WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKING 2012-2013

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-2013 powered by Thomson Reuters are the only global university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

World University Rankings 2012-2013

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Rank	Institution	Location	Overall scorechange criteria
1	California Institute of Technology	United States	95.5
2	Stanford University	United States	93.7
2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	93.7
4	Harvard University	United States	93.6
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	93.1
6	Princeton University	United States	92.7
7	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	92.6
8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	90.6
9	University of California, Berkeley	United States	90.5
10	University of Chicago	United States	90.4
11	Yale University	United States	89.2
12	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	87.8
13	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	87.7
14	Columbia University	United States	87.0
15	University of Pennsylvania	United States	86.6
16	Johns Hopkins University	United States	85.6
17	University College London	United Kingdom	85.5
18	Cornell University	United States	83.3
19	Northwestern University	United States	83.1
20	University of Michigan	United States	82.6
21	University of Toronto	Canada	82.2
22	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	81.5
23	Duke University	United States	81.2
24	University of Washington	United States	79.9
25	University of Texas at Austin	United States	78.8
25	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	78.8
27	University of Tokyo	Japan	78.3
28	University of Melbourne	Australia	77.9
29	National University of Singapore	Singapore	77.5
30	University of British Columbia	Canada	77.3
31	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	76.9
32	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	76.1
33	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	75.8
34	McGill University	Canada	75.7
35	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	75.6
35	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	75.6
37	Australian National University	Australia	75.4
38	University of California, San Diego	United States	75.2
39	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	73.1
40	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	73.0
41	New York University	United States	72.8
42	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	72.4
42	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	72.4
44	Washington University in St Louis	United States	71.8
44	University of California, Davis	United States	71.8
46	Peking University	China	70.7
47	University of Minnesota	United States	70.5
48	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	70.4
49	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	70.1
50	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	69.4
51	Brown University	United States	68.9
52	Tsinghua University	China	67.1
53	Ohio State University	United States	67.0
54	Boston University	United States	66.8
54	Kyoto University	Japan	66.8
56	University of Southern California	United States	66.3
57	King's College London	United Kingdom	66.2
58	KU Leuven	Belgium	66.1
59	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea	65.9
59	École Normale Supérieure	France	65.9
61	Pennsylvania State University	United States	65.8
62	École Polytechnique	France	65.7
62	University of Sydney	Australia	65.7
64	Leiden University	Netherlands	65.1
65	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	64.4
65	University of Queensland Australia	Australia	64.4
67	Utrecht University	Netherlands	64.1
68	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	64.0
69	Purdue University	United States	63.8
70	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	63.2
70	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands	63.2
72	University of Massachusetts	United States	62.9
72	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	62.9
74	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	62.5
75	Rice University	United States	62.0
76	University of Pittsburgh	United States	61.7
77	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	61.6
78	Universität Heidelberg	Germany	61.4
79	Emory University	United States	61.3
80	Durham University	United Kingdom	60.7
81	Université Pierre et Marie Curie	France	60.5
82	Lund University	Sweden	60.3
83	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	60.1
84	University of Montreal	Canada	59.8
85	University of New South Wales	Australia	59.6
86	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	59.4
87	Tufts University	United States	59.1
88	McMaster University	Canada	59.0
89	University of Groningen	Netherlands	58.8
89	University of Zürich	Switzerland	58.8
91	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	58.7
92	Université Paris-Sud	France	58.6
93	Ghent University	Belgium	58.4
94	Michigan State University	United States	58.3
94	University of Notre Dame	United States	58.3
96	University of California, Irvine	United States	58.2
97	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	57.9
98	University of Arizona	United States	57.7
99	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	United States	57.5
99	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	57.5
99	Monash University	Australia	57.5
102	University of Rochester	United States	57.2
103	University of York	United Kingdom	57.1
104	Case Western Reserve University	United States	56.9
105	Technische Universität München	Germany	56.8
106	Uppsala University	Sweden	56.6
106	Vanderbilt University	United States	56.6
108	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	56.5
109	University of Helsinki	Finland	56.4
110	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	56.2
110	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	56.2
110	Trinity College Dublin	Republic of Ireland	56.2
113	University of Cape Town	South Africa	55.8
114	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	55.6
115	Maastricht University	Netherlands	55.5
116	Aarhus University	Denmark	55.3
117	Stockholm University	Sweden	55.2
118	University of Virginia	United States	55.0
119	Royal Holloway, University of London	United Kingdom	54.9
120	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	54.8
121	University of Alberta	Canada	54.7
122	University of Florida	United States	54.5
122	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States	54.5
124	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	54.4
124	University of Warwick	United Kingdom	54.4
124	Dartmouth College	United States	54.4
127	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands	54.0
128	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	53.7
128	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	53.7
130	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	53.6
130	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	53.6
130	Université de Lausanne	Switzerland	53.6
133	University of Geneva	Switzerland	53.5
134	Indiana University	United States	53.2
134	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	53.2
134	University of Utah	United States	53.2
137	Tohoku University	Japan	53.1
137	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	53.1
139	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	53.0
140	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	52.9
140	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	52.9
142	Universität Basel	Switzerland	52.8
142	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	52.8
144	Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg	Germany	52.3
145	Queen Mary, University of London	United Kingdom	52.1
145	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	52.1
147	Osaka University	Japan	52.0
148	Arizona State University	United States	51.9
149	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	51.7
150	Boston College	United States	51.6
151	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	51.5
151	University of Bern	Switzerland	51.5
153	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	51.3
154	University of California, Riverside	United States	51.1
154	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	51.1
156	Yeshiva University	United States	50.9
156	Texas A&M University	United States	50.9
158	University of São Paulo	Brazil	50.5
158	Tel Aviv University	Israel	50.5
158	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	50.5
161	University of Auckland	New Zealand	50.3
162	Stony Brook University	United States	50.2
162	University of Vienna	Austria	50.2
164	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium	50.0
165	University of Delaware	United States	49.7
166	Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7	France	49.6
167	University of Texas at Dallas	United States	49.5
168	George Washington University	United States	49.4
169	University of Iowa	United States	49.3
170	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France	49.2
171	Universität Bonn	Germany	49.0
171	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	49.0
171	University of Ottawa	Canada	49.0
174	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	United States	48.9
174	Georgetown University	United States	48.9
176	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	48.8
176	University of Reading	United Kingdom	48.8
176	University of Adelaide	Australia	48.8
176	University of East Anglia	United Kingdom	48.8
180	Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble	France	48.6
180	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	48.6
182	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	48.5
183	Yonsei University	Republic of Korea	48.2
184	University of Illinois at Chicago	United States	48.0
184	William & Mary	United States	48.0
184	Colorado School of Mines	United States	48.0
187	University of Twente	Netherlands	47.9
187	University College Dublin	Republic of Ireland	47.9
189	Medical University of South Carolina	United States	47.7
190	University of Western Australia	Australia	47.3
190	Wake Forest University	United States	47.3
192	University of Antwerp	Belgium	47.1
193	University of Miami	United States	46.9
193	Technion Israel Institute of Technology	Israel	46.9
193	Iowa State University	United States	46.9
196	University of Leicester	United Kingdom	46.7
196	University of Victoria	Canada	46.7
198	University at Buffalo	United States	46.6
199	Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main	Germany	46.4
200	Birkbeck, University of London	United Kingdom	46.2

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