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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
#362	Aalborg University Denmark	31.9		19.8	45.6	66.1	48.4
#104	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) Netherlands	63.9	76.4	59.4	46.3	91.4	72.3	43.8
#95	Durham University United Kingdom	65.2	66.2	90.0	46.3	92.4	73.0	54.7
#294	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute United States	38.2			46.0		39.2	79.9
#239	Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Germany	41.7			45.6	48.3		63.2
#308	Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain	36.8	36.5		45.6	73.5	44.2
#202	Chalmers University of Technology Sweden	46.8	45.5	27.8	46.9	52.1	74.9	45.7
#103	Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands	64.0	54.6	59.4	46.6	51.8	74.4	96.9
#285	National Cheng Kung University Taiwan	38.6	46.0		47.4
#359	Philipps-Universität Marburg Germany	32.0			46.6	38.0	49.9	37.7
#254	Université Grenoble, Joseph Fourier France	40.8	43.9		47.2		55.6	42.6
#226	University of Twente Netherlands	43.8	39.1	14.1	47.2	79.7	87.4	40.8
#378	Illinois Institute of Technology United States	30.7			47.8	35.5	100.0
#297	Universität Konstanz Germany	37.6	36.7	14.6	48.0	59.1	43.4
#56	University of Washington United States	72.9	93.5	29.6	47.8			99.8
#300	Beijing Normal University China	37.2	47.0		48.6	75.4
#153	Lancaster University United Kingdom	53.4	52.9	55.9	48.8	79.6	87.0	37.8
#34	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States	81.9	100.0	90.0	48.7			99.9
#91	Fudan University China	65.7	91.5	59.4	49.7		56.9	41.2
#303	SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies United Kingdom	37.1	36.7		49.7	99.8	100.0
#312	Universität Düsseldorf Germany	36.4			50.0		55.1	72.1
#181	University College Cork (UCC) Ireland	49.6	49.0	55.9	49.5	94.5	51.5
#215	University of Reading United Kingdom	45.3	43.7		49.9	83.5	83.4	37.8
#80	Utrecht University Netherlands	68.0	81.7	23.1	49.5	58.6		89.8
#306	National Chiao Tung University Taiwan	36.8			50.5	57.6	41.6	47.5

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