hi everyone, i was just having a look at uni rankings, and i thought it'd be an interesting look for some of you guys, this is from http://www.thes.co.uk/statistics/international_comparisons/2004/main.aspx
1 Harvard University US
2 California University Berkeley US
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
4 California Institute of Technology US
5 Oxford University UK
6 Cambridge University UK
7 Stanford University US
8 Yale University US
9 Princeton University US
10 ETH Zurich CH
11 London School of Economics UK
12 Tokyo University JP
13 Chicago University US
14 Imperial College London UK
15 University of Texas at Austin US
16 Australian National University AU
17 Beijing University CN
18 National University Singapore SG
19 Columbia University US
20 University of California, San Francisco US
21 McGill University CA
22 Melbourne University AU
23 Cornell University US
24 University of California, San Diego
25 Johns Hopkins University US
26 University of California, Los Angeles US
27 Ecole Polytechnique FR
28 Pennsylvania University US
29 Kyoto University JP
30 Ecole Normale Super Paris FR
31 Michigan University US
32 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne CH
33 Monash University AU
34 University College London UK
35 Illinois University US
36 New South Wales University AU
37 Toronto University CA
38 Carnegie Mellon University US
39 Hong Kong University HK
40 Sydney University AU
41 Indian Institute of Technology IN
42 Hong Kong University of Sci & Tech HK
43 Manchester University & UMIST UK
44 School of Oriental and African Studies UK
45 Massachusetts University US
46 British Columbia University CA
47 Heidelberg University DE
48 Edinburgh University UK
49 Queensland University AU
50 Nanyang University SG
51 Tokyo Institute of Technology JP
52 Duke University US
53 Catholic University Louvain BE
54 Brussels Free University BE
55 RMIT University AU
56 Adelaide University AU
57 Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie FR
58 Sussex University UK
59 Purdue University US
60 Tech University Berlin DE
61 Brown University US
62 Tsing Hua University CN
63 Copenhagen University DK
64 Erasmus University Rotterdam NL
65 Georgia Institute of Technology US
66 Wisconsin University US
67 Auckland University NZ
68 Macquarie University AU
69 Osaka University JP
70 St Andrews University UK
71 Sorbonne Paris FR
72 University of California, Santa Barbara US
73 Northwestern University US
74 Washington University US
75 Boston University US
76 Curtin University of Technology AU
77 Vienna Technical University AT
78 Delft University of Technology NL
79 New York University US
80 Warwick University UK
81 Yeshiva University US
82 Minnesota University US
83 Eindhoven University of Technology
84 Chinese University Hong Kong HK
85 Göttingen University DE
86 Rochester University US
87 Trinity College, Dublin IE
88 Case Western Reserve University US
89 Malaya University MY
90 Alabama University US
91 Bristol University UK
92 Lomonosov Moscow State University RU
93 Hebrew University Jerusalem IL
94 Vienna University AT
95 Technical University Munich DE
96 Western Australia University AU
97 King's College London UK
98 Amsterdam University NL
99 Munich University DE
100 Queen Mary, University of London UK
101 Oslo University NO
102 National Taiwan University TW
103 Bath University UK
104 Tufts University US
105 Texas A&M University
106 Iowa University US
107 Colorado University US
108 Massey University NZ
109 Washington University, St Louis
110 Chalmers University of Technology SE
111 Sains Malaysia University MY
112 Glasgow University UK
113 University of Technology, Sydney AU
114 Otago University NZ
115 Brandeis University US
116 Michigan State University US
117 North Carolina University US
118 Virginia University US
119 Seoul National University KR
120 Utrecht University NL
121 Paris XI, Orsay FR
122 Royal Institute of Technology SE
123 Maastricht University NL
124 Stuttgart University DE
125 Humboldt University Berlin DE
126 Birmingham University UK
127 Aarhus University DK
128 Durham University UK
129 Helsinki University FI
130 Penn State University US
131 Leiden University NL
132 Strasbourg University FR
133 Leeds University UK
134 Maryland University US
135 Bonn University DE
136 Stony Brook, State of New York University US
137 York University UK
138 Dartmouth College US
139 Stockholm University SE
140 Uppsala University SE
141 Utah University US
142 La Trobe University AU
143 Waterloo University CA
144 Toulouse University FR
145 Technical University of Denmark DK
146 Rice University US
147 Hamburg University DE
148 Mcmaster University CA
149 Kiel University DE
150 Sheffield University UK
151 Liverpool University UK
152 Karlsruhe University DE
153 Tohoku University JP
154 China University of Sci & Tech CN
155 Montpellier 1 University FR
156 Vanderbilt University US
157 Frankfurt University DE
158 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology IL
159 Madrid Autonomous University ES
160 Korea Advanced Institute of Sci & Tech KR
161 Tasmania University AU
162 La Sapienza University IT
163 Pohang University of Sci & Tech KR
164 Innsbruck University AT
165 Georgetown University US
166 Alberta University CA
167 Nagoya University JP
168 Dundee University UK
169 Würzburg University DE
170 Nottingham University UK
171 Lund University SE
172 Technische Hochschule Darmstadt DE
173 Emory University US
174 Indiana University US
175 University of California, Santa Cruz US
176 Helsinki University of Technology FI
177 Université de Montréal CA
178 Freiburg University DE
179 Newcastle Upon Tyne University UK
180 University of Southern California US
181 Lancaster University UK
182 University of California, Davis US
183 Arizona University US
184 RWTH Aachen DE
185 Queen's University Belfast UK
186 Bologna University IT
187 Norwegian University of Sci & Tech NO
188 Tulane University US
189 Leicester University UK
190 Rutgers State University US
191 Nijmegen University NL
192 Nanjing University CN
193 Southampton University UK
194 Aberdeen University UK
195 National Autonomous University of Mexico MX
196 Fudan University CN
197 Bremen University DE
198 City University of Hong Kong HK
199 Virginia Polytechnic Inst US
200 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst US
what i thought was even more interesting though was that the top 10 varied quite considerably in some areas, take a look at the att. stuff
Top Uni's for Science
Rank Name Country
1 Cambridge University UK
2 Oxford University UK
3 Harvard University US
4 California University, Berkeley US
5 Massachusetts Inst of Tech US
6 Stanford University US
7 Tokyo University Japan
8 Princeton University US
9 California Institute of Technology US
10 Imperial College London UK
11 Beijing University China
12 Cornell University US
13 ETH Zurich Switzerland
14 Yale University US
15 Kyoto University Japan
16 Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie France
17 University of Chicago US
18 Australian National University Australia
19 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France
20 Ecole Polytechnique France
21 Heidelberg University Germany
22 University of California, Los Angeles US
23 University of Texas at Austin US
24 Illinois University US
25 Lomonosov Moscow State Uni Russia
26 Göttingen University Germany
27 Munich University Germany
28 Columbia University US
28 Rome La Sapienza University Italy
30 Melbourne University Australia
31 Indian Institutes of Technology India
32 UC Santa Barbara US
33 Johns Hopkins University US
34 Paris XI, Université Paris-Sud France
35 National University of Singapore Singapore
36 Toronto University Canada
37 Utrecht University Netherlands
38 National Taiwan University Taiwan
39= Michigan University US
39= Aarhus University Denmark
41 Monash University Australia
42 Seoul National University South Korea
43 Osaka University Japan
44 Copenhagen University Denmark
45 UC San Diego US
46 China University of Sci and Tech China
47 King's College London UK
48= University of British Columbia Canada
48= Manchester University & Umist UK
50 Hong Kong Uni of Sci and Tech Hong Kong
51 Pennsylvania University US
52= Tsing Hua University China
52= Nanjing University China
54 Technical University Munich Germany
55 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
56 Edinburgh University UK
57 Tohoku University Japan
58 University College London UK
59 Bonn University Germany
60 Humboldt University Berlin Germany
61= Technion - Israel Inst of Techn Israel
61= Vienna University Austria
61= Uppsala University Sweden
64 McGill University Canada
65= Brussels Free University Belgium
65= Korea Advanced Inst Sci and Tech South Korea
67= Sydney University Australia
67= Vienna Technical University Austria
69= New South Wales University Australia
69= Nagoya University Japan
71 Bristol University UK
72= Hong Kong University Hong Kong
72= Innsbruck University Austria
74 Washington University US
75 Penn State University US
76 SUNY Stony Brook US
77 Fudan University China
78 Pisa University Italy
79 Technical University Berlin Germany
80 Warsaw University Poland
81 Frankfurt University Germany
82 Leeds University UK
83 Stuttgart University Germany
84= Delft University of Technology Netherlands
84= Karlsruhe University Germany
86= Paris, Sorbonne France
86= Queensland University Australia
86= Tel Aviv University Israel
86= Georgia Inst of Tech US
90 Helsinki University Finland
91 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel
92= Massachusetts University US
92= Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium
94 Trinity College Dublin Ireland
95 Durham University UK
96= Karolinska Institute Sweden
96= Michigan State University US
98 St Petersburg State University Russia
99 Auckland University New Zealand
100 Leiden University Netherlands
Top 100 Uni's for BioMedicine
Rank Name Country
1 Harvard University US
2 Cambridge University UK
3 Oxford University UK
4 Imperial College London UK
5 Stanford University US
6 Johns Hopkins University US
7 Karolinska Institute Sweden
8 Yale University US
9 University of California, Berkeley US
10 University of California, San Diego US
11 Beijing University China
12 Massachusetts Institute of Tech US
13 Tokyo University Japan
14 University of Melbourne Australia
15 University of Sydney Australia
16 Heidelberg University Germany
17 Duke University US
18 University of California, San Francisco US
19 University College London UK
20 University of Toronto Canada
21 Edinburgh University UK
22 University of California, Los Angeles US
23 Columbia University US
24 Cornell University US
25 National University of Singapore Singapore
26 Princeton University US
27 McGill University Canada
28 Kyoto University Japan
29 Helsinki University Finland
30 Kings College London UK
31 Vienna University Austria
32 Humboldt University Berlin Germany
33 ETH Zurich Switzerland
34 Australian National University Australia
35 California Institute of Technology US
36 University of Auckland New Zealand
37 Monash University Australia
=38 Frankfurt University Germany
=38 Munich University Germany
40 Boston University US
41 Washington University US
42 University of Chicago US
=43 Paris VI, Pierre and Marie Curie University France
=43 Strasbourg University France
45 Queensland University Australia
46 University of Michigan US
47 Free University Berlin Germany
48 Hong Kong University Hong Kong
49 Fudan University China
50 University of Florence Italy
51 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands
52 Gottingen University Germany
53 University of South Australia Australia
54 Aarhus University Denmark
55 Washington University, St Louis US
56 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
=57 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel
=57 Innsbruck University Austria
59 University of California, Davis US
60 Chulalongkorn University Thailand
61 Otago University New Zealand
62 University of British Columbia Canada
63 Amsterdam University Netherlands
64 Vanderbilt University US
65 Catholic University of Louvain Belgium
65 Leiden University Netherlands
67 University of São Paulo Brazil
68 University of New South Wales Australia
69 Nottingham University UK
70 Nanyang University Singapore
=71 Istanbul University Turkey
=71 Technical University Munich Germany
73 Tokyo Medical and Dental University Japan
=74 New York University US
=74 Tubingen-Reutlingen University Germany
=76 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France
=76 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia
=76 Paris I, Sorbonne France
79 Liverpool University UK
80 Manchester University and Umist UK
=81 Adelaide University Australia
=81 Tsing Hua University China
83 Tel Aviv University Israel
=84 Alabama University US
=84 Brussels Free University Belgium
=84 Glasgow University UK
=84 State University of New York at Stony Brook US
=84 Utrecht University Netherlands
89 Hong Kong University of Sci and Tech Hong Kong
=90 Hokkaido University Japan
=90 Osaka University Japan
=90 University of Pennsylvania US
=93 George Washington University US
=93 Nanjing University China
=93 Pennsylvania State University US
=96 Basel University Switzerland
=96 Gothenburg University Sweden
=96 Lund University Sweden
=96 University of Western Australia Australia
=100 University of Southern California US
=100 University of Texas at Austin US
oops i forgot Top100 Engineering and IT Uni's
Rank Name Country
1 University of California, Berkeley US
2 Massachusetts Inst of Tech US
3 Stanford University US
4 Indian Institutes of Technology India
5 Imperial College London UK
6 California Institute of Technology US
7 Tokyo University Japan
8 Cambridge University UK
9 National University of Singapore Singapore
10 Beijing University China
11 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
12 Oxford University UK
13 Harvard University US
14 Carnegie Mellon University US
15 Tsing Hua University China
16 ETH Zurich Switzerland
17 Georgia Institute of Technology US
18 Monash University Australia
19 Ecole Polytechnique France
20 Hong Kong Uni of Sci and Tech Hong Kong
21 Illinois University US
22 Melbourne University Australia
23 Kyoto University Japan
24 Delft University of Technology Netherlands
25 Purdue University US
26 New South Wales University Australia
27 University of Texas at Austin US
28 Massachusetts University US
29 Technion - Israel Inst of Tech Israel
30 Cornell University US
31 Australian National University Australia
32 Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium
33 Nanyang University Singapore
34 Princeton University US
35 Michigan University US
36 University of California, Los Angeles US
37 Korea Adv Inst of Sci and Tech South Korea
38 Aachen RWTH Germany
39 Technical University Berlin Germany
40 Toronto University Canada
41 Ecole Poly Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
42 China University of Sci and Tech China
43 Osaka University Japan
44 Vienna Technology University Austria
45 Manchester University & Umist UK
46 Technical University Munich Germany
47 Queensland University Australia
48 Sydney University Australia
49 Helsinki University Technol Finland
50 Texas A&M University US
51 Chalmers University of Tech Sweden
52 University of British Columbia Canada
53 University of California, San Diego US
54 Adelaide University Australia
55 McGill University Canada
56 Wisconsin University US
57 Auckland University New Zealand
58 Yale University US
59 Waterloo University Canada
60 Technical University, Denmark Denmark
61 Glasgow University UK
62 Penn State University US
63 Lomonosov Moscow State Uni Russia
64 Karlsruhe University Germany
65 St Petersburg State University Russia
66 Politecnico Di Milano Italy
67 Seoul National University South Korea
68 Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands
69 Stuttgart University Germany
70 Virginia Polytechnic Institute US
71 Royal Institute of Technology Sweden
72 National Taiwan University Taiwan
73 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France
73 Boston University US
75 Twente University Netherlands
76 Johns Hopkins University US
77 Montpellier University France
78 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China
79 Tohoku University Japan
79 Edinburgh University UK
81 Hamburg University Germany
82 Bologna University Italy
83 Fudan University China
84 UC, Santa Barbara US
85 Norwegian University Sci and Tech Norway
86 Pennsylvania University US
87 Columbia University US
88 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute US
89 Chicago University US
90 Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie France
91 Trinity College Dublin Ireland
92 Roma La Sapienza University Italy
93 Technical University, Sydney Australia
94 Grenoble 1 University France
95 Chinese University Hong Kong Hong Kong
96 Nanjing University China
97 Birmingham University UK
98 TH Darmstadt Germany
99 Sheffield University UK
100 RMIT University Australia
and lastly there's the Top Uni's for Social Science
Rank Name Country
1 Harvard University US
2 London School of Economics UK
3 University of California, Berkeley US
4 Oxford University UK
5 Chicago University US
6 Stanford University US
7 Yale University US
8 Cambridge University UK
9 Massachusetts Inst of Tech US
10 National University of Singapore Singapore
11 Princeton University US
12 Melbourne University Australia
13 Cornell University US
14 Columbia University US
15 Tokyo University Japan
16 Australian National University Australia
17 Pennsylvania University US
18 University of California, Los Angeles US
19 Beijing University China
20 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands
21 New York University US
22 McGill University Canada
23 New South Wales University Australia
24 Sydney University Australia
=25 London University College UK
=25 Manchester University & UMIST UK
27 Michigan University US
28 Monash University Australia
29 Warwick University UK
30 University of Toronto Canada
=31 Carnegie Mellon University US
=31 Sorbonne Paris France
33 Boston University US
34 Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium
35 Copenhagen University Denmark
36 Queensland University Australia
37 Duke University US
=38 Bonn University Germany
=38 Massachusetts University US
40 Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel
41 Edinburgh University UK
42 National Taiwan University Taiwan
43 Barcelona University Autonoma Spain
44 Kyoto University Japan
45 Hong Kong University Hong Kong
=46 Chulalongkorn University Thailand
=46 Indian Institutes of Technology India
48 Sussex University UK
49 ETH Zurich Switzerland
50 Macquarie University Australia
51 Humboldt University Berlin Germany
52 Aarhus University Denmark
=53 Bologna University Italy
=53 Stockholm School of Economics Sweden
=53 University of British Columbia Canada
56 University of Texas at Austin US
57 Hong Kong Uni of Sci & Tech Hong Kong
=58 Chinese University Hong Kong Hong Kong
=58 Michigan State University US
60 Johns Hopkins University US
61 City University Hong Kong Hong Kong
=62 Helsinki University Finland
=62 Toulouse University France
64 Bocconi Italy
65 Trinity College Dublin Ireland
=66 Heidelberg University Germany
=66 Illinois University US
68 Säo Paulo University Brazil
69 Wisconsin University US
=70 Fudan University China
=70 Nanyang University Singapore
=70 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China
73 Munich University Germany
74 University of California, San Diego US
=75 ESADE Spain
=75 Rochester University US
=77 Maastricht University Netherlands
=77 Purdue University US
79 North Carolina University US
80 Nagasaki University Japan
81 York University UK
82 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France
83 Hitotsubashi University Japan
=84 Nanjing University China
=84 RMIT University Australia
=84 School of Oriental and African Studies UK
=84 Seoul National University South Korea
=84 Texas A&M University US
=89 Florence University Italy
=89 Roma La Sapienza University Italy
91 Brown University US
=92 Minnesota University US
=92 Oslo University Norway
=92 Turin University Italy
=92 Vienna University Austria
96 Penn State University US
97 Lancaster University UK
98 Lahore University Pakistan
=99 Madrid University Complutense Spain
=99 Gothenburg University Sweden
=99 Durham University UK
and finally i'd just like to apologise cause this post looks a mess, but it's 1am in the morning(i realise this isn't really late for some) and i'm knackered
1 Harvard University US
2 California University Berkeley US
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
4 California Institute of Technology US
5 Oxford University UK
6 Cambridge University UK
7 Stanford University US
8 Yale University US
9 Princeton University US
10 ETH Zurich CH
11 London School of Economics UK
12 Tokyo University JP
13 Chicago University US
14 Imperial College London UK
15 University of Texas at Austin US
16 Australian National University AU
17 Beijing University CN
18 National University Singapore SG
19 Columbia University US
20 University of California, San Francisco US
21 McGill University CA
22 Melbourne University AU
23 Cornell University US
24 University of California, San Diego
25 Johns Hopkins University US
26 University of California, Los Angeles US
27 Ecole Polytechnique FR
28 Pennsylvania University US
29 Kyoto University JP
30 Ecole Normale Super Paris FR
31 Michigan University US
32 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne CH
33 Monash University AU
34 University College London UK
35 Illinois University US
36 New South Wales University AU
37 Toronto University CA
38 Carnegie Mellon University US
39 Hong Kong University HK
40 Sydney University AU
41 Indian Institute of Technology IN
42 Hong Kong University of Sci & Tech HK
43 Manchester University & UMIST UK
44 School of Oriental and African Studies UK
45 Massachusetts University US
46 British Columbia University CA
47 Heidelberg University DE
48 Edinburgh University UK
49 Queensland University AU
50 Nanyang University SG
51 Tokyo Institute of Technology JP
52 Duke University US
53 Catholic University Louvain BE
54 Brussels Free University BE
55 RMIT University AU
56 Adelaide University AU
57 Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie FR
58 Sussex University UK
59 Purdue University US
60 Tech University Berlin DE
61 Brown University US
62 Tsing Hua University CN
63 Copenhagen University DK
64 Erasmus University Rotterdam NL
65 Georgia Institute of Technology US
66 Wisconsin University US
67 Auckland University NZ
68 Macquarie University AU
69 Osaka University JP
70 St Andrews University UK
71 Sorbonne Paris FR
72 University of California, Santa Barbara US
73 Northwestern University US
74 Washington University US
75 Boston University US
76 Curtin University of Technology AU
77 Vienna Technical University AT
78 Delft University of Technology NL
79 New York University US
80 Warwick University UK
81 Yeshiva University US
82 Minnesota University US
83 Eindhoven University of Technology
84 Chinese University Hong Kong HK
85 Göttingen University DE
86 Rochester University US
87 Trinity College, Dublin IE
88 Case Western Reserve University US
89 Malaya University MY
90 Alabama University US
91 Bristol University UK
92 Lomonosov Moscow State University RU
93 Hebrew University Jerusalem IL
94 Vienna University AT
95 Technical University Munich DE
96 Western Australia University AU
97 King's College London UK
98 Amsterdam University NL
99 Munich University DE
100 Queen Mary, University of London UK
101 Oslo University NO
102 National Taiwan University TW
103 Bath University UK
104 Tufts University US
105 Texas A&M University
106 Iowa University US
107 Colorado University US
108 Massey University NZ
109 Washington University, St Louis
110 Chalmers University of Technology SE
111 Sains Malaysia University MY
112 Glasgow University UK
113 University of Technology, Sydney AU
114 Otago University NZ
115 Brandeis University US
116 Michigan State University US
117 North Carolina University US
118 Virginia University US
119 Seoul National University KR
120 Utrecht University NL
121 Paris XI, Orsay FR
122 Royal Institute of Technology SE
123 Maastricht University NL
124 Stuttgart University DE
125 Humboldt University Berlin DE
126 Birmingham University UK
127 Aarhus University DK
128 Durham University UK
129 Helsinki University FI
130 Penn State University US
131 Leiden University NL
132 Strasbourg University FR
133 Leeds University UK
134 Maryland University US
135 Bonn University DE
136 Stony Brook, State of New York University US
137 York University UK
138 Dartmouth College US
139 Stockholm University SE
140 Uppsala University SE
141 Utah University US
142 La Trobe University AU
143 Waterloo University CA
144 Toulouse University FR
145 Technical University of Denmark DK
146 Rice University US
147 Hamburg University DE
148 Mcmaster University CA
149 Kiel University DE
150 Sheffield University UK
151 Liverpool University UK
152 Karlsruhe University DE
153 Tohoku University JP
154 China University of Sci & Tech CN
155 Montpellier 1 University FR
156 Vanderbilt University US
157 Frankfurt University DE
158 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology IL
159 Madrid Autonomous University ES
160 Korea Advanced Institute of Sci & Tech KR
161 Tasmania University AU
162 La Sapienza University IT
163 Pohang University of Sci & Tech KR
164 Innsbruck University AT
165 Georgetown University US
166 Alberta University CA
167 Nagoya University JP
168 Dundee University UK
169 Würzburg University DE
170 Nottingham University UK
171 Lund University SE
172 Technische Hochschule Darmstadt DE
173 Emory University US
174 Indiana University US
175 University of California, Santa Cruz US
176 Helsinki University of Technology FI
177 Université de Montréal CA
178 Freiburg University DE
179 Newcastle Upon Tyne University UK
180 University of Southern California US
181 Lancaster University UK
182 University of California, Davis US
183 Arizona University US
184 RWTH Aachen DE
185 Queen's University Belfast UK
186 Bologna University IT
187 Norwegian University of Sci & Tech NO
188 Tulane University US
189 Leicester University UK
190 Rutgers State University US
191 Nijmegen University NL
192 Nanjing University CN
193 Southampton University UK
194 Aberdeen University UK
195 National Autonomous University of Mexico MX
196 Fudan University CN
197 Bremen University DE
198 City University of Hong Kong HK
199 Virginia Polytechnic Inst US
200 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst US
what i thought was even more interesting though was that the top 10 varied quite considerably in some areas, take a look at the att. stuff
Top Uni's for Science
Rank Name Country
1 Cambridge University UK
2 Oxford University UK
3 Harvard University US
4 California University, Berkeley US
5 Massachusetts Inst of Tech US
6 Stanford University US
7 Tokyo University Japan
8 Princeton University US
9 California Institute of Technology US
10 Imperial College London UK
11 Beijing University China
12 Cornell University US
13 ETH Zurich Switzerland
14 Yale University US
15 Kyoto University Japan
16 Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie France
17 University of Chicago US
18 Australian National University Australia
19 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France
20 Ecole Polytechnique France
21 Heidelberg University Germany
22 University of California, Los Angeles US
23 University of Texas at Austin US
24 Illinois University US
25 Lomonosov Moscow State Uni Russia
26 Göttingen University Germany
27 Munich University Germany
28 Columbia University US
28 Rome La Sapienza University Italy
30 Melbourne University Australia
31 Indian Institutes of Technology India
32 UC Santa Barbara US
33 Johns Hopkins University US
34 Paris XI, Université Paris-Sud France
35 National University of Singapore Singapore
36 Toronto University Canada
37 Utrecht University Netherlands
38 National Taiwan University Taiwan
39= Michigan University US
39= Aarhus University Denmark
41 Monash University Australia
42 Seoul National University South Korea
43 Osaka University Japan
44 Copenhagen University Denmark
45 UC San Diego US
46 China University of Sci and Tech China
47 King's College London UK
48= University of British Columbia Canada
48= Manchester University & Umist UK
50 Hong Kong Uni of Sci and Tech Hong Kong
51 Pennsylvania University US
52= Tsing Hua University China
52= Nanjing University China
54 Technical University Munich Germany
55 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
56 Edinburgh University UK
57 Tohoku University Japan
58 University College London UK
59 Bonn University Germany
60 Humboldt University Berlin Germany
61= Technion - Israel Inst of Techn Israel
61= Vienna University Austria
61= Uppsala University Sweden
64 McGill University Canada
65= Brussels Free University Belgium
65= Korea Advanced Inst Sci and Tech South Korea
67= Sydney University Australia
67= Vienna Technical University Austria
69= New South Wales University Australia
69= Nagoya University Japan
71 Bristol University UK
72= Hong Kong University Hong Kong
72= Innsbruck University Austria
74 Washington University US
75 Penn State University US
76 SUNY Stony Brook US
77 Fudan University China
78 Pisa University Italy
79 Technical University Berlin Germany
80 Warsaw University Poland
81 Frankfurt University Germany
82 Leeds University UK
83 Stuttgart University Germany
84= Delft University of Technology Netherlands
84= Karlsruhe University Germany
86= Paris, Sorbonne France
86= Queensland University Australia
86= Tel Aviv University Israel
86= Georgia Inst of Tech US
90 Helsinki University Finland
91 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel
92= Massachusetts University US
92= Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium
94 Trinity College Dublin Ireland
95 Durham University UK
96= Karolinska Institute Sweden
96= Michigan State University US
98 St Petersburg State University Russia
99 Auckland University New Zealand
100 Leiden University Netherlands
Top 100 Uni's for BioMedicine
Rank Name Country
1 Harvard University US
2 Cambridge University UK
3 Oxford University UK
4 Imperial College London UK
5 Stanford University US
6 Johns Hopkins University US
7 Karolinska Institute Sweden
8 Yale University US
9 University of California, Berkeley US
10 University of California, San Diego US
11 Beijing University China
12 Massachusetts Institute of Tech US
13 Tokyo University Japan
14 University of Melbourne Australia
15 University of Sydney Australia
16 Heidelberg University Germany
17 Duke University US
18 University of California, San Francisco US
19 University College London UK
20 University of Toronto Canada
21 Edinburgh University UK
22 University of California, Los Angeles US
23 Columbia University US
24 Cornell University US
25 National University of Singapore Singapore
26 Princeton University US
27 McGill University Canada
28 Kyoto University Japan
29 Helsinki University Finland
30 Kings College London UK
31 Vienna University Austria
32 Humboldt University Berlin Germany
33 ETH Zurich Switzerland
34 Australian National University Australia
35 California Institute of Technology US
36 University of Auckland New Zealand
37 Monash University Australia
=38 Frankfurt University Germany
=38 Munich University Germany
40 Boston University US
41 Washington University US
42 University of Chicago US
=43 Paris VI, Pierre and Marie Curie University France
=43 Strasbourg University France
45 Queensland University Australia
46 University of Michigan US
47 Free University Berlin Germany
48 Hong Kong University Hong Kong
49 Fudan University China
50 University of Florence Italy
51 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands
52 Gottingen University Germany
53 University of South Australia Australia
54 Aarhus University Denmark
55 Washington University, St Louis US
56 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
=57 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel
=57 Innsbruck University Austria
59 University of California, Davis US
60 Chulalongkorn University Thailand
61 Otago University New Zealand
62 University of British Columbia Canada
63 Amsterdam University Netherlands
64 Vanderbilt University US
65 Catholic University of Louvain Belgium
65 Leiden University Netherlands
67 University of São Paulo Brazil
68 University of New South Wales Australia
69 Nottingham University UK
70 Nanyang University Singapore
=71 Istanbul University Turkey
=71 Technical University Munich Germany
73 Tokyo Medical and Dental University Japan
=74 New York University US
=74 Tubingen-Reutlingen University Germany
=76 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France
=76 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia
=76 Paris I, Sorbonne France
79 Liverpool University UK
80 Manchester University and Umist UK
=81 Adelaide University Australia
=81 Tsing Hua University China
83 Tel Aviv University Israel
=84 Alabama University US
=84 Brussels Free University Belgium
=84 Glasgow University UK
=84 State University of New York at Stony Brook US
=84 Utrecht University Netherlands
89 Hong Kong University of Sci and Tech Hong Kong
=90 Hokkaido University Japan
=90 Osaka University Japan
=90 University of Pennsylvania US
=93 George Washington University US
=93 Nanjing University China
=93 Pennsylvania State University US
=96 Basel University Switzerland
=96 Gothenburg University Sweden
=96 Lund University Sweden
=96 University of Western Australia Australia
=100 University of Southern California US
=100 University of Texas at Austin US
oops i forgot Top100 Engineering and IT Uni's
Rank Name Country
1 University of California, Berkeley US
2 Massachusetts Inst of Tech US
3 Stanford University US
4 Indian Institutes of Technology India
5 Imperial College London UK
6 California Institute of Technology US
7 Tokyo University Japan
8 Cambridge University UK
9 National University of Singapore Singapore
10 Beijing University China
11 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
12 Oxford University UK
13 Harvard University US
14 Carnegie Mellon University US
15 Tsing Hua University China
16 ETH Zurich Switzerland
17 Georgia Institute of Technology US
18 Monash University Australia
19 Ecole Polytechnique France
20 Hong Kong Uni of Sci and Tech Hong Kong
21 Illinois University US
22 Melbourne University Australia
23 Kyoto University Japan
24 Delft University of Technology Netherlands
25 Purdue University US
26 New South Wales University Australia
27 University of Texas at Austin US
28 Massachusetts University US
29 Technion - Israel Inst of Tech Israel
30 Cornell University US
31 Australian National University Australia
32 Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium
33 Nanyang University Singapore
34 Princeton University US
35 Michigan University US
36 University of California, Los Angeles US
37 Korea Adv Inst of Sci and Tech South Korea
38 Aachen RWTH Germany
39 Technical University Berlin Germany
40 Toronto University Canada
41 Ecole Poly Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
42 China University of Sci and Tech China
43 Osaka University Japan
44 Vienna Technology University Austria
45 Manchester University & Umist UK
46 Technical University Munich Germany
47 Queensland University Australia
48 Sydney University Australia
49 Helsinki University Technol Finland
50 Texas A&M University US
51 Chalmers University of Tech Sweden
52 University of British Columbia Canada
53 University of California, San Diego US
54 Adelaide University Australia
55 McGill University Canada
56 Wisconsin University US
57 Auckland University New Zealand
58 Yale University US
59 Waterloo University Canada
60 Technical University, Denmark Denmark
61 Glasgow University UK
62 Penn State University US
63 Lomonosov Moscow State Uni Russia
64 Karlsruhe University Germany
65 St Petersburg State University Russia
66 Politecnico Di Milano Italy
67 Seoul National University South Korea
68 Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands
69 Stuttgart University Germany
70 Virginia Polytechnic Institute US
71 Royal Institute of Technology Sweden
72 National Taiwan University Taiwan
73 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France
73 Boston University US
75 Twente University Netherlands
76 Johns Hopkins University US
77 Montpellier University France
78 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China
79 Tohoku University Japan
79 Edinburgh University UK
81 Hamburg University Germany
82 Bologna University Italy
83 Fudan University China
84 UC, Santa Barbara US
85 Norwegian University Sci and Tech Norway
86 Pennsylvania University US
87 Columbia University US
88 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute US
89 Chicago University US
90 Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie France
91 Trinity College Dublin Ireland
92 Roma La Sapienza University Italy
93 Technical University, Sydney Australia
94 Grenoble 1 University France
95 Chinese University Hong Kong Hong Kong
96 Nanjing University China
97 Birmingham University UK
98 TH Darmstadt Germany
99 Sheffield University UK
100 RMIT University Australia
and lastly there's the Top Uni's for Social Science
Rank Name Country
1 Harvard University US
2 London School of Economics UK
3 University of California, Berkeley US
4 Oxford University UK
5 Chicago University US
6 Stanford University US
7 Yale University US
8 Cambridge University UK
9 Massachusetts Inst of Tech US
10 National University of Singapore Singapore
11 Princeton University US
12 Melbourne University Australia
13 Cornell University US
14 Columbia University US
15 Tokyo University Japan
16 Australian National University Australia
17 Pennsylvania University US
18 University of California, Los Angeles US
19 Beijing University China
20 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands
21 New York University US
22 McGill University Canada
23 New South Wales University Australia
24 Sydney University Australia
=25 London University College UK
=25 Manchester University & UMIST UK
27 Michigan University US
28 Monash University Australia
29 Warwick University UK
30 University of Toronto Canada
=31 Carnegie Mellon University US
=31 Sorbonne Paris France
33 Boston University US
34 Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium
35 Copenhagen University Denmark
36 Queensland University Australia
37 Duke University US
=38 Bonn University Germany
=38 Massachusetts University US
40 Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel
41 Edinburgh University UK
42 National Taiwan University Taiwan
43 Barcelona University Autonoma Spain
44 Kyoto University Japan
45 Hong Kong University Hong Kong
=46 Chulalongkorn University Thailand
=46 Indian Institutes of Technology India
48 Sussex University UK
49 ETH Zurich Switzerland
50 Macquarie University Australia
51 Humboldt University Berlin Germany
52 Aarhus University Denmark
=53 Bologna University Italy
=53 Stockholm School of Economics Sweden
=53 University of British Columbia Canada
56 University of Texas at Austin US
57 Hong Kong Uni of Sci & Tech Hong Kong
=58 Chinese University Hong Kong Hong Kong
=58 Michigan State University US
60 Johns Hopkins University US
61 City University Hong Kong Hong Kong
=62 Helsinki University Finland
=62 Toulouse University France
64 Bocconi Italy
65 Trinity College Dublin Ireland
=66 Heidelberg University Germany
=66 Illinois University US
68 Säo Paulo University Brazil
69 Wisconsin University US
=70 Fudan University China
=70 Nanyang University Singapore
=70 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China
73 Munich University Germany
74 University of California, San Diego US
=75 ESADE Spain
=75 Rochester University US
=77 Maastricht University Netherlands
=77 Purdue University US
79 North Carolina University US
80 Nagasaki University Japan
81 York University UK
82 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France
83 Hitotsubashi University Japan
=84 Nanjing University China
=84 RMIT University Australia
=84 School of Oriental and African Studies UK
=84 Seoul National University South Korea
=84 Texas A&M University US
=89 Florence University Italy
=89 Roma La Sapienza University Italy
91 Brown University US
=92 Minnesota University US
=92 Oslo University Norway
=92 Turin University Italy
=92 Vienna University Austria
96 Penn State University US
97 Lancaster University UK
98 Lahore University Pakistan
=99 Madrid University Complutense Spain
=99 Gothenburg University Sweden
=99 Durham University UK
and finally i'd just like to apologise cause this post looks a mess, but it's 1am in the morning(i realise this isn't really late for some) and i'm knackered
