan	50.8	57.7	25.6	78.9	55.7	42.9
	121	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	50.4	47.7	53	25	56.4	48.4
	121	University of York	United Kingdom	50.4	36.7	72.7	33.9	38.8	71.6
	123	Indiana University	United States	50.2	46.8	37.7	Data withheld by THE	34.5	73.7
	124	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea	50.1	64.6	16.3	42.6	50.8	44
	125	Aarhus University	Denmark	50	30.7	69.3	67	49	64
	125	University of Florida	United States	50	46.7	25.9	Data withheld by THE	59.9	50.9
	127	Arizona State University	United States	49.9	38.2	26.1	28.7	39	80.3
	127	Queen Mary, University of London	United Kingdom	49.9	29	88.8	36.6	28.6	83.7
	127	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	49.9	35.6	78.3	39.3	35.5	72.5
	130	University of Geneva	Switzerland	49.8	34.9	97.5	32.7	39	65.1
	131	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	49.7	32.6	78.6	27.5	35.7	75.4
	131	Stockholm University	Sweden	49.7	25	48.8	26.8	36	90.2
	133	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	49.5	44.6	64.8	36.4	43.9	57.1
	134	University of Groningen	Netherlands	49.2	32.4	47.3	59.9	52.4	62.4
	135	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	49	37.8	74.8	37	31.6	72.1
	135	George Washington University	United States	49	44.2	38.3	Data withheld by THE	33.6	73.2
	135	University of Virginia	United States	49	37	26.4	34.7	42.2	74.7
	138	Georgetown University	United States	48	52.5	29.1	Data withheld by THE	40.4	57.7
	139	University of Vienna	Austria	47.9	49.5	86.6	25.4	41.2	45.2
	140	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	47.7	40.2	72.6	36.7	40	57.6
	141	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France	47.6	35.3	58.8	25.1	21.4	85.1
	141	University of Iowa	United States	47.6	47.7	21.9	Data withheld by THE	42.1	61.3
	143	University of California Riverside	United States	47.5	27.8	30	31	30.9	89.6
	144	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	United States	47.4	31.7	32.7	49	40.4	73.6
	145	University of East Anglia	United Kingdom	47.3	26.5	68.5	28	26.1	85.6
	146	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	47	34.2	76.2	32.3	28.4	72.2
	146	William & Mary	United States	47	40	19.7	27	18.9	90.7
	148	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	46.9	42.6	70.3	36	42.6	50.6
	149	Birkbeck, University of London	United Kingdom	46.8	25.9	85.3	25.1	25.8	80.8
	150	Brandeis University	United States	46.7	25.3	40.3	33.7	27.3	90.2
	151	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	46.6	30.6	84.8	44.4	32.2	67.7
	151	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	46.6	47	69.5	36.4	50.2	37.8
	151	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	46.6	46.3	62.1	30.6	48.5	42.5
	154	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	46.2	47.8	20.7	40	58.5	39.2
	154	Yeshiva University	United States	46.2	43.6	26.4	Data withheld by THE	27	75.3
	156	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	46.1	31.3	73.4	35.4	33.3	67.8
	157	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	46	28.8	65	45	27.2	77.4
	157	University of Warwick	United Kingdom	46	39.7	85.5	31.3	44.5	45
	159	University College Dublin	Republic of Ireland	45.9	25.2	83.2	32.3	23.7	80.5
	159	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands	45.9	27.7	52.3	33.1	43.8	65.5
	159	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	45.9	30.4	48	63.2	35.3	70.2
	162	Medical University of South Carolina	United States	45.8	43.9	23.9	87.8	38.9	56.6
	162	Wake Forest University	United States	45.8	36.4	17.2	49.1	21.6	86.1
	164	University of Reading	United Kingdom	45.7	36.9	75.1	31.6	38.6	55.4
	164	Texas A&M University	United States	45.7	42.3	36	43.8	51.8	45.7
	166	Tel Aviv University	Israel	45.4	47.3	30.1	35	60.7	33
	167	University of Illinois at Chicago	United States	45.2	53.3	27.2	38.6	43.9	43.3
	168	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	45.1	36.1	67.1	61.8	25.1	67.2
	169	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium	45	29.2	72.5	30.8	34.7	65.5
	169	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	45	41.4	89.8	44.4	47.8	34.5
	169	Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7	France	45	23.3	70.7	Data withheld by THE	18.7	88.9
	172	University of Miami	United States	44.8	45.7	30.3	Data withheld by THE	23.3	70.3
	173	University of Auckland	New Zealand	44.6	28.3	92.9	76.6	35	55.7
	173	University of New South Wales	Australia	44.6	36.1	85.1	53.1	40.2	46.8
	173	Queen's University	Canada	44.6	39.7	65	87.5	36.1	49.3
	176	University of Dundee	United Kingdom	44.5	20.8	62.5	55.3	20.1	87.1
	177	University of Victoria	Canada	44.2	16.8	70.5	26.8	31.5	79.2
	178	University of São Paulo	Brazil	44.1	61.7	22.9	33.3	58	18.8
	178	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	44.1	31.9	65.2	95.7	24.1	66.8
	180	University of Delaware	United States	43.8	26.4	29.8	98	37.2	66.7
	181	Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main	Germany	43.6	30.5	57.6	42.4	21.7	75.1
	181	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	43.6	34.8	73.1	37.1	33.5	55.6
	181	University of Oslo	Norway	43.6	33.5	63.9	29	36.9	56.6
	184	Iowa State University	United States	43.4	32.8	28.3	49.2	30.1	70.4
	185	University of Ottawa	Canada	43.2	38.9	49.6	36.9	34.8	54.8
	186	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain	43.1	23.4	54.3	37.6	16.1	87.6
	187	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	43	40.9	82.1	100	39.5	34.1
	187	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	43	34.4	58.1	31	24.1	67.6
	189	Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg	Germany	42.9	35.7	55.6	81.8	18.7	67.8
	189	University of Western Australia	Australia	42.9	32.1	90	58.7	35.8	47.8
	191	University of Bergen	Norway	42.8	29	73.5	42.1	26.6	65.2
	192	University of Science and Technology of China	China	42.7	38.9	14.8	29.7	23.5	73.6
	193	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	42.6	30.2	61.6	50.1	35	57.4
	194	Universität Konstanz	Germany	42.5	29	63.7	49.9	29.7	62.8
	195	Boston College	United States	42.4	26.5	41.4	24.2	18.9	83.5
	196	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	41.6	34.6	64.9	35.6	19.6	65.5
	197	Georgia Health Sciences University	United States	41.5	49	32.1	40.7	14.2	63.5
	197	University of Leicester	United Kingdom	41.5	27.6	84.9	34.4	30.3	56.3
	197	Maastricht University	Netherlands	41.5	30.6	86.4	Data withheld by THE	30.5	53.9
	200	University of Twente	Netherlands	41.4	32.9	56.2	76.8	30.4	54.4