Thursday, November 8, 2007
2007 World University Rankings
The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) has published the 2007 World University Rankings. The methodology incorporates a number of variables, including the opinions of academics and of companies employing graduates, international student and staff numbers, and research. Here are the Top 50:
- Harvard University
- University of Cambridge
- University of Oxford
- Yale University
- Imperial College London
- Princeton University
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- University of Chicago
- UCL (University College London)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Columbia University
- McGill University
- Duke University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Johns Hopkins University
- Australian National University
- University of Tokyo
- University of Hong Kong
- Stanford University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Cornell University
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Edinburgh
- King's College London
- Kyoto University
- Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
- University of Melbourne
- École Polytechnique
- Northwestern University
- University of Manchester
- The University of Sydney
- Brown University
- University of British Columbia
- University of Queensland
- National University of Singapore
- Peking University
- University of Bristol
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- University of Michigan
- Tsinghua University
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
- Monash University
- University of New South Wales
- University of Toronto
- Osaka University
- Boston University
- University of Amsterdam
- New York University (NYU)
- The University of Auckland
For a critical view of these rankings, see International Ranking Systems for Universities and Institutions: A Critical Appraisal and University Rankings Don't Measure Up. For press coverage, see:
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2007/11/2007-world-univ.html
maybe a bit bias but we have to look at the transparency of the Ranking Methodology
Posted by: dean | Apr 30, 2008 5:20:08 AM