QS World University Rankings by Subject 2012 - Modern Languages

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Rankings

QS Rank	QS Rank	School Name	Country	Overall	Academic Reputation The Academic Reputation Index is the centrepiece of the QS World University Rankings® carrying a weighting of 40%. It is an approach to international university evaluation that QS pioneered in 2004 and is the component that attracts the greatest interest and scrutiny. In concert with the Employer Reputation Index it is the aspect which sets this ranking most clearly apart from any other.	Employer Reputation The QS Global Employer Survey has seen a dramatic increase in response in 2012 from 17,000 in 2011 to over 25,500 in 2012. Growth has been seen worldwide but nowhere more profoundly than in Latin America, where a campaign conducted in Spanish met with great success. Responses are closely scrutinized and weighted to eliminate biases that may result from disproportionate response levels.
1	1	Harvard University	United States	98.00	100	93.3
2	2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	95.70	95.8	95.4
3	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	94.80	95.3	93.7
4	4	Yale University	United States	92.60	95.2	86.4
5	5	Princeton University	United States	90.40	92.6	85.3
6	6	Peking University	China	90.20	90	90.7
7	7	University of Toronto	Canada	89.90	93	82.7
8	8	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	89.10	92.6	80.8
9	9	University of Chicago	United States	88.30	89.9	84.6
10	10	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	87.70	88.6	85.5
11	11	Stanford University	United States	87.40	88	86
12	12	Yonsei University	South Korea	86.70	88.8	81.7
13	13	Columbia University	United States	85.30	86.6	82.3
14	14	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	84.60	86.9	79.3
15	15	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong S.A.R., China	84.40	84.6	84
16	16	University of Michigan	United States	84.00	87.6	75.6
17	17	New York University (NYU)	United States	83.90	85.9	79.3
18	18	Australian National University	Australia	83.10	84.3	80.2
19	19	The University of Tokyo	Japan	83.10	80.9	88.2
20	20=	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	82.70	80.4	88
21	21	McGill University	Canada	82.70	84.5	78.5
22	22	University of British Columbia	Canada	82.20	85.9	73.6
23	23	Seoul National University	South Korea	81.80	80.9	84
24	24	Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)	France	81.30	86	70.2
25	25	The University of Melbourne	Australia	81.20	80.2	83.4
26	26	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	80.30	81.9	76.4
27	27	The University of Sydney	Australia	80.20	80.3	80.1
28	28	University of Pennsylvania	United States	80.10	80.7	78.8
29	29	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	80.00	82.5	74.1
29	29=	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	80.00	82.5	74.1
30	30	Korea University	South Korea	80.00	78.7	83
31	29=	National Chengchi University	Taiwan	80.00	87.4	62.6
32	32	University of Bologna	Italy	78.90	79.9	76.4
33	33	Duke University	United States	78.80	79.4	77.3
34	34	Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies	South Korea	78.70	69.5	100
35	35=	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	78.40	83.8	65.8
36	36	Waseda University	Japan	78.40	77.4	80.6
37	37	Kyoto University	Japan	77.80	76.4	81.1
38	38	Tokyo University of Science	Japan	77.70	70.6	94.3
39	39	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	77.60	80.9	70
40	40	Fudan University	China	77.40	72.6	88.7
41	41	Beijing Foreign Studies University	China	77.20	80.7	69.1
42	42=	Brown University	United States	77.10	79.2	72.3
43	42=	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong S.A.R., China	77.10	80.5	69
44	44	Cornell University	United States	77.00	76.5	78.1
45	45	Tsinghua University	China	76.90	73.4	85.1
46	46	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	76.60	73.4	84.2
47	47	University of Texas at Austin	United States	76.50	78.4	72.2
48	48=	Georgetown University	United States	76.10	77.8	72.1
49	48=	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	76.10	79.9	67.2
50	50	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Argentina	75.90	75.1	77.6
51	51- 100	Aarhus University	Denmark	0.00	62.4	76.3
52	51 - 100	Beihang University (former BUAA)	China		72.3	72.5
53	51- 100	Beijing Normal University	China	0.00	71.1	61.1
54	51 - 100	Boston University	United States		64.6	78.2
55	51 - 100	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong S.A.R., China		65.3	70
56	51 - 100	East China Normal University	China		69.6	83.3
57	51- 100	Ewha Womans University	South Korea	0.00	65.8	84.2
58	51- 100	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	0.00	78.2	54.5
59	51- 100	Johns Hopkins University	United States	0.00	75	63.6
60	51 - 100	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium		68.2	67.8
61	51- 100	Kyung Hee University	South Korea	0.00	66	88.7
62	51 - 100	Leiden University	Netherlands		72	65
63	51- 100	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	0.00	80.2	62
64	51- 100	Michigan State University	United States	0.00	68.2	69.3
65	51- 100	Monash University	Australia	0.00	72.2	82.2
66	51- 100	National Cheng Kung University	Taiwan	0.00	67.5	77.6
67	51- 100	National Chiao Tung University	Taiwan	0.00	70	61.3
68	51- 100	National Taiwan Normal University	Taiwan	0.00	80.3	42.4
69	51 - 100	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan		77.6	70.2
70	51- 100	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	0.00	79	59.1
71	51- 100	Pennsylvania State University	United States	0.00	66.9	71.5
72	51- 100	SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London	United Kingdom	0.00	76.3	57.4
73	51- 100	Stockholm University	Sweden	0.00	70.8	72.9
74	51- 100	Sungkyunkwan University	South Korea	0.00	65.4	69.9
75	51 - 100	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong S.A.R., China		76.7	48.3
76	51 - 100	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong S.A.R., China		65.1	70.9
77	51- 100	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	0.00	70.1	75.8
78	51- 100	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	0.00	67.5	77.4
79	51- 100	The University of Queensland	Australia	0.00	65	86.1
80	51- 100	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	0.00	72.1	78.1
81	51- 100	The University of Western Australia	Australia	0.00	65.3	71.8
82	51- 100	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	0.00	65.5	81.8
83	51- 100	University Complutense Madrid	Spain	0.00	69.9	63.7
84	51- 100	Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona	Spain	0.00	74.4	52.2
85	51- 100	University of Vienna	Austria	0.00	70.6	77.9
86	51 - 100	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium		66.5	82.8
87	51- 100	Université de Montréal	Canada	0.00	76.9	60.6
88	51- 100	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	France	0.00	64	77.7
89	51- 100	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	0.00	73.7	70.4
90	51- 100	University of Bergen	Norway	0.00	65.1	73.1
91	51 - 100	University of Bristol	United Kingdom		64.9	75.1
92	51 - 100	University of California, Irvine	United States		75.7	51.1
93	51- 100	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	0.00	71.1	74.2
94	51- 100	University of Helsinki	Finland	0.00	66.1	68.3
95	51 - 100	University of Oslo	Norway		66.8	71.2
96	51- 100	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	0.00	75.7	68.2
97	51- 100	University of York	United Kingdom	0.00	73.2	69.9
98	51- 100	Uppsala University	Sweden	0.00	64	74.6
99	51 - 100	Xiamen University	China		65.7	68.8
100	51- 100	Xi'an Jiaotong University	China	0.00	63	76
101	101 - 150	York University	Canada		76.3	66.9
102	101- 150	Charles University	Czech Republic	0.00	59.8	73.7
103	101- 150	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand	0.00	52.8	82.5
104	101- 150	Chungnam National University	South Korea	0.00	69.2	50.5
105	101- 150	Durham University	United Kingdom	0.00	61.9	69.9
106	101- 150	Ecole normale supérieure, Paris	France	0.00	69	46.8
107	101 - 150	Jagiellonian University	Poland		57.5	70.7
108	101- 150	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia	0.00	68.7	58.9
109	101- 150	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	0.00	59.5	81.2
110	101- 150	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	0.00	63	65.6
111	101 - 150	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia		63.2	68.9
112	101- 150	Lund University	Sweden	0.00	59.9	72.2
113	101- 150	Nanjing University	China	0.00	54.7	73.9
114	101- 150	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	0.00	55.8	77.3
115	101- 150	National Sun Yat-sen University	Taiwan	0.00	62.4	61
116	101- 150	Northwestern University	United States	0.00	59.1	71.5
117	101- 150	Ohio State University	United States	0.00	68.7	59.8
118	101- 150	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Chile	0.00	57.7	69.6
119	101- 150	Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC - Rio	Brazil	0.00	66	65.9
120	101- 150	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	0.00	67.9	58.3
121	101- 150	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	0.00	64.2	71.3
122	101- 150	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	0.00	50.8	85.4
123	101- 150	Sogang University	South Korea	0.00	59	83.4
124	101 - 150	Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM)	Mexico		63.2	74.2
125	101 - 150	The University of New South Wales	Australia		56.2	85.2
126	101- 150	Tohoku University	Japan	0.00	60.9	77.7
127	101 - 150	Universidade de São Paulo - USP	Brazil		54.8	76.9
128	101 - 150	Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)	Brazil		70	52.9
129	101- 150	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Brazil	0.00	60	71.6
130	101- 150	University of Milano	Italy	0.00	59	67.5
131	101- 150	University of Pisa	Italy	0.00	59.7	66.6
132	101- 150	University of Barcelona	Spain	0.00	63.2	54.6
133	101 - 150	Universität Frankfurt am Main	Germany		60.6	62.9
134	101- 150	Universität Hamburg	Germany	0.00	63.4	53.7
135	101- 150	Universität Konstanz	Germany	0.00	66.9	53
136	101 - 150	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	Belgium		61.9	71.2
137	101- 150	Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense	France	0.00	66.3	54.1
138	101 - 150	University College Cork	Ireland		58.9	73.7
139	101 - 150	University of Alberta	Canada		62.9	69.9
140	101- 150	University of Basel	Switzerland	0.00	64.6	52.6
141	101- 150	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	0.00	62.6	65.4
142	101 - 150	University of Cape Town	South Africa		61.3	68.1
143	101- 150	University of Delhi	India	0.00	62.4	67.5
144	101- 150	University of Geneva	Switzerland	0.00	67.8	51.7
145	101- 150	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	0.00	61.2	72.5
146	101- 150	University of Otago	New Zealand	0.00	59.4	68.2
147	101 - 150	University of Pittsburgh	United States		67.9	60.9
148	101 - 150	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom		59	66.4
149	101- 150	University of Tsukuba	Japan	0.00	63.6	65.6
150	101- 150	University of Zurich	Switzerland	0.00	67.4	60.5
151	151- 200	American University in Cairo	Egypt	0.00	58.2	64.2
152	151- 200	Cairo University	Egypt	0.00	61	56
153	151 - 200	Chung-Ang University	South Korea		59.2	59.1
154	151- 200	Dartmouth College	United States	0.00	53.6	68.6
155	151- 200	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	0.00	57.3	55.4
156	151 - 200	Hanyang University	South Korea		55.2	69.9
157	151- 200	Hitotsubashi University	Japan	0.00	52.7	75.5
158	151- 200	International Christian University	Japan	0.00	56.5	55.9
159	151- 200	Istanbul University	Turkey	0.00	64.7	40.5
160	151- 200	Jawaharlal Nehru University	India	0.00	64	48.9
161	151 - 200	Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz	Austria		56.3	66.7
162	151- 200	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	0.00	56.5	64.6
163	151- 200	National Chung Cheng University	Taiwan	0.00	84.3
164	151 - 200	National University of Colombia	Colombia		50.9	72.5
165	151 - 200	Osaka University	Japan		49.2	72.5
166	151- 200	Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUC -SP	Brazil	0.00	51	72.3
167	151- 200	Purdue University	United States	0.00	47.2	75.4
168	151- 200	Pusan National University	South Korea	0.00	55.7	57.3
169	151 - 200	Queen's University	Canada		54.1	71.4
170	151- 200	Renmin (People’s) University of China	China	0.00	49.7	72.2
171	151 - 200	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick	United States		65.1	40.6
172	151- 200	Sciences Po Paris	France	0.00	52.8	72.3
173	151- 200	Shandong University	China	0.00	55.6	57.4
174	151 - 200	Sophia University	Japan		51.4	69.8
175	151- 200	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	0.00	48.9	72.3
176	151 - 200	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom		55.8	65
177	151- 200	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	0.00	56.3	55.4
178	151- 200	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)	Mexico	0.00	59.4	59
179	151 - 200	Universidad de Santiago de Chile - USACH	Chile		60.1	60.1
180	151- 200	Universidad Nacional de Rosario	Argentina	0.00	49.8	73.8
181	151- 200	University of Padua	Italy	0.00	57	57.4
182	151- 200	Universität zu Köln	Germany	0.00	53.2	62.6
183	151- 200	University College Dublin	Ireland	0.00	53.6	74.9
184	151- 200	University of Antwerp	Belgium	0.00	58.6	56.8
185	151- 200	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	0.00	52.5	74.9
186	151- 200	University of Calgary	Canada	0.00	56.3	63.6
187	151 - 200	University of Ghent	Belgium		55.3	61.5
188	151 - 200	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom		53.8	71.4
189	151 - 200	University of Indonesia	Indonesia		43	87.9
190	151- 200	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	0.00	64.5	42.6
191	151- 200	University of Minnesota	United States	0.00	61	58.7
192	151- 200	University of Mumbai	India	0.00	52	65.5
193	151- 200	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	0.00	58.1	63.5
194	151 - 200	University of Victoria	Canada		64.7	35.1
195	151- 200	University of Virginia	United States	0.00	60.6	58.4
196	151- 200	University of Warsaw	Poland	0.00	58.5	62.5
197	151 - 200	Utrecht University	Netherlands		64.5	46.2
198	151- 200	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand	0.00	53.5	72.4
199	151- 200	Yarmouk University	Jordan	0.00	53.3	66.7
200	151- 200	Zhejiang University	China	0.00	49.7	80.4

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L	LARGE >= 12,000 students
M	MEDIUM >= 5,000 students
S	SMALL < 5,000 students

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LO	Limited or None

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