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World's Best Universities: Top 400

The U.S. News World's Best Universities rankings, based on the QS World University Rankings, evaluated schools in countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, China, and more, and identified these to be the world's top universities in 2011. See the methodology.

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Top 400

Rank	School	Overall Score	Academic Reputation Score	Employer Reputation Score	Faculty-Student Ratio Score	International Faculty Score	International Students Score	Citations per Faculty Score
#1	University of Cambridge United Kingdom	100.0	100.0	100.0	98.9	98.4	96.6	92.7
#2	Harvard University United States	99.3	100.0	100.0	96.4	76.9	86.0	100.0
#3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	99.2	100.0	100.0	99.9	50.0	97.9	99.6
#4	Yale University United States	98.8	100.0	100.0	100.0	84.3	65.6	97.2
#5	University of Oxford United Kingdom	98.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	98.2	95.9	82.0
#6	Imperial College London United Kingdom	97.6	99.8	100.0	99.7	99.7	99.9	79.6
#7	UCL (University College London) United Kingdom	97.3	99.4	82.0	99.0	96.2	99.7	89.5
#8	University of Chicago United States	96.1	99.9	90.0	95.8	71.5	81.4	92.3
#9	University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) United States	95.7	98.7	90.0	99.5	64.1	66.3	94.9
#10	Columbia University United States	95.3	99.9	100.0	95.8		86.2	95.8
#11	Stanford University United States	93.4	100.0	100.0	74.9	36.6	96.5	100.0
#12	California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States	93.0	99.0	25.8	97.0	99.0	93.9	100.0
#13	Princeton University United States	91.9	100.0	67.9	75.3	96.5	69.3	100.0
#14	University of Michigan United States	91.3	99.8	90.0	91.5	53.6	51.2	85.3
#15	Cornell University United States	90.7	99.8	90.0	74.7	44.7	70.2	96.8
#16	Johns Hopkins University United States	90.0	95.9	55.9	99.3		70.9	99.8
#17	McGill University Canada	89.6	98.8	90.0	89.9	82.0	94.2	62.6
#18	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland	89.5	99.2	74.6	54.4	100.0	99.1	99.0
#19	Duke University United States	89.2	95.4	65.0	99.8		55.5	96.3
#20	University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	87.8	98.9	90.0	73.7	88.8	92.7	68.8
#21	University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States	87.6	100.0	100.0		95.2	62.2	95.7
#22	University of Hong Kong (HKU) Hong Kong	87.0	98.9	59.4	95.1	100.0	98.9	54.5
#23	University of Toronto Canada	86.2	99.9	90.0	65.3	91.3	49.0	77.3
#24	Northwestern University United States	85.9	91.5	77.1	82.8		80.9	93.6
#25	The University of Tokyo Japan	85.9	100.0	90.0	92.2			74.0

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