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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
#369	Birkbeck College, University of London United Kingdom	31.4	36.7			93.7
#114	Emory University United States	60.4	37.3	37.9	88.6		43.5	96.5
#366	Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz Austria	31.6	36.8			57.9		44.2
#138	Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands	56.1	37.4	25.5	84.2	58.7		79.4
#303	SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies United Kingdom	37.1	36.7		49.7	99.8	100.0
#297	Universität Konstanz Germany	37.6	36.7	14.6	48.0	59.1	43.4
#308	Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain	36.8	36.5		45.6	73.5	44.2
#358	Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) Malaysia	32.2	36.8		62.5		42.3
#197	University of Antwerp Belgium	47.5	36.5		98.6	64.6	48.8
#387	University of Athens Greece	30.1	36.5					42.6
#344	Ewha Womans University South Korea	33.4	37.6		58.7
#109	Maastricht University Netherlands	62.5	37.5	55.9	72.4	82.3	99.9	85.5
#259	Sungkyunkwan University South Korea	40.6	37.5		86.5		43.1
#355	Universität Bielefeld Germany	32.3	38.4					56.5
#143	University of Bern Switzerland	55.0	38.3		61.2	97.5	56.8	87.0
#261	University of East Anglia (UEA) United Kingdom	40.4	38.3			80.4	77.7	39.8
#315	University of Essex United Kingdom	35.8	37.7			97.9	98.7
#249	Hiroshima University Japan	41.2	39.1		82.5
#350	Université Lyon 1, Claude Bernard France	32.7	38.6				46.6	36.8
#345	Université Toulouse III, Paul Sabatier France	33.4	38.5		51.8	33.7
#287	University of California, Santa Cruz United States	38.5	38.6					94.9
#224	University of Turku Finland	44.7	39.1	25.4	66.9			52.5
#226	University of Twente Netherlands	43.8	39.1	14.1	47.2	79.7	87.4	40.8
#204	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Belgium	46.4	38.8	35.9	81.4		53.2
#329	Massey University New Zealand	34.6	40.1	13.5		96.9	41.8

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