THES - QS World University Rankings 2006 - Top 200 Universities

THES - QS World University Rankings 2006 - Top 200. How do they compare to last year's rankings? And who is number one? Click the institute names to be directed to the profile of the chosen university.

RankSchool NameCountry
1 Harvard UniversityUnited States
2 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom
3 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom
4= Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States
4= Yale UniversityUnited States
6 Stanford UniversityUnited States
7 California Institute of TechnologyUnited States
8 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
9 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom
10 Princeton UniversityUnited States
11 University of ChicagoUnited States
12 Columbia UniversityUnited States
13 Duke UniversityUnited States
14 Peking UniversityChina
15 Cornell UniversityUnited States
16 Australian National UniversityAustralia
17 London School of Economics and Political...United Kingdom
18 Ecole Normale SupérieureFrance
19= National University of SingaporeSingapore
19= University of TokyoJapan
21 McGill UniversityCanada
22 University of MelbourneAustralia
23 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
24 ETH ZurichSwitzerland
25 University College London (UCL)United Kingdom
26 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States
27 University of TorontoCanada
28 Tsing Hua UniversityChina
29= University of MichiganUnited States
29= Kyoto UniversityJapan
31 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States
32 University of Texas at AustinUnited States
33= University of Hong KongHong Kong
33= University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom
35= University of SydneyAustralia
35= Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States
37 École PolytechniqueFrance
38 Monash UniversityAustralia
39 University of GenevaSwitzerland
40 University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom
41 University of New South WalesAustralia
42 Northwestern UniversityUnited States
43 New York UniversityUnited States
44 University of California, San DiegoUnited States
45 University of QueenslandAustralia
46= King's College LondonUnited Kingdom
46= University of AucklandNew Zealand
48= Washington University in St. LouisUnited States
48= University of RochesterUnited States
50= Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong
50= University of British ColombiaCanada
52 Sciences Po ParisFrance
53 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States
54= Brown UniversityUnited States
54= University of CopenhagenDenmark
56 Emory UniversityUnited States
57 Indian Institute of TechnologyIndia
58= Hong Kong University of Science & Techno...Hong Kong
58= Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergGermany
60 Case Western Reserve UniversityUnited States
61= Dartmouth CollegeUnited States
61= Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore
63 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea
64= University of BristolUnited Kingdom
64= Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne...Switzerland
66 Boston UniversityUnited States
67 Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands
68 Indian Institute of ManagementIndia
69 University of AmsterdamNetherlands
70= Osaka UniversityJapan
70= School of Oriental and African StudiesUnited Kingdom
72 Ecole Normale Supérieure LyonFrance
73 University of WarwickUnited Kingdom
74 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico
75 University of BaselSwitzerland
76 Catholic University of LouvainBelgium
77 University of IllinoisUnited States
78 University of Dublin, Trinity CollegeIreland
79= University of OtagoNew Zealand
79= University of WisconsinUnited States
81 University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom
82= Technische Universität MünchenGermany
82= Macquarie UniversityAustralia
84 University of WashingtonUnited States
85 University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom
86 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands
87 University of ViennaAustria
88 University of PittsburghUnited States
89 University of LausanneSwitzerland
90= Leiden UniversityNetherlands
90= University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom
92 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands
93= Université Pierre-et-Marie-CurieFrance
93= Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia
95 Utrecht UniversityNetherlands
96 Catholic University of LeuvenBelgium
97 Wageningen UniversityNetherlands
98 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany
99= Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States
99= Queen Mary, University of LondonUnited Kingdom
101 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States
102= University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom
102= Georgetown UniversityUnited States
102= Rice UniversityUnited States
105= University of AdelaideAustralia
105= Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany
105= University of SussexUnited Kingdom
108 National Taiwan UniversityTaiwan
109= University of ZurichSwitzerland
109= University of St AndrewsUnited Kingdom
111= Wake Forest UniversityUnited States
111= University of Western AustraliaAustralia
111= Uppsala UniversitySweden
111= University of MarylandUnited States
115 University of TwenteNetherlands
116= Fudan UniversityChina
116= University of HelsinkiFinland
118 Tokyo Institute of TechnologyJapan
119 Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael
120 Keio UniversityJapan
120* Université libre de BruxellesBelgium
121 University of LeedsUnited Kingdom
122 Lund UniversitySweden
123 University of North CarolinaUnited States
124= University of YorkUnited Kingdom
124= University of Massachusetts, AmherstUnited States
126 University of AarhusDenmark
127 Purdue UniversityUnited States
128= Kyushu UniversityJapan
128= Nagoya UniversityJapan
130= University of VirginiaUnited States
130= Tufts UniversityUnited States
132 Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom
133= Hokkaido UniversityJapan
133= University of Newcastle upon TyneUnited Kingdom
133= Vrije University BrusselsBelgium
133= University of AlbertaCanada
137 Radboud Universiteit NijmegenNetherlands
138 Vienna University of TechnologyAustria
139 University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom
140 Cranfield UniversityUnited Kingdom
141= University of GhentBelgium
141= University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States
141= University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom
141= Cardiff UniversityUnited Kingdom
145 Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States
146 RMIT UniversityAustralia
147= Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael
147= Chalmers University of TechnologySweden
149 Freie Universität BerlinGermany
150= Korea UniversitySouth Korea
150= Texas A&M UniversityUnited States
152 University of Notre DameUnited States
153 University of BathUnited Kingdom
154 City University of Hong KongHong Kong
155 McMaster UniversityCanada
156= Universität GöttingenGermany
156= Curtin University of TechnologyAustralia
158= Universität UlmGermany
158= Technion - Israel Institute of Technolog...Israel
158= Waseda UniversityJapan
161= Chulalongkorn UniversityThailand
161= Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg IFrance
163 Michigan State UniversityUnited States
164 Saint-Petersburg State UniversityRussia
165= Université libre de BruxellesBelgium
165= State University of New York at Stony Br...United States
165= University of Science and Technology of ...China
168= Tohoku UniversityJapan
168= George Washington UniversityUnited States
170= University of California, DavisUnited States
170= Universität TübingenGermany
172= Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochsc...Germany
172= Royal Institute of TechnologySweden
172= University of MaastrichtNetherlands
172= Yeshiva UniversityUnited States
176 Queen's UniversityCanada
177 University of OsloNorway
178 University of BernSwitzerland
179 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina
180 Nanjing UniversityChina
181= University of MontrealCanada
181= Kobe UniversityJapan
183= Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityIndia
183= Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands
185 Universiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaMalaysia
186 University of InnsbruckAustria
187= Brandeis UniversityUnited States
187= University of MinnesotaUnited States
187= Universität Frankfurt am MainGermany
190= University of BarcelonaSpain
190= University of ReadingUnited Kingdom
192= Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia
192= University of MalayaMalaysia
194 Technical University of DenmarkDenmark
195 University of AberdeenUnited Kingdom
196 University of WollongongAustralia
197 Università degli Studi di Roma - La Sapi...Italy
198= University of California, IrvineUnited States
198= Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Te...South Korea
200 Universite Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)France
*Due to misinterpretation of supplied data, the published position at 165= of the Université Libre de Bruxelles was incorrect and the accurate position of 120 is reflected in this table. The originally published positions of any between 120 and 164 have been retained.

Source: THES - QS World University Rankings
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