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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
#321	Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Germany	35.4					38.5	80.0
#46	Peking University China	77.4	99.8	82.6	90.4	35.5	39.4
#144	Queen's University Canada	54.9	52.5	59.4		77.7	39.3	64.2
#294	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute United States	38.2			46.0		39.2	79.9
#266	Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norway	40.1			57.0	63.4	39.6	35.1
#230	University of Miami United States	43.0			80.2	56.9	40.0	56.9
#149	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Germany	53.8	63.8		73.0	40.5	41.4	42.8
#295	University of Hawaii at Manoa United States	38.1			56.2		40.5	57.4
#232	Aalto University Finland	42.6		19.7	89.7	40.9	42.2
#329	Massey University New Zealand	34.6	40.1	13.5		96.9	41.8
#306	National Chiao Tung University Taiwan	36.8			50.5	57.6	41.6	47.5
#358	Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) Malaysia	32.2	36.8		62.5		42.3
#370	King Abdul Aziz University (KAU) Saudi Arabia	31.3			53.1	68.9	42.5
#193	Queen's University of Belfast United Kingdom	48.3	40.4	55.9	57.9	98.6	43.3
#259	Sungkyunkwan University South Korea	40.6	37.5		86.5		43.1
#57	Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan	72.7	78.3	59.4	88.3		43.2	65.5
#297	Universität Konstanz Germany	37.6	36.7	14.6	48.0	59.1	43.4
#114	Emory University United States	60.4	37.3	37.9	88.6		43.5	96.5
#308	Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain	36.8	36.5		45.6	73.5	44.2
#289	Iowa State University United States	38.5				63.4	44.7	67.2
#203	Universität Hamburg Germany	46.7	63.6		57.8		44.5
#329	Université Montpellier 2, Sciences et Techniques France	34.6			58.1		45.3	44.9
#101	University of California, Davis (UCD) United States	64.4	77.3	17.1		40.1	45.2	94.4
#367	Universität Bremen Germany	31.6					45.5
#176	Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Spain	50.3	77.9				46.0	44.3

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