World's Top 100 Universities to choose from in 2012, as per THE & Reuters

by Ritu Chandna

Times Higher Education has released its ranking of 100 best universities of the world for the year 2012 today. Harvard stands grandiosely at Number 1 yet again in 2012.

According to data collected by Times Higher Education and Thomson Reuters, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Cambridge maintain a repeated lead in 2012 as well. University of California went a step back to No. 5 as against No. 4 last year and Stanford moved a ladder up at No. 4 in 2012.

University of Oxford, Princeton University and University of Tokyo stay consistent as No. 6, 7 and 8 yet again this time while Yale University moved one step down to No. 10 and University of California, LA took a lead three ladders up to No. 9.

Times Higher Education's basis of selection were 17,554 leading academics from 149 countries who rated campuses across the world on their research and teachings. It is interesting to know that in Times Higher Education's list of Top 50 universities, 60% of the universities are American, 12% belong to UK, Canadian and Australian are 6% and rest is spread across the globe.

You can check the entire list of 2012 Top 100 Universities of the world as rated by Times Higher Education in association with Thomson Reuters here.

2012 Rank	University	Country	2011 Rank
1	Harvard University	United States	1
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	2
3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	3
4	Stanford University	United States	5
5	University of California, Berkeley	United States	4
6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	6
7	Princeton University	United States	7
8	University of Tokyo	Japan	8
9	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	12
10	Yale University	United States	9
11	California Institute of Technology	United States	10
12	University of Michigan	United States	13
13	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	11
14	University of Chicago	United States	15
15	Columbia University	United States	23
16	Cornell University	United States	16
16	University of Toronto	Canada	17
18	Johns Hopkins University	United States	14
19	University of Pennsylvania	United States	22
20	Kyoto University	Japan	18
21	University College London	United Kingdom	19
22	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland	24
23	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	21
24	National University of Singapore	Singapore	27
25	University of British Columbia	Canada	31
25	McGill University	Canada	29
27	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	25
28	University of Washington	United States	26
29	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	37
30	Tsinghua University	China	35
31	University of California, San Francisco	United States	34
32	University of Texas at Austin	United States	31
33	Duke University	United States	36
34	New York University	United States	51-60
35	Northwestern University	United States	40
36	University of California, San Diego	United States	30
37	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	28
38	Peking University	China	43
39	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	42
39	University of Massachusetts	United States	19
41	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	39
42	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen	Germany	48
43	University of Melbourne	Australia	45
44	Australian National University	Australia	51-60
44	University of California, Davis	United States	38
46	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	41
47	Purdue University	United States	47
49	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	45
50	The University of Sydney	Australia	51-60
51-60	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	49
51-60	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	51-60
51-60	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	61-70
51-60	The Ohio State University	United States	51-60
51-60	Osaka University	Japan	50
51-60	Pennsylvania State University	United States	61-70
51-60	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	51-60
51-60	Seoul National University	Korea, Republic of	51-60
51-60	Tohoku University	Japan	51-60

51-60	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	51-60
61-70	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne	Switzerland	71-80
61-70	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	#N/A
61-70	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	91-100
61-70	Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin	Germany	71-80
61-70	King's College London	United Kingdom	61-70
61-70	Technische Universitat Munchen	Germany	61-70
61-70	University of Pittsburgh	United States	51-60
61-70	University of Sao Paulo	Brazil	#N/A
61-70	University of Southern California	United States	71-80
61-70	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	81-90
71-80	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	81-90
71-80	Universitat Heidelberg	Germany	81-90
71-80	Michigan State University	United States	71-80
71-80	Universite Paris-Sorbonne	France	#N/A
71-80	The University of Queensland Australia	Australia	81-90
71-80	Texas A&M University	United States	81-90
71-80	Uppsala University	Sweden	61-70
71-80	Utrecht University	Netherlands	71-80
71-80	Washington University in St Louis	United States	71-80
71-80	University of Zurich	Switzerland	61-70
81-90	Brown University	United States	#N/A
81-90	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	#N/A
81-90	University of Florida	United States	61-70
81-90	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	81-90
81-90	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Korea, Republic of	91-100
81-90	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	81-90
81-90	Leiden University	Netherlands	81-90
81-90	Lund University	Sweden	71-80
81-90	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	91-100
81-90	Tel Aviv University	Israel	#N/A
91-100	University of Arizona	United States	71-80
91-100	Boston University	United States	61-70
91-100	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	81-90
91-100	Ecole Polytechnique	France	61-70
91-100	Indiana University	United States	81-90
91-100	Middle East Technical University	Turkey	#N/A
91-100	Universite Paris-Sud	France	#N/A
91-100	Universite Pierre et Marie Curie	France	#N/A
91-100	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	United States	71-80
91-100	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands	#N/A

Source: TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION, THOMSON REUTERS

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kamlesh chouhan – Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:13:48 -0000

i want to study in abroad like usa, uk but not get the chance and dont know how to apply$?

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Mohamed911133 – Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:33:51 -0000

I am interesting and eager to get higher Education in USA colleges as soon as possible specially i am in africa so i need to assisted by American Universities.

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