2009 The Times Higher Education’s world university rankings

Graduate School
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<p>2009 World Rank School Name Country Overall Score</p>

<p>1 HARVARD University United States 100.0
2 University of CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom 99.6
3 YALE University United States 99.1
4 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom 99.0
5= IMPERIAL College London United Kingdom 97.8
5= University of OXFORD United Kingdom 97.8
7 University of CHICAGO United States 96.8
8 PRINCETON University United States 96.6
9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M... United States 96.1
10 California Institute of Technology (CALT... United States 95.9
11 COLUMBIA University United States 95.6
12 University of PENNSYLVANIA United States 94.2
13 JOHNS HOPKINS University United States 94.1
14 DUKE University United States 92.9
15 CORNELL University United States 92.5
16 STANFORD University United States 92.2
17 AUSTRALIAN National University Australia 90.5
18 MCGILL University Canada 90.4
19 University of MICHIGAN United States 89.9
20= University of EDINBURGH United Kingdom 89.3
20= ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of T... Switzerland 89.3
22 University of TOKYO Japan 88.9
23 KING'S College London United Kingdom 88.5
24 University of HONG KONG Hong Kong 87.5
25 KYOTO University Japan 87.1
26 University of MANCHESTER United Kingdom 85.7
27 CARNEGIE MELLON University United States 85.6
28 Ecole normale supérieure, PARIS France 85.4
29 University of TORONTO Canada 85.3
30 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 84.3
31 BROWN University United States 84.0
32= University of California, Los Angeles (U... United States 83.5
32= NORTHWESTERN University United States 83.5
34 University of BRISTOL United Kingdom 83.4
35 HONG KONG University of Science and Tech... Hong Kong 83.3
36= University of SYDNEY Australia 83.1
36= </p>

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<p>College (Lowest rank for the past 5 years, Highest rank for the past 5 years)</p>

<p>Australia</p>

<p>AUSTRALIAN National University (16-23)
The University of MELBOURNE (19-38)
The University of SYDNEY (31-38)
MONASH University (33-47)
University of QUEENSLAND (33-47)
University of NEW SOUTH WALES (40-47)
University of ADELAIDE (62-106)
The University of WESTERN AUSTRALIA (64-111)</p>

<p>Asia</p>

<p>PEKING University China (14-52)
University of TOKYO Japan (16-22)
University of HONG KONG Hong Kong (18-41)
National University of SINGAPORE (19-33)
KYOTO University Japan (25-31)
TSINGHUA University China (28-62)
HONG KONG University of Science & Technology Hong Kong (35-58)
CHINESE University of Hong Kong Hong Kong (38-51)
OSAKA University Japan (43-105)
SEOUL National University Korea, South (47-93)
NANYANG Technological University (48-77)
TOKYO Institute of Technology Japan (55-118)
FUDAN University China (72-116)
NAGOYA University Japan (92-129)
National TAIWAN University Taiwan (95-124)</p>

<p>Canada</p>

<p>MCGILL University (12-24)
University of TORONTO (27-45)
University of British Colombia (33-50)
University of ALBERTA (59-149)</p>

<p>Europe (excluding United Kingdom)</p>

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<p>SMH. Bull*****.</p>

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<p>^ ? Cause it contradictions a cheesy US newspaper which makes its profit almost entirely now on ‘rankings’? That knows what exactly about universities?</p>

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<p>Wow at how low Rice was ranked.</p>

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<p>Cause it is based on even worse surveys than US News with a 1% response rate.</p>

<p>Here’s one just out based on something at least concrete and measurable.</p>

<p><a href=“ScienceWatch.com - Clarivate”>ScienceWatch.com - Clarivate;

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<p>UCL at number isn’t believable. It’s not as great as Oxford or even Imperial. At is just as good as Warwick, and Warwick is not even in the top 50. </p>

<p>This ranking has a lot of flaws…</p>

<p>…and Berkeley now at number 39 down from number 6 a couple of years ago??? That needs a lot of explanation to do on the part of THES.</p>

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<p>… C’mon, in what world would Berkeley actually rank lower than UCLA. I mean, they’re virtually the same school, only the former gets the better half of the Asian kids from California.</p>

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<p>I don’t get why you’re all so quick to dismiss it because you disagree, its no more right or wrong than any other set of rankings.</p>

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<p>What an ill-informed post. I wont even bother with the first sentence, but Warwick… you must be joking?</p>

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<p>NUS>Brown and NTU>Dartmouth? even as a Singaporean i don’t believe NUS and NTU are that good =S</p>

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<p>Michigan is ranked about right. ;-)</p>

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<p>Why is stanford ranked so low</p>

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<p>Damn! Why is LSE 67th? Seriously, I would pick LSE over the vast majority of schools “ranked” above it. And Oxford dropped down by quite a bit.</p>

<p>RML, if you’re implying that UCL shouldn’t be in the top 50 then I think you’re very ill informed.</p>

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<p>The THES has no credibility whatsoever. I’m shocked Stanford is even a top 20 school on this survey. lol</p>

<p>This is far more credible and accurate…
[url=<a href=“http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/ARWU2008_A(EN).htm]ARWU2008[/url”>http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/ARWU2008_A(EN).htm]ARWU2008[/url</a>]</p>

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<p>^^^I like that one too. Michigan is rank 21st. ;-)</p>

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<p>College Yahoo who deems what list to be credible? You? No rankings are particularly credible, THES is no better or worse than any other.</p>

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<p>I don’t put much stock in any of these rankings individually. Collectively, though, they tell a story about the intellectual prestige of top U.S. universities that is broadly consistent with the U.S. News PA score. I’ll bet if you averaged the rankings of top U.S. universities across several of these rankings—THES, Shanghai Jiao Tong, any of several rankings based on citation counts, etc—you’d come out with a ranking that pretty closely approximated the schools’ relative PA ratings. And there’s a reason for that. People in academia do know their own industry, at least at the top. They know who’s got the most coveted faculties, who’s up and who’s down, who’s rising and who’s sagging, where the most exciting intellectual breakthroughs are occurring. There will be some variance among the various ranking systems because they’re looking at slightly different factors and/or weighting the same factors differently. But in the aggregate across several ranking systems, you can get a reasonably good idea as to where various universities stand, within a reasonable margin or error. </p>

<p>That’s what’s so pernicious about US News’ current dominance in the U.S. college-rating game. Quirks in its methodology reward some schools for factors that have little or nothing to do with academic or educational excellence, and allow (or induce) some schools to invest in gaming their rankings. If US News had 3 or 4 credible competitors, those idiosyncratic factors would wash out, and it would become almost impossible for anyone to game 4 or 5 ranking systems simultaneously.</p>

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<p>PreciousPurple11: This is a very interesting list, from a world perspective, and since the world keeps getting smaller and smaller, and business is done internationally, a very important list for those students with their eyes on the future. Does anyone remember “Hawkette?” She thinks very highly of Rice, which is undoubtedly a great school, but I think this demonstrates that the schools she often compared Rice to are not of equal standing. Unfortunately, perception is everything with regard to rankings.</p>

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<p>bclintonk: Very well said. I could not agree more. PA is the name of the game, internationally, and unless we in the US live in a bubble, will/should remain the true mark of academic excellence around the world. Colleges and universities are, after all, academic institutions. Other factors are important for enjoying college life, but if we are talking about the EDUCATION, the PA says it all.</p>

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<p>2010 rankings:</p>

<p>1 University of Cambridge
2 Harvard University
3 Yale University
4 University College London
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 University of Oxford
7 Imperial College London
8 University of Chicago
9 California Institute of Technology
10 Princeton University
11 Columbia University
12 University of Pennsylvania
13 Stanford University
14 Duke University United
15 University of Michigan
16 Cornell University
17 Johns Hopkins University
18 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
19 McGill University Canada
20 Australian National University
21 King’s College London
22 University of Edinburgh
23 University of Hong Kong (HKU)
24 University of Tokyo
25 Kyoto University Japan
26 Northwestern University
27 University of Bristol
28 University of California, Berkeley
29 University of Toronto
30 University of Manchester
31 National University of Singapore
32 Ecole Polytechnique F</p>