Top 200 QS World University Rankings 2013

 

The top 200 universities in the world as ranked by QS

 

 

·         The Guardian, Tuesday 10 September 2013 00.05 BST

• World university rankings: Harvard pushes Cambridge into third place

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology heads list, Oxford slips to sixth, while Edinburgh and King’s College London join top 20

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• Oxford University axes ‘wealth test’ for post-grads

  The university has abandoned its ‘financial guarantee’ and now only asks for proof that first-year course fees can be met, writes Daniel Boffey

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Top 200 QS World University Rankings 2013
Rank	Institution	Country	Academic Reputation Score	Employer Reputation Score	Faculty Student Score	Citations Per Faculty Score	International Faculty Score	International Students Score	Overall Score
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100	100	100	99.7	97.6	96.3	100
2	Harvard University	United States	100	100	99.3	100	94.1	85.3	99.2
3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	100	100	99.6	95.8	95.5	96	99
4	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	99.9	98.7	98.9	95.6	96.5	100	98.9
5	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	99.9	100	99.8	92.5	99.9	99.9	98.8
6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	100	100	100	93.1	97.7	96.7	98.7
7	Stanford University	United States	100	100	94.4	100	75.6	76	96.8
8	Yale University	United States	100	100	100	88.8	94.4	72.7	96.5
9	University of Chicago	United States	99.9	94.3	96.2	97.8	78.8	74.9	96.2
10=	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	99.6	69.2	100	100	92.2	87.7	96.1
10=	Princeton University	United States	100	95.1	96.3	98.8	76.3	68.8	96.1
12	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	99.9	97.9	76.5	94.9	100	98.4	94.3
13	University of Pennsylvania	United States	98.4	93.8	99.9	92.7	55	69.8	93.8
14	Columbia University	United States	100	100	95.9	96.8	16.2	78.8	93.6
15	Cornell University	United States	99.8	97.8	75.1	99.2	87.8	64.6	92.5
16	Johns Hopkins University	United States	96	64.1	100	97.8	78.9	69.7	92.1
17=	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	99.7	98.3	75.1	84.5	89.8	97.3	91.3
17=	University of Toronto	Canada	99.9	95.9	78.8	82.2	97.7	86.8	91.3
19=	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	87.9	88.3	94.5	88.2	100	100	90.9
19=	King’s College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	94.6	93.7	89.9	79.3	93.9	96.6	90.9
21	McGill University	Canada	99.1	95.7	90.2	72.2	81.1	90.2	90.6
22	University of Michigan	United States	99.8	95	92.7	88.7	44	45.9	90.5
23	Duke University	United States	96.2	85.8	99.9	98.4	16.4	44.4	90.1
24	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	100	99.9	89.1	57.3	100	96.6	89.4
25	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	100	100	52.1	98.9	93.9	74.7	89
26	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	99.4	93.1	94.7	51.7	100	98.7	88.6
27	Australian National University	Australia	99.7	92.4	83.4	63.2	99.9	94.1	88.5
28	Ecole normale supérieure, Paris	France	89.7	77.4	97.1	94.3	58.7	52.1	87.8
29	Northwestern University	United States	92.9	90.7	87.2	99.5	12	55.4	87.3
30	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	92.2	98.3	78.6	78.1	83.7	81	86.6
31	The University of Melbourne	Australia	99.8	100	50.1	84	81.5	96.6	86
32	The University of Tokyo	Japan	100	99.3	91.4	76.3	11.1	27.3	85.7
33	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	99.2	100	66.2	64.7	84.5	96	85.2
34	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	93.3	90.6	86.5	52.6	100	98.6	84.4
35=	Kyoto University	Japan	99.9	92.1	94.8	68.4	16.5	22.9	84.1
35=	Seoul National University	Korea, South	98.7	93.6	87	60.9	47.2	60.4	84.1
37	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	97.4	69.7	91.8	68.7	56.9	36	83
38	The University of Sydney	Australia	99.5	98	50.1	68.4	99.7	87.2	82.9
39	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	94.5	83.3	87.9	47.1	95.8	81.7	82.3
40	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	100	98	47.7	100	2.3	43.6	81.9
41=	Ecole Polytechnique	France	74.1	97.5	99.9	66.2	72	91.4	81.1
41=	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	92.4	94.1	90.1	33	100	97.1	81.1
43	The University of Queensland	Australia	95.7	91.9	49.8	69.3	98.8	86.8	80.9
44	New York University (NYU)	United States	98.4	92	94.9	43.8	23.5	60	80.8
45	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	89	78.9	99.7	57.4	67.5	37.5	80.5
46	Peking University	China	99.8	98.8	79	46.5	64.5	32.1	80
47	Brown University	United States	81.1	65.5	85.2	97.6	23.5	55.8	79.8
48	Tsinghua University	China	99.3	99.1	88.6	38.3	48.7	38.9	79.7
49	University of British Columbia	Canada	99.6	86.5	35.4	83.4	83.4	53.5	79.4
50	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	96.4	64.1	86	55.6	52.7	61.6	79.3
51	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	86.4	80.1	52.7	85.9	81.2	84.7	78.9
52	The University of New South Wales	Australia	96.5	98.6	40.2	61.2	100	95.8	78.8
53	Technische Universität München	Germany	90.7	96.1	95.5	39.1	51	57.7	78.5
54	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	83.9	56.3	78.8	92.4	43.6	22.1	77
55	Osaka University	Japan	91.7	80.5	93.2	57.7	14.9	19.9	76.9
56	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	97.9	77.5	23.6	91.3	67.6	62.6	76.7
57	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	85.8	82.6	46.4	93.4	18.6	98	76.6
58	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	93.8	83.9	41.1	85.7	67	30.6	76.4
59	University of Washington	United States	95.2	54.6	54.7	99.5	8.7	22.3	76.2
60	KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	Korea, South	85.1	72.8	90.8	64.5	40.7	21.8	75.8
61	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	81.8	82.6	59.8	65.4	98	78.7	75.1
62	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	81.3	90.4	57.3	67.4	81.6	80	74.9
63	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	98	50.4	45.5	99.8	2.1	22.3	74.8
64	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	89.4	100	47.1	47.7	91.6	98	74.5
65	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	98.4	84.3	45.4	63.8	46.3	43	74.4
66	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	79.8	84.6	76.8	78.3	15	35.1	74.2
67	Lund University	Sweden	89.6	90	50.8	67.7	51.4	52.4	74
68	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	92.6	100	63.5	19.6	100	100	73.9
69=	Monash University	Australia	94.1	98	34.6	50.1	89.5	90.7	73.7
69=	University of Helsinki	Finland	84.3	55.7	92.9	59.9	56.8	14.7	73.7
71=	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	79.3	84.7	59.4	62	80.4	91.4	73.3
71=	University of Geneva	Switzerland	66.6	36.9	64.8	98.9	100	99	73.3
71=	University of Texas at Austin	United States	98.5	87.9	21.1	82	57.9	26.5	73.3
74	Leiden University	Netherlands	86.6	59.8	44.5	94.3	68.8	22.7	73.2
75=	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	80.3	98	54.8	56.5	84.8	87.7	73.1
75=	Tohoku University	Japan	81.8	76	97.9	54.9	18.5	21.2	73.1
77	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	93.1	79.6	21.7	86.2	74.9	44.3	73
78	University of Zurich	Switzerland	80.6	67.6	70.9	59.2	99.7	52.2	72.9
79=	Boston University	United States	75.6	81.5	64.9	85.3	12.7	63.7	72.5
79=	Uppsala University	Sweden	86.3	70.1	38.6	92.5	41	48.9	72.5
81	Utrecht University	Netherlands	84.9	63.2	46.5	93.7	55.7	18.1	72.3
82	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	97.5	76.4	39.9	77.4	17.5	14.9	72
83	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	66.2	78.4	67.8	68.5	95.9	99.9	71.6
84	The University of Western Australia	Australia	77.5	79.2	38.6	78.8	99.9	75.2	71.4
85	University of California, Davis	United States	83.8	48.6	38.7	96.9	68.9	41.3	71.3
86=	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	73.9	65.8	61	67.9	87	89.2	71
86=	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	62.1	36.7	99.8	96.7	7.2	50.6	71
88	Fudan University	China	92.5	92.9	40.4	64.9	18.3	46.5	70.8
89	University of Oslo	Norway	72.4	50.8	83.2	75.4	46.3	44.5	70.6
90	Durham University	United Kingdom	75.3	98.7	48.9	60.4	89.7	76.3	70.4
91	Aarhus University	Denmark	75.1	60.1	59.9	80	66.9	53.7	70.3
92=	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	54.5	91.5	68.7	93.2	75.4	57.2	70.2
92=	Université de Montréal	Canada	79	59.6	37.3	82.4	87	82.6	70.2
94	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	92.1	88	27.9	47.1	89.7	89.1	69.8
95	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	79.8	81.8	36.6	67.3	90.2	74.8	69.4
96	University of Alberta	Canada	77.8	59.6	61.5	57.6	90.5	72.9	69.3
97=	University of Groningen	Netherlands	66.4	57.3	73.8	63.9	91.9	90.2	69.2
97=	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	81.3	87.3	48.2	52.5	77.8	72.6	69.2
99=	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	76.2	82.9	18.8	99.6	41.6	72.1	68.4
99=	Nagoya University	Japan	72.3	64.7	94.1	57	21.8	28.8	68.4
99=	Purdue University	United States	78.6	82.8	35.5	63.7	95.1	77.2	68.4
102=	Universität Freiburg	Germany	79.2	39.1	59.6	75.1	59	43.1	67.9
102=	University of Minnesota	United States	83.1	50	35.6	99.4	6.1	41.4	67.9
104=	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	67	55.1	80.5	47.9	100	89.4	67.7
104=	The University of Adelaide	Australia	74.8	78.7	47.7	54.9	91.5	91.6	67.7
106	University of Pittsburgh	United States	55.7	25.3	94.2	91.5	68.1	39	67.6
107=	Pennsylvania State University	United States	82.4	85.8	34.5	80.6	12.7	40.5	67.5
107=	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	Korea, South	51.7	54.7	99.9	86.4	59.1	18.2	67.5
109	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	93.4	62.2	29.6	58.9	51.8	55.4	66.9
110	University of Basel	Switzerland	54.3	44.7	60.3	93.1	100	81.3	66.2
111	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	51.8	44.5	61.7	96.2	93.2	89.7	66.1
112	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France	72.4	48.2	49.6	84.5	36.6	63.6	65.9
113	Ohio State University	United States	78.9	59.5	45.8	63.9	82.4	40.6	65.8
114	Yonsei University	Korea, South	76.3	82	86.2	31	16.3	37.4	65.1
115	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)	United Kingdom	63.4	53.5	68.6	52.7	95.5	96.7	64.8
116=	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	Germany	66	92.3	92.1	24.5	54.5	55.1	64.7
116=	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	69.4	47.1	64.6	77	37.3	36	64.7
118	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	61.9	83.1	69	46	86.9	76.9	64.5
119	Dartmouth College	United States	43.6	65.6	86.5	97.1	10.3	53.5	64.1
120	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	84.1	64.8	99.9	6.3	8.7	37.3	63.9
121	Maastricht University	Netherlands	37.3	81.4	76.5	76.8	96.3	99.9	63.8
122	University of Ghent	Belgium	66.8	60.9	86.9	45	56.4	29.6	63.7
123	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	83.6	90.7	41.1	54.9	20.4	12.3	63.6
124	University of York	United Kingdom	72.5	72.9	44.8	57.3	47.9	82.9	63.5
125	University of Southern California	United States	67.1	59.7	55.3	72.7	20.1	71.7	63.2
126	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	97.2	58.5	29.2	38.7	48.7	43.4	63.1
127	Universidade de São Paulo (USP)	Brazil	94.2	87.6	36.8	40.5	11.4	5.7	63
128	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	76	38.6	81.1	40.4	44.5	35.8	62.8
129	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	50.4	77	64.8	63.8	82.1	91	62.5
130=	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	81.6	16.6	14.3	99.9	66.6	30.3	62.2
130=	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	56	76.1	62	57.3	77.1	85.9	62.2
132	University of Virginia	United States	53.5	64.8	68.7	78.7	49.8	39.7	62.1
133	Kyushu University	Japan	66.8	75.2	98	29.5	17.8	23.8	62
134=	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	66.9	55.8	89.5	37.6	35.1	41.2	61.8
134=	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	41.5	49.7	98.4	60.4	92.7	72.6	61.8
136=	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	60.2	66.3	63.8	53.7	72.5	72.7	61.7
136=	Rice University	United States	48.3	24.5	67.6	97.2	64.2	70.7	61.7
138	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium	75.5	68.5	40	43.3	81	66.6	61.3
139	University College Dublin	Ireland	61.5	66.7	54.6	46.4	93.3	96.5	61.2
140	McMaster University	Canada	60.4	52.3	39.3	84	82.4	51.8	61
141=	Emory University	United States	42.7	30.8	87.8	99.4	18.1	43.5	60.9
141=	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	68	37.5	73.4	65.7	28.2	9.2	60.9
143	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands	44.2	52.9	75.1	89.6	57.2	36.8	60.8
144	Hokkaido University	Japan	64.9	61.2	88	45.3	13.5	18.8	60.6
145=	Korea University	Korea, South	71.2	77.7	79.9	27.3	19.1	32	60.5
145=	University of Cape Town	South Africa	68.7	65.5	34.2	65.4	68.8	57.2	60.5
147	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany	74.6	94.4	38.1	43.4	38.9	48	60.1
148	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	53.6	50.6	53.6	66.2	89.4	94.9	59.9
149	University of California, Irvine	United States	66.4	40.4	25.5	98.1	53.1	28.7	59.6
150	Wageningen University	Netherlands	49.6	41.2	100	43	46.5	86.2	59.4
151=	University of Bergen	Norway	48.8	28	73.1	84.9	75.6	25.7	59.2
151=	University of Rochester	United States	42.4	12.1	99.9	75.9	39.1	74	59.2
153	Texas A&M University	United States	73	74.2	19.7	77.6	20.2	28.2	58.7
154	University of Bern	Switzerland	40	44.7	87.1	65.7	99	44.5	58.4
155	University of Otago	New Zealand	62.2	56.6	30.7	62.3	100	76.2	58.2
156	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	60.3	68.2	41.6	48.9	84.4	91.9	58.1
157	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	46.9	53.2	99.7	37.1	99.7	27	58
158=	Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France	59.4	28.4	100	28.9	58.9	42.8	57.7
158=	University of Vienna	Austria	84	45	26.9	26.2	85.3	89.3	57.7
160	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States	53.6	65.9	69.3	65.1	38.3	12.1	57.6
161	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	60.9	59.1	46.7	41.2	99.6	89.1	57.5
162	Sungkyunkwan University	Korea, South	56.5	87.4	88.3	26.4	19.5	38	57.4
163=	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	Germany	70.1	33.4	69	45.4	15.5	41.9	57.3
163=	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	95	78.2	44.7	6.3	19.2	2.7	57.3
165	Zhejiang University	China	72.6	72.9	30	64.4	14.7	20.4	57.2
166	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Chile	85.5	87.4	42.1	17.5	17.1	21.2	57
167	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	58.8	60.8	90	7.5	77.3	75.2	56.9
168=	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	Belgium	58.5	58.6	41.5	47.9	92.5	96.2	56.8
168=	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	54.2	75.4	37.4	55.4	84.1	92	56.8
170	Stockholm University	Sweden	79	63.5	43.1	38.7	16.4	21.7	56.4
171	Michigan State University	United States	64.9	67.3	28.8	58.4	66	50.7	56.2
172=	Queen’s University of Belfast	United Kingdom	50.2	70.4	52.5	44.3	97.4	91	56.1
172=	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)	Belgium	41.4	70.2	96.2	31.6	71.3	64.7	56.1
174	University of Science and Technology of China	China	60.4	45.5	60.3	70.9	12.7	2.5	55.9
175=	Case Western Reserve University	United States	33	5.3	96.5	91.8	22.7	59.8	55.7
175=	Nanjing University	China	71.4	55.2	41.1	50.5	41.2	20.1	55.7
177	Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona	Spain	79	44	34.9	48.7	22.8	30.5	55.6
178	University of Barcelona	Spain	84.7	61.5	29	39.3	6	23.4	55.4
179	University of Florida	United States	61.9	51.6	55.5	58.3	15.9	26.8	55
180	University of Waterloo	Canada	60.7	81.8	23.8	50	78.9	70.3	54.9
181=	Vanderbilt University	United States	49.3	16.4	100	57.9	6.7	27.1	54.8
181=	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	68.2	62.8	44.4	45.6	44.7	16.3	54.8
183=	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology	Israel	55.2	39.7	38.4	84.5	66.2	9.9	54.6
183=	Technische Universität Berlin	Germany	71	73	55.9	17.3	38.4	43.4	54.6
185	University of Antwerp	Belgium	42.2	46.4	99.5	32.3	68.9	53.5	54.2
186	Universität Hamburg	Germany	70.8	46.2	55.2	31.4	26	46.1	54.1
187	University of Bath	United Kingdom	46.5	86.9	33	54.3	87.7	93.8	54
188	University of Bologna	Italy	86.5	67.1	16.8	37.9	7.1	19.5	53.8
189=	Georgetown University	United States	49.6	68.2	52.5	55.5	63.9	40.7	53.7
189=	Queen’s University, Ontario	Canada	53.4	67.8	22.2	78.7	74.8	29	53.7
189=	Université Paris-Sud 11	France	50.6	31.6	69.5	58.6	32.5	56.6	53.7
192	University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)	United States	52.3	47.3	52.8	70.3	39.3	22.2	53.5
193=	Keio University	Japan	67.1	84.6	60.8	19.9	15.3	8.2	52.8
193=	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	51.6	41	33.5	61.3	85.4	93.5	52.8
195	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	72.8	67.6	37.8	37	15.5	18.2	52.7
196=	Aalto University	Finland	48.2	58.6	98	17	55	30	52.6
196=	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	85.3	58.1	9.8	46.4	5.2	20	52.6
196=	Tel Aviv University	Israel	59.6	40.7	14.4	99.4	26.9	8.6	52.6
199=	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	59.6	40	32.1	76.1	41.3	13.3	52.4
199=	The University of Western Ontario	Canada	51.1	59.6	33.7	65.2	76.5	44.7	52.4

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