From UP Vice President Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo: UP did not participate in the THES-QS university rankings

In the 2008 university rankings recently released by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), only the University of the Philippines and the Ateneo de Manila University (among Philippine universities) made it to the top 400. UP rose from 398 in 2007 to 276 this year; Ateneo rose from 401-500 to 254. De La Salle was ranked 415th and UST was ranked 470th.

According to UP Vice President for Public Affairs Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, UP President Emerlinda R. Roman did not receive any invitation to participate in the survey this year or any questionnaire to answer. What President Roman received was an email message from QS Asia Quacquarelli Symonds’ Regional Director (Asia Pacific), Mandy Mok, informing her that UP had “gone up in the rankings.”

Since UP had not been invited to participate in the survey and had not provided any data, UP officials do not know where and how the figures were obtained on which the ranking was based.

Hidalgo revealed that the message also contained this statement: “In view of the good news, would you like to consider signing up the following at a very attractive package price?” The “package price,” which includes a banner on topuniversities.com, a full page full color ad in Top Universities Guide 2009, and a booth at Top Universities Fair 2009, amounts to $48,930.

“UP can hardly be expected to spend more than 2 million pesos on publicity for itself involving a survey conducted by an organization that refuses to divulge where it obtains its data,” Hidalgo said.

In 2007, UP was invited to participate in the survey, but when THES-QS refused to explain where it obtained the data used to determine UP’s rank in the 2006 survey (where UP was ranked No. 299), university officials decided not to accept the invitation to participate in the 2007 survey. Moreover, the university was given barely a week to respond to the questionnaire.

UP wrote THES-QS in July 2007, informing them of this decision, and again in September 2007, requesting the organization to respect UP’s decision. In response, research assistant Saad Shabir wrote back saying that if it did not receive the information it would be “forced to use last year’s data or some form of average.”

These rankings are supposedly meant to serve as “the definitive guide to universities around the world which truly excel.” In evaluating institutions it computes half of the index based on its reputation as perceived by academics (peer review 40%) and global employers (recruiter review 10%). Since it does not specify who are surveyed or what questions are asked, the methodology is problematic.

An earlier statement, released by UP in August this year, and carried by several national dailies, said: “Even peers require standardized input data to review. But according to the International Ranking Systems for Universities and Institutions: A Critical Appraisal, published by BioMed Central, the Times simply asks 190,000 ‘experts’ to list what they regard as the top 30 universities in their field of expertise without providing input data on any performance indicators (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/5/30). Moreover, the survey response rate among selected experts was found to be below 1%. In other words, on the basis of possible selection biases alone, the validity of the measurement is shaky.”

According to the statement, the other half of the index is based on such indicators as student-to faculty ratio, the number of foreign faculty and students in the university, and the number of academic works by university researchers that have been cited internationally. “Data for these indicators, however, typically depend on the information that participating institutions submit. An institution’s index may be easily distorted if it fails to submit data for the pertinent indicators, or if it chooses not to participate.”

As Dr. Leticia Peñano-Ho said in an article carried by the UP Forum last year: “The crux of the matter is to identify the indices that can approximate the different landscapes of universities. There might be a need to relate these indicators to the unversities’ mission statements. UP’s constituents can identify their own indicators and decide on their desirability, relevance and reliability. These criteria should, as an added value, provide international comparisons.”

Friday, October 17, 2008

2008 world's top 200 universities

Times Higher: World University Rankings

2008 Rank	2007 Rank	Institution name	Country
Source: QS Quacquarelli Symonds (www.topuniversities.com) Copyright © 2004-2008 QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. Click here for copyright and limitations on use.
1	1	HARVARD University	United States
2	2=	YALE University	United States
3	2=	University of CAMBRIDGE	United Kingdom
4	2=	University of OXFORD	United Kingdom
5	7=	CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States
6	5	IMPERIAL College London	United Kingdom
7	9	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom
8	7=	University of CHICAGO	United States
9	10	MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
10	11	COLUMBIA University	United States
11	14	University of PENNSYLVANIA	United States
12	6	PRINCETON University	United States
13=	13	DUKE University	United States
13=	15	JOHNS HOPKINS University	United States
15	20=	CORNELL University	United States
16	16	AUSTRALIAN National University	Australia
17	19	STANFORD University	United States
18	38=	University of MICHIGAN	United States
19	17	University of TOKYO	Japan
20	12	MCGILL University	Canada
21	20=	CARNEGIE MELLON University	United States
22	24	KING'S College London	United Kingdom
23	23	University of EDINBURGH	United Kingdom
24	42	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland
25	25	KYOTO University	Japan
26	18	University of HONG KONG	Hong Kong
27	32	BROWN University	United States
28	26	École Normale Supérieure, PARIS	France
29	30	University of MANCHESTER	United Kingdom
30=	41	University of CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States
30=	33=	National University of SINGAPORE	Singapore
32	37	University of BRISTOL	United Kingdom
33	29	NORTHWESTERN University	United States
34=	33=	University of BRITISH COLUMBIA	Canada
34=	28	ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE	France
36	22	University of California, BERKELEY	United States
37	31	The University of SYDNEY	Australia
38	27	The University of MELBOURNE	Australia
39	53=	HONG KONG University of Science & Technology	Hong Kong
40	49	NEW YORK University (NYU)	United States
41	45	University of TORONTO	Canada
42	38=	The CHINESE University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
43	33=	University of QUEENSLAND	Australia
44	46	OSAKA University	Japan
45	44	University of NEW SOUTH WALES	Australia
46	47	BOSTON University	United States
47	43	MONASH University	Australia
48	93=	University of COPENHAGEN	Denmark
49	53=	TRINITY College Dublin	Ireland
50=	117=	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LAUSANNE	Switzerland
50=	36	PEKING University	China
50=	51=	SEOUL National University	Korea, South
53	48	University of AMSTERDAM	Netherlands
54	71=	DARTMOUTH College	United States
55	55=	University of WISCONSIN-Madison	United States
56	40	TSINGHUA University	China
57	60	HEIDELBERG Universität	Germany
58	58	University of CALIFORNIA, San Diego	United States
59	55=	University of WASHINGTON	United States
60	161=	WASHINGTON University in St. Louis	United States
61	90=	TOKYO Institute of Technology	Japan
62	74=	EMORY University	United States
63	71=	UPPSALA University	Sweden
64	84	LEIDEN University	Netherlands
65	50	The University of AUCKLAND	New Zealand
66	59	LONDON School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
67	89	UTRECHT University	Netherlands
68	105	University of GENEVA	Switzerland
69	57	University of WARWICK	United Kingdom
70	51=	University of TEXAS at Austin	United States
71	73	University of ILLINOIS	United States
72	61	Katholieke Universiteit LEUVEN	Belgium
73	83	University of GLASGOW	United Kingdom
74	97=	University of ALBERTA	Canada
75	65=	University of BIRMINGHAM	United Kingdom
76	68	University of SHEFFIELD	United Kingdom
77	69	NANYANG Technological University	Singapore
78=	63	DELFT University of Technology	Netherlands
78=	67	Technische Universität MÜNCHEN	Germany
78=	92	RICE University	United States
81=	114=	University of AARHUS	Denmark
81=	74=	University of YORK	United Kingdom
83=	97=	GEORGIA Institute of Technology	United States
83=	76	University of ST ANDREWS	United Kingdom
83=	64	The University of WESTERN AUSTRALIA	Australia
86	70	University of NOTTINGHAM	United Kingdom
87	142=	University of MINNESOTA	United States
88	106	LUND University	Sweden
89	96	University of CALIFORNIA, Davis	United States
90	85=	CASE WESTERN RESERVE University	United States
91=	100	University of HELSINKI	Finland
91=	93=	Université de Montréal	Canada
93=	128	Hebrew University of JERUSALEM	Israel
93=	65=	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (MUNICH)	Germany
95	132=	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	Korea, South
96	110	University of VIRGINIA	United States
97	77=	University of PITTSBURGH	United States
98	117=	University of CALIFORNIA, Santa Barbara	United States
99=	77=	PURDUE University	United States
99=	80=	University of SOUTHAMPTON	United Kingdom
101	82	VANDERBILT University	United States
102=	151=	University of NORTH CAROLINA	United States
102=	119	University of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA	United States
104	80=	University of LEEDS	United Kingdom
105	90=	PENNSYLVANIA STATE University	United States
106=	62	University of ADELAIDE	Australia
106=	140=	University of ZURICH	Switzerland
108	177=	University College DUBLIN	Ireland
109	231=	TECHNION - Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
110	102=	GEORGETOWN University	United States
111	111	MAASTRICHT University	Netherlands
112	102=	TOHOKU University	Japan
113	85=	FUDAN University	China
114	151=	TEL AVIV University	Israel
115	85=	University of VIENNA	Austria
116	123	Université catholique de LOUVAIN (UCL)	Belgium
117=	108	MCMASTER University	Canada
117=	88	QUEEN'S University	Canada
119	95	University of ROCHESTER	United States
120	112=	NAGOYA University	Japan
121	120	OHIO STATE University	United States
122=	109	DURHAM University	United Kingdom
122=	79	University of MARYLAND	United States
124=	114=	University of OTAGO	New Zealand
124=	102=	National TAIWAN University	Taiwan
126	163=	ERASMUS University Rotterdam	Netherlands
127	224	STONY BROOK University	United States
128	130=	EINDHOVEN University of Technology	Netherlands
129	112=	University of WATERLOO	Canada
130	121	University of SUSSEX	United Kingdom
131	114=	University of BASEL	Switzerland
132	140=	University of CALIFORNIA, Irvine	United States
133=	99	CARDIFF University	United Kingdom
133=	130=	Technical University of DENMARK	Denmark
133=	101	University of LIVERPOOL	United Kingdom
136	124	University of GHENT	Belgium
137=	146	Freie Universität BERLIN	Germany
137=	122	TEXAS A&M University	United States
139	126=	HUMBOLDT-Universität zu Berlin	Germany
140	157	Ecole normale supérieure de LYON	France
141	155=	University of Science and Technology of CHINA	China
142	148	WAGENINGEN University	Netherlands
143	125	NANJING University	China
144=	173=	University of GRONINGEN	Netherlands
144=	163=	SHANGHAI JIAO TONG University	China
146	134	University of ARIZONA	United States
147=	149=	CITY University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
147=	144	Universität FREIBURG	Germany
149	132=	Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie PARIS VI	France
150	192=	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico
151	177=	RUTGERS, The State University of New Jersey	United States
152	145	University of BATH	United Kingdom
153	137=	University of ABERDEEN	United Kingdom
154	307=	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	India
155=	304=	VU University AMSTERDAM	Netherlands
155=	142=	Eberhard Karls Universität TÜBINGEN	Germany
157	159=	TUFTS University	United States
158	136	KYUSHU University	Japan
159	126=	The University of WESTERN ONTARIO	Canada
160	149=	QUEEN MARY, University of London	United Kingdom
161	217	University of LAUSANNE	Switzerland
162=	197=	CHALMERS University of Technology	Sweden
162=	129	NEWCASTLE University, NEWCASTLE Upon Tyne	United Kingdom
164	139	SIMON FRASER University	Canada
165	135	University of FLORIDA	United States
166=	223	CHULALONGKORN University	Thailand
166=	168=	Universität GÖTTINGEN	Germany
168	155=	University of NOTRE DAME	United States
169	209=	Universität FRANKFURT am Main	Germany
170=	166=	University of CALGARY	Canada
170=	137=	INDIANA University Bloomington	United States
170=	147	University of LANCASTER	United Kingdom
173	192=	KTH, ROYAL Institute of Technology	Sweden
174=	151=	HOKKAIDO University	Japan
174=	269	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India
174=	191	RENSSELAER Polytechnic Institute	United States
177=	185=	University of LEICESTER	United Kingdom
177=	188=	University of OSLO	Norway
179	200=	University of CAPE TOWN	South Africa
180=	107	University of COLORADO at Boulder	United States
180=	180=	WASEDA University	Japan
182	168=	MACQUARIE University	Australia
183=	154	Université Libre de BRUXELLES (ULB)	Belgium
183=	231=	Lomonosov MOSCOW STATE University	Russia
185	208	BRANDEIS University	United States
186=	194	University of BARCELONA	Spain
186=	188=	University of CANTERBURY	New Zealand
188=	203=	Technische Universität BERLIN	Germany
188=	233	POHANG University of Science and Technology	Korea, South
190	165	Universität STUTTGART	Germany
191	175=	University of MASSACHUSETTS, Amherst	United States
192=	214	University of BERN	Switzerland
192=	173=	University of BOLOGNA	Italy
194	180=	University of READING	United Kingdom
195	187	University of ANTWERP	Belgium
196	175=	University of SAO PAULO	Brazil
197=	264=	University of BUENOS AIRES	Argentina
197=	221=	DALHOUSIE University	Canada
199	197=	KOBE University	Japan
200=	248=	University of ATHENS	Greece
200=	185=	University of TWENTE	Netherlands

r.p. universities get low rankings; la salle, u.s.t. dropped out of top 500 by felipe f. salvosa II (businessworld)

MANILA, Philippines - In a country where diplomas are displayed prominently in living rooms and name plates bearing professional credentials hang outside homes for neighbors to see, degree holders who have spent a fortune on their college educations will be dismayed to find out that Philippine universities do not fare well in global rankings.

Only four Philippine universities out of the country’s more than 2,000 higher education institutions have produced flickers on the global radar screen - state-run University of the Philippines (UP) and three Catholic schools: Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University, and the University of Santo Tomas (UST).

But in the latest global Top 500 ranking, only two universities remain in the elite circle: UP, which fell to 398th in 2007 from 299th in 2006, and Jesuit-run Ateneo, which rose to 451st from 484th. La Salle and UST have dropped out of the Top 500, ranking 519th and 535th, respectively.

In measuring quality, the yearly survey by The Times Higher Education Supplement and consultancy Quacquarelli Symonds (THES-QS) relies on ratings by "peers" and job recruiters as well as indicators like student-to-faculty ratio, the presence of foreign faculty and students, and whether university researchers have been cited internationally.

Much importance is placed on ratings given by peers (who are not allowed to vote for their own universities), which have a weight of 40%, followed by student-to-faculty ratio (20%), citations per faculty (20%), "graduate employability" through the recruiter review (10%), and international faculty and students (5% each).

In a field where number one Harvard University scored 100 and Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale universities were almost perfect, UP scored 34.7 and Ateneo, 30.8. La Salle and UST tallied 23.9 and 20.8, respectively.

Comparing Philippine universities to the Ivy League may be foolhardy, but the problem is that Indonesian, Indian, Thai, and Malaysian universities also rank better.

Thailand and Malaysia have five universities in the Top 500. India has eight on the list. Indonesia has three, all of them higher than UP: Gadjah Mada University (360th), Bandung Institute of Technology (369th), and the University of Indonesia (395th). Thailand’s prestigious Chulalongkorn is way up at 299th.

Another ranking by a Chinese think-tank attached to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University does not have Philippine universities in the top 500. This survey is tougher: universities must have Nobel Prize winners, Fields medals for mathematicians, highly cited researchers, or articles in Nature or Science. Not surprisingly, Japanese, Israeli, and Australian schools dominate that list.

There are other rankings with entirely different methodologies. The "Webometrics" ranking by a Spanish research body, which measures a university’s Internet presence and the volume of research output freely accessible online, has UP and La Salle dominating other local universities.

Last year, the École des Mines de Paris ranked each university according to the number of alumni who are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. In Asia, only Japanese, Indian, Korean, and Chinese universities made it to the list.

With school prides hurt, the rankings have generated much debate. Some Internet blogs and forums are devoted to attacking their methodologies.

Catholic universities say that working to improve their showing in the THES-QS indicators might not be in keeping with their avowed missions.

Ateneo de Manila President Bienvenido F. Nebres, S.J., for instance, has declared that the university’s priority is producing a new generation of leaders who will be "at the service of others."

Ateneo may have become the top private university in the Philippines based on the THES-QS survey, but the global ranking is something it would rather not promote in official brochures.

The university’s associate dean for academic affairs, Eduardo Jose E. Calasanz, said: "We see the survey from two points of views. We see it as a way to improve ourselves and at the same time it tells us not to bow down to the criteria of the other institutions."

"The problem with the Times survey is that there is a different set of priorities. For instance, they put more premium in internationalization and research but for us, we give more priority on national development.

"The survey does not speak of the entirety of the quality of a certain school because each school has its own set of criteria and mission and vision. Moreover, a university should be judged based on its discipline," he said.

Jose Mari S. Magpayo, executive director of La Salle-Manila’s Marketing Communication Office, said: "It is hard to gauge the impact of rankings as the methodology and criteria change year after year."

La Salle, which ranked higher than Ateneo in the 2006 THES-QS listing, acknowledges that being in the Top 500 would be good "from a marketing standpoint."

"[But] at the end of the day ... we should ask ourselves: ’Who is conducting the survey? What methodology has been employed? What is the purpose of the survey? What is it measuring?’ These surveys are useful for us to know how others perceive us," he said.

Locally, these schools are way ahead of the pack. La Salle enjoys the distinction of being the first private academic institution to receive the rare Level 4 status - the highest level given by a private accreditation body. Most other schools are only Level 3.

Ateneo is also at Level 4. Eleven academic programs have been declared by the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) as "centers of excellence" or COEs while two are "centers of development" or CODs. Ateneo’s John Gokongwei School of Management was the first to be declared a business and entrepreneurship COE among over a thousand business schools nationwide.

La Salle has 11 COEs and four CODs. As a perk, these programs receive state grants for scholarships, faculty development, library and laboratory upgrading, and research, among others.

Not counting UP, which has the lion’s share of COEs and CODs at more than 50, the country’s top private universities have the biggest number of these centers entitled to state aid.

At school opening ceremonies last week, the UST rector, Fr. Rolando V. de la Rosa, O.P., noted that among private universities, UST had consistently obtained the highest average passing rates in board exams and the most number of CHEd centers of excellence and development (17), even without state subsidies.

In a report released by the CHEd and the Professional Regulation Commission last year, UP-Diliman and UST were the top schools in terms of average passing rates in board exams from 1999 to 2005. The rest of the top 10 are Saint Louis University of Baguio City, UP-Los Baños, Xavier University of Cagayan de Oro, Ateneo de Davao University, Ateneo de Manila, Siliman University, University of San Carlos, and Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology.

Marilyn C. Mabini, assistant to the rector for planning and development, said the nearly 400-year-old UST is still competitive "globally especially in the area of health sciences." Enrolment levels may also indicate which schools are perceived by the market as offering quality education, she said.

Despite expensive tuitions, Catholic universities still enjoy a large student population. La Salle has more than 13,000 and Ateneo, more than 11,000. UST, a middle-class bastion, has 33,000 students, the biggest Catholic university in the world in one campus.

UP, meanwhile, has not been giving data to THES-QS survey for two years, said Jose Wendell P. Capili, associate dean for academic affairs of the College of Arts and Letters, and yet it continues to rank. While something to crow about, there is a sense in UP that it’s still better than a number of universities on the THES-QS list. Many UP officials also feel the ranking is skewed toward schools with money, and that it does not have emphasis for fields such as arts and the humanities, Mr. Capili said.

But UP economist Solita C. Monsod said Philippine universities should treat the rankings as a "wake-up call."

"[We should not have this] false sense of righteousness ... everybody is being compared to everybody," she told BusinessWorld.

Local universities should also not take offense that others in the region have a higher rank, because "it is what it is." At least, the global rankings are a "consistent benchmark," Ms. Monsod said.

Mr. Capili pointed out that there are simply too many state colleges and universities tending to eat up the government’s resources and leaving UP, the "national university," with less.

There are more than 500 government-run higher education institutions, of which 436 are state colleges and universities, including satellite campuses. This year, state colleges and universities have a P26.2-billion budget, out of which P19.4 billion will be funded by direct subsidies.

The entire UP system - which has more than 50,000 students in 246 undergraduate and 362 graduate programs - has a P6-billion subsidy this year. The total expenditure this year is P7.2 billion, some P135,000 per student.

"Many state colleges and universities are of poor quality, and serve only as milking cows of politicians," the UP official argued.

Senator Edgardo J. Angara, a former UP president, has the same assessment: "Many of [the state colleges and universities] may not be qualified even to be universities.."

Ms. Monsod agreed but said this was different matter. For UP, celebrating its centennial this year, a new charter passed recently by Congress is "a very big step in the right direction," providing more flexibility in fund-raising and faculty recruitment. It gives UP an additional P100 million in state funding every year for the next five years, and allows the development of the university’s assets.

Some private schools, meanwhile, are thriving under a smaller scale. Far Eastern University (FEU), with some 24,000 students in 50 academic programs, spent around P1 billion last year, or about P43,000 per student. The publicly listed school booked P628 million in profits. Another listed school, Centro Escolar University (CEU) which has around 20,000 students, spent P883 million last year or P44,000 per student. It reported P238 million in profits for the fiscal year ending March 2007.

But overall, the situation could be as problematic as the mushrooming of substandard state colleges.

Out of nearly 1,500 private sectarian and nonsectarian higher education institutions, the government could grant autonomy to only 22, most of them in Metro Manila: UST, Ateneo, La Salle, CEU, and Miriam, St. Joseph’s, and Assumption colleges.

Autonomous status allows universities to design their own curricula, offer new programs and put up branches or satellite campuses without having to secure permits, confer honorary degrees, and carry out operations without much interference from CHEd.

Another 12 schools led by Ateneo de Naga University, Jose Rizal University, and FEU have "deregulated" status, with the same privileges as autonomy. They must still secure permits for new programs and campuses.

Mr. Angara said the better performance of other Southeast Asian universities in the latest survey is something that "we have to worry about."

"As I see it, the weakness in our educational system is in the teaching of mathematics and science and technology, which are considered as the weakest links in the educational chain," he said.

More investments in education are needed to improve research and development and faculty qualifications, he added.

from BusinessWorld and

2007 times higher education supplement (thes)-qs university rankings

2007 RANK 2006 RANK INSTITUTION NAME COUNTRY

1 1 HARVARD University United States
2= 2 University of CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom
2= 3 University of OXFORD United Kingdom
2= 4= YALE University United States
5 9 Imperial College LONDON United Kingdom
6 10 PRINCETON University United States
7= 7 CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States
7= 11 University of CHICAGO United States
9 25 UCL (University College LONDON) United Kingdom
10 4= MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (MIT) United States

11 12 COLUMBIA University United States
12 21 MCGILL University Canada
13 13 DUKE University United States
14 26 University of PENNSYLVANIA United States
15 23 JOHNS HOPKINS University United States
16 16 AUSTRALIAN National University Australia
17 19= University of TOKYO Japan
18 33= University of HONG KONG Hong Kong
19 6 STANFORD University United States
20= 35= CARNEGIE MELLON University United States
20= 15 CORNELL University United States

22 8 University of California, BERKELEY United States
23 33= University of EDINBURGH United Kingdom
24 46= King's College LONDON United Kingdom
25 29= KYOTO University Japan
26 18 Ecole Normale Supérieure, PARIS France
27 22 University of MELBOURNE Australia
28 37 ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE France
29 42 NORTHWESTERN University United States
30 40 University of MANCHESTER United Kingdom

31 35= The University of SYDNEY Australia
32 54= BROWN University United States
33= 50= University of BRITISH COLUMBIA Canada
33= 45 University of QUEENSLAND Australia
33= 19= National University of SINGAPORE Singapore
36 14 PEKING University China
37 64= University of BRISTOL United Kingdom
38= 50= The CHINESE University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
38= 29= University of MICHIGAN United States
40 28 TSINGHUA University China

41 31 University of CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States
42 24 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland
43 38 MONASH University Australia
44 41 University of NEW SOUTH WALES Australia
45 27 University of TORONTO Canada
46 70= OSAKA University Japan
47 66 BOSTON University United States
48 69 University of AMSTERDAM Netherlands
49 43 NEW YORK University (NYU) United States
50 46= The University of AUCKLAND New Zealand

51= 63 SEOUL National University Korea, South
51= 32 University of TEXAS at Austin United States
53= 58= HONG KONG University of Science & Technology Hong Kong
53= 78 TRINITY College Dublin Ireland
55= 84 University of WASHINGTON United States
55= 79= University of WISCONSIN-Madison United States
57 73 University of WARWICK United Kingdom
58 44 University of CALIFORNIA, San Diego United States
59 17 LONDON School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom
60 58= HEIDELBERG University Germany

61 96 Katholieke Universiteit LEUVEN Belgium
62 105= University of ADELAIDE Australia
63 86 DELFT University of Technology Netherlands
64 111= University of WESTERN AUSTRALIA Australia
65= 90= University of BIRMINGHAM United Kingdom
65= 98 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (MUNICH) Germany
67 82= Technische Universität MÜNCHEN Germany
68 102= University of SHEFFIELD United Kingdom
69 61= NANYANG Technological University Singapore
70 85 University of NOTTINGHAM United Kingdom

71= 61= DARTMOUTH College United States
71= 111= UPPSALA University Sweden
73 77 University of ILLINOIS United States
74= 56 EMORY University United States
74= 124= University of YORK United Kingdom
76 109= University of ST ANDREWS United Kingdom
77= 88 University of PITTSBURGH United States
77= 127 PURDUE University United States
79 111= University of MARYLAND United States
80= 121 University of LEEDS United Kingdom
80= 141= University of SOUTHAMPTON United Kingdom

82 53 VANDERBILT University United States
83 81 University of GLASGOW United Kingdom
84 90= LEIDEN University Netherlands
85= 60 CASE WESTERN RESERVE University United States
85= 116= FUDAN University China
85= 87 University of VIENNA Austria
88 176 QUEEN'S University Canada
89 95 UTRECHT University Netherlands
90= 99= PENNSYLVANIA STATE University United States
90= 118 TOKYO Institute of Technology Japan

92 102= RICE University United States
93= 54= University of COPENHAGEN Denmark
93= 181= University of MONTREAL Canada
95 48= University of ROCHESTER United States
96 170= University of CALIFORNIA, Davis United States
97= 133= University of ALBERTA Canada
97= 145 GEORGIA Institute of Technology United States
99 141= CARDIFF University United Kingdom
100 116= University of HELSINKI Finland

101 139 University of LIVERPOOL United Kingdom
102= 102= GEORGETOWN University United States
102= 108 National TAIWAN University Taiwan
102= 168= TOHOKU University Japan
105 39 University of GENEVA Switzerland
106 122 LUND University Sweden
107 211= University of COLORADO United States
108 155 MCMASTER University Canada
109 132 DURHAM University United Kingdom
110 130= University of VIRGINIA United States

111 172= MAASTRICHT University Netherlands
112= 128= NAGOYA University Japan
112= 204= University of WATERLOO Canada
114= 126 University of AARHUS Denmark
114= 75 University of BASEL Switzerland
114= 79= University of OTAGO New Zealand
117= 141= University of CALIFORNIA, Santa Barbara United States
117= 64= Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LAUSANNE Switzerland
119 101 University of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA United States
120 219= OHIO STATE University United States

121 105= University of SUSSEX United Kingdom
122 150= TEXAS A&M University United States
123 76 Université Catholique de LOUVAIN (UCL) Belgium
124 141= University of GHENT Belgium
125 180 NANJING University China
126= 105= HUMBOLDT-Universität zu Berlin Germany
126= 215= University of WESTERN ONTARIO Canada
128 119 Hebrew University of JERUSALEM Israel
129 133= NEWCASTLE University, NEWCASTLE Upon Tyne United Kingdom
130= 194 Technical University of DENMARK Denmark
130= 67 EINDHOVEN University of Technology Netherlands

132= 198= KOREA Advanced Institute of Science & Technology Korea, South
132= 93= Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie - PARIS VI France
134 224= University of ARIZONA United States
135 226= University of FLORIDA United States
136 128= KYUSHU University Japan
137= 195 University of ABERDEEN United Kingdom
137= 232= INDIANA University Bloomington United States
139 282= SIMON FRASER University Canada
140= 198= University of CALIFORNIA, Irvine United States
140= 109= University of ZURICH Switzerland

142= 187= University of MINNESOTA United States
142= 170= Universität TÜBINGEN Germany
144 219= Universität FREIBURG Germany
145 153 University of BATH United Kingdom
146 149 Freie Universität BERLIN Germany
147 228= University of LANCASTER United Kingdom
148 97 WAGENINGEN University Netherlands
149= 154 CITY University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
149= 99= Queen Mary, University of LONDON United Kingdom

151= 133= HOKKAIDO University Japan
151= 123 University of NORTH CAROLINA United States
151= 147= TEL AVIV University Israel
154 165= Université Libre de BRUXELLES (ULB) Belgium
155= 165= University of Science and Technology of CHINA China
155= 152 University of NOTRE DAME United States
157 72 Ecole Normale Supérieure de LYON France
158 140 CRANFIELD University United Kingdom
159= 163 MICHIGAN STATE University United States
159= 130= TUFTS University United States

161= 120 KEIO University Japan
161= 48= WASHINGTON University in St. Louis United States
163= 92 ERASMUS University Rotterdam Netherlands
163= 179 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG University China
165 201= Universität STUTTGART Germany
166= 266= University of CALGARY Canada
166= 138 VIENNA University of Technology Austria
168= 156= Universität GÖTTINGEN Germany
168= 82= MACQUARIE University Australia
170 291 HELSINKI University of Technology - TKK Finland

171= 238 University of DUNDEE United Kingdom
171= 222= Universität KARLSRUHE Germany
173= 207= University of BOLOGNA Italy
173= 232= University of GRONINGEN Netherlands
175= 124= University of MASSACHUSETTS, Amherst United States
175= 284= University of SAO PAULO Brazil
177= 448 University of CAMPINAS (Unicamp) Brazil
177= 219= University College DUBLIN Ireland
177= 215= RUTGERS, The State University of New Jersey United States

180= 190= University of READING United Kingdom
180= 158= WASEDA University Japan
182 172= Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule AACHEN Germany
183 197 Università degli Studi di ROMA - La Sapienza Italy
184 161= Université Louis Pasteur - STRASBOURG I France
185= 239= University of LEICESTER United Kingdom
185= 115 University of TWENTE Netherlands
187 252= University of ANTWERP Belgium
188= 333= University of CANTERBURY New Zealand
188= 177 University of OSLO Norway
190 258= University of SURREY United Kingdom

191 255= RENSSELAER Polytechnic Institute United States
192= 172= KTH, ROYAL Institute of Technology Sweden
192= 74 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Mexico
194 190= University of BARCELONA Spain
195= 137 Radboud Universiteit NIJMEGEN Netherlands
195= 192= QUEENSLAND University of Technology Australia
197= 147= CHALMERS University of Technology Sweden
197= 181= KOBE University Japan
199 196 University of WOLLONGONG Australia
200= 257 University of CAPE TOWN South Africa
200= 146 RMIT University Australia