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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
#60	Monash University Australia	72.1	96.5	90.0		58.6	96.7	34.9
#266	Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norway	40.1			57.0	63.4	39.6	35.1
#290	Universität Innsbruck Austria	38.4	44.9			91.8	98.1	35.2
#132	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany	57.1	93.2			46.3	53.6	35.9
#177	Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong	50.1	58.4			100.0	82.2	36.5
#210	Sapienza - Università di Roma Italy	45.8	80.2	18.3				37.2
#350	Université Lyon 1, Claude Bernard France	32.7	38.6				46.6	36.8
#186	University of Tsukuba Japan	49.0	53.8		82.8			36.7
#179	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) Netherlands	49.6	62.5	25.0	53.8	43.2		36.9
#153	Lancaster University United Kingdom	53.4	52.9	55.9	48.8	79.6	87.0	37.8
#359	Philipps-Universität Marburg Germany	32.0			46.6	38.0	49.9	37.7
#151	University of Basel Switzerland	53.8	54.4		66.1	100.0	85.0	38.1
#215	University of Reading United Kingdom	45.3	43.7		49.9	83.5	83.4	37.8
#385	Ben Gurion University of The Negev Israel	30.2						39.4
#110	City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong	62.0	72.2	18.7	67.7	100.0	76.6	38.6
#296	George Washington University United States	38.1	43.7	17.1				38.8
#360	Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI) Italy	32.0	48.1					38.8
#194	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Spain	48.2	71.2					39.4
#336	Arizona State University United States	34.3	49.5					39.8
#82	University of Auckland New Zealand	67.3	94.0	59.4		94.3	96.0	39.5
#168	University of Bath United Kingdom	50.8	48.6	59.4		87.5	94.8	39.5
#261	University of East Anglia (UEA) United Kingdom	40.4	38.3			80.4	77.7	39.8
#93	University of Leeds United Kingdom	65.6	81.1	59.4	51.8	77.0	75.1	40.2
#133	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon) France	57.0	54.6		100.0	48.0	67.1	40.5
#91	Fudan University China	65.7	91.5	59.4	49.7		56.9	41.2

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