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Page 1: World University Rankings Report

QS World University Rankings®

“Trusted by students since 2004”

2011 REPORT

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Welcome to the 2011 QS World University Rankings® Report

The 2011 QS World University Rank-ings® have been compiled following

the most wide-ranging surveys of their kind ever conducted. Universities are complex, and numbers alone do not tell the whole story. The views of the most informed stakeholders form a key counterbalance to data on citations and teaching resources.

Yet in order to harness these views effective-ly, they must be drawn from a truly representa-tive global sample. To this end, QS has dramati-cally increased the scope of its surveys in 2011. For this year’s rankings we have drawn on the views of over 33,000 academics and 16,000 graduate employers from around the globe.

Despite the expanded sample size, this year’s rankings are notable above all for their stability. The QS methodology has remained unchanged since 2005 (the year the employer review was introduced), allowing for valid year-on-year comparisons. The line-up of the top 50 differs by just two institutions from that of 2010, while there was a turnover of just five in the top 100.

Changes to the international balance of power can be traced over the last few years, but as the rankings have matured they have largely balanced receptiveness to genuine change with resistance to artificial volatility. This year’s rank-ings therefore offer valuable insights into the state of international higher education.

The 2011 QS World University Rankings® give a clear illustration of the link between investment and results in higher education. In particular, those countries that have injected funds into their leading universities are begin-ning to see an impact. China is the classic example, with Peking and Tsinghua universities leading an overall rise in the positions of those institutions that have benefited from a series of huge funding programmes.

Japan, South Korea and Germany are among the other countries to have channelled extra support into a limited number of universities judged capable of international excellence. All have seen significant rises in the rankings by at least some of the beneficiaries, while countries that have cut funding for higher education have seen a gradual decline in the international standing of their universities.

In the United States, which remains the dominant force in global higher education, the leading universities are sufficiently wealthy to ride out a drop in their endowments. But state universities have suffered big budget cuts and several have been overtaken in the latest rankings. The United Kingdom, which again provides the leading university – Cambridge - is yet to feel the full force of higher education budget cuts.

Expansion in global participation means many students are paying more than ever before for their education, and university rankings are an increasingly important source of independent comparative information. And with universities from a remarkable 73 nations featuring in the rankings this year, for the rapidly growing number of students consider-ing international study the range of options has never been wider.

John O’LearyJohn O’Leary is the Editor of the Times Good University Guide and a member of the QS Academic Advisory Board

Danny ByrneDanny Byrne is the Editor of TopUniversities.com

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Diverse Top 500 shows benefits of sustained investment With more countries than ever represented, this year’s rankings reflect global investment in higher education, says John O’Leary

The latest rankings

demonstrate the link between

sustained investment

and academic strength.

When Cambridge topped the QS World University Rankings® for the first

time last year, some commentators thought it a one-off interruption to Harvard’s global supremacy. But Cambridge shows today that its pre-eminence was no fluke by retaining the leadership in the 2011 rankings.

Harvard has closed the gap fractionally on Cambridge, but the decline in staffing levels that cost it top place in 2010 has not been reversed. Although it dominated the series of subject rankings published by QS in recent months, it remains second in the world overall.

Almost 3,000 institutions were included in the research that produced the latest rankings and a record 712 feature in the results. The outcome shows the increasingly competitive nature of global higher education, with 32 countries represented in the top 200, three more than last year.

While the United States remains the superpower of the university world, occupying 13 of the top 20 places and more than 50 of the top 200, the leading universities of Europe and Asia are making up ground. The United Kingdom has cemented its place as the nearest challenger, taking the other seven places in the top 20, including four of the top ten.

The latest rankings demonstrate the link between sustained investment and academic strength. They deliberately to do not measure institutional wealth, but the results show the benefits of sharply increased funding in several countries and the impact of cuts elsewhere. China, for example, which has seen the world’s biggest investment programme in higher education over the past decade, has more universities in the ranking than ever before. Nearly all of them have improved their positions since 2010.

Several of the German universities selected for extra funding under the government’s Excellence Initiative have also risen in the rankings. In the US, however, where budget cuts and falls in endowment have led to staffing

reductions in state and private universities, the result has been an overall decline in ranking positions. While most of the top performers have maintained or even improved their placings, some of those outside the top 50 have been overtaken.

Budget cuts cost the University of California, Berkeley, a place in the top 20. While both academics and employers placed it in the top four, its staffing levels did not match those in the top 300 universities.

The American malaise has not affected the performance of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was ninth only two years ago but has moved up another two places to third, overtaking Yale University. Oxford has moved up to fifth in the world, just ahead of Imperial College London and University College London, which has dropped three places to seventh.

This year’s rankings draw on the biggest-ever surveys of academic and employer opinion re-garding the world’s top universities. More than 33,000 academics from 141 countries had their say on the leading institutions in their field, while the employer survey saw even stronger growth in participation, with 16,785 responses coming from more than 130 countries.

Both groups placed Harvard top, but Cambridge’s superiority on other indicators gave it the overall lead. As in previous years, universities were rated on the number of cita-tions per faculty member and the proportion of international academics and students, as well as staffing levels and academic and employer opinion. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology continue to be the world’s most cited, but a sharp decline in the institute’s employer rating has restricted it to twelfth place this year.

The QS rankings, which were first published in 2004 and are the most widely-read of the international comparisons of higher education institutions, have become an important measure of progress for universities because of

their stability. The average change in position among the top 50 universities is less than three places, while among the top 100 it is less than six places (down from more than seven in 2010).

However, this has not prevented new names from making their mark. Five universities have entered the top 100 this year and there are ten new entries to the top 200. Among them are UNAM, from Mexico, and Sao Paolo, from Brazil, leading a much stronger representation from Latin America, while King Saud Univer-sity, in Saudi Arabia, is the standard bearer for an improved showing in the Middle East.

The top Continental European university, at 18th, is ETH Zurich, one of a number of technological universities to shine in this year’s rankings. However, McGill University, in Mon-treal, has overtaken it to become the highest-placed university outside the US and UK.

Leading Asian institutions continue their progress up the rankings, with the University of

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Hong Kong, the highest-placed just outside the top 20. It is one of three Hong Kong universi-ties in the top 40. Japan continues to have Asia’s biggest representation in the top 200, with 11 universities, led by Tokyo in 25th place.

Australia is the other country with a large group of universities in the upper reaches of the rankings. It continues to boast five in the top 50, led by the Australian National Univer-sity, at 25th, while all of the Group of Eight universities appear in the top 100.

The University of Cape Town remains Af-rica’s only representative in the top 200, rising five places to 156th. Other universities on the continent struggle to compete internationally

because of the legacy of underfunding that most have endured for several decades.

The rankings illustrate the continuing growth in international student mobility, with more applicants gravitating towards the leading universities worldwide. The number of interna-tional students at the top 50 universities has increased by 6.4% in a single year, while the figure for the top 100 is only 3.8%. This comes at a time when overall growth in student num-bers has been less than 1% at both groups.

Rankings are used by employers for graduate recruitment, by universities in the search for partners and even by some governments for immigration purposes.

However, prospective students and their families remain the most numerous readers, as they use ranking positions to help identify the leading institutions in an increasingly competi-tive market.

The main ranking, as well as separate tables for the arts and humanities, engineering and technology, life sciences, natural sciences and social sciences, will be available online and as an iPhone app, as well as through media partners of QS in a number of countries. A paperback guide will be published later in the year.

This year’s rankings draw on the biggest-ever surveys of academic and employer opinion regarding

the world’s top universities.

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1 1 University of Cambridge GB L FC VH 5 100.0 2 100.0 3 98.9 32 92.7 38 98.4 34 96.6 38 100.02 2 Harvard University US L FC VH 5 100.0 1 100.0 1 96.4 47 100.0 5 76.9 136 86.0 88 99.33 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US M CO VH 5 100.0 6 100.0 4 99.9 17 99.6 13 50.0 212 97.9 32 99.24 3 Yale University US M FC VH 5 100.0 10 100.0 4 100.0 15 97.2 25 84.3 110 65.6 170 98.85 6 University of Oxford GB L FC VH 5 100.0 3 100.0 2 100.0 14 82.0 65 98.2 35 95.9 43 98.06 7 Imperial College London GB L FC VH 5 99.8 15 100.0 4 99.7 24 79.6 78 99.7 26 99.9 15 97.67 4 UCL (University College London) GB L FC VH 5 99.4 24 82.0 34 99.0 31 89.5 51 96.2 48 99.7 17 97.38 8 University of Chicago US L FC VH 5 99.9 14 90.0 15 95.8 50 92.3 41 71.5 155 81.4 105 96.19 12 University of Pennsylvania US L FC VH 5 98.7 31 90.0 15 99.5 27 94.9 33 64.1 169 66.3 168 95.7

10 11 Columbia University US L FC VH 5 99.9 13 100.0 4 95.8 49 95.8 30 17.1 301+ 86.2 87 95.311 13 Stanford University US L FC VH 5 100.0 5 100.0 4 74.9 120 100.0 3 36.6 269 96.5 39 93.412 9 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US S CO VH 5 99.0 26 25.8 204 97.0 44 100.0 1 99.0 30 93.9 54 93.013 10 Princeton University US M CO VH 5 100.0 9 67.9 43 75.3 119 100.0 6 96.5 46 69.3 149 91.914 15 University of Michigan US XL FC VH 5 99.8 21 90.0 15 91.5 61 85.3 59 53.6 202 51.2 229 91.315 16 Cornell University US L FC VH 5 99.8 17 90.0 15 74.7 121 96.8 27 44.7 231 70.2 148 90.716 17 Johns Hopkins University US L FC VH 5 95.9 42 55.9 100 99.3 29 99.8 11 18.2 301+ 70.9 147 90.017 19 McGill University CA L FC VH 5 98.8 29 90.0 15 89.9 69 62.6 139 82.0 119 94.2 51 89.618 18 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) CH L FO VH 5 99.2 25 74.6 40 54.4 216 99.0 17 100.0 5 99.1 21 89.519 14 Duke University US L FC VH 5 95.4 43 65.0 47 99.8 23 96.3 29 17.5 301+ 55.5 216 89.320 22 University of Edinburgh GB L FC VH 5 98.9 28 90.0 15 73.7 124 68.8 110 88.8 89 92.7 59 87.821 28 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US XL FC VH 5 100.0 4 100.0 4 44.7 301+ 95.7 32 95.2 57 62.2 186 87.622 23 University of Hong Kong (HKU) HK L FC VH 5 98.9 27 59.4 51 95.1 53 54.5 172 100.0 15 98.9 23 87.023 29 University of Toronto CA XL FC VH 5 99.9 12 90.0 15 65.3 155 77.3 85 91.3 79 49.0 244 86.224 26 Northwestern University US L FC VH 5 91.5 55 77.1 36 82.8 94 93.6 36 12.4 301+ 80.9 109 85.925 24 The University of Tokyo JP L FC VH 5 100.0 7 90.0 15 92.2 58 74.0 91 10.8 301+ 29.2 301+ 85.926 20 Australian National University (ANU) AU L CO VH 4 99.8 20 59.4 51 71.7 132 70.0 105 100.0 20 96.8 36 85.727 21 King's College London (KCL) GB L FC VH 5 92.0 51 59.4 51 87.5 78 68.5 112 95.3 56 92.4 60 85.028 31 National University of Singapore (NUS) SG XL FC VH 5 100.0 11 92.6 14 72.2 130 43.9 243 100.0 9 99.4 19 84.129 30 The University of Manchester GB XL FC VH 5 98.4 32 100.0 4 66.0 153 54.1 174 89.2 87 90.1 70 84.030 27 University of Bristol GB L FC VH 5 89.3 60 90.0 15 77.1 112 69.3 109 87.7 95 73.0 140 83.731 38 The University of Melbourne AU XL FC VH 5 99.8 16 100.0 4 38.1 301+ 78.4 82 80.7 120 95.2 46 83.632 25 Kyoto University JP L FC VH 5 99.8 19 59.4 51 96.5 46 70.9 99 14.5 301+ 24.0 301+ 82.933 33 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS Paris) FR S SP VH 5 93.5 47 59.4 51 94.3 54 67.8 115 29.5 301+ 72.3 143 82.434 35 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US XL FC VH 4 100.0 8 90.0 15 48.7 271 99.9 8 4.1 301+ 27.1 301+ 81.935 32 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) CH M FO VH 5 78.6 89 52.1 154 97.7 40 69.9 106 100.0 3 100.0 5 81.836 36 Ecole Polytechnique ParisTech FR S CO VH 5 75.5 99 90.0 15 100.0 12 56.9 158 73.4 150 94.8 47 80.537 42 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) HK L FC VH 3 92.0 52 55.9 100 80.8 100 53.8 177 98.2 36 75.0 133 79.538 37 The University of Sydney AU XL FC VH 5 99.5 23 74.7 39 53.4 225 50.6 198 99.7 27 94.3 50 79.339 39 Brown University US M FC VH 5 85.0 65 55.9 100 68.5 142 98.8 21 44.0 234 49.1 243 79.240 40 HKUST HK M CO VH 2 91.7 53 47.5 156 83.5 90 47.5 222 100.0 10 98.6 26 79.141 48 University of Wisconsin-Madison US XL FC VH 5 96.4 40 55.9 100 78.4 107 67.6 116 46.2 225 36.0 301+ 79.042 50 Seoul National University (SNU) KR L FC VH 4 98.3 33 55.9 100 93.0 55 42.2 256 43.1 239 60.5 194 78.743 34 Carnegie Mellon University US M FC VH 5 88.0 63 59.4 51 71.4 134 74.5 90 38.1 261 94.4 49 78.544 41 New York University (NYU) US XL FC VH 5 97.0 37 63.5 48 91.7 60 43.0 249 23.8 301+ 58.6 200 77.745 49 Osaka University JP L FC VH 4 89.7 59 55.9 100 91.9 59 70.1 103 15.1 301+ 28.6 301+ 77.646 47 Peking University CN L FC VH 5 99.8 18 82.6 33 90.4 65 29.7 301+ 35.5 275 39.4 295 77.447 54 Tsinghua University CN XL FC VH 5 98.7 30 86.5 32 86.1 84 26.4 301+ 52.8 203 30.1 301+ 76.348 43 The University of Queensland (UQ) AU XL FC VH 5 94.4 45 59.4 51 38.6 301+ 67.6 116 97.5 41 92.0 61 75.949 46 The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU XL FC VH 4 96.1 41 78.6 35 36.2 301+ 56.3 162 92.4 73 95.7 45 75.750 53 The University of Warwick GB L FC HI 3 89.9 57 100.0 4 59.4 185 30.7 301+ 90.0 86 98.7 24 74.951 44 University of British Columbia CA XL FC VH 5 99.6 22 59.4 51 32.6 301+ 85.6 57 26.7 301+ 51.1 231 74.852 45 University of Copenhagen DK L FC VH 5 82.8 71 55.9 100 99.8 21 43.6 245 71.1 156 45.8 262 74.753 51 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg DE L FC VH 5 92.7 50 15.3 283 86.7 81 53.7 178 54.9 200 73.5 138 74.654 58 Technische Universität München DE L FO VH 5 82.3 73 73.1 41 97.7 42 34.1 301+ 57.5 195 68.1 153 74.355 57 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill US L FC VH 5 83.0 68 55.9 100 74.1 123 86.5 56 9.8 301+ 15.9 301+ 73.656 55 University of Washington US XL FC VH 5 93.5 48 29.6 194 47.8 275 99.8 9 9.2 301+ 23.8 301+ 72.957 60 Tokyo Institute of Technology JP M CO VH 5 78.3 91 59.4 51 88.3 76 65.5 127 22.6 301+ 43.2 277 72.758 74 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG L CO VH 4 88.0 64 59.4 51 77.7 110 22.6 301+ 100.0 6 98.2 28 72.559 77 University of Glasgow GB L FC VH 5 81.2 78 55.9 100 53.8 219 72.3 96 79.6 130 69.1 151 72.160 61 Monash University AU XL FC VH 3 96.5 39 90.0 15 41.6 301+ 34.9 299 58.6 186 96.7 37 72.1

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61 63 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US XL FC VH 5 97.4 35 45.0 158 25.8 301+ 87.3 53 32.5 287 55.9 214 71.962 66 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE XL FC VH 5 95.2 44 45.4 157 34.4 301+ 80.1 75 37.1 267 57.6 203 71.663 56 University of Amsterdam NL XL FC VH 5 91.4 56 55.9 100 53.7 224 64.2 134 56.3 199 32.1 301+ 71.564 80 London School of Economics (LSE) GB M SP VH 5 88.1 62 100.0 4 54.4 216 15.2 301+ 100.0 16 100.0 1 70.565 52 Trinity College Dublin (TCD) IE L FC HI 5 81.0 81 59.4 51 58.0 193 47.7 220 99.1 29 84.9 94 70.066 70 Freie Universität Berlin DE XL FC HI 4 89.9 58 23.0 223 30.5 301+ 95.8 31 45.0 230 57.6 204 70.067 59 University of Birmingham GB L FC VH 5 78.4 90 61.4 50 60.3 177 55.3 168 83.4 114 75.1 132 69.968 86 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE XL FC VH 5 88.4 61 55.9 100 22.6 301+ 85.1 60 64.2 168 56.7 212 69.969 71 University of Geneva CH L FC VH 5 65.4 132 4.4 301+ 66.4 151 93.3 37 100.0 19 99.2 20 69.9

70= 64 Boston University US L FC VH 5 74.0 105 59.4 51 63.7 162 75.2 89 14.3 301+ 85.9 90 69.770= 102 Tohoku University JP L FC VH 5 73.3 108 55.9 100 96.7 45 57.3 155 23.4 301+ 29.0 301+ 69.772 69 The University of Sheffield GB L FC VH 5 76.5 95 59.4 51 61.3 173 56.3 162 83.0 116 80.9 108 69.673 89 The University of Western Australia (UWA) AU L FC VH 5 79.5 87 55.9 100 40.5 301+ 64.9 129 99.9 24 87.0 86 69.274 73 The University of Nottingham GB XL FC VH 5 75.4 100 90.0 15 53.8 223 44.2 239 88.4 91 85.6 91 68.875 81 University of Southampton GB L FC VH 5 72.1 113 59.4 51 62.3 169 58.4 149 90.1 85 80.0 114 68.876 67 University of Texas at Austin US XL FC VH 5 97.2 36 62.5 49 22.1 301+ 66.2 123 60.1 178 32.2 301+ 68.777 65 University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US L FC VH 4 97.6 34 18.1 251 26.5 301+ 99.9 7 3.1 301+ 17.6 301+ 68.578 75= Washington University in St. Louis US L FC VH 5 58.9 158 6.0 301+ 99.8 22 98.3 22 13.7 301+ 53.6 222 68.579 84 Aarhus University DK L FC VH 4 69.1 120 24.6 216 85.8 85 64.4 132 64.6 167 65.9 169 68.0

80= 91 Nagoya University JP L FC VH 5 64.9 135 55.9 100 80.5 101 79.6 79 35.1 279 26.6 301+ 68.080= 83 Utrecht University NL L FC VH 5 81.7 76 23.1 220 49.5 262 89.8 50 58.6 187 17.6 301+ 68.082 68 The University of Auckland NZ L FC VH 5 94.0 46 59.4 51 25.1 301+ 39.5 270 94.3 61 96.0 42 67.383 62 Uppsala University SE XL FC VH 5 82.5 72 19.2 241 38.8 301+ 90.9 43 79.3 132 22.2 301+ 67.284 106 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) US L CO VH 5 73.3 109 59.4 51 20.3 301+ 98.0 23 51.1 209 87.3 84 67.185 87 Purdue University US XL FC VH 5 81.5 77 67.5 44 36.4 301+ 55.7 165 96.2 50 63.8 179 67.186 72 Lund University SE XL FC VH 5 82.9 69 55.9 100 34.6 301+ 81.9 66 31.7 291 34.9 301+ 66.787 94 National Taiwan University (NTU) TW XL FC VH 4 96.5 38 55.9 100 36.2 301+ 60.7 143 18.0 301+ 17.2 301+ 66.688 82 Leiden University NL L FC VH 5 84.4 66 15.2 285 27.2 301+ 99.0 16 73.5 149 21.9 301+ 66.689 75= University of Helsinki FI L CO VH 5 80.6 82 20.9 232 72.9 128 69.6 108 31.9 290 12.9 301+ 66.490 79 KAIST KR M CO VH 3 79.9 85 23.8 217 89.9 68 45.3 232 41.0 249 25.2 301+ 66.091 105 Fudan University CN L FC VH 5 91.5 54 59.4 51 49.7 260 41.2 259 18.2 301+ 56.9 209 65.792 103 The University of Adelaide AU L FC VH 5 75.1 103 59.4 51 35.2 301+ 59.8 145 94.6 58 94.0 52 65.793 85 University of Leeds GB L FC VH 5 81.1 79 59.4 51 51.8 243 40.2 265 77.0 135 75.1 131 65.794 98 Pennsylvania State University US XL FC VH 5 76.3 98 66.2 45 39.2 301+ 80.6 72 23.5 301+ 37.3 301+ 65.495 92 Durham University GB L FC HI 5 66.2 129 90.0 15 46.3 294 54.7 170 92.4 71 73.0 139 65.296 88 University of York GB L FC HI 3 67.4 125 59.4 51 59.5 184 52.4 190 87.4 98 85.5 92 65.297 95 University of St Andrews GB M FC VH 5 59.7 153 59.4 51 68.0 144 53.2 184 96.2 51 99.9 14 65.198 112 POSTECH KR S FO VH 3 55.8 177 17.3 257 97.7 41 80.9 69 69.9 159 11.5 301+ 65.199 90 Dartmouth College US M FC VH 5 44.6 246 59.4 51 86.9 80 97.9 24 10.4 301+ 48.2 248 64.9

100 78 University of Alberta CA XL FC VH 5 75.2 101 27.8 196 61.2 175 49.8 203 92.6 70 71.2 146 64.5101 110 University of California, Davis (UCD) US XL FC VH 5 77.3 94 17.1 260 36.7 301+ 94.4 35 40.1 252 45.2 269 64.4102 96 University of Minnesota US XL FC VH 5 82.8 70 24.8 215 25.0 301+ 98.9 19 26.9 301+ 27.1 301+ 64.3103 99 Erasmus University Rotterdam NL L FO VH 4 54.6 182 59.4 51 46.6 288 96.9 26 51.8 207 74.4 135 64.0104 108 Delft University of Technology NL L FO VH 5 76.4 96 59.4 51 46.3 293 43.8 244 91.4 78 72.3 144 63.9105 97 Universität Freiburg DE L FC VH 5 69.3 119 2.4 301+ 90.0 66 52.8 186 62.4 174 56.5 213 63.7106 101 University of Zurich CH L FC VH 5 74.6 104 20.7 233 39.5 301+ 69.8 107 99.6 28 66.6 164 63.3107 113 University of Southern California US XL FC VH 5 61.7 147 25.0 213 73.6 125 66.3 122 49.6 214 87.6 79 63.2108 100 University of Oslo NO L FC VH 5 70.3 118 10.8 301+ 91.2 62 44.0 242 41.7 245 66.3 167 62.9109 111 Maastricht University NL L FO VH 3 37.5 288 55.9 100 72.4 129 85.5 58 82.3 117 99.9 11 62.5110 129 City University of Hong Kong HK M CO VH 3 72.2 112 18.7 243 67.7 145 38.6 275 100.0 14 76.6 126 62.0111 125 Ohio State University US XL FC VH 5 73.9 106 55.9 100 35.9 301+ 65.9 125 65.2 165 31.4 301+ 61.5112 93 Lomonosov Moscow State University RU XL FC VH 5 77.3 93 59.4 51 100.0 7 5.5 301+ 5.4 301+ 37.4 301+ 61.3113 104 University of Maryland, College Park US XL FC VH 5 67.3 126 20.3 236 60.2 179 76.8 87 38.2 260 30.6 301+ 61.0114 107 Emory University US L FC VH 5 37.3 291 37.9 162 88.6 75 96.5 28 27.4 301+ 43.5 274 60.4115 120 University of Groningen NL L FC VH 5 60.4 149 25.1 210 66.9 147 61.7 142 80.7 121 55.4 217 60.4116 119 University of Pittsburgh US L FC VH 5 49.6 212 8.2 301+ 90.7 64 80.5 73 59.0 183 24.8 301+ 60.3117 115 Rice University US S FC VH 5 47.1 224 12.9 301+ 80.2 103 91.3 42 25.5 301+ 66.7 162 60.2118 116 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) US L CO VH 5 79.7 86 3.2 301+ 15.4 301+ 98.8 20 42.6 241 30.8 301+ 59.9119 118 Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) FR XL FO VH 3 67.7 122 7.9 301+ 76.4 118 49.5 208 31.4 295 80.3 112 59.8120 109 Hebrew University of Jerusalem IL L FC VH 4 65.0 134 7.2 301+ 62.9 164 78.1 84 45.1 229 20.8 301+ 59.4

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121 133 University of Bergen NO M FC VH 4 47.0 226 12.4 301+ 77.1 114 73.8 92 91.3 79 66.8 161 59.3122 153 Kyushu University JP L FC VH 5 56.4 173 55.9 100 95.7 51 41.9 257 15.3 301+ 25.6 301+ 58.9123 121 University of Liverpool GB L FC VH 5 54.0 187 55.9 100 61.9 172 49.3 210 92.4 72 72.6 142 58.8124 151 Shanghai Jiao Tong University CN XL FC VH 5 80.4 83 55.9 100 52.4 237 34.4 301+ 20.7 301+ 20.9 301+ 58.3125 124 Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) BE L FC HI 5 72.2 111 23.0 221 16.2 301+ 80.1 74 58.3 189 67.1 160 57.8126 130 University of Virginia US L FC VH 5 54.2 186 59.4 51 54.5 215 80.6 71 8.9 301+ 27.8 301+ 57.6127 140 Newcastle University GB L FC VH 3 45.1 240 59.4 51 64.6 158 57.2 156 83.2 115 79.2 115 57.6128 127= University of Rochester US M FC VH 5 42.1 261 99.9 19 66.1 124 63.5 170 62.1 189 57.4129 142 Yonsei University KR L FC VH 5 72.4 110 37.5 179 83.6 89 21.0 301+ 14.0 301+ 36.9 301+ 57.3130 135 University of Otago NZ L FC HI 5 63.2 141 55.9 100 30.8 301+ 50.0 202 100.0 8 82.1 103 57.2131 134 Vanderbilt University US L FC VH 5 41.8 265 55.9 100 100.0 9 57.9 152 12.1 301+ 32.7 301+ 57.2132 123 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DE L FC HI 5 93.2 49 11.5 301+ 27.1 301+ 35.9 290 46.3 224 53.6 223 57.1133 139 Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon FR S CO VH 5 54.6 183 2.4 301+ 100.0 6 40.5 263 48.0 219 67.1 159 57.0134 114 University College Dublin (UCD) IE L FC HI 5 58.8 159 59.4 51 52.7 232 31.8 301+ 95.7 54 93.2 57 56.9135 122 Cardiff University GB L FC VH 5 56.9 168 55.9 100 55.6 209 45.4 230 76.5 140 68.0 154 56.9136 152 University of Lausanne CH M FO VH 5 46.1 233 9.2 301+ 60.6 176 78.2 83 92.9 68 76.8 125 56.7137 136 Université de Montréal CA XL FC VH 5 64.6 136 9.7 301+ 35.3 301+ 67.0 120 73.8 147 87.4 83 56.4138 149 Radboud University Nijmegen NL L FC VH 4 37.4 290 25.5 208 84.2 87 79.4 80 58.7 185 37.4 301+ 56.1139 175 Hokkaido University JP L FC VH 5 52.4 198 55.9 100 70.0 140 65.5 126 6.4 301+ 17.2 301+ 55.9140 158 Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen DE XL FC VH 5 63.6 140 68.5 42 64.2 160 23.6 301+ 37.8 263 61.4 192 55.9141 117 University of Aberdeen GB L FC HI 5 48.4 221 37.9 162 62.7 166 49.5 209 90.8 84 90.1 69 55.7142 170 University of Colorado at Boulder US L CO VH 5 49.5 214 34.1 183 57.0 202 90.0 49 22.4 301+ 10.8 301+ 55.3143 162= University of Bern CH L FO VH 5 38.3 284 12.4 301+ 61.2 174 87.0 54 97.5 42 56.8 211 55.0144 132 Queen's University CA L FC VH 5 52.5 197 59.4 51 40.9 301+ 64.2 135 77.7 133 39.3 296 54.9145 127= Case Western Reserve University US M FC VH 5 31.1 301+ 2.5 301+ 92.7 56 90.8 45 25.1 301+ 61.8 190 54.8146 126 Eindhoven University of Technology NL M FO VH 4 46.2 232 18.2 250 99.6 25 33.5 301+ 98.9 31 37.0 301+ 54.8147 166= KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie DE L CO VH 5 59.1 156 55.9 100 65.1 156 28.7 301+ 43.9 235 67.7 156 54.6148 146 University of California, Irvine (UCI) US L FC VH 3 65.6 131 6.9 301+ 26.6 301+ 98.9 18 8.4 301+ 20.5 301+ 54.5149 174 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen DE L FC VH 5 63.8 138 73.0 127 42.8 252 40.5 251 41.4 287 53.8150 141 Technical University of Denmark DK M FO VH 5 34.4 301+ 11.9 301+ 98.6 36 53.6 181 88.8 90 58.3 202 53.8151 137 University of Basel CH M FC VH 5 54.4 185 8.7 301+ 66.1 152 38.1 276 100.0 12 85.0 93 53.8152 131 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen DE L FC VH 5 55.5 178 15.8 275 58.7 188 58.0 151 60.9 177 50.0 235 53.7153 181 Lancaster University GB M FC VH 3 52.9 195 55.9 100 48.8 269 37.8 277 79.6 131 87.0 85 53.4154 200 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn DE L FC VH 5 66.5 128 10.3 301+ 71.5 133 34.7 301+ 16.8 301+ 52.5 226 53.4155 143 Universität Wien AT XL FC HI 5 81.0 80 26.5 201 9.3 301+ 43.0 249 46.2 225 88.6 77 53.3156 161 University of Cape Town ZA L FC HI 5 56.7 169 55.9 100 34.2 301+ 48.5 215 72.2 154 68.6 152 52.9157 164 The University of Western Ontario CA L FC VH 5 50.0 208 55.9 100 22.1 301+ 88.4 52 59.0 184 19.3 301+ 52.6158 198 Texas A&M University US XL FC VH 5 65.8 130 36.9 180 23.7 301+ 71.2 98 19.1 301+ 30.3 301+ 52.5159 162= McMaster University CA L FC VH 5 57.8 165 15.5 279 19.1 301+ 90.3 48 42.6 241 49.8 241 52.2160 145 University of Waterloo CA L CO VH 4 62.0 145 55.9 100 18.1 301+ 53.3 183 80.0 126 45.8 263 52.0161 193 University of Florida US XL FC VH 5 60.0 152 23.2 218 35.0 301+ 73.4 94 19.3 301+ 32.5 301+ 51.6162 252 University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) US L FC VH 5 46.3 230 15.0 286 50.9 249 92.3 40 6.0 301+ 30.9 301+ 51.5163 160 University of Arizona US XL FC VH 5 60.2 151 4.6 301+ 36.1 301+ 81.0 68 27.4 301+ 23.2 301+ 51.5164 208 Michigan State University US XL FC VH 5 62.0 144 44.7 159 29.4 301+ 53.5 182 41.2 248 49.9 236 51.4165 192 University of Ghent BE L FC VH 5 58.4 162 24.9 214 62.6 167 47.7 219 21.3 301+ 26.5 301+ 51.3166 155 Georgetown University US L FC HI 5 51.6 200 59.4 51 58.1 191 43.1 248 28.0 301+ 36.4 301+ 51.0167 207 Universiti Malaya (UM) MY L FC HI 5 56.3 176 37.9 162 76.4 117 4.6 301+ 76.8 137 71.3 145 50.9168 144 University of Bath GB L CO VH 3 48.6 219 59.4 51 37.0 301+ 39.5 269 87.5 97 94.8 48 50.8

169= 222 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) MX XL FC VH 5 79.4 88 55.9 100 52.6 235 4.5 301+ 16.1 301+ 3.8 301+ 50.7169= 253 Universidade de São Paulo (USP) BR XL FC VH 4 75.1 102 52.8 153 39.0 301+ 28.8 301+ 11.6 301+ 6.1 301+ 50.7171 180 Chulalongkorn University TH XL FC HI 4 82.2 74 55.9 100 43.8 301+ 7.4 301+ 17.2 301+ 3.4 301+ 50.7172 147 Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) GB L FC HI 5 56.4 174 14.9 288 66.5 150 15.0 301+ 96.6 45 91.0 63 50.7173 138 Tel Aviv University IL L FC VH 4 59.0 157 8.2 301+ 17.0 301+ 99.3 14 30.1 301+ 9.4 301+ 50.6174 157 Tufts University US M FC VH 5 29.1 301+ 5.5 301+ 60.0 181 92.6 39 100.0 22 37.7 301+ 50.6175 178 Wageningen University NL M FO VH 4 43.0 257 6.7 301+ 99.8 20 30.9 301+ 9.5 301+ 97.4 33 50.3176 148 Universitat de Barcelona (UB) ES XL FC VH 5 77.9 92 12.7 301+ 27.2 301+ 44.3 238 5.8 301+ 46.0 261 50.3177 166= The Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK L CO VH 4 58.4 161 13.3 301+ 40.3 301+ 36.5 289 100.0 23 82.2 102 50.1178 168 Stockholm University SE L CO VH 5 71.9 114 16.3 268 28.8 301+ 40.5 263 75.4 142 16.0 301+ 49.8179 171 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam NL L FC VH 5 62.5 142 25.0 212 53.8 219 36.9 285 43.2 238 17.5 301+ 49.6180 150 KTH, Royal Institute of Technology SE L CO VH 5 51.7 199 26.9 199 56.3 205 32.1 301+ 66.5 163 84.5 95 49.6

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181 184 University College Cork (UCC) IE L FC HI 5 49.0 217 55.9 100 49.5 262 31.0 301+ 94.5 60 51.5 228 49.6182 195 Universität Frankfurt am Main DE XL FC HI 4 58.2 163 22.2 225 38.6 301+ 53.7 180 26.5 301+ 64.8 174 49.5183 176 Università di Bologna (UNIBO) IT XL FC VH 5 81.9 75 37.9 162 26.6 301+ 24.2 301+ 13.7 301+ 20.1 301+ 49.4184 183 University of Gothenburg SE L FC VH 5 46.9 227 13.9 297 41.2 301+ 62.3 141 72.7 152 77.5 122 49.3185 182 Waseda University JP XL CO VH 5 76.3 97 59.4 51 35.5 301+ 7.8 301+ 35.2 278 26.7 301+ 49.2

186= 177 Nanjing University CN L FC VH 5 70.6 117 16.9 262 43.2 301+ 34.3 301+ 47.2 222 6.2 301+ 49.1186= 172 University of Tsukuba JP L FC VH 3 53.8 188 3.9 301+ 82.8 95 36.7 288 15.5 301+ 30.4 301+ 49.1188= 206 Keio University JP XL FC HI 5 64.5 137 59.4 51 59.9 182 15.8 301+ 15.0 301+ 9.0 301+ 49.0188= 154 University of Science and Technology of China CN L CO VH 4 62.4 143 11.0 301+ 56.6 204 51.9 191 5.0 301+ 1.5 301+ 49.0190 191 Korea University KR XL FC VH 5 70.8 116 27.4 197 58.4 190 18.5 301+ 15.3 301+ 17.3 301+ 49.0191 218 Zhejiang University CN XL FC VH 5 66.6 127 35.1 182 36.7 301+ 45.4 231 17.1 301+ 7.8 301+ 48.8192 188 University of Iowa US L FC VH 5 42.6 259 7.0 301+ 52.3 240 82.6 64 32.5 286 22.3 301+ 48.4193 197 Queen's University of Belfast GB L FC HI 5 40.4 270 55.9 100 57.9 197 34.8 301+ 98.6 33 43.3 276 48.3194 173 Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona ES L FC VH 3 71.2 115 13.2 301+ 34.9 301+ 39.4 271 17.8 301+ 33.9 301+ 48.2195 169 University of Leicester GB L FC HI 4 34.3 301+ 10.9 301+ 51.5 246 68.4 113 84.6 108 80.4 111 48.0196 209 Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) BE L FC HI 5 53.0 194 18.7 244 39.5 301+ 33.8 301+ 88.4 92 96.5 40 47.9

197= 179 University of Antwerp BE M FC VH 1 36.5 299 11.8 301+ 98.6 37 26.9 301+ 64.6 166 48.8 245 47.5197= 156 University of Sussex GB M FC HI 4 48.8 218 7.3 301+ 38.1 301+ 49.6 206 92.7 69 82.6 100 47.5

199 201 University of Dundee GB L FC HI 5 32.7 301+ 4.0 301+ 67.2 146 59.4 147 84.4 109 66.4 165 47.3200 221 King Saud University (KSU) SA XL FC HI 4 56.6 171 6.7 301+ 83.1 93 2.2 301+ 94.5 59 22.7 301+ 47.1201 203 Sciences Po Paris FR M SP MD 5 36.1 301+ 59.4 51 90.8 63 1.3 301+ 50.1 211 97.4 34 47.1202 204 Chalmers University of Technology SE M CO VH 5 45.5 236 27.8 195 46.9 285 45.7 229 52.1 205 74.9 134 46.8203 242 Universität Hamburg DE L FC VH 4 63.6 139 9.9 301+ 57.8 198 21.2 301+ 27.4 301+ 44.5 272 46.7204 238 Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) BE M FC VH 3 38.8 279 35.9 181 81.4 98 31.3 301+ 23.9 301+ 53.2 224 46.4205 217 Technische Universität Berlin DE L CO VH 5 61.4 148 30.3 193 40.4 301+ 15.9 301+ 50.7 210 80.1 113 46.3206 186 Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) FR L SP HI 5 84.1 67 37.9 162 16.9 301+ 1.3 301+ 7.3 301+ 77.6 121 46.2207 259 University of Exeter GB L FC HI 4 40.1 273 55.9 100 31.6 301+ 42.4 255 86.8 103 90.0 73 46.2208 226 Université Paris-Sud 11 FR L FO VH 3 46.7 228 1.6 301+ 54.9 213 49.6 206 47.0 223 63.2 182 46.1209 205 Universität Stuttgart DE L CO VH 5 45.4 237 26.9 200 77.2 111 14.1 301+ 39.0 256 81.1 107 46.0210 190 Sapienza - Università di Roma IT XL FC VH 5 80.2 84 18.3 249 11.4 301+ 37.2 284 2.9 301+ 23.4 301+ 45.8211 220 Macquarie University AU L FC HI 3 53.1 192 55.9 100 11.0 301+ 31.7 301+ 88.3 93 99.6 18 45.7212 189 University of Canterbury NZ L CO HI 5 50.3 206 59.4 51 20.1 301+ 28.2 301+ 100.0 17 77.4 124 45.5

213= 196 National Tsing Hua University TW M CO VH 4 57.5 166 6.1 301+ 29.5 301+ 62.4 140 35.9 273 13.6 301+ 45.3213= 229 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne FR XL FO HI 5 73.5 107 55.9 100 15.2 301+ 3.6 301+ 33.4 284 80.9 110 45.3215 185 University of Reading GB L CO VH 5 43.7 250 10.8 301+ 49.9 259 37.8 278 83.5 113 83.4 97 45.3216 227 Indiana University Bloomington US XL FC VH 5 56.6 172 37.9 162 26.2 301+ 50.0 200 18.7 301+ 33.8 301+ 45.2217 236 University of Indonesia ID XL FC MD 5 59.2 155 55.9 100 65.8 154 1.4 301+ 26.5 301+ 4.6 301+ 45.1

218= 202 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) IN M CO VH 4 54.5 184 59.4 51 36.5 301+ 45.2 234 1.2 301+ 1.7 301+ 45.1218= 165 University of Calgary CA L FC VH 3 53.1 190 22.1 227 9.3 301+ 86.7 55 7.5 301+ 24.1 301+ 45.1220 159 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology IL L FC VH 4 49.8 211 8.8 301+ 39.6 301+ 70.2 102 21.3 301+ 7.7 301+ 45.1221 255 King Fahd University (KFUPM) SA M FO VH 3 41.8 264 10.6 301+ 88.8 74 5.0 301+ 100.0 2 52.8 225 45.1222 213 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ES XL FC HI 3 65.4 133 25.0 211 17.4 301+ 52.6 187 11.6 301+ 16.1 301+ 44.9223 219 University of Notre Dame US M CO VH 5 36.0 301+ 55.9 100 53.4 226 56.8 159 11.0 301+ 27.7 301+ 44.8224 211 University of Turku FI L FC HI 4 39.1 278 25.4 209 66.9 148 52.5 189 23.5 301+ 12.2 301+ 44.7225 187 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) IN M CO VH 4 59.7 154 59.4 51 33.3 301+ 32.8 301+ 5.0 301+ 1.9 301+ 44.2226 199 University of Twente NL M FO VH 4 39.1 277 14.1 296 47.2 281 40.8 260 79.7 128 87.4 82 43.9227 246 Université de Strasbourg FR XL FC HI 5 68.5 121 4.6 301+ 21.5 301+ 25.4 301+ 36.0 272 74.1 136 43.6228 224 RMIT University AU XL CO HI 5 52.7 196 59.4 51 19.3 301+ 7.0 301+ 100.0 21 100.0 6 43.1229 228 Mahidol University TH L FC HI 4 53.2 189 5.8 301+ 84.5 86 11.4 301+ 16.4 301+ 7.8 301+ 43.1230 235 University of Miami US L FC VH 4 23.9 301+ 3.4 301+ 80.2 103 56.9 157 56.9 197 40.0 292 43.0231 240 Technische Universität Wien AT L FO VH 5 46.6 229 32.3 188 44.8 301+ 14.2 301+ 76.7 138 88.5 78 42.8232 250 Aalto University FI L SP LO 1 36.4 301+ 19.7 239 89.7 70 15.7 301+ 40.9 250 42.2 283 42.6233 247 Universität Ulm DE M FO VH 3 14.3 301+ 9.1 301+ 98.9 33 56.4 161 31.3 298 48.0 252 42.5234 212 Dalhousie University CA L FC HI 5 35.8 301+ 12.2 301+ 39.5 301+ 63.5 137 57.6 192 51.2 230 42.4235 292 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) BR L FC VH 3 58.5 160 23.0 222 35.5 301+ 33.8 301+ 28.2 301+ 7.6 301+ 42.2236 216 Rutgers - New Brunswick US XL CO VH 5 50.9 202 8.6 301+ 35.9 301+ 49.3 210 41.6 246 19.0 301+ 42.1237 225 Victoria University of Wellington NZ L CO HI 5 50.5 204 55.9 100 17.5 301+ 15.5 301+ 100.0 18 77.7 119 42.1238 282 Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 FR L FC HI 3 56.4 175 42.6 301+ 32.3 301+ 38.9 257 28.7 301+ 41.7239 260 Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg DE L FC VH 5 36.4 301+ 5.5 301+ 45.6 300 63.2 138 48.3 217 31.6 301+ 41.7240 266 Technische Universität Darmstadt DE L FO VH 5 29.5 301+ 43.2 160 76.5 116 15.6 301+ 50.0 213 75.2 130 41.6

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241 243 University of Surrey GB L CO VH 5 34.8 301+ 37.9 162 35.9 301+ 32.3 301+ 92.2 76 96.3 41 41.6242 194 Stony Brook University US L FC VH 4 29.3 301+ 4.9 301+ 41.2 301+ 66.8 121 56.9 198 81.7 104 41.5243 342 Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) HK M FC HI 4 25.3 301+ 55.9 100 66.7 149 19.8 301+ 87.7 96 65.0 173 41.4244 244 Universität Mannheim DE M FO VH 5 28.3 301+ 55.9 100 6.0 301+ 99.1 15 3.6 301+ 50.3 234 41.4245 345 Kyung Hee University KR L FC HI 4 46.3 231 18.4 247 77.1 113 7.5 301+ 18.5 301+ 47.8 253 41.4246 215 Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg DE L FC VH 5 27.4 301+ 70.6 137 64.7 131 30.9 299 19.8 301+ 41.4

247= 234 Kobe University JP L FC HI 4 44.2 247 37.9 162 57.9 196 29.9 301+ 10.3 301+ 20.0 301+ 41.3247= 245 Universität Köln DE XL FC HI 5 50.2 207 32.8 187 22.8 301+ 45.2 233 24.9 301+ 46.8 257 41.3249 254 Hiroshima University JP L FC VH 4 39.1 276 7.5 301+ 82.5 96 30.6 301+ 8.8 301+ 20.0 301+ 41.3250 331 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile CL L FC HI 5 55.1 180 58.5 99 36.1 301+ 19.1 301+ 21.0 301+ 9.3 301+ 41.2251 210 Saint-Petersburg State University RU L FC HI 5 44.7 244 10.2 301+ 97.2 43 3.3 301+ 4.1 301+ 21.2 301+ 41.1252 401-450 Yeshiva University US M FC VH 5 5.0 301+ 1.0 301+ 98.8 34 83.6 62 1.0 301+ 31.6 301+ 41.0253 269 Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) ES XL FC HI 5 67.5 123 34.1 184 23.5 301+ 17.5 301+ 4.7 301+ 25.6 301+ 40.9254 273 Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 FR L FO VH 5 43.9 249 7.3 301+ 47.2 282 42.6 253 19.5 301+ 55.6 215 40.8255 230 University of Massachusetts, Amherst US L CO VH 5 49.5 215 10.5 301+ 30.2 301+ 53.7 178 31.4 294 15.7 301+ 40.8

256= 231 University of Ottawa CA XL FC VH 5 43.7 252 8.2 301+ 17.1 301+ 67.0 119 77.3 134 19.2 301+ 40.7256= 281 University of South Australia (UniSA) AU L CO HI 2 41.1 269 55.9 100 32.8 301+ 10.7 301+ 100.0 4 84.2 96 40.7258 274 Curtin University AU XL CO HI 2 42.9 258 55.9 100 24.9 301+ 10.9 301+ 100.0 13 100.0 8 40.7259 343 Sungkyunkwan University KR L FC VH 5 37.5 289 12.2 301+ 86.5 82 16.4 301+ 18.3 301+ 43.1 278 40.7260 214 Simon Fraser University CA L CO VH 3 44.8 242 14.1 295 15.7 301+ 47.4 224 93.6 65 62.1 188 40.5261 299 University of East Anglia (UEA) GB L FC HI 3 38.3 285 6.5 301+ 39.1 301+ 39.8 267 80.4 124 77.7 120 40.4262 367 Universidad de Chile CL L FC HI 5 60.3 150 47.7 155 27.2 301+ 21.1 301+ 10.3 301+ 10.0 301+ 40.3263 261 Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD) IT XL FC VH 5 57.2 167 10.1 301+ 10.3 301+ 63.8 136 3.2 301+ 12.7 301+ 40.3264 270 Loughborough University GB L FO VH 5 35.8 301+ 59.4 51 36.4 301+ 18.9 301+ 84.8 107 77.4 123 40.2265 451-500 Tokyo University of Science JP L FO VH 4 49.9 210 6.9 301+ 10.0 301+ 83.1 63 2.6 301+ 40.2266 237 Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO L FC VH 2 36.4 301+ 12.4 301+ 57.0 202 35.1 298 63.4 172 39.6 294 40.1267 289 Queensland University of Technology (QUT) AU L CO VH 5 51.4 201 55.9 100 23.3 301+ 17.8 301+ 27.9 301+ 64.6 175 39.8268 257 University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) AU L CO HI 2 42.1 263 59.4 51 21.0 301+ 11.2 301+ 98.2 37 95.8 44 39.7269 267= University of Wollongong AU L FC HI 4 32.0 301+ 55.9 100 33.0 301+ 22.4 301+ 98.1 38 89.9 74 39.6

270= 326 Universidad de Buenos Aires AR XL FC HI 5 67.4 124 65.9 46 20.3 301+ 4.1 301+ 7.6 301+ 39.6270= 265 University of Strathclyde GB L CO VH 5 44.7 243 30.8 191 34.2 301+ 21.4 301+ 79.6 129 54.9 220 39.6272 233 Wake Forest University US M FC VH 5 7.9 301+ 2.6 301+ 99.9 18 73.1 95 2.3 301+ 12.8 301+ 39.5273 297 Umeå University SE L FC HI 3 32.7 301+ 3.2 301+ 39.4 301+ 57.6 153 93.2 66 25.2 301+ 39.5274 248 University of Liege BE L FC HI 5 31.9 301+ 9.5 301+ 28.0 301+ 77.1 86 10.2 301+ 69.3 150 39.5275 451-500 Università degli Studi di Milano IT XL FC VH 4 58.0 164 14.6 292 15.2 301+ 49.7 205 11.8 301+ 9.2 301+ 39.5276 267= Charles University CZ XL FC VH 5 50.6 203 12.5 301+ 52.8 230 15.7 301+ 9.4 301+ 59.0 198 39.4

277= 272 North Carolina State University US L CO VH 5 30.5 301+ 21.2 229 27.3 301+ 84.8 61 12.0 301+ 24.0 301+ 39.3277= 295 Politecnico di Milano IT L SP VH 5 54.9 181 59.4 51 19.6 301+ 19.8 301+ 17.8 301+ 37.5 301+ 39.3279 263 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) MY L FC HI 3 48.5 220 9.7 301+ 53.1 228 3.3 301+ 86.9 101 49.8 240 39.2280 325 Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster DE XL FC HI 5 43.2 255 13.8 299 53.8 219 29.1 301+ 28.7 301+ 32.1 301+ 39.0281 262 Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) IN M CO VH 4 43.4 254 55.9 100 34.8 301+ 40.6 261 2.2 301+ 1.1 301+ 39.0282 300= Tokyo Medical and Dental University JP S FO VH 4 11.6 301+ 100.0 5 60.2 144 3.5 301+ 26.5 301+ 38.9283 400 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel DE L FC HI 5 32.3 301+ 8.5 301+ 30.6 301+ 70.4 101 52.5 204 27.2 301+ 38.7284 239 Tulane University US M FC VH 5 19.4 301+ 6.1 301+ 82.4 97 51.1 193 17.8 301+ 37.7 301+ 38.6

285= 279 École des Ponts ParisTech FR S FO HI 5 18.3 301+ 55.9 100 100.0 13 5.9 301+ 27.4 301+ 47.1 256 38.6285= 283 National Cheng Kung University TW L FC VH 4 46.0 234 6.2 301+ 47.4 279 34.5 301+ 25.9 301+ 22.5 301+ 38.6287 284 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) US L CO VH 3 38.6 280 14.5 301+ 94.9 33 4.5 301+ 5.1 301+ 38.5288 306 University of Utah US L FC VH 5 22.7 301+ 6.4 301+ 57.1 201 70.0 104 30.4 301+ 21.6 301+ 38.5289 275= Iowa State University US L CO VH 5 32.0 301+ 12.2 301+ 24.3 301+ 67.2 118 63.4 173 44.7 271 38.5290 278 Universität Innsbruck AT L FC HI 5 44.9 241 10.2 301+ 10.7 301+ 35.2 295 91.8 77 98.1 30 38.4291 256 University of Newcastle AU L FC HI 3 45.6 235 17.1 258 15.2 301+ 33.0 301+ 84.9 106 75.9 128 38.4292 241 University of Victoria CA L CO VH 3 29.3 301+ 9.3 301+ 12.8 301+ 81.1 67 87.9 94 34.3 301+ 38.3293 291 Royal Holloway University of London GB M CO VH 5 33.1 301+ 11.0 301+ 37.2 301+ 30.0 301+ 96.2 49 98.0 31 38.2294 223 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute US M CO VH 5 22.8 301+ 4.6 301+ 46.0 296 79.9 77 13.8 301+ 39.2 297 38.2295 277 University of Hawaii at Mānoa US L FC VH 5 28.1 301+ 1.0 301+ 56.2 206 57.4 154 25.7 301+ 40.5 289 38.1296 264 George Washington University US L FC HI 5 43.7 251 17.1 259 42.0 301+ 38.8 274 2.9 301+ 37.3 301+ 38.1297 312 Universität Konstanz DE M CO VH 3 36.7 297 14.6 291 48.0 274 30.0 301+ 59.1 181 43.4 275 37.6298 232 National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) IE L FC HI 5 30.7 301+ 21.3 228 53.8 219 18.1 301+ 95.7 55 64.1 178 37.5299 251 Flinders University AU L FC HI 3 29.1 301+ 6.2 301+ 87.7 77 13.5 301+ 12.5 301+ 67.7 157 37.2

300= 341 American University of Beirut (AUB) LB M FC HI 5 26.0 301+ 31.0 190 60.3 178 17.3 301+ 59.9 179 89.8 75 37.2

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300= - Beijing Normal University CN L CO VH 5 47.0 225 5.8 301+ 48.6 272 13.6 301+ 75.4 143 18.2 301+ 37.2302 290 National Yang Ming University TW S FC VH 3 15.3 301+ 3.0 301+ 98.2 39 45.1 235 13.3 301+ 12.3 301+ 37.1303 258 University of London SOAS GB S SP LO 4 36.7 296 12.4 301+ 49.7 261 2.5 301+ 99.8 25 100.0 9 37.1304 313 University of Oulu FI M FC VH 4 25.8 301+ 5.5 301+ 87.3 79 31.4 301+ 24.1 301+ 8.3 301+ 36.9305 308 University of Eastern Finland FI M CO VH 1 20.3 301+ 3.3 301+ 80.5 101 48.1 217 26.4 301+ 14.0 301+ 36.9

306= 249 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) IN S CO VH 4 41.5 267 25.6 207 34.0 301+ 50.4 199 1.3 301+ 36.8306= 327 National Chiao Tung University TW M CO VH 5 27.6 301+ 5.1 301+ 50.5 252 47.5 221 57.6 192 41.6 286 36.8308 336 Universitat Pompeu Fabra ES M FO VH 2 36.5 300 8.5 301+ 45.6 300 28.1 301+ 73.5 148 44.2 273 36.8309 - Université Bordeaux 1, Sciences Technologies FR M FO VH 3 29.0 301+ 65.0 157 31.5 301+ 39.8 253 60.7 193 36.6310 303 University of Jyväskylä FI M CO VH 4 29.6 301+ 6.3 301+ 89.5 72 13.0 301+ 31.3 296 27.2 301+ 36.6311 298 University of Southern Denmark DK L FO VH 2 23.7 301+ 11.2 301+ 64.3 159 32.4 301+ 51.8 206 66.3 166 36.6312 324 Universität Düsseldorf DE L FC HI 3 18.8 301+ 6.0 301+ 50.0 256 72.1 97 8.9 301+ 55.1 218 36.4313 293 University of Tromso NO S FC VH 3 17.3 301+ 3.8 301+ 99.9 16 23.9 301+ 41.6 247 25.6 301+ 36.1314 354= Hanyang University KR L FC VH 4 32.9 301+ 9.6 301+ 74.4 122 13.5 301+ 22.9 301+ 46.6 258 35.9315 305 University of Essex GB M CO VH 3 37.7 286 2.9 301+ 29.6 301+ 20.1 301+ 97.9 39 98.7 25 35.8316 271 Laval University CA XL FC HI 5 33.9 301+ 1.2 301+ 18.9 301+ 76.5 88 43.3 236 35.6317 286= La Trobe University AU L CO HI 3 43.7 253 9.5 301+ 17.7 301+ 18.1 301+ 93.9 62 91.3 62 35.5318 280 Brandeis University US M CO HI 4 22.8 301+ 1.8 301+ 39.5 301+ 68.6 111 11.5 301+ 66.7 163 35.5319 329 Université Paris Descartes FR L FC VH 3 32.6 301+ 6.1 301+ 28.0 301+ 55.4 167 7.8 301+ 81.3 106 35.5320 387 Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) MX L FC MD 4 36.3 301+ 59.4 51 52.6 233 2.4 301+ 37.4 266 28.5 301+ 35.4321 344 Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz DE XL FC HI 5 34.3 301+ 10.7 301+ 80.0 76 18.0 301+ 38.5 300 35.4322 300= Università di Pisa IT XL FC HI 5 55.1 179 9.6 301+ 8.9 301+ 46.6 227 1.3 301+ 9.5 301+ 35.3323 318 Chiba University JP L FC HI 5 27.5 301+ 4.6 301+ 83.3 92 25.7 301+ 5.2 301+ 20.7 301+ 35.2324 401-450 Université Paris Dauphine FR M SP MD 3 34.7 301+ 75.6 37 36.1 301+ 3.7 301+ 12.8 301+ 89.3 76 35.2325 285 University of California, Riverside (UCR) US L FC HI 4 29.4 301+ 1.2 301+ 15.3 301+ 90.3 47 9.0 301+ 15.3 301+ 34.9

326= 330 Dublin City University (DCU) IE M FO VH 3 21.9 301+ 55.9 100 42.9 301+ 17.2 301+ 89.0 88 65.5 171 34.8326= 340 Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) US L FC VH 5 39.6 275 17.5 254 34.9 301+ 33.0 301+ 33.1 285 25.5 301+ 34.8328 315 Universität des Saarlandes DE L FC HI 4 20.7 301+ 1.7 301+ 30.3 301+ 70.8 100 54.5 201 52.4 227 34.7

329= 302 Massey University NZ L CO VH 4 40.1 272 13.5 300 29.4 301+ 18.8 301+ 96.9 44 41.8 284 34.6329= 288 Université Montpellier 2 FR L FO VH 3 25.7 301+ 58.1 191 44.9 237 16.4 301+ 45.3 267 34.6331 310 Ruhr-Universität Bochum DE L FC VH 3 31.7 301+ 10.0 301+ 42.1 301+ 34.0 301+ 41.9 243 57.3 207 34.5332 314 University of the Philippines PH XL FC MD 5 53.0 193 55.9 100 31.1 301+ 2.5 301+ 2.6 301+ 1.2 301+ 34.4333 294 Universität Leipzig DE L FC VH 5 36.5 301+ 1.6 301+ 16.9 301+ 64.8 130 15.5 301+ 36.3 301+ 34.4334 296 Aston University GB M CO HI 5 22.0 301+ 59.4 51 21.1 301+ 26.7 301+ 93.0 67 94.0 53 34.3335 309 Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) MY L FC HI 3 50.0 209 11.2 301+ 40.7 301+ 6.8 301+ 27.8 301+ 32.3 301+ 34.3336 335 Arizona State University US XL CO VH 5 49.5 213 9.7 301+ 16.0 301+ 39.8 266 13.7 301+ 19.8 301+ 34.3337 393 University at Buffalo SUNY US L FC VH 5 23.5 301+ 1.0 301+ 20.3 301+ 78.8 81 12.7 301+ 72.7 141 34.3338 372 United Arab Emirates University AE L FC MD 3 31.6 301+ 9.0 301+ 42.4 301+ 9.9 301+ 100.0 1 90.3 67 34.2339 275= University of Cincinnati US L FC VH 5 17.5 301+ 8.6 301+ 50.7 251 68.0 114 11.0 301+ 22.1 301+ 33.9340 322 Technische Universität Dresden DE XL FC VH 5 39.6 274 16.2 271 32.0 301+ 30.1 301+ 30.7 300 36.7 301+ 33.9341 311 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP) IN M FO VH 4 32.1 301+ 21.2 230 43.1 301+ 47.8 218 1.2 301+ 33.9342 321 Universitas Gadjah Mada ID XL FC LO 4 56.7 170 37.9 162 25.0 301+ 1.3 301+ 24.1 301+ 5.0 301+ 33.8343 320 University of Tasmania AU L CO HI 5 31.9 301+ 6.2 301+ 32.5 301+ 25.0 301+ 70.0 158 90.3 68 33.5344 348 Ewha Womans University KR L FC HI 5 37.6 287 8.4 301+ 58.7 187 12.4 301+ 21.5 301+ 32.5 301+ 33.5345 382 Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III FR L FO VH 3 38.5 282 51.8 244 17.4 301+ 33.7 283 37.2 301+ 33.4346 323 Griffith University AU L FC HI 3 35.1 301+ 16.2 269 17.2 301+ 18.2 301+ 97.7 40 93.3 56 32.9347 - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ES L FO VH 2 35.0 301+ 25.7 205 51.0 247 4.6 301+ 44.2 233 47.4 254 32.9348 379 Universität Regensburg DE L FO VH 3 19.8 301+ 58.7 188 50.6 197 30.5 301+ 18.7 301+ 32.9349 359 Boston College US L CO HI 5 31.6 301+ 18.5 246 32.6 301+ 22.8 301+ 95.9 53 35.2 301+ 32.8350 390 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 FR XL FC HI 3 38.6 281 6.8 301+ 28.7 301+ 36.8 286 10.8 301+ 46.6 259 32.7351 361 Brunel University GB L CO HI 3 23.1 301+ 37.9 162 21.1 301+ 27.6 301+ 93.8 63 90.7 65 32.6352 354= James Cook University (JCU) AU M FC VH 3 23.0 301+ 4.6 301+ 24.3 301+ 48.5 213 91.0 82 64.3 176 32.6353 358 Universidad Austral AR S FO HI 2 22.7 301+ 37.9 162 83.4 91 3.2 301+ 9.0 301+ 24.6 301+ 32.5354 351= Washington State University US L FC HI 5 32.4 301+ 6.2 301+ 36.4 301+ 29.9 301+ 74.8 144 22.9 301+ 32.4355 316= Universität Bielefeld DE L CO HI 3 38.4 283 3.0 301+ 12.8 301+ 56.5 160 17.2 301+ 26.5 301+ 32.3356 451-500 City University London GB L CO HI 5 28.1 301+ 31.7 189 27.2 301+ 13.1 301+ 85.6 105 98.2 29 32.3357 316= University of Waikato NZ M CO HI 3 30.2 301+ 12.2 301+ 32.8 301+ 12.9 301+ 96.1 52 87.5 80 32.2358 319 Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) MY L FC HI 4 36.8 292 11.1 301+ 62.5 168 3.1 301+ 9.3 301+ 42.3 282 32.2359 378 Philipps-Universität Marburg DE L FC HI 5 25.3 301+ 46.6 288 37.7 280 38.0 262 49.9 237 32.0

360= 307 Ateneo de Manila University PH M FC LO 5 41.4 268 55.9 100 38.1 301+ 1.3 301+ 15.0 301+ 11.6 301+ 32.0

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360= 328 Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI) IT XL FC HI 4 48.1 222 3.6 301+ 13.9 301+ 38.8 273 6.7 301+ 17.7 301+ 32.0362 451-500 Aalborg University DK L FC HI 5 23.6 301+ 19.8 238 45.6 300 24.9 301+ 66.1 164 48.4 246 31.9363 334 Colorado State University US L CO VH 5 24.7 301+ 15.5 278 12.9 301+ 80.6 70 11.1 301+ 10.5 301+ 31.8364 333 York University CA XL CO HI 4 44.6 245 37.9 162 18.4 301+ 13.1 301+ 47.4 221 17.7 301+ 31.8365 338 University of Connecticut US L FC VH 5 19.0 301+ 5.0 301+ 39.2 301+ 64.3 133 24.3 301+ 21.1 301+ 31.7366 349 Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz AT XL FO HI 5 36.8 293 5.5 301+ 11.2 301+ 44.2 240 57.9 191 35.8 301+ 31.7367 339 Universität Bremen DE L CO VH 3 34.3 301+ 5.2 301+ 35.3 301+ 31.3 301+ 23.2 301+ 45.5 266 31.6368 383 University of St Gallen (HSG) CH M SP HI 5 21.0 301+ 55.9 100 28.8 301+ 6.7 301+ 96.3 47 99.0 22 31.5369 - Birkbeck College, University of London GB M FO VH 5 36.7 294 3.1 301+ 20.0 301+ 28.0 301+ 93.7 64 31.3 301+ 31.5370 401-450 King Abdul Aziz University (KAU) SA XL FC MD 3 34.3 301+ 4.6 301+ 53.1 227 1.6 301+ 68.9 160 42.5 281 31.3371 401-450 University of Missouri, Columbia US L FC VH 5 22.9 301+ 9.2 301+ 42.1 301+ 49.1 212 32.3 289 13.5 301+ 31.2372 - Central European University HU S FO HI 2 20.9 301+ 17.5 253 98.3 38 4.1 301+ 31.2

373= N/A Taipei Medical University TW M SP HI 4 19.3 301+ 4.8 301+ 41.8 301+ 58.5 148 18.9 301+ 25.3 301+ 31.1373= - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ES L CO VH 3 30.8 301+ 5.3 301+ 62.3 170 9.9 301+ 15.5 301+ 48.2 249 31.1375 353 Universidad de Navarra ES M FC HI 4 21.1 301+ 16.0 272 58.0 194 22.5 301+ 20.7 301+ 63.6 180 31.0376 399 Universität Jena DE L FC HI 5 27.5 301+ 1.7 301+ 35.3 301+ 49.7 204 18.5 301+ 21.6 301+ 30.8377 - Sultan Qaboos University OM L FC MD 3 15.1 301+ 5.2 301+ 92.3 57 2.6 301+ 92.2 75 30.7378 374 Illinois Institute of Technology US M CO VH 5 21.1 301+ 5.1 301+ 47.8 276 24.1 301+ 35.5 277 100.0 4 30.7379 - Bauman Moscow State Technical University RU L FO MD 5 17.8 301+ 20.9 231 100.0 8 1.0 301+ 1.0 301+ 9.6 301+ 30.5380 401-450 Universitá degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata IT XL CO VH 3 44.1 248 7.5 301+ 8.8 301+ 43.3 247 6.6 301+ 15.2 301+ 30.5381 381 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro BR XL FC VH 4 45.1 238 5.0 301+ 34.2 301+ 18.1 301+ 13.4 301+ 4.3 301+ 30.5382 401-450 Xi'an Jiaotong University CN L FC VH 5 31.5 301+ 20.4 235 62.1 171 9.7 301+ 5.9 301+ 11.5 301+ 30.5383 350 University of Kentucky US L FC VH 5 13.8 301+ 5.0 301+ 38.8 301+ 73.7 93 11.3 301+ 13.8 301+ 30.4384 363 Università degli Studi di Pavia (UNIPV) IT L FC HI 5 33.5 301+ 7.2 301+ 13.6 301+ 58.4 150 7.0 301+ 15.9 301+ 30.3385 337 Ben Gurion University of The Negev IL L FC HI 3 30.7 301+ 38.6 301+ 39.4 272 28.2 301+ 6.5 301+ 30.2386 347 The University of Georgia US XL FC HI 5 30.7 301+ 12.4 301+ 26.8 301+ 50.0 200 2.1 301+ 12.5 301+ 30.2387 286= National and Kapodistrian University of Athens GR XL FC VH 5 36.5 298 9.4 301+ 18.2 301+ 42.6 253 12.1 301+ 23.5 301+ 30.1388 - Pontificia Universidad Católica Santa María (UCA) AR L FC LO 4 35.4 301+ 38.5 161 52.1 242 1.1 301+ 16.4 301+ 30.1389 601+ Moscow State Institute of International Relations RU M FO LO 4 13.2 301+ 14.7 289 99.5 26 1.0 301+ 1.3 301+ 50.5 232 30.0390 369 University of Tampere FI M FO VH 4 26.6 301+ 9.5 301+ 44.9 301+ 28.9 301+ 25.9 301+ 33.5 301+ 29.9391 385 University of Tennessee US L FC VH 5 19.1 301+ 7.6 301+ 42.6 301+ 54.5 171 14.9 301+ 15.0 301+ 29.9392 397 Sogang University KR M CO HI 4 31.0 301+ 13.2 301+ 55.3 211 7.5 301+ 25.3 301+ 33.8 301+ 29.8393 304 Jagiellonian University PL XL CO HI 5 36.4 301+ 13.5 301+ 52.7 231 9.7 301+ 6.0 301+ 10.6 301+ 29.8394 396 University of Coimbra PT L FC HI 5 41.5 266 5.4 301+ 27.4 301+ 21.7 301+ 15.4 301+ 29.3 301+ 29.8395 346 Université Lille 1, Sciences et Technologie FR L FO VH 5 27.9 301+ 43.8 301+ 17.3 301+ 31.5 292 82.9 98 29.7396 373 Universität Bayreuth DE M CO VH 3 21.3 301+ 4.6 301+ 56.0 208 27.5 301+ 42.9 240 24.5 301+ 29.6397 357 University of Manitoba CA L FC HI 5 23.2 301+ 4.7 301+ 44.7 301+ 43.0 249 33.3 301+ 29.5398 371 University of Delhi IN XL FC HI 4 53.1 191 55.9 100 2.3 301+ 7.1 301+ 1.3 301+ 3.2 301+ 29.5399 360 University of The Witwatersrand ZA L FC HI 5 33.5 301+ 11.0 301+ 15.6 301+ 32.1 301+ 61.6 176 32.5 301+ 29.3400 375 Novosibirsk State University RU M FC HI 4 22.7 301+ 3.4 301+ 88.8 73 3.5 301+ 4.1 301+ 12.1 301+ 29.3

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401-450 380 Aberystwyth University GB M CO HI 5401-450 501-550 Al-Farabi Kazakh National University KZ L CO MD 4401-450 368 Bangor University GB M FC HI 5401-450 332 Bilkent University TR M CO HI 3401-450 401-450 City University of New York US XL CO VH 5401-450 362 Deakin University AU L FC HI 3401-450 395 Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) IE M CO HI 3401-450 401-450 Florida State University US XL FC HI 5401-450 386 Goldsmiths, University of London GB M FO HI 5401-450 356 Heriot-Watt University GB L 5401-450 401-450 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR) IN S FO VH 5401-450 451-500 Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (JKU) AT L CO HI 3401-450 451-500 Kanazawa University JP M FC VH 4401-450 451-500 L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University KZ M CO LO 2401-450 389 Linköping University SE L CO VH 3401-450 451-500 Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg DE L FC HI 5401-450 401-450 Nagasaki University JP M FO VH 4401-450 - Nankai University CN L FC HI 4401-450 398 National Central University TW M CO VH 3401-450 401-450 National Sun Yat-sen University TW M CO VH 3401-450 370 National Taiwan Univ. Science and Technology TW M FO VH 3401-450 366 NUST Islamabad PK M CO HI 2401-450 401-450 Okayama University JP L FC HI 5401-450 401-450 Oregon State University US L CO VH 5401-450 - Oxford Brookes University GB L CO HI 5401-450 392 Pusan National University KR L FC HI 4401-450 - Renmin (People’s) University of China CN L FO HI 4401-450 - Stellenbosch University ZA L CO VH 5401-450 376 Swansea University GB L FC HI 4401-450 401-450 Swinburne University of Technology AU L CO HI 5401-450 401-450 Tianjin University CN L CO VH 5401-450 501-550 Tilburg University NL L FO VH 4401-450 401-450 Tokyo Metropolitan University JP M CO VH 4401-450 388 Tongji University CN XL FC VH 5401-450 501-550 Universidad de Los Andes Colombia CO L FC MD 4401-450 451-500 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ES L CO VH 5401-450 - Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) BR M FC VH 4401-450 384 Universidade Nova de Lisboa PT L FC HI 3401-450 401-450 Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II IT XL FC VH 5401-450 451-500 Universität Duisburg-Essen DE XL FC HI 3401-450 365 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) MY L CO HI 5401-450 351= University of Alabama US L CO VH 5401-450 - University of Guelph CA L CO VH 3401-450 377 University of Kansas US L FC VH 5401-450 401-450 University of Kent GB L CO HI 3401-450 451-500 University of Nebraska US L CO VH 5401-450 401-450 University of New Mexico US L FC VH 5401-450 401-450 University of Oklahoma US L FC VH 5401-450 451-500 University of Porto PT XL FC HI 5401-450 364 University of Warsaw PL XL CO HI 5

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401-450 401-450 Yokohama City University JP S FO VH 5451-500 401-450 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki GR XL FC HI 4451-500 401-450 Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) ID L CO MD 4451-500 401-450 Carleton University CA L CO VH 4451-500 401-450 Drexel University US L FC HI 5451-500 451-500 Gifu University JP M FC HI 4451-500 391 Howard University US M FC HI 5451-500 401-450 Inha University KR L FC HI 4451-500 - International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) MY L FC MD 3451-500 451-500 Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen DE L FC HI 5451-500 - King Khalid University SA M FC MD 2451-500 401-450 Kumamoto University JP M FC VH 4451-500 401-450 Lehigh University US M CO VH 5451-500 451-500 Leibniz Universität Hannover DE L CO VH 5451-500 501-550 Louisiana State University US L CO VH 5451-500 451-500 National Taiwan Normal University TW L CO HI 4451-500 401-450 Northeastern University US L CO VH 5451-500 451-500 Osaka City University JP M FC VH 5451-500 - Politécnica de Madrid ES XL SP VH 3451-500 451-500 Politecnico di Torino IT L FO VH 5451-500 551-600 Rutgers University-Newark US M CO HI 4451-500 401-450 Sabanci University TR S CO HI 2451-500 - Shanghai University CN XL CO VH 2451-500 - Sun Yat-sen University CN XL FC VH 4451-500 401-450 Technische Universität Braunschweig DE L CO VH 5451-500 401-450 Tomsk State University RU L CO MD 5451-500 451-500 Universidad de Salamanca ES L FC HI 5451-500 501-550 Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) CL L FC MD 5451-500 551-600 Universidad Nacional de Colombia CO XL FC MD 5451-500 501-550 Universidad Nacional de La Plata AR XL FC HI 5451-500 451-500 Universidad ORT Uruguay UY S FO MD 4451-500 501-550 Universidad Politecnica de Valencia ES L CO VH 3451-500 451-500 Università degli Studi di Siena (UNISI) IT L FC HI 5451-500 451-500 Università degli Studi di Torino (UNITO) IT XL FC HI 5451-500 401-450 Università degli Studi di Trento IT L CO HI 3451-500 401-450 Università degli Studi di Trieste (UNITS) IT L FC HI 4451-500 401-450 Universitat de Valencia ES XL FC HI 5451-500 451-500 Université de Rennes 1 FR L FO VH 5451-500 451-500 Université du Québec CA XL FC HI 3451-500 401-450 Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1 FR L FO VH 3451-500 394 University of Bradford GB M CO VH 3451-500 401-450 University of Crete GR L FC HI 3451-500 401-450 University of Delaware US L CO VH 5451-500 451-500 University of Hull GB L FC HI 4451-500 451-500 University of Limerick (UL) IE M FC HI 3451-500 401-450 University of Oregon US L CO HI 5451-500 401-450 University of Vermont US L FC HI 5451-500 501-550 Ural Federal University RU XL CO MD 4451-500 451-500 Virginia Commonwealth University US L FC HI 5451-500 - Wuhan University CN XL FC VH 5

Due to space constraints the names of some universities have been abbreviated to their acronym or to a shorter version of the full official name.

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Asian investment continues to reap dividendsThis year’s rankings reflect proactive schemes to improve standards at many Asian universities. By Martin Ince and Danny Byrne

Ambitious schemes implemented by governments throughout Asia have led

to dramatic developments in international recognition and research standards, and this improvement is again reflected in the 2011 QS World University Rankings®. Of the leading 25 Asian universities, 21 improve on their 2010 position, with just three moving in the oppo-site direction. There are 47 Asian universities in the top 300 (two more than last year), and 88 institutions make the top 500.

Hong Kong University repeats its 2010 performance by taking the top spot in Asia, moving up one place to 22nd and increas-ing the gap with University of Tokyo to three places. HKU is joined by fellow Hong Kong institutions CUHK and HKUST in the top 50, and with HKU, University of Tokyo and National University of Singapore cementing their places in the top 30, leading Asian institu-tions are now proving on a year-on-year basis that they operate at a comparable level to the world’s best.

However, despite the quality of Hong Kong universities, in terms of the number of leading institutions Japan is still the region’s major force in world higher education. The University of Tokyo, its top institution, is down one place from 24 to 25, but apart from ETH Zurich remains the top university in the world not working mainly in English. It is also the fifth-highest ranked institution outside the United States and the United Kingdom.

Tokyo’s only rival for prestige in the Japanese system, Kyoto, has also taken a slight fall this year, from 25 to 32. But more generally, there are 34 Japanese institutions in the 742 we list, some with substantially improved ranking positions, and 11 in our top 200.

Many of these 11 are making tangible progress in our rankings. Seven have risen in position including Kyushu and Hokkaido, which are up by 30 and 36 places respectively. The two fallers, Waseda and Tsukuba, have

suffered only slightly and remain in the top 200. Keio, Waseda’s big rival among the Tokyo private providers, has regained its top 200 slot.

Since the 2010 rankings China has displaced Japan as the world’s second-biggest economy, and this year has seen improved performances from most of China’s leading universities.

Tsinghua University moves up seven places to join Peking University in the world top 50, and Fudan University became the third Chinese university to rank within the world top 100. There are now eight Chinese universities in the global top 200, one more than in 2010.

The leading Chinese universities have very strong academic reputations, with Peking University rated 18th in the world by global academics. However, they are still held back by a comparative lack of research impact. Only one Chinese university makes the top 200 for citations per faculty member, and nearly every Chinese university performs worse in this indicator than they do overall. This indicates that while government investment may have increased the number of papers being pub-lished by Chinese academics, they are not yet having as great an impact within global academia as those of their peers.

Leading Asian institutions are now

proving on a year-on-year basis that they operate at a comparable

level to the world’s best.

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The region’s second most populous na-tion, India has itself drawn up ambitious higher education goals, but 2011 has been a disappointing year, with all of the nation’s universities ranking lower than in 2010. IIT Bombay dropped from 187 to 225, mean-ing there is now no Indian university in the global top 200. A number of the Indian In-stitutes of Technology performed well in the engineering and technology subject rank-ings published by QS earlier in the year, but significant investment and development will be required before they compete with the leading Asian institutions in overall rankings.

No Indian university ranks in the top 200 for citations per faculty, indicating a lack of research impact. Large class sizes are also reflected in the fact that no Indian university makes the top 300 for student faculty ratio. However, there is better news among global employers. Four Indian universities were rated as among the top 100 by employers for producing highly skilled graduates, indicating that though they may lack research strength, the best Indian universities are nonetheless doing a better job at equipping students with skills that help them thrive in the workplace.

YOUNG UNIVERSITIES ON THE RISEOne might reasonably expect universi-

ties to abide by the laws of the space-time continuum by getting older each year. Yet the average age of the top 100 in the 2011 QS World University Rankings® is seven years younger than in 2010. There was a turnover of just five universities passing in and out of the top 100 this year, itself a measure of the stability derived from using a consistent methodology over a number of years.

University of Mississippi, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Universität Freiburg, University of Oslo and Lomonosov Moscow State University dropped out of the top 100 this year. All are comprehensive universities, and have a reasonably stately average age of 229 years.

Their replacements in this year’s top 100 were Tohuko University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fudan University, The University of Adelaide and POSTECH. Their average age is under 100 years old, with the youngest addition, POSTECH, founded as recently as 1986. Just two of the new members of the top 100, Georgia Tech and The University of Adelaide, can trace their roots to before the 20th century – by 26 and 15 years respectively.

The elite cadre of US and UK universities that dominate the top ten are united by the many decades – if not centuries – of tradition and investment underpinning their reputa-tions. From the medieval colleges of Oxford

and Cambridge, the ornate libraries of Harvard and Yale, to UCL with its neoclassical columns and embalmed philosopher, these are historic seats of learning. The top ten have between them been active for a combined total of nearly 3,500 years.

The economist Richard Levin has spoken of the ambition of Asian universities to catch up with this old boys’ club of pre-eminent uni-versities, and emphasises the difficulty of doing so without years of continuous investment. “World-class universities achieve their status by assembling scholars and scientists who are glob-al leaders in their field. This takes time. It took centuries for Harvard and Yale to achieve parity with Oxford and Cambridge, and more than half a century for Stanford and the University of Chicago (both founded 1892) to achieve world-class reputations.”

While this statement is borne out by the prominence of the universities that Levin men-tions in the QS World University Rankings®, some of the most rapid progress in recent years has been made by universities that we might expect to be at a much earlier stage in their development. This is particularly noticeable in Asia. A major part of government strategic planning in the past decades has been the need to innovate, particularly in the high-impact disciplines of science, engineering and technology (STEM).

Nanyang Technological University breaks the world top 60 for the first time, just 20 years after it was established. Also founded in 1991, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (40) is similarly precocious, and is comfortably the youngest university in the top 50. In Korea, KAIST (90) and POSTECH (98) both make the top 100, with POSTECH gaining 14 places. Both universities were established in the last 40 years.

These young universities are raising millions in funds to fuel the growth and help build state-of-the-art laboratories and facilities. NTU spent S$830 million in sustainability research, HKUST’s budget for research in 2009-2010 was HK$ 426 million, and KAIST has set a goal to raise 1 trillion won by 2013 for various academic advancement programs.

Continued investment from public and private sectors will be crucial to the develop-ment of these upwardly mobile institutions, but the evidence from this year’s rankings is that the state of Asia’s universities has perhaps never been healthier.

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Anglophone institutions continue to have the edge in rankings, despite the efforts of continental European institutions, says Danny Byrne

The 12 months that have passed since the publication of the 2010 QS World

University Rankings® have at times been tur-bulent for UK universities, yet this year’s results go some distance toward allaying sensationalist claims about their imminent demise. University of Cambridge retains the number one position it prised from Harvard last year, while Oxford and Imperial move up one place apiece to five and six. In a top 20 with an average fluctua-tion of just 1.6 places, University of Edinburgh was the only new addition, moving up two places to 20th.

English has long been a lingua franca in many areas of global academia, and there is no doubt that this gives Anglophone universities certain advantages over their peers, which are reflected in rankings. A common language allows for the easier accumulation of world-leading faculty and students, as well as the wider dissemination of research. The top ten universities in the re-search-based indicators of citations per faculty and academic reputation all operate primarily in English, with the sole exception of University of Tokyo (ranked 7th by global academics). The only non-Anglophone university to make it into the top 20 is again ETH Zurich (18), re-inforcing its reputation as arguably the world’s premier institution that does not primarily op-erate in English.

The fee increases that come into effect for home and EU students at English universities from 2012 may have implications for leading universities in continental Europe. Recipro-cal fee arrangements mean that many EU

students will be able to study in countries such as France and Germany for a fraction of the cost, whereas speculation has been rife that there will be greater numbers of UK students seeking their education elsewhere in the EU, particularly in countries such as the Nether-lands where an increasing number of degree programs are offered in English.

The Netherlands again punches well above its weight considering its size, with 12 universi-ties in the top 300, 11 of which made the top 200. Though performance compared to last year has been mixed, with six universities rising and six falling in the rankings, institutions such as University of Amsterdam (63) and Utrecht University (79) will become increasingly at-tractive options for students throughout the EU. The reported merger talks taking place between Leiden University (88), Rotterdam Erasmus University (103) and Delft Univer-

sity of Technology (104) could also have an effect on rankings performance if implemented, with all three institutions cur-rently performing at a similar level.

Mergers of state-funded institutions have become increasingly common in Europe in recent years. While rankings are a secondary cause for this trend – an indication of the research competitive-ness such schemes are in-tended to facilitate rather than an end in themselves – recently merged Eu-ropean institutions have performed well this year.

Finland’s Aalto University, a new amalgama-tion of three previously separate institutions, jumped to 232, having ranked 250 in 2010. Similarly, France’s Strasbourg University – now

the country’s largest institution following the merger of Louis Pasteur University, Marc Bloch University and Robert Schuman University in 2009 – improved by 19 places to rank 227.

Yet despite the efforts of its competitors and its own recent economic travails, US dominance at the top end of the QS World University Rankings® shows little sign of relinquishing. Harvard may remain deposed from its once-customary number one position, but the US still accounts for six of the top ten and 20 of the top 50 institutions. There are 70 US universities in the top 300, nearly double the number of its closest competitor the UK, and just under half of them are in the top 100. MIT (3) moves up two places to record its highest ever position, leapfrogging Yale to rejig last year’s US top three. Chicago (8) retains its position, while UPenn and Columbia move up replace Caltech and Princeton in the top ten.

The major advantage that US universities continue to hold over their UK counterparts is research strength, as demonstrated by the citations-per-faculty criterion. This indicator should not be taken at face value when viewed in isolation, as it tends to favour research-intensive institutions that focus on disciplines, such as the sciences and technology, in which citation rates are high. Indeed, this is one of the reasons why it is counterbalanced by the discipline-inde-pendent academic reputation survey. However, this year’s citation-per-faculty data nonetheless points to the dominance of US universities in producing cutting-edge research. When comparing only institutions that rank within the top 100 overall, the UK has one university in the top 40 for citations per faculty (Cam-bridge); the US has 20.

Part of this is a matter of finance. With soar-ing tuition fees and endowments, the private US universities have incomparable financial clout. UK universities are more reliant on state

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subsidy, yet government spending on higher education falls below the OECD average. Tuition fee increases may help UK universi-ties sustain their income in the long term, but the reality is that institutions such as Harvard, Yale and MIT will still operate on a different financial plane to the vast majority. This has an inevitable effect on research productivity, particularly in STEM subjects, where research expenditure is naturally far greater than in non-technical subjects such as arts and humanities.

Yet while the US institutions dominate research citations, UK universities perform particularly strongly in the reputation-based indicators. Particularly in the case of the employer review, this may reflect established reputations based on successive generations of highly-skilled graduates. Yet in the case of the academic peer review in particular, it indicates that standards remain on a par with the world’s best. Academics are best placed to judge where the best research is being produced in their

field of expertise, so Cambridge and Oxford’s top-three placing in this measure points to ongoing excellence in the full range of academic disciplines, not just historically accumulated prestige.

Strong performances in the Employer Review also come from Australian institutions, led by Melbourne in equal fourth place. Of 23 Australian universities in the top 500, 15 rank higher in the Employer Review than they do overall. This recognition of the high standard of graduates entering the job market from Aus-tralian institutions is testament to the job that universities are doing in equipping them with skills that help them thrive in the workplace. With all of the Group of Eight now ranked within the global top 100, and Melbourne (31) moving up to within five places of ANU (26) near the top of the rankings, these are positive signs in a year in which the sector has faced concerns about a potential drop-off in international student numbers.

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Middle Eastern universities begin to make their mark

They may be at an early stage in their development, but investment schemes of Middle Eastern nations are beginning to pay dividends, says Martin Ince

Across the Middle East, nations large and small are developing plans for higher

education. Some have immeasurable sums of oil wealth to spend on this ambition, but even those that lack billions of petrodollars see no reason to be left behind.

Some Middle Eastern nations want universi-ties for the new knowledge they generate, with an eye on replacing oil money with high technology employment. But others are aware of the soft power potential of universities in the struggle for world prominence. They would like universities that are good enough for their elites not to assume that their children have to go to Harvard or Oxford to complete their education.

The World University Rankings for 2011 are an early test of Middle Eastern plans for aca-demic excellence. They show that the region, from Turkey to Egypt and the Gulf, has 35 universities in the 740 that we rank. At nearly one in 20 of the total, this group far exceeds the Middle East’s share of world population. This figure does not include the five Israeli universities that are ranked, which for political reasons are highly disconnected from the rest of the region’s educational culture.

The most heavily-publicized university am-bitions in the Middle East belong to Saudi Ara-bia, and their success is seen in the seven Saudi universities in our rankings. These include King Saud University at number 200 in the WUR, and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals at 221. These two are the region’s top-ranking universities by some distance.

More striking is the progress which these seven are making in the QS World University Rankings. Of last year’s contingent, King Abdul Aziz University (KAU) rose from the 401+ to rank at 370, and Umm Al-Qura University is still in the 501-550 band. But King Faisal and King Khalid universities are new entrants, the second of them entering immediately into the 451-500 zone. The other four have all risen, for example from 221 to 200 for King Saud.

The only nation in the region with more ranked universities than Saudi Arabia is Turkey with eight. Bilkent is highest-placed in our 401-450 grouping. Both it and the Middle East Technical University appear in our citations rankings and attract international faculty, but no Turkish university impresses global employ-ers or academics. Beyond these two nations, Egypt has five universities here but no other nation manages more than two.

Middle Eastern nations have chosen a variety of ways of developing their higher education. Qatar, which has one university here, is also home to Education City, a development zone that houses local branches of Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, HEC, Texas A+M and other US and European universities. It is dif-ficult to capture this development in rankings such as ours. Qatar is also committed to spend-ing 2.8 per cent of GDP on research, probably the highest figure in the world.

We cannot yet tell what effect the events of the Arab Spring will have on education in the region, although students and professors have been enthusiastic participants. But it is axiomatic that universities reflect the society they belong to, which suggests that change is inevitable.

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QS World University Rankings®

MethodologyThe QS World University Rankings® currently considers over 2,000 and evaluates over 700 universities in the world, ranking the top 400. Plans continue to broaden the work in terms of numberof institutions and deepen it in terms of the detail provided to users.

METHODOLOGYSix indicators are drawn together to form an international ranking of universities:

In addition, rankings in five broad faculty areas are produced: Arts & Humanities, Engineering & Technology, Life Sciences & Medicine, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences & Management. These are based entirely on the results of our global academic survey unlike the more sophisti-cated approach taken to derive the QS World University Rankings® by Subject

1_ Academic Reputation from global survey 40%

2_ Employer Reputation from global survey 10%

3_Citations per Faculty from SciVerse Scopus 20%

4_ Faculty Student Ratio 20%

5_ Proportion of International Students 5%

6_ Proportion of International Faculty 5%

2011 ACADEMIC SURVEY RESPONSES

33,744 Academic Responses

The QS Global Academic Survey now stands as the largest survey of its type yet on the opinions of academics globally with a re-sponse of almost 34,000 in 2011. This phe-nomenal result is, in part, due to investment in survey software, survey design, effective-ness of communication and database man-agement, but also reflects the strong aware-ness and interest right around the world in the QS World University Rankings® and university evaluations generally.

2011 EMPLOYER SURVEY RESPONSES

16,785 Employer Responses

The QS Global Employer Survey has seen a dramatic increase in response in 2011 from slightly over 5,000 in 2010 to almost 17,000 in 2011. Growth has been seen worldwide but nowhere more profoundly than in Latin America, where a campaign conducted in Spanish met with great success. Responses are closely scrutinized and weighted to elimi-nate biases that may result from dispropor-tionate response levels.

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Can rankings really help students choose their university?

Ranking Name Country UGD Range ($) PGD range ($) International UG range ($)

InternationalPG range ($)

1 University of CAMBRIDGE UK 14,000 - 16,000 4,000 - 6,000 18,000 - 20,000 20,000 - 22,000

2 HARVARD University US 38,000 - 40,000 36,000 - 38,000 38,000 - 40,000 36,000 - 38,000

3 MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (MIT) US 38,000 - 40,000 40,000 - 42,000 38,000 - 40,000 40,000 - 42,000

4 YALE University US 38,000 - 40,000 32,000 - 34,000 38,000 - 40,000 32,000 - 34,000

5 University of OXFORD UK 14,000 - 16,000 4,000 - 6,000 20,000 - 22,000 20,000 - 22,000

6 IMPERIAL College London UK 14,000 - 16,000 4,000 - 6,000 30,000 - 32,000 32,000 - 34,000

7 UCL (University College London) UK 14,000 - 16,000 6,000 - 8,000 24,000 - 26,000 24,000 - 26,000

8 University of CHICAGO US 42,000 - 44,000 42,000 - 44,000 42,000 - 44,000 42,000 - 44,000

9 University of PENNSYLVANIA US 40,000 - 42,000 26,000 - 28,000 40,000 - 42,000 26,000 - 28,000

10 COLUMBIA University US 42,000 - 44,000 38,000 - 40,000 42,000 - 44,000 38,000 - 40,000

11 STANFORD University US 40,000 - 42,000 38,000 - 40,000 40,000 - 42,000 38,000 - 40,000

12 CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Caltech) US 36,000 - 38,000 36,000 - 38,000 36,000 - 38,000 36,000 - 38,000

13 PRINCETON University US 36,000 - 38,000 38,000 - 40,000 36,000 - 38,000 38,000 - 40,000

14 University of MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor US 10,000 - 12,000 16,000 - 18,000 36,000 - 38,000 36,000 - 38,000

15 CORNELL University US 38,000 - 40,000 28,000 - 30,000 38,000 - 40,000 28,000 - 30,000

16 JOHNS HOPKINS University US 40,000 - 42,000 40,000 - 42,000 40,000 - 42,000 40,000 - 42,000

17 MCGILL University CA 4,000 - 6,000 4,000 - 6,000 18,000 - 20,000 14,000 - 16,000

18 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) CH < 2000 < 2000 < 2000 < 2000

19 DUKE University US 40,000 - 42,000 38,000 - 40,000 40,000 - 42,000 38,000 - 40,000

20 University of EDINBURGH UK 2,000 - 4,000 6,000 - 8,000 16,000 - 18,000 18,000 - 20,000

21 University of California, BERKELEY US 10,000 - 12,000 10,000 - 12,000 32,000 - 34,000 24,000 - 26,000

22 University of Hong Kong HK 4,000 - 6,000 4,000 - 6,000 14,000 - 16,000 14,000 - 16,000

23 University of TORONTO CA 10,000 - 12,000 12,000 - 14,000 32,000 - 34,000 28,000 - 30,000

24 NORTHWESTERN University US 40,000 - 42,000 40,000 - 42,000 40,000 - 42,000 40,000 - 42,000

25 University of Tokyo JP 6,000 - 8,000 6,000 - 8,000 6,000 - 8,000 0

26 AUSTRALIAN National University AU 6,000 - 8,000 22,000 - 24,000 40,000 - 42,000 28,000 - 30,000

27 KING'S College London UK 14,000 - 16,000 6,000 - 8,000 20,000 - 22,000 20,000 - 22,000

28 National University of SINGAPORE SG 34,000 - 36,000 6,000 - 8,000 40,000 - 42,000 18,000 - 20,000

29 University of MANCHESTER UK 14,000 - 16,000 8,000 - 10,000 18,000 - 20,000 22,000 - 24,000

30 University of BRISTOL UK 14,000 - 16,000 6,000 - 8,000 20,000 - 22,000 20,000 - 22,000

31 The University of MELBOURNE AU 6,000 - 8,000 0 28,000 - 30,000 24,000 - 26,000

32 Kyoto University JP 6,000 - 8,000 6,000 - 8,000 4,000 - 6,000 4,000 - 6,000

33 École Normale Supérieure, PARIS FR < 1,000 < 1,000 < 1,000 < 1,000

34 University of CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (UCLA) US 10,000 - 12,000 10,000 - 12,000 32,000 - 34,000 24,000 - 26,000

35 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LAUSANNE CH < 2000 < 2000 < 2000 < 2000

36 ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FR < 1,000 6,000 - 8,000 < 1,000 6,000 - 8,000

37 The Chinese University of Hong Kong HK 4,000 - 6,000 4,000 - 6,000 12,000 - 14,000 12,000 - 14,000

38 The University of SYDNEY AU 6,000 - 8,000 22,000 - 24,000 30,000 - 32,000 28,000 - 30,000

39 BROWN University US 40,000 - 42,000 40,000 - 42,000 40,000 - 42,000 40,000 - 42,000

40 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology HK 4,000 - 6,000 4,000 - 6,000 8,000 - 10,000 < 2000

41 University of WISCONSIN, Madison US 8,000 - 10,000 10,000 - 12,000 24,000 - 26,000 24,000 - 26,000

42 Seoul National University KR 4,000 - 6,000 4,000 - 6,000 4,000 - 6,000 4,000 - 6,000

43 CARNEGIE MELLON University US 42,000 - 44,000 36,000 - 38,000 42,000 - 44,000 36,000 - 38,000

44 NEW YORK University (NYU) US 40,000 - 42,000 34,000 - 36,000 40,000 - 42,000 34,000 - 36,000

45 Osaka University JP 6,000 - 8,000 6,000 - 8,000 4,000 - 6,000 8,000 - 10,000

46 Peking University CN < 1,000 2,000 - 4,000 4,000 - 6,000 4,000 - 6,000

47 TsingHua University CN < 2000 < 2000 4,000 - 6,000 6,000 - 8,000

48 University of QUEENSLAND AU 6,000 - 8,000 < 2000 22,000 - 24,000 12,000 - 14,000

49 University of NEW SOUTH WALES AU 6,000 - 8,000 8,000 - 10,000 28,000 - 30,000 28,000 - 30,000

50 University of WARWICK UK 14,000 - 16,000 8,000 - 10,000 20,000 - 22,000 20,000 - 22,000

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Market-based fee systems make independent university comparisons vital, says Tim Rogers

We live in very interesting times. For decades, the topic of higher education,

university admissions, tuition fees and graduate employment featured, if at all, buried deep in the pages of our national newspapers. In recent months, however, since the release of the Browne Report and the UK Government’s White Paper on higher education, universities are front-page news, almost on a daily basis. New demands from students, the Government and employers to make the university experi-ence more relevant to the contemporary labour market have transformed the higher education landscape in the UK and discussions on social mobility, transferable skills and the funding of education are now commonplace.

Interesting times may also dictate changing times for UK and European students aim-ing to enter university in 2012 and beyond. The implementation of what might be called “market rate” tuition fees calls into question for the first time whether universities and their individual undergraduate degree programs represent value for money equally. With higher rates of student debt facing most students in the UK in the future, the question “what do I get for my money?” arises in a way students have never had to face before. The logical response to such a situation is the provision of more detailed and perhaps greater volumes of relevant advisory information.

The role of rankings, in this context, may prove much more powerful. Related to the UK Government’s own revised approach to higher education, the collection of independ-ent and objective data on the performance of universities across a range of measures, such as entry standards, student satisfaction, tuition fees and graduate employment rates, is likely to be critical for all those concerned with making the right choice on where to study. To quote the White Paper itself, “We will radically improve and expand the information available to prospective students, making available much more information about individual courses at individual institutions and graduate employ-ment prospects.”

The availability of rankings for UK, EU and international students to help support them choosing a university program is nothing new. A range of publications, including many na-tional newspapers, magazines and now websites, have developed rankings or league tables to

help support better student choice for over a decade. Ben Sowter, Head of the QS Intel-ligence Unit, the power behind the QS World University Rankings®, sees the use of rankings by prospective students as only now becoming more and more important: “With higher tui-tion fees in place in the UK, students and their parents are bound to look for more detailed information that compares programs, universi-ties and even graduates of specific institutions directly. Information that is based on solid data will help all those involved in choosing where to study to make much better and more informed choices.”

Phil Moss, an education and admissions con-sultant specializing in counselling UK students to gain access to university, believes that the advent of fees will change a number of behav-iours but sounds a note of caution on the use of university rankings and league tables, “Any university ranking offers additional information and is likely to help students and their parents make better decisions about where to study, but the need to balance them with other, more human factors will continue to be important. Advice from alumni or current students can be as valuable in providing a genuine insight into the experience or quality of a particularly degree program and add an element that rank-ings can never convey – the actual emotion of a university experience.”

While rankings are perhaps not the answer for all issues related to university or program choice, the provision of a set of measures that contribute to an understanding of the rela-tive quality of an institution is very valuable. Rankings, such as those offered by QS, have the added advantage of offering a detailed insight into the relative strengths of universities in the UK and further afield at the subject level. Such at-tempts at providing information at this micro-level can only support prospective students in making the best decision possible for their university choice and their future careers. For many, in the changed reality of tuition fees and increas-ing demand for university under-graduate places, the availability of more and more information can only be a good thing.

The implementation of

full-cost student tuition fees will change the UK university environment forever – and for many it has already started to. Students and their parents will seek greater reassurances, not only that the university experience and the likely qualification gained will provide value for money relative to the competition, but also that a genuine future return on their invest-ment is probable, if not guaranteed. University rankings and external assessments can only add a very valuable dimension to the decision-making process for all those concerned, as more and more students assess whether their university choice is the best possible one for them.

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QS World University Rankings® by SubjectBy Danny Byrne

Though overall rankings have become a valuable tool for prospective students, they

are necessarily limited in their ability to reflect the strengths of specialist institutions as op-posed to comprehensive universities. In order to expand the scope of the rankings, 2011 has seen the inaugural publication of the QS World University Rankings® by Subject. Using a combination of survey data from the QS World University Rankings® and new citation data from Scopus, the subject rankings zoom in to provide a subject-specific ranking focusing on three key criteria: Academic Reputation, Em-ployer Reputation and Citations per Paper.

Rankings have been produced in 26 narrow subject areas, with the weightings of the three indicators adjusted to best reflect their relative

importance in a given field; citations are given a greater weighting in the more data-driven fields, whereas in subjects with typically low citation rates the emphasis is placed on reputation. While a handful of leading comprehensive universities perform strongly in most disciplines - Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Stanford and Yale in the US, and Oxford and Cambridge in the UK – the added value of the exercise can be seen in the number of universities that display a specialist strength that is overlooked in overall league tables.

Below is a table featuring some of the best examples of universities that perform significantly better in a given specialist discipline than they do in the overall 2011 QS World University Rankings®.

The number-one spots in the rankings were split between five universities: Harvard (top in a remarkable 16 subjects), followed by MIT (top in six), Cambridge (top in two), and Oxford and Stanford, with one discipline apiece. Spe-cialist institutions also highlight their areas of expertise to a greater extent than is possible in the overall table. For example, LSE shows that it is a world-class research institution in certain areas of the social sciences by finishing fourth in both Economics and Politics. However, in the overall table it is inevitably disadvantaged by operating in significantly fewer disciplines than most of its competitors.

Institution Country/Region World Rank Subject Overall 2011 Rank

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US 1 Six subjects* 3

University of Oxford UK 1 Geography 5

Stanford University US 1 Statistics 11

UC Berkeley US 2 Four subjects* 21

University of Chicago US 5 Sociology 8

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) UK 4 Two subjects* 64

Imperial College London UK 5 Engineering - Civil & Structural 6

McGill University Canada 9 Linguistics 17

Australian National University (ANU) Australia 6 Philosophy 26

National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 7 Statistics 28

University of Edinburgh UK 7 Linguistics 20

University of Toronto Canada 7 English Language and Literature 23

Johns Hopkins University US 8 Medicine 16

University of Melbourne Australia 8 Psychology 31

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US 10 Biological Sciences 77

ETH Zurich Switzerland 10 Engineering - Civil & Structural 18

New York University (NYU) US 10 Law 44

University of Sydney Australia 11 Law 38

University of British Columbia (UBC) Canada 11 Environmental Sciences 51

* MIT: Computer Sciences; Electrical Engineering;

Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural Engineering;

Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering;

Material Sciences

* UC Berkeley: Material Sciences; Environmental Sciences;

Geography; Sociology

*LSE: Economics; Politics

Full QS rankings in 26 individual disciplines can be viewed at www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings

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QS Stars- a new university evaluation tool

www.topuniversities.com/qsstars

By John O’Leary and Danny Byrne

Rankings continue to capture the headlines, but demand has also grown for a form of assessment that judges universities solely on their own qualities, rather than in relation to other institutions. In recent months there has been widespread interest in a new university rating system, QS Stars. Universities in a dozen countries, including Australia, the UK and the United States, have chosen to be rated on their facilities, innovation and local engagement, as well as their teaching and research.

More than 70 universities have applied for QS Stars, which provide an overall

rating and also highlight areas of excellence in particular aspects of their performance. The system allows for specialization and uses devices such as student satisfaction surveys that are not part of international rankings. Successful universities are awarded between one and five Stars.

A typical one-star university may be less than 20 years old and will be providing a good standard of education while building a domes-tic reputation. Those awarded five stars must be world-class in a broad range of areas, enjoy an excellent reputation and have cutting-edge facilities and internationally renowned research and teaching faculty. The first universities to be awarded Stars range from the five-star Uni-versity of New South Wales, which received its rating certificate last week, to 50-year-old Syiah Kuala University, in Banda Aceh, Indone-sia, whose assessment was completed in 2010.

The QS Stars system is designed to allow institutions to shine, irrespective of their size, shape and mission. Stars are awarded based on an audit by the QS Intelligence Unit, with separate ratings published for each of the eight criteria. The system offers an international standard for comparison for any participat-ing institution and is particularly useful for universities that are focused on raising their international profile.

Stars are proving attractive to universi-ties that are yet to make a mark on the world

rankings, as well as some that are already well-placed. They recognize strengths that may be overlooked in rankings, for example in community engagement, and have none of the drawbacks associated with rankings for universities that teach and research in languages other than English.

Almost 30 criteria contribute towards the maximum 1,000 points awarded in the assess-ment of QS Stars. They are grouped into eight categories: research, employability, teaching, infrastructure, internationalization, innovation, engagement and the institution’s standing in specialist subjects. This can be demonstrated ei-ther through QS ranking positions or through internationally recognised accreditation.

Ben Sowter, who heads the QS Intelli-gence Unit, which is responsible for the Stars system, said: “A star rating assesses institutional performance in greater detail than can feasibly be accommodated in ranking results. It can encourage users and readers to understand that ranking results ought to be analyzed and contextualized rather than simply taken at face value. It can also provide additional important information that may be used by prospective students during the earliest stages of the decision-making process for university applications.”

“Ranking systems are very important to students when they’re trying to make decisions about where to study, but they’re not always particularly relevant to a student’s specific area of interest”, says Ailsa Lamont, Executive

Director (International) at RMIT, the latest in a succession of Australian institutions to adopt the system. “For example, we recently scored very highly in some of the ERA research rank-ings (compiled by The Australian, based on the government ERA research rating). That’s fan-tastic and shows the quality of the institution, but at the same time most of the international students who come to RMIT are coming to do coursework programs, MBAs etc, so having a high quality ranking for research in engineer-ing doesn’t necessarily help them.”

Lamont says that the system is an expan-sion of the scope of the rankings that will be mutually beneficial to students and institu-tions. “QS Stars actually drills down to further detail, which will give students the choice to compare us more usefully with other institu-tions”, she says. “We can use it to highlight the many diverse areas of strength that we have, and it will help us with our planning in areas such as branding, positioning, and telling us which areas to focus on.” The greater range of the comparative information offered by QS Stars is something that has been welcomed in Australia, where a host of leading universities have moved early to adopt the system.

Another such institution is University of New South Wales, which on 2nd June 2011 received its QS Stars certificate, making it the first five-star rated Australian university. “From now on all of our promotional material, our website, and our publications, will include both the QS Stars rating alongside the Australian

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government’s ERA analysis”, says Jennie Lang, pro-vice chancellor at the university. Star-rated universities such as UNSW and RMIT are provided with a development roadmap put to-gether by QS Intelligence Unit, which provides an in-depth comparison with a selection of relevant institutions.

Lang says this scope for strategic comparison is a key attraction of the system: “Compared to an international ranking, QS Stars offers more of a framework for benchmarking. It’s something where criteria that are important can be measured over time, not just with our colleagues in Australia but with likeminded universities anywhere in the world, and that’s what really attracted us.”

Whereas rankings tend to be research-driven, QS Stars allows smaller, less research-intensive institutions such as Cattolica Universita del Sacro Cuore in Milan showcase its creden-tials in other areas. “Cattolica offers excellent services to students”, says Edilio Mazzoleni, Director of Cooperation, Mobility and Inter-nationalization at the university. “We provide access to a lot of students who may not also be able to afford university, through our scholar-ship program. Also, among our faculty we have a high percentage of professors who hold a PhD. This sort of information is reflected in QS Stars, whereas it would not be in a university ranking.”

However, Mazzoleni also stresses that for a smaller institution the affect of the system upon internal processes can be just as important as its impact on global branding and visibility. “The initial reason we decided to adopt QS Stars was to have an instrument in place to check over our data, because we previously had a lot of problems in this regard. One of the problems we have had in the past is miscommunication, so I think with QS Stars we get a better understanding of how to collect information and also make an audience within the univer-sity aware of how important it is to provide the right information.”

Lang says that a culture of more informed student decision-making means that inde-pendent rating will play an increasing role, as students seek a greater level of compara-tive detail than that offered by league tables. “I think most universities will use QS Stars. Increasingly, discerning students who are much more knowledgeable about their opportunities, say ‘show me the evidence’. I sense that this is what the future is going to be - students want-ing us not just to make these assertions, but to back them up.”

Enquiries about QS Stars should be addressed to Deena Al-Hilli, the project manager, at [email protected].

QS Star rated Institutions

Geographical diversity of QS Star rated Universities

AUSTRALASIAUniversity of New South Wales

Bond UniversityRMIT

The University of CanterburySwinburne University of Technology

University of NewcastleUniversity of Tasmania

Massey UniversityMurdoch University

Southern Cross UniversityUniversity of Technology Sydney

AsiaUniversitas Islam Indonesia

Universitas DiponegoroNanyang Technological University

Amity UniversityUniversitas Sebelas Maret

Universitas PasundanUniversitas Sriwijaya

Universitas GunadarmaUniversitas Muhammadiyah MalangUniversitas Bina Nusantara (BINUS)

Universitas AndalasUniversitas Jember

Universitas Negeri MalangUniversitas Brawijaya

Universitas HasanuddinUniversitas Negeri Yogyakarta

Institut Teknologi BandungUniversitas Katolik Parahyangan

Universitas PadjadjaranUniversitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta

Institut Pertanian BogorUniversitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Universitas AirlanggaInstitut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember

Universitas Ahmad DahlanInstitut Teknologi Nasional Bandung

Universitas Syiah KualaUniversitas Mataram

Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta Universitas Tanjungpura

Universitas Nasional Universitas Negeri Makassar STSI Bandung

Universitas Muhammadiyah Universitas Udayana

Universitas Jenderal SoedirmanUniversity of Lampung

Politeknik Negeri Samarinda

Politeknik Negeri Ujung Pandang STIE Triatma Mulya

Al-Farabi National Kazakh UniversitySTSI Bandung

Gorontalo State UniversityUniversitas Sam Ratulangi Manado Universitas Siliwangi Tasikmalaya

Universitas Mercubuana Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

Universitas Sanata Dharma Universitas Kristen Petra Universitas Malahayati Universitas Bengkulu Universitas Haluoleo

Universitas Muhammadiyah Palu Universitas Muhammadiyah Palu

Middle EastKing Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Gulf Medical UniversityQassim Universitty

EuropeKing’s College London

IE UniversityUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC)

University College CorkUniversity of Limerick

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

The AmericasOhio State University

Tecnológico de MonterreyBoston University

Californiia Institute ofTechnologyPrinceton UniversityHarvard University

Yale UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Columbia UniversityUniversity of Pennsylvania

Stanford UniversityDuke University

University of MichiganCornell University

New York University (NYU)University of Wisconsin-Madison

Universidad San Francisco de QuitoUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais

University of Chicago

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