According to
Good University Guide, Times Online, 2007:
Rank
University
1
University of Oxford2
University of Cambridge3 Imperial College London
4
London School of Economics5 University College London
6 Loughborough University
7 University of Bristol
8 University of Warwick
9 University of Bath
10 University of Durham
According to
The Guardian University Guide, 2006:
Rank
University
1
University of Cambridge2
University of Oxford3
London School of Economics4 University College London
5 Imperial College London
6 School of Oriental and African Studies
7 King's College London
8 University of Warwick
9 University of Bath
10
University of Edinburgh TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES IN USA
According to
America's Best Colleges, US News, 2007:
Rank
University
1 Princeton University
2 Harvard University
3 Yale University
4 California Institute of Technology
4
Stanford University4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7 University of Pennsylvania
8 Duke University
9 Dartmouth College
9 Columbia University
9 University of Chicago
Acccording to a report by the National Opinion Research Center commissioned by US News in 1997, however, "the weights used to combine various measures into an overall rating lack any defensible empirical or theoretical basis". --->
TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES IN CANADA
According to
Maclean's, 2005:
Medical Doctoral Category: Universities with "a broad range of Ph.D. programs and research, as well as medical schools."
Rank
University
1 McGill University
1 University of Toronto
3 University of Western Ontario
4 University of British Columbia
5 Queen's University
6 University of Alberta
7 Université de Montréal
8 Université Laval
9 Université de Sherbrooke
10 University of Saskatchewan
According to
Canada's Top 50 Research Universities, Research Inforsource Inc., 2006:
Rank
University
1 University of Toronto
2 Université de Montréal
3 McGill University
4 University of Alberta
5 University of British Columbia
6 McMaster University
7 University of Calgary
8 University of Ottawa
9 Université Laval
10 University of Western Ontario
TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES IN THE MAINLAND OF CHINA
According to
netbig.com, 2006:
Rank
University
1
Tsinghua University, Beijing
1 Peking University, Beijing
3 Fudan University, Shanghai
3 Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
5
Nanjing University, Nanjing
5 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei
7 Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai
8 Nan'kai University, Tianjin
9 Wuhan University, Wuhan
9 Renmin University of China, Beijing
9 Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an
9 Harbin Insititue of Technology, Harbin
9 Beijing Normal University, Beijing
TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES IN GREATER CHINA A cording to Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2004: Rank University
1 National Taiwan University
2
Tsinghua University3
The University of Hong Kong4 Chinese University of Hong Kong
5 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
6 Peking University
7
Nanjing University8 University of Science and Technology, China
9 City University of Hong Kong
10 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University --->
TOP EIGHT UNIVERSITIES IN AUSTRALIA According to
Good Universities Guide, Australia, 2004: Rank University ***** The University of Adelaide ***** Australian National University *****
The University of Melbourne ***** Monash University ***** The University of New South Wales ***** The University of Queensland ***** The University of Sydney ***** The University of Western Australia Note: The universities are listed in alphabetical order --->
TOP
TEN UNIVERSITIES IN AUSTRALASIA According to Asiaweek, 2000*: Rank University
1 Kyoto University, Japan
2 Tohoku University, Japan
3
The University of Hong Kong4 Seoul National University, South Korea
5 National University of Singapore
6 Chinese University of Hong Kong
7 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
8 Australian National University
9
The University of Melbourne, Australia
10 The University of New South Wales, Australia --->
TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD
According to
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2006:
Rank
University
1Harvard University
2
University of Cambridge3
University of Oxford4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 Yale University
6
Stanford University7 California Institute of Technology
8 University of California at Berkeley
9 Imperial College London
10 Princeton University
According to
Newsweek, 2006:
Rank
University
1 Harvard University
2
Stanford University3 Yale University
4 California Institute of Technology
5 University of California at Berkeley
6
University of Cambridge7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8
University of Oxford9 University of California at San Francisco
10 Columbia University
According to
Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2006: Rank University
1 Harvard University
2
University of Cambridge3
Stanford University4 University of California at Berkeley
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 California Institute of Technology
7 Columbia University
8 Princeton University
8 University of Chicago
10
University of Oxford --->
TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES OUTSIDE EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
According to
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2006:
Rank
University
1 Peking University, China
2 Australian National University, Australia
3 National University of Singapore, Singapore
4 The University of Tokyo, Japan
5
The University of Melbourne, Australia
6
Tsinghua University, China
7 Kyoto University, Japan
8
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
9 The University of Sydney, Australia
10 Monash University, Australia
