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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

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]

getting into IIT

NO DOUBT GETTING INTO IIT IS DIFFICULT THAN MOST OTHER INSTITUTES OF THE WORLD.........BUT ONLY VERY PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS ACTUALLY GETTING INTO IIT DO IT BECAUSE OF INTEREST REST OF THEM GO THERE BECAUSE THEY EXPECT HIGH SALARY AFTER THAT.

THIS IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BASIC SYSTEM IN INDIA AND ABROAD.

U WILL FIND PPL DOING A COURSE ABROAD BECAUSE THEY HAVE AN INCLINATION FOR IT NOT LIKE IN INDIA THAT EVERYONE HAS TO BE EITHER AN ENGINEER OR A DOCTOR OR UR CONSIDERED WASTE.

AND PPL BEING RIGID ABOUT IIT PLEASE REMOVE UR MIND BLOCKS AND LEARN TO APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT A UNIVERSITY CAN ONLY PROCEED AHEAD IF IT INVESTS IN RESEARCH AND NOT IN MUGGING UP THE SAME THING AGAIN AND AGAIN.

AND RIGHTLY SAID IF A CHILD IS TAUGHT ON ONE TRACK FROM CLASS 6TH ANY FOOL WILL GET INTO IIT.

IITIANS ARE TALENTED NO DOUBT BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN THE COLLEGE NEEDS TO BE 1RANKED JUST BECAUSE ITS TOUGH TO GET INTO.

WE NEED TO STOP THE COACHING INSTITUTES WHICH AGAIN IS A BUSINESS RUNNING ON HERD MENTALITY IN INDIA.

FOR GOD SAKE THERE ARE SPECIAL IIT FOUNDATION SCHOOLS IN SOUTH WHICH TAKE CHILDREN FROM CLASS 5 AND TRAIN THEM FOR IIT.

THIS IS NOT THE WAY OF EDUCATION BUT JUST HOARDING A DEGREE TO MAKE MONEY.

PLEASE WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ANGEL of XX
Nov 19, 2009 01:06:32 AM [permalink] [report comment]

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