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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
#329	Massey University New Zealand	34.6	40.1	13.5		96.9	41.8
#260	Simon Fraser University Canada	40.5	44.8	14.1		93.6	62.1	47.4
#184	University of Gothenburg Sweden	49.3	46.9	13.9		72.7	77.5	62.3
#226	University of Twente Netherlands	43.8	39.1	14.1	47.2	79.7	87.4	40.8
#280	Westfälische Wilhelms-Universitat Münster Germany	39.0	43.2	13.8	53.8
#88	Leiden University Netherlands	66.6	84.4	15.2		73.5		99.0
#389	Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) Russia	30.0		14.7	99.5		50.5
#172	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) United Kingdom	50.7	56.4	14.9	66.5	96.6	91.0
#53	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Germany	74.6	92.7	15.3	86.7	54.9	73.5	53.7
#275	Università degli Studi di Milano Italy	39.4	58.0	14.6				49.7
#297	Universität Konstanz Germany	37.6	36.7	14.6	48.0	59.1	43.4
#162	University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) United States	51.5	46.3	15.0	50.9			92.3
#363	Colorado State University United States	31.8		15.5				80.6
#152	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany	53.7	55.5	15.8	58.7	60.9	50.0	58.0
#346	Griffith University Australia	32.9		16.2		97.7	93.3
#159	McMaster University Canada	52.2	57.8	15.5		42.6	49.8	90.3
#178	Stockholm University Sweden	49.8	71.9	16.3		75.4		40.5
#340	Technische Universität Dresden Germany	33.9	39.6	16.2		30.7
#375	Universidad de Navarra Spain	31.0		16.0	58.0		63.6
#296	George Washington University United States	38.1	43.7	17.1				38.8
#186	Nanjing University China	49.0	70.6	16.9		47.2
#98	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) South Korea	65.1	55.8	17.3	97.7	69.9		80.9
#101	University of California, Davis (UCD) United States	64.4	77.3	17.1		40.1	45.2	94.4
#291	University of Newcastle Australia	38.4	45.6	17.1		84.9	75.9
#372	Central European University Hungary	31.2		17.5	98.3

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