QS World University Rankings has published the latest world university rankings for year 2012.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the new leader in QS World University Rankings and has overtaken both Cambridge and Harvard.
- Universities from United States continue to dominate the rankings, however, four of the top six universities are from United Kingdom.
- There is an extraordinary increate of almost 10 percent in international students numbers at the top 100 universities.
Source: QS World University Rankings 2012/13 www.topuniversities.com
Rank
|
Institution
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1.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
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2.
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University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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3.
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Harvard University, United States
|
4.
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UCL (University College London), United Kingdom
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5.
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University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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6.
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Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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7.
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Yale University, United States
|
8.
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University of Chicago, United States
|
9.
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Princeton University, United States
|
10.
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California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States
|
11.
|
Columbia University, United States
|
12.
|
University of Pennsylvania, United States
|
13.
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ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland
|
14.
|
Cornell University, United States
|
15.
|
Stanford University, United States
|
16.
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Johns Hopkins University, United States
|
17.
|
University of Michigan, United States
|
18.
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McGill University, Canada
|
19.
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University of Toronto, Canada
|
20.
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Duke University, United States
|
21.
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University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
|
22.
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University of California, Berkeley (UCB), United States
|
23.
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University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
|
24.
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Australian National University, Australia
|
25.
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National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
|
26.
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Kings College London (University of London), United Kingdom
|
27.
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Northwestern University, United States
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28.
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University of Bristol, United Kingdom
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29.
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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
|
30.
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The University of Tokyo, Japan
|
31.
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University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States
|
32.
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The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
|
33.
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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
|
34.
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École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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35.
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Kyoto University, Japan
|
36.
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The University of Melbourne, Australia
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37.
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Seoul National University, South Korea
|
38.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
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39.
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The University of Sydney, Australia
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40.
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
|
41.
|
Ecole Polytechnique, France
|
42.
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Brown University, United States
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43.
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New York University (NYU), United States
|
44.
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Peking University, China
|
45.
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University of British Columbia, Canada
|
46.
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The University of Queensland, Australia
|
47.
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Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
|
48.
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Tsinghua University, China
|
49.
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Carnegie Mellon University, United States
|
50.
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Osaka University, Japan
|
51.
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University of Copenhagen, Denmark
|
52.
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The University of New South Wales, Australia
|
53.
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Technische Universität München, Germany
|
54.
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University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
|
55.
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Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
|
56.
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
|
57.
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
|
58.
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The University of Warwick, United Kingdom
|
59.
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University of Washington, United States
|
60.
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
|
61.
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Monash University, Australia
|
62.
|
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
|
63.
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KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea
|
64.
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Boston University, United States
|
65.
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Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
|
66.
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The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
|
67.
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Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
|
68.
|
University of Texas at Austin, United States
|
69.
|
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom
|
70.
|
University of California, San Diego (UCSD), United States
|
71.
|
Lund University, Sweden
|
72.
|
The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
|
73.
|
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
|
74.
|
University of Geneva, Switzerland
|
75.
|
Leiden University, Netherlands
|
75.
|
Tohoku University, Japan
|
77.
|
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
|
78.
|
University of Helsinki, Finland
|
79.
|
The University of Western Australia, Australia
|
80.
|
National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan
|
81.
|
Uppsala University, Sweden
|
82.
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KU Leuven, Belgium
|
83.
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The University of Auckland, New Zealand
|
84.
|
Washington University in St. Louis, United States
|
85.
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Utrecht University, Netherlands
|
86.
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Nagoya University, Japan
|
87.
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Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
|
88.
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Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
|
89.
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Aarhus University, Denmark
|
90.
|
Fudan University, China
|
90.
|
University of Zurich, Switzerland
|
92.
|
Durham University, United Kingdom
|
93.
|
University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
|
94.
|
University of Leeds, United Kingdom
|
95.
|
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
|
95.
|
Purdue University, United States
|
97.
|
Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH), South Korea
|
98.
|
University of Pittsburgh, United States
|
99.
|
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
|
100.
|
University of California, Davis, United States
|
101.
|
Pennsylvania State University, United States
|
102.
|
The University of Adelaide, Australia
|
103.
|
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
|
104.
|
University of Minnesota, United States
|
105.
|
Ohio State University, United States
|
106.
|
Universität Freiburg, Germany
|
107.
|
Maastricht University, Netherlands
|
108.
|
University of Alberta, Canada
|
109.
|
University of Groningen, Netherlands
|
110.
|
University of York, United Kingdom
|
111.
|
University of Oslo, Norway
|
112.
|
Yonsei University, South Korea
|
113.
|
Dartmouth College, United States
|
114.
|
Université de Montréal, Canada
|
115.
|
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
|
116.
|
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
|
117.
|
University of Maryland, College Park, United States
|
118.
|
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States
|
119.
|
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
|
120.
|
Rice University, United States
|
121.
|
University of Basel, Switzerland
|
122.
|
Emory University, United States
|
123.
|
University of Virginia, United States
|
124.
|
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
|
125.
|
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
|
126.
|
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
|
127.
|
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
|
128.
|
Kyushu University, Japan
|
129.
|
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), France
|
130.
|
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
|
131.
|
University College Dublin, Ireland
|
132.
|
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
|
133.
|
University of Otago, New Zealand
|
134.
|
University of Southern California, United States
|
135.
|
University of Rochester, United States
|
136.
|
Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
|
137.
|
Korea University, South Korea
|
138.
|
Hokkaido University, Japan
|
139.
|
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
|
140.
|
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
|
141.
|
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany
|
142.
|
KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
|
143.
|
Cardiff University, United Kingdom
|
144.
|
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
|
145.
|
University of Bergen, Norway
|
146.
|
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
|
147.
|
Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom
|
148.
|
University of Ghent, Belgium
|
149.
|
University of Bern, Switzerland
|
150.
|
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany
|
151.
|
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
|
152.
|
McMaster University, Canada
|
153.
|
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
|
154.
|
University of Cape Town, South Africa
|
155.
|
University of California Irvine, United States
|
156.
|
Universiti Malaya (UM), Malaysia
|
157.
|
University of Colorado at Boulder, United States
|
158.
|
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
|
159.
|
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
|
160.
|
Universität Wien, Austria
|
161.
|
Wageningen University, Netherlands
|
162.
|
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
|
163.
|
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
|
164.
|
Case Western Reserve University, United States
|
165.
|
Texas A&M University, United States
|
166.
|
Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom
|
167.
|
Vanderbilt University, United States
|
168.
|
Nanjing University, China
|
169.
|
University of Florida, United States
|
170.
|
Zhejiang University, China
|
171.
|
Stockholm University, Sweden
|
172.
|
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
|
173.
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The University of Western Ontario, Canada
|
174.
|
Michigan State University, United States
|
175.
|
Queen's University, Canada
|
176.
|
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
|
177.
|
VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
|
178.
|
University of Bath, United Kingdom
|
179.
|
Sungkyunkwan University Korea, South
|
180.
|
University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), United States
|
181.
|
Tufts University, United States
|
182.
|
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
|
183.
|
Georgetown University, United States
|
183.
|
University of Arizona, United States
|
185.
|
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
|
186.
|
University of Science and Technology of China, China
|
187.
|
Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Spain
|
188.
|
University of Sussex, United Kingdom
|
189.
|
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
|
190.
|
University College Cork, Ireland
|
191.
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University of Waterloo, Canada
|
192.
|
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
|
193.
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University of Gothenburg, Sweden
|
194.
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Università di Bologna (UNIBO), Italy
|
195.
|
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
|
196.
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University of Antwerp, Belgium
|
197.
|
King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
|
198.
|
Waseda University, Japan
|
199.
|
University of Iowa, United States
|
200.
|
Keio University, Japan
|
Best Wishes,
Farzad Minoo Damania
Counsellor & Corporate Trainer
