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Top ten universities in Asia

According to The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2008:

Rank University
1 The University of Tokyo, Japan
2 Kyoto University, Japan
3 The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
4 National University of Singapore, Singapore
5 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
6 The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
7 Osaka University, Japan
8 Peking University, China
8 Seoul National University, South Korea
10 Tsinghua University, China
November 17, 2008

Top ten universities in the world

According to The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2008:

Rank University
1 Harvard University, USA
2 Yale University, USA
3 University of Cambridge, UK
4 University of Oxford, UK
5 California Institute of Technology, USA
6 Imperial College London, UK
7 University College London, UK
8 The University of Chicago, USA
9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
10 Columbia University, USA
November 17, 2008

Europe’s Top Universities - Grading Europe’s Universities

A new ranking by China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University shows that many Old World schools are anything but old-fashioned

By Jennifer Fishbein, BusinessWeek, 26.9.07

Even if the U.S. dominates the top spots, Europe accounts for one-third of the leading 100 schools in a respected annual ranking of the world’s universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Shanghai grades institutions on the number of alumni and faculty winning Nobel Prizes in the sciences and Fields Medals in math, on the number of articles authored by faculty in selected scientific journals, and on overall academic performance in relation to the size of the school.

University of Cambridge
England
Global rank: 4

The name of this 800-year-old institution is synonymous with educational excellence—and no wonder. Cambridge has racked up 81 Nobel prize winners, more than any university in the world. Its illustrious alumni include Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and John Maynard Keynes. And Cambridge isn’t resting on its laurels: It’s busily investing for future excellence, for example with a new $84.3 million cancer research center.

Oxford University
England
Global rank: 10

The oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford traces its roots to the 11th century, with alumni ranging from Sir Walter Raleigh to Rupert Murdoch. Its library is Britain’s second-largest, after the British Library, and its botanical garden is the most diverse in the world. Oxford grows patents as well as plants: A university subsidiary, Isis Innovation, markets technologies developed by Oxford researchers, filing more than 50 patent applications a year.

Imperial College London
England
Global rank: 23

Renowned for its medical, scientific, and technological breakthroughs, Imperial College boasts an average starting salary for graduates of $52,390, the highest of any British university. Research undertaken by its staff, which includes the personal physicians to the Queen and the Prime Minister, combats tropical and infectious diseases and tackles the dangers of global warming. This year, a graduation ceremony was held in Singapore to reflect the large number of students coming from Asia.

University College London
England
Global rank: 25

UCL was founded in 1826 to educate Catholics, Jews, and others barred from Britain’s two other universities at the time, Oxford and Cambridge, which accepted only members of the Church of England. The largest of more than 50 colleges and institutes that comprise the University of London, it specializes in biomedical and physical science research. Alumni include Mahatma Gandhi, Alexander Graham Bell—and all four members of the band Coldplay.

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Switzerland
Global rank: 27

Albert Einstein is one of 21 Nobel laureates among the alumni of this 150-year-old science and engineering school. Lately the institute has been shaking up the world of robotics. Researchers are working on a project to create robots to help homebound elderly people with household tasks. A prototype has been programmed to respond to verbal commands such as, “Make and bring the coffee.”

University of Paris 6
France
Global rank: 39

Officially called Pierre & Marie Curie University, this school near the Latin Quarter of Paris is one of Europe’s largest universities of science and medicine, with about 40,000 students and researchers. Its 180 laboratories study a vast array of subjects, ranging from astrophysics to the genetics of yeasts.

University of Utrecht
Netherlands
Global rank: 42

Founded in 695 by an Irish Catholic archbishop as a seminary for future priests and young nobility, Utrecht is now the Netherlands’ biggest university, with 28,000 students. It’s particularly strong in the sciences, granting degrees in medicine, veterinary medicine, psychology, biomedical science, and pharmacy. The university lures fresh talent with its “high potential program,” offering five-year research grants for the most promising young Dutch minds.

University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Global rank: 46

Denmark’s largest university has more than 37,000 students and a history of research breakthroughs. Just this year, researchers discovered DNA from living bacteria over half a million years old—by far the oldest living organism ever found—which could lead to a better understanding of how cells age and whether life could exist on Mars. Last year, the university hosted the first-ever Chinese student job fair in Denmark, to entice more Chinese to study there.

University of Manchester
England
Global rank: 48

Manchester is one of Europe’s foremost centers for biomedical research and boasts strong science and engineering programs. Ernest Rutherford began his efforts to split the atom here when he became chair of the physics department in 1907. Other degree programs include midwifery, town and country planning, criminology, and textiles and paper science.

University of Paris-Sud 11
France
Global rank: 52

This science and technology university, comprising five campuses spread across the southern suburbs of Paris, hosts France’s largest academic center for pharmaceutical research. The university’s 120 laboratories are working on a variety of research subjects, including cancer, stem cells, and antibiotic resistance. The 200-acre main campus in Orsay includes woods and a botanical garden.

Karolinska Institute
Sweden
Global rank: 53 (tied)

This medical university in Stockholm, which administers the Nobel prizes in physiology and medicine, conducts research on subjects such as pregnancy-related diseases in poor countries and genetic predisposition to cancer. It recently founded the Stockholm Brain Institute with two other Swedish institutions, to treat and prevent disorders such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, and attention-deficit disorder.

Ludwig Maximilians University
Germany
Global rank: 53 (tied)

This Munich-based university is Germany’s largest, with 47,000 students and 18 faculties in a variety of specialties including veterinary medicine and Protestant and Catholic theology. Science is its strong suit, with research centers focusing on topics including nanoscience, neuroscience, biodiversity, genetics, and theoretical physics.

University of Edinburgh
Scotland
Global rank: 53 (tied)

This top Scottish university draws acclaim for biomedical research, including work on stem cells that led to the cloning of Dolly the sheep and advances in T-cell immunotherapy for cancer patients. Founded in 1582, it has a long roster of impressive graduates. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle studied medicine here and is said to have based the character of Sherlock Holmes on one of his professors, Dr. Joseph Bell.

Technical University Munich
Germany
Global rank: 56

This university’s academic reach extends far beyond its core science and engineering programs. For example, it has a sports-science faculty, offering degrees in sports-injury prevention and rehabilitation and sports media, economics, and management. Students interested in industrial chemistry can study at the university’s institute in Singapore.

University of Zurich
Switzerland
Global rank: 58

Switzerland’s largest university, with 24,000 students, is known for its prowess in science and medicine, including its university hospital and veterinary hospital. Albert Einstein taught physics here from 1909 to 1911, and in 1996 an immunology professor, Rolf Zinkernagel, won a Nobel prize for his co-discovery of how the immune system distinguishes between infected and non-infected cells.

University of Bristol
England
Global rank: 62

Bristol runs one of the premier centers for the study of learning disabilities in Britain and is one of the few to offer degrees in deaf studies. The university has opened major research facilities nearly every year this decade, adding a science center and public affairs institute in 2007. One of its dormitories, Churchill Hall, served as a base for U.S. Army generals who planned the Normandy landings in 1944.

University of Heidelberg
Germany
Global rank: 65

Heidelberg’s reach extends all the way to Latin America, where it has a center for postgraduate study in Santiago, Chile, offering courses jointly with leading local institutions. The university’s Center for Social Investment, opened in 2006, examines the role of philanthropy and civil society, and its Center for Astronomy boasts 100 scientists in that field, the largest number at any German university.

Uppsala University
Sweden
Global rank: 66

This Swedish university offers a variety of unusual degrees, including masters in international humanitarian action, roads to democracy, and medical nuclide techniques. Founded in 1477, Uppsala is the oldest university in Scandinavia and home to Sweden’s oldest botanical garden, planted in 1655.

University of Oslo
Norway
Global rank: 69

Founded in 1811 when Norway was under Danish rule, the University of Oslo is the country’s oldest and largest academic institution, with 30,000 students. Its faculty of medicine is known for advances in neurobiology, transplantation immunology, nutritional science, and cancer research, and the university runs a medical center in Moscow. The University Museum of Cultural Heritage exhibits Viking ships unearthed in royal burial mounds.

University of Leiden
Netherlands
Global rank: 71

William of Orange founded this university in 1575 as a gift to the city for withstanding a long siege by the Spaniards. Strong in the social sciences and the arts but lacking faculties of economics and business, Leiden opened a school of management in 2002 only to shut it down four years later. Albert Einstein lectured here regularly throughout the 1920s. In 2005, his manuscript on the quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas was discovered in a university library.

(Source:businessweek.com)

November 14, 2008

The world top 100 universities Ranking

The world top hundred universities:
1  Harvard Univ USA
2  Stanford Univ USA
3  Univ Cambridge UK
4  Univ California - Berkeley USA
5  Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT) USA
6  California Inst Tech USA
7  Princeton Univ USA
8  Univ Oxford UK
9  Columbia Univ USA
10  Univ Chicago USA
11  Yale Univ USA
12  Cornell Univ USA
13  Univ California - San Diego USA
14  Tokyo Univ Japan
15  Univ Pennsylvania USA
16  Univ California - Los Angeles USA
17  Univ California - San Francisco USA
18  Univ Wisconsin - Madison USA
19  Univ Michigan - Ann Arbor USA
20  Univ Washington - Seattle USA
21  Kyoto Univ Japan
22  Johns Hopkins Univ USA
23  Imperial Coll London UK
24  Univ Toronto Canada
25  Univ Coll London UK
25  Univ Illinois - Urbana Champaign USA
27  Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Zurich Switzerland
28  Washington Univ - St. Louis USA
29  Rockefeller Univ USA
30  Northwestern Univ USA
31  Duke Univ USA
32  New York Univ USA
33  Univ Minnesota - Twin Cities USA
34  Univ Colorado - Boulder USA
35  Univ California - Santa Barbara USA
36  Univ British Columbia Canada
36  Univ Texas Southwestern Med Center USA
38  Vanderbilt Univ USA
39  Univ Utrecht Netherlands
40  Univ Texas - Austin USA
41  Univ Paris 06 France
42  Univ California - Davis USA
43  Pennsylvania State Univ - Univ Park USA
44  Rutgers State Univ - New Brunswick USA
45  Tech Univ Munich Germany
46  Karolinska Inst Stockholm Sweden
47  Univ Edinburgh UK
48  Univ Paris 11 France
48  Univ Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh USA
48  Univ Southern California USA

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51  Univ Munich Germany
52  Univ Rochester USA
53  Australian Natl Univ Australia
54  Osaka Univ Japan
55  Univ California - Irvine USA
56  Univ North Carolina - Chapel Hill USA
57  Univ Maryland - Coll Park USA
57  Univ Zurich Switzerland
59  Univ Copenhagen Denmark
60  Univ Bristol UK
61  McGill Univ Canada
62  Carnegie Mellon Univ USA
63  Univ Leiden Netherlands
64  Univ Heidelberg Germany
65  Case Western Reserve Univ USA
66  Moscow State Univ Russia
67  Univ Florida USA
68  Univ Oslo Norway
69  Tohoku Univ Japan
69  Univ Sheffield UK
71  Purdue Univ - West Lafayette USA
72  Univ Helsinki Finland
73  Ohio State Univ - Columbus USA
74  Uppsala Univ Sweden
75  Rice Univ USA
76  Univ Arizona USA
77  King’s Coll London UK
78  Univ Manchester UK
79  Univ Goettingen Germany
80  Michigan State Univ USA
80  Univ Nottingham UK
82  Brown Univ USA
82  Univ Melbourne Australia
82  Univ Strasbourg 1 France
85  Ecole Normale Super Paris France
86  Boston Univ USA
86  Univ Vienna Austria
88  McMaster Univ Canada
88  Univ Freiburg Germany
90  Hebrew Univ Jerusalem Israel
91  Univ Basel Switzerland
92  **** Univ Sweden
93  Univ Birmingham UK
93  Univ Roma - La Sapienza Italy
95  Humboldt Univ Berlin Germany
95  Univ Utah USA
97  Nagoya Univ Japan
97  Stockholm Univ Sweden
99  Tufts Univ USA

November 14, 2008

2008 Webometrics Top 100 USA & Canada Universities Rankings

CONTINENT RANK UNIVERSITY COUNTRY WORLD RANK
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 1
2 Harvard University USA 2
3 Stanford University USA 3
4 University of California Berkeley USA 4
5 Pennsylvania State University USA 5
6 University of Michigan USA 6
7 Cornell University USA 7
8 University of Minnesota USA 8
9 University of Wisconsin Madison USA 9
10 University of Texas Austin USA 10
11 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign USA 11
12 University of Pennsylvania USA 12
13 University of Washington USA 13
14 Carnegie Mellon University USA 14
15 Columbia University New York USA 15
16 Purdue University USA 16
17 University of California Los Angeles USA 17
18 University of Florida USA 18
19 University of Chicago USA 19
20 University of Maryland USA 20
21 University of Arizona USA 21
22 Texas A&M University USA 22
23 Georgia Institute of Technology USA 23
24 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University USA 24
25 Princeton University USA 25
26 Michigan State University USA 27
27 University of Toronto (Note 1) Canada 28
28 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill USA 29
29 Rutgers University USA 30
30 New York University USA 31
31 Indiana University USA 33
32 University of California San Diego USA 34
33 University of Southern California USA 35
34 North Carolina State University USA 36
35 Duke University USA 37
36 University of Colorado Boulder USA 38
37 Johns Hopkins University (Note 2) USA 39
38 California Institute of Technology USA 40
39 University of Pittsburgh USA 41
40 Yale University USA 44
41 University of Virginia USA 45
42 University of California Davis USA 46
43 Washington University Saint Louis USA 48
44 University of British Columbia Canada 49
45 University of Calgary Canada 50
46 University of Georgia USA 52
47 Florida State University USA 54
48 University of Utah USA 56
49 University of Iowa USA 57
50 University of California Santa Barbara USA 58
51 University of Alberta Canada 59
52 Arizona State University USA 60
53 Oregon State University USA 61
54 Iowa State University USA 62
55 University of California Irvine USA 63
56 University of Nebraska Lincoln USA 67
57 George Mason University USA 68
58 Simon Fraser University Canada 69
59 University of Oregon USA 71
60 Universit?de Montreal Canada 72
61 State University of New York Buffalo USA 73
62 Brigham Young University USA 74
63 University of Missouri Columbia USA 76
64 University of Rochester USA 78
65 Boston University USA 79
66 University of Delaware USA 80
67 University of Tennessee Knoxville USA 81
68 University of Waterloo Canada 85
69 McGill University Canada 86
70 University of California Santa Cruz USA 87
71 Northwestern University USA 89
72 Rice University USA 91
73 Washington State University Pullman USA 94
74 Ohio State University USA 96
75 University of Massachusetts Amherst USA 97
76 University of New Mexico USA 98
77 University of Connecticut USA 99
78 Brown University USA 101
79 Vanderbilt University USA 106
80 University of Kentucky USA 107
81 Colorado State University USA 108
82 Louisiana State University USA 114
83 University of Notre Dame USA 117
84 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute USA 119
85 University of Houston USA 120
86 University of Kansas USA 125
87 Drexel University USA 127
88 University of Oklahoma USA 129
89 City University of New York USA 131
90 University of South Florida USA 132
91 University of Illinois Chicago USA 133
92 University of Vermont USA 136
93 University of North Texas USA 139
94 University of California San Francisco USA 142
95 University of South Carolina USA 144
96 York University Canada 145
97 Rochester Institute of Technology USA 146
98 Oklahoma State University USA 152
99 Kansas State University (Note 6) USA 154
100 Syracuse University USA 156
November 14, 2008

2008 Top 100 world universities in Natural Sciences and Mathematics

World Rank in SCI ARWU 2007 Rank Institution* Country Score on Alumni Score on Award Score on HiCi Score on PUB Score on TOP Total Score
1 1 Harvard Univ USA 100 100 100 59 99 100
2 3 Univ California - Berkeley USA 100 66 88 81 94 95.8
3 8 Princeton Univ USA 82 98 85 63 97 94.4
4 6 California Inst Tech USA 44 82 89 76 97 91.9
5 4 Univ Cambridge UK 88 92 73 74 90 91.7
6 5 Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT) USA 80 80 70 76 96 90.4
6 2 Stanford Univ USA 70 99 77 63 95 90.4
8 20 Tokyo Univ Japan 25 24 57 100 82 73.7
9 10 Univ Oxford UK 51 48 52 68 88 71.9
10 13 Univ California - Los Angeles USA 0 57 65 62 94 71.7
11 12 Cornell Univ USA 40 62 54 54 93 71
12 7 Columbia Univ USA 57 30 62 54 94 70.1
13 9 Univ Chicago USA 57 46 55 47 97 69.8
14 34 Univ Colorado - Boulder USA 25 50 57 56 95 69.7
15 27 Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Zurich Switzerland 51 54 54 51 84 67.7
16 22 Kyoto Univ Japan 44 46 34 83 78 67.1
17 17 Univ Wisconsin - Madison USA 18 43 54 61 91 66.6
18 35 Univ California - Santa Barbara USA 0 53 46 57 99 65
19 14 Univ California - San Diego USA 0 39 50 60 95 64.1
20 26 Univ Illinois - Urbana Champaign USA 18 45 37 63 93 63.6
21 15 Univ Pennsylvania USA 31 39 46 46 100 63.5
22 21 Univ Michigan - Ann Arbor USA 48 0 48 64 93 62.8
23 19 Johns Hopkins Univ USA 31 34 42 53 97 62.7
24 11 Yale Univ USA 25 34 49 48 96 62.6
25 52 Univ Paris 11 France 48 60 24 65 80 62.5
26 37 Univ Maryland - Coll Park USA 31 0 54 60 95 61.9
27 23 Imperial Coll London UK 0 42 44 63 87 61.2
28 16 Univ Washington - Seattle USA 0 19 54 61 92 60.8
29 38 Univ Texas - Austin USA 0 22 45 61 94 59.6
30 29 Northwestern Univ USA 0 30 44 50 100 59.3
31 39 Univ Paris 06 France 51 0 34 73 80 57.9
32 45 Univ California - Irvine USA 0 48 37 44 96 57.7
33 33 Univ Minnesota - Twin Cities USA 0 0 55 55 92 56.3
34 23 Univ Toronto Canada 0 22 38 59 90 55.8
35 76 Tohoku Univ Japan 36 0 26 83 74 55.1
36 61 Ohio State Univ - Columbus USA 0 0 50 55 90 54.7
37 42 Univ Utrecht Netherlands 40 30 28 48 85 54.5
38 57 Australian Natl Univ Australia 0 0 54 54 87 54.4
39 83 Ecole Normale Super Paris France 74 44 14 39 83 53.8
39 56 Tech Univ Munich Germany 65 24 24 48 80 53.8
41 87 Rice Univ USA 25 35 28 36 96 53.6
42 102-150 Georgia Inst Tech USA 25 0 39 50 90 52.8
43 91 Texas A&M Univ - Coll Station USA 0 0 46 55 87 52.6
44 43 Pennsylvania State Univ - Univ Park USA 0 0 34 61 91 52.1
45 74 Univ Arizona USA 0 0 34 60 92 52
46 43 Univ California - Davis USA 0 0 39 53 93 51.8
47 99 Tokyo Inst Tech Japan 25 0 31 68 75 51.5
48 48 Univ Manchester UK 25 0 34 57 82 51.1
49 47 Rutgers State Univ - New Brunswick USA 0 0 44 49 89 50.9
50 76 Moscow State Univ Russia 78 37 0 79 49 50.8
50 102-150 Univ Massachusetts - Amherst USA 31 0 31 41 98 50.8
52-76 96 Arizona State Univ - Tempe USA 0 0 31 44 92
52-76 60 Carnegie Mellon Univ USA 25 0 31 38 93
52-76 32 Duke Univ USA 25 0 26 40 94
52-76 64 Hebrew Univ Jerusalem Israel 48 0 28 43 84
52-76 151-202 Iowa State Univ USA 0 0 28 49 93
52-76 67 Osaka Univ Japan 0 0 20 79 72
52-76 68 Purdue Univ - West Lafayette USA 0 22 24 51 91
52-76 102-150 Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Lausanne Switzerland 0 0 22 55 89
52-76 102-150 Technion Israel Inst Tech Israel 36 39 14 43 84
52-76 102-150 Tel Aviv Univ Israel 0 0 36 46 84
52-76 99 Univ Bonn Germany 40 19 20 48 74
52-76 62 Univ Bristol UK 0 0 37 47 93
52-76 36 Univ British Columbia Canada 0 30 20 52 88
52-76 102-150 Univ California - Santa Cruz USA 0 0 37 40 100
52-76 25 Univ Coll London UK 18 0 31 49 83
52-76 53 Univ Edinburgh UK 0 0 28 46 92
52-76 51 Univ Florida USA 25 0 25 54 87
52-76 102-150 Univ Geneva Switzerland 31 0 29 40 85
52-76 102-150 Univ Hawaii - Manoa USA 0 0 39 43 92
52-76 65 Univ Heidelberg Germany 25 24 20 45 88
52-76 53 Univ Munich Germany 36 17 24 48 79
52-76 102-150 Univ Pisa Italy 18 30 20 46 83
52-76 50 Univ Southern California USA 0 43 24 38 90
52-76 99 Univ Strasbourg 1 France 31 15 28 46 80
52-76 102-150 Univ Sussex UK 0 33 31 28 87
77-107 102-150 Aarhus Univ Denmark 18 30 14 37 86
77-107 83 Boston Univ USA 0 0 29 39 94
77-107 70 Brown Univ USA 0 18 24 33 96
77-107 151-202 Colorado State Univ USA 0 0 28 39 88
77-107 151-202 Florida State Univ USA 0 0 28 41 90
77-107 90 Indiana Univ - Bloomington USA 0 0 31 38 92
77-107 97 Lund Univ Sweden 18 0 22 47 83
77-107 94 Nagoya Univ Japan 0 24 14 59 75
77-107 102-150 Natl Univ Singapore Singapore 0 0 14 58 82
77-107 30 New York Univ USA 0 0 37 35 88
77-107 203-304 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst USA 25 0 24 32 93
77-107 151-202 Seoul Natl Univ South Korea 0 0 14 64 80
77-107 151-202 State Univ New York - Stony Brook USA 0 0 24 42 90
77-107 86 Stockholm Univ Sweden 31 22 14 41 83
77-107 102-150 Tsukuba Univ Japan 0 28 14 49 79
77-107 102-150 Univ California - Riverside USA 25 0 17 41 96
77-107 46 Univ Copenhagen Denmark 18 18 31 39 76
77-107 151-202 Univ Durham UK 0 0 31 46 87
77-107 102-150 Univ Frankfurt Germany 51 0 20 41 75
77-107 203-304 Univ Houston USA 0 0 31 38 86
77-107 151-202 Univ Mainz Germany 0 0 31 42 81
77-107 58 Univ North Carolina - Chapel Hill USA 0 0 37 38 89
77-107 102-150 Univ Paris 07 France 0 0 24 48 85
77-107 49 Univ Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh USA 0 0 24 42 95
77-107 75 Univ Rochester USA 31 0 14 41 92
77-107 102-150 Univ Roma - La Sapienza Italy 0 0 14 61 82
77-107 151-202 Univ Tennessee - Knoxville USA 0 0 22 42 92
77-107 93 Univ Utah USA 0 0 24 40 90
77-107 102-150 Univ Virginia USA 0 0 25 39 95
77-107 102-150 Univ Wuerzburg Germany 44 0 20 37 85
77-107 102-150 Weizmann Inst Sci Israel 0 0 24 40 94
November 4, 2008
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