Academic Ranking of World Universities 2012
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Total 477 universities
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Country
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| 1 |
Harvard University
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🇺🇸 United States | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 71.1 | 100.0 |
| 2 |
Stanford University
(SU)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 72.8 | 38.0 | 79.7 | 88.9 | 71.6 | 49.2 | 69.6 |
| 3 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT)
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🇺🇸 United States | 71.8 | 69.0 | 83.2 | 68.2 | 69.2 | 64.1 | 61.6 |
| 4 |
University of California, Berkeley
(UCB)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 71.6 | 67.5 | 80.9 | 69.7 | 68.5 | 53.4 | 68.1 |
| 5 |
University of Cambridge
|
🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 69.8 | 80.3 | 97.2 | 54.6 | 55.0 | 52.1 | 65.9 |
| 6 |
California Institute of Technology
(CIT)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 64.1 | 48.5 | 68.8 | 57.4 | 64.8 | 100.0 | 46.2 |
| 7 |
Princeton University
|
🇺🇸 United States | 62.1 | 52.3 | 91.3 | 62.2 | 44.4 | 66.3 | 44.5 |
| 8 |
Columbia University
(CU)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 60.1 | 64.2 | 68.0 | 57.4 | 51.2 | 31.0 | 67.8 |
| 9 |
University of Chicago
(UC)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 57.2 | 61.8 | 85.3 | 52.2 | 40.6 | 38.9 | 49.2 |
| 10 |
University of Oxford
|
🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 56.1 | 51.2 | 56.6 | 48.9 | 52.1 | 40.3 | 68.9 |
| 11 |
Yale University
|
🇺🇸 United States | 54.8 | 45.7 | 45.5 | 59.7 | 58.0 | 35.9 | 62.3 |
| 12 |
University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA)
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🇺🇸 United States | 52.2 | 27.7 | 43.4 | 57.7 | 51.5 | 30.1 | 72.2 |
| 13 |
Cornell University
(CU)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 50.8 | 38.7 | 51.3 | 54.9 | 47.0 | 37.2 | 55.5 |
| 14 |
University of Pennsylvania
|
🇺🇸 United States | 50.5 | 33.4 | 34.9 | 57.9 | 49.3 | 37.0 | 67.9 |
| 15 |
University of California San Diego
(UCSD)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 49.6 | 20.3 | 36.6 | 60.3 | 52.8 | 34.1 | 64.0 |
| 16 |
University of Washington
(UW)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 48.4 | 22.4 | 32.5 | 55.1 | 51.2 | 27.2 | 71.3 |
| 17 |
Johns Hopkins University
(JHU)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 47.4 | 39.9 | 34.6 | 42.2 | 49.9 | 28.3 | 69.5 |
| 18 |
University of California, San Francisco
(UCSF)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 46.6 | 0.0 | 41.2 | 53.7 | 54.1 | 33.1 | 60.6 |
| 19 |
University of Wisconsin–Madison
(UW)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 45.4 | 32.5 | 35.9 | 52.1 | 39.8 | 24.7 | 64.2 |
| 20 |
The University of Tokyo
(UT)
|
🇯🇵 Japan | 43.8 | 32.5 | 14.6 | 42.5 | 52.0 | 27.7 | 73.7 |
| 21 |
University College London
(UCL)
|
🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 43.7 | 29.7 | 30.4 | 39.6 | 44.6 | 30.8 | 67.1 |
| 22 |
University of Michigan
(UM)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 43.4 | 33.9 | 0.0 | 60.5 | 44.6 | 24.8 | 76.2 |
| 23 |
ETH Zurich
|
🇨🇭 Switzerland | 43.3 | 31.2 | 36.6 | 36.7 | 44.6 | 45.6 | 53.9 |
| 24 |
Imperial College London
|
🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 42.4 | 15.3 | 36.9 | 41.6 | 39.6 | 35.6 | 62.5 |
| 25 |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
(UIUC)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 41.9 | 31.6 | 37.4 | 43.3 | 36.9 | 27.8 | 56.1 |
| 26 |
Kyoto University
|
🇯🇵 Japan | 41.3 | 31.2 | 35.1 | 38.9 | 36.4 | 23.0 | 63.0 |
| 27 |
University of Toronto
|
🇨🇦 Canada | 40.8 | 21.0 | 17.7 | 39.0 | 38.4 | 27.0 | 79.1 |
| 27 |
New York University
(NYU)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 40.8 | 29.7 | 32.9 | 42.2 | 41.0 | 22.6 | 55.7 |
| 29 |
University of Minnesota
|
🇺🇸 United States | 39.7 | 27.7 | 16.8 | 51.1 | 33.5 | 24.9 | 65.0 |
| 30 |
Northwestern University
(NU)
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🇺🇸 United States | 38.8 | 16.3 | 22.8 | 48.5 | 37.9 | 26.4 | 58.1 |
| 31 |
Washington University in St. Louis
(WUSTL)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 37.6 | 19.6 | 25.7 | 39.0 | 43.7 | 24.7 | 52.1 |
| 32 |
Rockefeller University
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🇺🇸 United States | 37.0 | 18.0 | 61.6 | 28.9 | 41.8 | 36.0 | 20.2 |
| 33 |
University of Colorado Boulder
(UCB)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 36.6 | 13.3 | 31.6 | 39.6 | 39.9 | 31.8 | 44.1 |
| 34 |
University of California, Santa Barbara
(UCSB)
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🇺🇸 United States | 36.5 | 15.3 | 36.2 | 42.7 | 32.4 | 37.0 | 40.0 |
| 35 |
The University of Texas at Austin
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🇺🇸 United States | 35.8 | 17.1 | 16.8 | 45.7 | 34.6 | 24.9 | 56.0 |
| 36 |
Duke University
|
🇺🇸 United States | 35.2 | 16.3 | 0.0 | 46.5 | 42.1 | 22.3 | 62.7 |
| 38 |
University of Maryland, College Park
(UMD)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 34.7 | 20.3 | 20.6 | 41.5 | 31.9 | 25.9 | 51.7 |
| 39 |
University of British Columbia
(UBC)
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🇨🇦 Canada | 34.6 | 16.3 | 19.4 | 32.4 | 32.6 | 22.8 | 64.2 |
| 40 |
University of Manchester
|
🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 33.9 | 19.6 | 33.6 | 27.7 | 25.3 | 23.7 | 56.5 |
| 41 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(UNC)
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🇺🇸 United States | 33.5 | 9.4 | 16.8 | 39.6 | 30.8 | 22.9 | 59.2 |
| 42 |
Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6
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🇫🇷 France | 33.4 | 32.5 | 19.4 | 25.1 | 31.0 | 21.5 | 59.9 |
| 42 |
Karolinska Institutet
(KI)
|
🇸🇪 Sweden | 33.4 | 23.6 | 27.4 | 32.4 | 23.2 | 35.6 | 49.5 |
| 44 |
University of Copenhagen
(UCPH)
|
🇩🇰 Denmark | 33.1 | 23.0 | 19.4 | 25.9 | 29.3 | 32.3 | 58.6 |
| 45 |
University of California, Irvine
(UCI)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 32.2 | 0.0 | 30.2 | 36.9 | 29.5 | 26.6 | 46.4 |
| 46 |
University of Southern California
(USC)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 31.9 | 0.0 | 27.4 | 39.6 | 26.3 | 19.2 | 52.1 |
| 47 |
University of California, Davis
(UCD)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 31.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 47.3 | 33.9 | 25.3 | 60.4 |
| 49 |
Pennsylvania State University
(PSU)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 31.5 | 10.8 | 0.0 | 47.1 | 34.7 | 22.1 | 54.8 |
| 50 |
Vanderbilt University
|
🇺🇸 United States | 31.4 | 16.3 | 29.9 | 32.4 | 21.9 | 18.8 | 51.0 |
| 51 |
University of Edinburgh
|
🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 30.6 | 21.7 | 13.7 | 27.1 | 34.8 | 24.7 | 50.0 |
| 51 |
Carnegie Mellon University
(CMU)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 30.6 | 33.4 | 32.5 | 30.7 | 16.7 | 33.4 | 35.1 |