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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

ranking of iit

viewing from the aspest of student potential to do optimum with minimum resource(excelence of an engineer) iitian (iit kanpur as a reference) has to be ranked undoubdtly ultimate ...................hence iit (just lacking in terms of fund or resources ) has to be.............

ashish srivastava of XX
Nov 12, 2009 03:08:52 AM [permalink] [report comment]

Cal Bears!

UC Berkeley continues to get the recognition it deserves. Long live!

Tony of CA
Nov 11, 2009 01:43:30 AM [permalink] [report comment]

IIT Brand

There is no doubt that getting in any IIT is much more difficult than getting into many of the higher ranked universities. I have a friend who is the son of an emminent gujarati industrialist who owns the largest brand selling soaps in the country. He was not elligible for getting admission in any good engineering college of india, forget iits, he wasnt elligible for getting admission in any of the top 250 colleges in country. I cleared the JEE and later when i logged into facebook, i found that riding on the might of his families income, the boy, who couldn't clear the AIEE is today a student of Georgia Tech. (12th rank in world) !! Its a living truth!

Lucky of IN
Nov 09, 2009 11:55:27 AM [permalink] [report comment]

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