2006 rank |
2005 rank |
Name |
Country |
1 |
1 |
Harvard University |
US |
2 |
3 |
Cambridge University |
UK |
3 |
4 |
Oxford University |
UK |
4= |
2 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
US |
4= |
7 |
Yale University |
US |
6 |
5 |
Stanford University |
US |
7 |
8 |
California Institute of Technology |
US |
8 |
6 |
University of California, Berkeley |
US |
9 |
13 |
Imperial College London |
UK |
10 |
9 |
Princeton University |
US |
11 |
17 |
University of Chicago |
US |
12 |
20 |
Columbia University |
US |
13 |
11 |
Duke University |
US |
14 |
15 |
Beijing University |
China |
15 |
14 |
Cornell University |
US |
16 |
23 |
Australian National University |
Australia |
17 |
11 |
London School of Economics |
UK |
18 |
24 |
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris |
France |
19= |
22 |
National University of Singapore |
Singapore |
19= |
16 |
Tokyo University |
Japan |
21 |
24 |
McGill University |
Canada |
22 |
19 |
Melbourne University |
Australia |
23 |
27 |
Johns Hopkins University |
US |
24 |
21 |
ETH Zurich |
Switzerland |
25 |
28 |
University College London |
UK |
26 |
32 |
Pennsylvania University |
US |
27 |
29 |
University of Toronto |
Canada |
28 |
62 |
Tsing Hua University |
China |
29= |
31 |
Kyoto University |
Japan |
29= |
36 |
University of Michigan |
US |
31 |
37 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
US |
32 |
26 |
University of Texas at Austin |
US |
33= |
30 |
Edinburgh University |
UK |
33= |
41 |
University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
35= |
44 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
US |
35= |
38 |
Sydney University |
Australia |
37 |
10 |
Ecole Polytechnique |
France |
38 |
33 |
Monash University |
Australia |
39 |
88 |
Geneva University |
Switzerland |
40 |
35 |
Manchester University |
UK |
41 |
40 |
University of New South Wales |
Australia |
42 |
46 |
Northwestern University |
US |
43 |
56 |
New York University |
US |
44 |
42 |
University of California, San Diego |
US |
45 |
47 |
Queensland University |
Australia |
46= |
52 |
Auckland University |
New Zealand |
46= |
73 |
King’s College London |
UK |
48= |
73 |
Rochester University |
US |
48= |
58 |
Washington University, St Louis |
US |
50= |
38 |
University of British Columbia |
Canada |
50= |
51 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
52 |
69 |
Sciences Po |
France |
53 |
114 |
Vanderbilt University |
US |
54= |
71 |
Brown University |
US |
54= |
66 |
Copenhagen University |
Denmark |
56 |
141 |
Emory University |
US |
57 |
50 |
Indian Institutes of Technology |
India |
58= |
45 |
Heidelberg University |
Germany |
58= |
43 |
Hong Kong University Sci & Technol |
Hong Kong |
60 |
109 |
Case Western Reserve University |
US |
61= |
117 |
Dartmouth College |
US |
61= |
48 |
Nanyang Technological University |
Singapore |
63 |
93 |
Seoul National University |
South Korea |
64= |
49 |
Bristol University |
UK |
64= |
34 |
Ecole Polytech Federale de Lausanne |
Switzerland |
66 |
54 |
Boston University |
US |
67 |
70 |
Eindhoven University of Technology |
Netherlands |
68 |
84 |
Indian Institutes of Management |
India |
69 |
58 |
Amsterdam University |
Netherlands |
70= |
103 |
School of Oriental and African Studies |
UK |
70= |
105 |
Osaka University |
Japan |
72 |
92 |
Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon |
France |
73 |
77 |
Warwick University |
UK |
74 |
95 |
National Autonomous Univ of Mexico |
Mexico |
75 |
127 |
Basel University |
Switzerland |
76 |
88 |
Catholic University of Louvain (French) |
Belgium |
77 |
58 |
University of Illinois |
US |
78 |
111 |
Trinity College Dublin |
Ireland |
79= |
186 |
Otago University |
New Zealand |
79= |
73 |
University of Wisconsin |
US |
81 |
101 |
Glasgow University |
UK |
82= |
67 |
Macquarie University |
Australia |
82= |
105 |
Technical University Munich |
Germany |
84 |
88 |
Washington University |
US |
85 |
97 |
Nottingham University |
UK |
86 |
53 |
Delft University of Technology |
Netherlands |
87 |
65 |
Vienna University |
Austria |
88 |
193 |
Pittsburgh University |
US |
89 |
133 |
Lausanne University |
Switzerland |
90= |
143 |
Birmingham University |
UK |
90= |
138 |
Leiden University |
Netherlands |
92 |
57 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Netherlands |
93= |
79 |
Lomonosov Moscow State University |
Russia |
93= |
88 |
Pierre and Marie Curie University |
France |
95 |
120 |
Utrecht University |
Netherlands |
96 |
95 |
Catholic University of Leuven (Flemish) |
Belgium |
97 |
108 |
Wageningen University |
Netherlands |
98 |
55 |
Munich University |
Germany |
99= |
112 |
Queen Mary, University of London |
UK |
99= |
64 |
Pennsylvania State University |
US |
101 |
124 |
University of Southern California |
US |
102= |
159 |
Georgetown University |
US |
102= |
150 |
Rice University |
US |
102= |
143 |
Sheffield University |
UK |
105= |
80 |
University of Adelaide |
Australia |
105= |
112 |
Humboldt University Berlin |
Germany |
105= |
100 |
Sussex University |
UK |
108 |
114 |
National Taiwan University |
Taiwan |
109= |
136 |
St Andrews University |
UK |
109= |
85 |
Zurich University |
Switzerland |
111= |
133 |
Maryland University |
US |
111= |
180 |
Uppsala University |
Sweden |
111= |
199 |
Wake Forest University |
US |
111= |
80 |
University of Western Australia |
Australia |
115 |
217 |
University of Twente |
Netherlands |
116= |
72 |
Fudan University |
China |
116= |
62 |
Helsinki University |
Finland |
118 |
99 |
Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Japan |
119 |
77 |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Israel |
120 |
215 |
Keio University |
Japan |
121 |
103 |
Leeds University |
UK |
122 |
180 |
Lund University |
Sweden |
123 |
143 |
University of North Carolina |
US |
124= |
68 |
University of Massachusetts Amherst |
US |
124= |
109 |
York University |
UK |
126 |
138 |
Aarhus University |
Denmark |
127 |
61 |
Purdue University |
US |
128= |
222 |
Kyushu University |
Japan |
128= |
129 |
Nagoya University |
Japan |
130= |
164 |
Tufts University |
US |
130= |
105 |
Virginia University |
US |
132 |
83 |
Durham University |
UK |
133= |
149 |
University of Alberta |
Canada |
133= |
259 |
Brussels Free University (Flemish) |
Belgium |
133= |
157 |
Hokkaido University |
Japan |
133= |
168 |
Newcastle upon Tyne University |
UK |
137 |
177 |
Nijmegen University |
Netherlands |
138 |
86 |
Vienna Technical University |
Austria |
139 |
119 |
Liverpool University |
UK |
140 |
234 |
Cranfield University |
UK |
141= |
159 |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
US |
141= |
228 |
Cardiff University |
UK |
141= |
219 |
Ghent University |
Belgium |
141= |
206 |
Southampton University |
UK |
145 |
147 |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
US |
146 |
82 |
RMIT University |
Australia |
147= |
166 |
Chalmers University of Technology |
Sweden |
147= |
188 |
Tel Aviv University |
Israel |
148 |
172 |
Free University Berlin |
Germany |
150= |
184 |
Korea University |
South Korea |
150= |
125 |
Texas A&M University |
US |
152 |
179 |
Notre Dame University |
US |
153 |
130 |
Bath University |
UK |
154 |
178 |
City University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
155 |
184 |
McMaster University |
Canada |
156= |
101 |
Curtin University of Technology |
Australia |
156= |
114 |
Gottingen University |
Germany |
158= |
194 |
Technion ? Israel Inst of Technology |
Israel |
158= |
240 |
University of Ulm |
Germany |
158= |
202 |
Waseda University |
Japan |
161= |
121 |
Chulalongkorn University |
Thailand |
161= |
131 |
University Louis Pasteur Strasbourg |
France |
163 |
121 |
Michigan State University |
US |
164 |
219 |
Saint Petersburg State University |
Russia |
165= |
76 |
Brussels Free University (French) |
Belgium |
165= |
93 |
China University of Sci & Technol |
China |
165= |
175 |
State Univ of New York, Stony Brook |
US |
168= |
199 |
George Washington University |
US |
168= |
136 |
Tohoku University |
Japan |
170= |
206 |
University of California, Davis |
US |
170= |
260 |
University of Tubingen |
Germany |
172= |
172 |
Aachen RWT |
Germany |
172= |
157 |
Maastricht University |
Netherlands |
172= |
196 |
Royal Institute of Technology |
Sweden |
172= |
254 |
Yeshiva University |
US |
176 |
261 |
Queen’s University |
Canada |
177 |
138 |
Oslo University |
Norway |
178 |
228 |
University of Bern |
Switzerland |
179 |
169 |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
China |
180 |
150 |
Nanjing University |
China |
181= |
172 |
Kobe University |
Japan |
181= |
132 |
Universite de Montreal |
Canada |
183= |
192 |
Jawaharlal Nehru University |
India |
183= |
186 |
Free University of Amsterdam |
Netherlands |
185 |
289 |
University of Kebangsaan Malaysia |
Malaysia |
186 |
165 |
Innsbruck University |
Austria |
187= |
213 |
Brandeis University |
US |
187= |
142 |
Frankfurt University |
Germany |
187= |
150 |
University of Minnesota |
US |
190= |
240 |
University of Barcelona |
Spain |
190= |
248 |
Reading University |
UK |
192= |
169 |
Malaya University |
Malaysia |
192= |
118 |
Queensland University of Technology |
Australia |
194 |
154 |
Technical University of Denmark |
Denmark |
195 |
267 |
Aberdeen University |
UK |
196 |
308 |
University of Wollongong |
Australia |
197 |
125 |
La Sapienza University, Rome |
Italy |
198= |
254 |
University of California, Irvine |
US |
198= |
143 |
Korea Advanced Inst Science & Technol |
South Korea |
200 |
305 |
University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) |
France |