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World's Best Universities: Natural and Physical Sciences 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	University of Cambridge United Kingdom	100.0	6.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	94.9	6.7
3	University of California, Berkeley United States	93.8	7.3
4	Harvard University United States	92.6	9.2
5	University of Oxford United Kingdom	92.5	5.9
6	Princeton University United States	81.0	7.6
7	California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States	80.8	9.8
8	University of Tokyo Japan	79.3	4.2
9	Stanford University United States	79.0	6.1
10	Kyoto University Japan	71.4	4.2
10	Imperial College London United Kingdom	71.4	5.3
12	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland	69.8	5.9
13	Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France	65.5	5.2
14	University of Toronto Canada	64.8	5.7
15	Cornell University United States	62.7	6.2
16	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States	62.1	6.8
17	University of Chicago United States	62.0	8.6
18	Yale University United States	61.7	7.0
19	Peking University China	61.3	3.3
20	University of British Columbia Canada	60.7	5.0
21	Australian National University Australia	60.1	5.4
22	Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI France	56.7	4.8
23	University of Melbourne Australia	52.8	4.7
24	Columbia University United States	51.9	7.1
25	Sapienza University of Rome Italy	51.8	3.2
26	McGill University Canada	50.8	4.3
27	National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore	50.7	4.2
28	Seoul National University South Korea	50.1	3.3
28	École Polytechnique France	50.1	4.6
30	Tsinghua University China	49.2	2.2
30	Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia	49.2	2.0
32	University of California, Santa Barbara United States	48.8	6.3
33	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel	48.1	3.6
34	University of Sydney Australia	46.2	4.4
35	Utrecht University Netherlands	45.8	5.2
36	Osaka University Japan	45.2	3.5
37	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign United States	45.1	5.7
37	Heidelberg University Germany	45.1	4.9
39	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology South Korea	43.6	3.2
40	University of California, San Diego United States	43.5	4.8
41	Technische Universität München Germany	43.3	4.8
42	University of Texas at Austin United States	43.0	5.9
43	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany	42.2	5.3
44	Université Paris-Sud Paris XI France	41.0	4.5
45	University of New South Wales Australia	40.7	4.2
46	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland	40.5	5.0
47	University of Michigan United States	40.4	6.3
48	Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan	40.3	3.6
49	Tohoku University Japan	39.1	3.3
50	University of Science and Technology of China China	38.8	3.3

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Reader Comments

This ranking just show wanting

It seems like US universities are dominated in this ranking, there are 6 universities from US included top 10 best universities in Natural and Physical Sciences. I am not surprise about this, because this is just to show they are the best....But, I dont think so...this is just nonsense at all....Beside, WHO makes this ranking ? and What is the reference of quality standard to say these university are the best ?.

Beside, I have collections of teaching and exam materials mostly in the best universities from US, But many materials like Physics and Math are low standard quality for undergraduate students and graduate students. It doesnt show high level of knowledge, for example those universities still repeated the same level of materials as I learned when I was high school. It means that those universities didnot show high standard that they call "best university". You should look at some countries and other universities, so you can see that you are NOT the best....

quantum of XX
Nov 24, 2009 15:55:43 PM [permalink] [report comment]

universities rankings for sciences:

JHU in Baltimore ---- has to be up top!

Did you not include this one in your report?

Dick Y. of MA
Nov 17, 2009 13:39:44 PM [permalink] [report comment]

no CATHOLIC SCHOOLS MENTIONED

NOTRE DAME UN9VERSITY IS REPOSNISBLE FOR MANY SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES. OTHER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES and see web site Scientists at Catholic University target soil science.

SO PLEASE LOOK AT THEM TOO.

FRANK OF CALIFORNIA

frank of CA
Nov 03, 2009 13:39:54 PM [permalink] [report comment]

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