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World's Best Universities: Engineering and IT Universities

Posted October 20, 2009

U.S.News & World Report's World's Best Universities rankings, based on the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings, identified these to be world's top universities in 2009.

Rank		Subject Score	Citations per Paper
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	100.0	4.2
2	University of California, Berkeley United States	86.3	4.5
3	Stanford University United States	81.5	4.2
4	University of Cambridge United Kingdom	77.0	3.3
5	California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States	76.2	4.6
6	University of Tokyo Japan	69.1	1.9
6	Imperial College London United Kingdom	69.1	2.7
8	University of Toronto Canada	63.3	3.4
9	Carnegie Mellon University United States	63.2	3.1
10	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland	60.8	3.5
11	University of Oxford United Kingdom	59.8	3.0
12	Georgia Institute of Technology United States	59.3	2.9
13	Tsinghua University China	59.2	1.2
14	National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore	57.5	2.9
15	Delft University of Technology Netherlands	55.4	2.2
16	Kyoto University Japan	54.2	1.9
17	University of British Columbia Canada	53.2	2.9
18	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States	53.1	4.2
19	Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan	51.4	1.8
20	McGill University Canada	51.2	2.3
21	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology South Korea	50.7	2.1
22	Harvard University United States	50.5	4.8
23	Princeton University United States	50.3	4.4
24	Cornell University United States	50.0	3.7
25	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign United States	49.5	2.9
26	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong	49.1	2.7
27	Seoul National University South Korea	47.5	2.2
27	University of Waterloo Canada	47.5	2.1
29	University of Melbourne Australia	46.9	2.6
30	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) India	46.7	1.9
31	Peking University China	46.6	1.6
32	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel	46.5	2.4
33	University of New South Wales Australia	45.3	2.1
33	Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore	45.3	2.2
35	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) India	44.4	1.9
36	University of Texas at Austin United States	44.2	2.9
37	Purdue University United States	43.7	2.5
38	University of Manchester United Kingdom	43.5	2.6
38	École Polytechnique France	43.5	2.4
40	University of Sydney Australia	43.2	2.0
41	University of Michigan United States	42.5	3.3
42	Australian National University Australia	41.6	2.4
43	University of California, San Diego United States	40.5	3.0
44	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland	39.8	3.1
45	Technische Universität München Germany	39.7	2.4
46	University of Alberta Canada	38.8	2.5
47	National Taiwan University Taiwan	38.0	2.1
47	Osaka University Japan	38.0	1.7
49	Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands	37.9	2.6
50	Monash University Australia	37.3	2.1
50	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium	37.3	2.7

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Reader Comments

I don't think so......

Tell me how do you think above universities can be called the best university ?

who makes this ranking ? and what is the reference of standard for the best university ?

If the ranking was set-up by other country, I believe above university didnot include in the top 10 best universities. Also, most of the best universities that I read from media was dominated from US ...This is so overwhelming but wanting. It seems like no other university is the best...Also, I got some lecture notes and exam materials from the best UniversitieS Above, was So Easy...doesn't show high standard quality that I thought for the best university ....I think this ranking is not usefull at all and doesn't reflect the good guide universities....Also, the nobel prize winners are mostly from other countries NOT only from US. They just come to US to find better life....So, They work at some the best universitieS that YOU called (not I called), But they are not originally from US and then they win Nobel prize......So, the university has good name at the same time. BUT, it should be noted that they are NOT from the best university like you called it.....I guess this ranking is just politic in educational system which reflects discriminant for other country and also it's just market....

quantum of XX
Nov 24, 2009 08:47:41 AM [permalink] [report comment]

its engineering

First of all its a ranking for engineering. Why are you mentioning which university wins math or physics competitions most of the time ?

Second of all, there are a lot of things they consider and do a lot of research while doing this ranking, and its well accepted. So I presume, just because you don't know, it does not make it a "nonsense"

Deru of XX
Nov 22, 2009 12:07:12 PM [permalink] [report comment]

Need to clarify this ranking

I don't think this ranking is good guide for university. Beside, this is just advertising to make university more famous. That's it. I found several universities in Russia, France and Indonesia have good quality in Science and Engineering. Let say, Indonesia, every years this country wins Gold Medal for International Olympic of Physics and Mathematics. Also, I can see some universities outside the top university in the world, have high level on Mathematics and Physics like Russia, Indonesia, and France. Russia also is still the best in Mathematics and Physics. So I can see that the top universities in above is just nonsense at all. This is nothing more in advertising. It does NOT show and standard good guide university. Also, who makes this ranking ?. I can see they are not competent to show this.

quantum of XX
Nov 19, 2009 05:27:37 AM [permalink] [report comment]

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