Top 100 Universities

Top 100 World Universities

Here is a list of the top 100 Universities in the world by rank as determined in a study from the Institute of Higher Education,
A detailed description of the criteria used, rankings by geographic area, FAQ's and the questionnaire itself can be found at: http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2004/2004Main.htm
World Rank Institution Country Total Score
1 Harvard University USA 100.0
2 Stanford University USA 77.2
3 University Cambridge UK 76.2
4 University California - Berkeley USA 74.2
5 Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT) USA 72.4
6 California Inst Tech USA 69.0
7 Princeton University USA 63.6
8 University Oxford UK 61.4
9 Columbia University USA 61.2
10 University Chicago USA 60.5
11 Yale University USA 58.6
12 Cornell University USA 55.5
13 University California - San Diego USA 53.8
14 Tokyo University Japan 51.9
15 University Pennsylvania USA 51.8
16 University California - Los Angeles USA 51.6
17 University California - San Francisco USA 50.8
18 University Wisconsin - Madison USA 50.0
19 University Michigan - Ann Arbor USA 49.3
20 University Washington - Seattle USA 49.1
21 Kyoto University Japan 48.3
22 Johns Hopkins University USA 47.5
23 Imperial Coll London UK 46.4
24 University Toronto Canada 44.6
25 University Coll London UK 44.3
25 University Illinois - Urbana Champaign USA 43.3
27 Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Zurich Switzerland 43.2
28 Washington University - St. Louis USA 43.1
29 Rockefeller University USA 40.2
30 Northwestern University USA 39.5
31 Duke University USA 38.9
32 New York University USA 38.7
33 University Minnesota - Twin Cities USA 38.3
34 University Colorado - Boulder USA 37.8
35 University California - Santa Barbara USA 37.0
36 University British Columbia Canada 36.3
36 University Texas Southwestern Med Center USA 36.3
38 Vanderbilt University USA 35.1
39 University Utrecht Netherlands 34.9
40 University Texas - Austin USA 34.8
41 University Paris 06 France 33.9
42 University California - Davis USA 33.6
43 Pennsylvania State University -University Park USA 33.5
44 Rutgers State University - New Brunswick USA 33.4
45 Tech University Munich Germany 33.3
46 Karolinska Inst Stockholm Sweden 33.0
47 University Edinburgh UK 32.9
48 University Paris 11 France 32.5
48 University Southern California USA 32.5
48 University Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh USA 32.5
51 University Munich Germany 32.4
52 University Rochester USA 32.0
53 Australian Natl University Australia 31.9
54 Osaka University Japan 31.5
55 University California - Irvine USA 31.4
56 University North Carolina - Chapel Hill USA 31.2
57 University Zurich Switzerland 31.1
57 University Maryland - Coll Park USA 31.1
59 University Copenhagen Denmark 31.0
60 University Bristol UK 30.6
61 McGill University Canada 30.4
62 Carnegie Mellon University USA 30.3
63 University Leiden Netherlands 29.8
64 University Heidelberg Germany 29.7
65 Case Western Reserve University USA 29.6
66 Moscow State University Russia 29.5
67 University Florida USA 29.3
68 University Oslo Norway 29.2
69 University Sheffield UK 28.8
69 Tohoku University Japan 28.8
71 Purdue University - West Lafayette USA 28.7
72 University Helsinki Finland 28.6
73 Ohio State University - Columbus USA 28.5
74 Uppsala University Sweden 28.4
75 Rice University USA 28.3
76 University Arizona USA 28.1
77 King's Coll London UK 28.0
78 University Manchester UK 27.9
79 University Goettingen Germany 27.4
80 Michigan State University USA 27.0
80 University Nottingham UK 27.0
82 Brown University USA 26.8
82 University Melbourne Australia 26.8
82 University Strasbourg 1 France 26.8
85 Ecole Normale Super Paris France 26.5
86 University Vienna Austria 26.3
86 Boston University USA 26.3
88 University Freiburg Germany 26.0
88 McMaster University Canada 26.0
90 Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel 25.9
91 University Basel Switzerland 25.8
92 Lund University Sweden 25.6
93 University Birmingham UK 25.5
93 University Roma - La Sapienza Italy 25.5
95 Humboldt University Berlin Germany 25.4
95 University Utah USA 25.4
97 Stockholm University Sweden 25.2
97 Nagoya University Japan 25.2
99 University Bonn Germany 25.1
99 Tufts University USA 25.1
100 Aarhus University Denmark 25.0