THE World University Rankings 2012

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🇦🇺 Australia

🇦🇹 Austria

🇧🇪 Belgium

🇧🇷 Brazil

🇨🇦 Canada

🇨🇱 Chile

🇨🇳 China

🇨🇿 Czech Republic

🇩🇰 Denmark

🇪🇬 Egypt

🇪🇪 Estonia

🇫🇮 Finland

🇫🇷 France

🇩🇪 Germany

🇬🇷 Greece

🇭🇰 Hong Kong

🇮🇸 Iceland

🇮🇳 India

🇮🇷 Iran

🇮🇪 Ireland

🇮🇱 Israel

🇮🇹 Italy

🇯🇵 Japan

🇳🇱 Netherlands

🇳🇿 New Zealand

🇳🇴 Norway

🇵🇱 Poland

🇵🇹 Portugal

🇷🇺 Russia

🇸🇬 Singapore

🇿🇦 South Africa

🇰🇷 South Korea

🇪🇸 Spain

🇸🇪 Sweden

🇨🇭 Switzerland

🇹🇼 Taiwan

🇹🇭 Thailand

🇹🇷 Turkey

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

🇺🇸 United States

Total 402 universities

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	University	Country
1	California Institute of Technology (CIT)	🇺🇸 United States	94.8	95.7	98.2	99.9	97.0	56.0
2	Stanford University (SU)	🇺🇸 United States	93.9	94.8	98.9	99.8	63.8	57.2
2	Harvard University	🇺🇸 United States	93.9	95.8	97.4	99.8	35.9	67.5
4	University of Oxford	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	93.6	89.5	96.6	97.9	62.1	91.9
5	Princeton University	🇺🇸 United States	92.9	91.5	99.1	100.0	81.0	49.6
6	University of Cambridge	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	92.4	90.5	94.2	97.3	55.5	85.3
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	🇺🇸 United States	92.3	92.7	87.4	100.0	94.4	79.2
8	Imperial College London	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	90.7	88.8	88.7	93.9	93.1	92.2
9	University of Chicago (UC)	🇺🇸 United States	90.2	89.4	90.8	99.4	-	58.8
10	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	🇺🇸 United States	89.8	82.8	99.4	99.4	62.5	50.4
11	Yale University	🇺🇸 United States	89.1	92.3	91.2	96.7	34.7	55.5
12	Columbia University (CU)	🇺🇸 United States	87.5	89.1	81.8	97.8	-	67.6
13	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	🇺🇸 United States	87.3	85.9	92.5	97.3	-	41.0
14	Johns Hopkins University (JHU)	🇺🇸 United States	85.8	78.9	86.5	97.3	100.0	59.9
15	ETH Zurich	🇨🇭 Switzerland	85.0	79.1	85.8	87.2	-	97.5
16	University of Pennsylvania	🇺🇸 United States	84.9	87.0	86.1	97.9	41.9	34.3
17	University College London (UCL)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	83.2	77.8	84.3	89.0	41.4	91.8
18	University of Michigan (UM)	🇺🇸 United States	82.8	75.4	90.0	94.3	53.3	47.2
19	University of Toronto	🇨🇦 Canada	81.6	76.9	87.4	86.5	44.9	69.0
20	Cornell University (CU)	🇺🇸 United States	80.5	70.4	87.2	93.5	-	53.4
21	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)	🇺🇸 United States	78.4	65.7	79.5	97.4	60.7	55.0
22	Duke University	🇺🇸 United States	77.4	62.6	77.9	97.4	100.0	46.9
22	University of British Columbia (UBC)	🇨🇦 Canada	77.4	68.6	78.6	85.2	40.6	88.7
24	Georgia Institute of Technology (GT)	🇺🇸 United States	77.0	66.6	73.8	91.9	99.2	65.0
25	University of Washington (UW)	🇺🇸 United States	76.5	70.8	74.0	98.2	31.8	36.9
26	Northwestern University (NU)	🇺🇸 United States	76.2	66.3	75.5	98.6	56.6	35.3
27	University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW)	🇺🇸 United States	75.8	74.3	77.3	90.6	55.3	23.8
28	McGill University	🇨🇦 Canada	75.5	72.8	78.4	77.1	35.1	81.4
29	University of Texas at Austin	🇺🇸 United States	74.9	69.5	76.1	89.6	57.7	38.8
30	The University of Tokyo (UT)	🇯🇵 Japan	74.3	86.1	80.3	69.1	76.6	23.0
31	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)	🇺🇸 United States	74.2	67.9	81.3	81.5	-	50.7
32	Karolinska Institutet (KI)	🇸🇪 Sweden	73.1	69.9	73.8	73.1	78.5	82.0
33	University of California San Diego (UCSD)	🇺🇸 United States	73.0	61.4	72.0	97.8	51.8	31.5
34	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	🇭🇰 Hong Kong	72.3	74.0	80.1	60.5	64.1	83.7
35	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	🇺🇸 United States	72.1	55.0	65.3	99.9	85.0	52.6
36	University of Edinburgh	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	72.0	63.0	61.4	92.3	41.3	79.8
37	The University of Melbourne	🇦🇺 Australia	71.9	62.2	72.4	80.7	44.4	82.5
38	Australian National University (ANU)	🇦🇺 Australia	71.2	62.8	75.1	72.6	41.7	93.8
38	University of California, Davis (UCD)	🇺🇸 United States	71.2	68.0	68.7	83.4	52.5	51.4
40	National University of Singapore (NUS)	🇸🇬 Singapore	70.9	65.7	79.0	63.4	60.7	93.0
41	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL)	🇺🇸 United States	70.5	64.0	58.9	96.1	-	45.7
42	University of Minnesota	🇺🇸 United States	70.0	66.1	72.5	85.4	-	25.6
43	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)	🇺🇸 United States	69.3	67.6	62.6	92.6	35.5	20.2
44	New York University (NYU)	🇺🇸 United States	69.0	60.2	65.4	92.3	30.9	38.1
45	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)	🇩🇪 Germany	67.6	63.8	59.9	84.6	40.7	54.3
46	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	🇨🇭 Switzerland	66.3	53.1	43.9	95.3	46.7	98.9
47	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	66.0	66.4	75.4	50.6	41.1	96.0
48	University of Manchester	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	65.7	59.0	61.1	75.6	37.7	80.4
49	Peking University (PKU)	🇨🇳 China	65.6	82.3	64.1	51.0	99.9	51.7
49	Brown University	🇺🇸 United States	65.6	59.8	53.6	93.9	34.9	33.4