<p>i was just curious as to what people thought the best universities in their own countries were... maybe the top three or five?</p>
<p>In Canada, I'd think the Top 3 would be:</p>
<p>University of McGill
University of Toronto
University of Waterloo</p>
<p>In the US
Harvard, Princeton, Yale</p>
<p>South Korea
Seoul National University, Korea University, Yonsei University (if you come out of these universities in korea your set for life)</p>
<p>MKDaMan1818, I think UoT is number one</p>
<p>In France, although our education system is quite different from other countries, I'd still say the three best (or best-known) colleges are:</p>
<p>Panthéon - La Sorbonne (Paris)
Dauphine (Paris)
Panthéon - Assas (Paris)</p>
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<p>And I think Ryerson is. OK, I'm just kidding. But honestly, I don't think MKDaman1818's ranking is any more subjective than all those Maclean's, US News, THES and that Chinese university's rankings.</p>
<p>In China
HongKong U(hongkong )
Peking U(Beijing )
Tshing Hua U(Beijing )
Fudan U(Shanghai)</p>
<p>According to the world's largest newspaper, The Times (based in London, UK), Yale and Harvard "have surpassed Oxford and Cambridge as the two greatest universities in the world."</p>
<p>Just a stupid question: Hong Kong isn't considered Chinese, is it?</p>
<p>And big fat LOL for Yale and Harvard "having surpassed" Oxbridge... Ah, those British, they can do a lot, but they surely can't cook or have decent newspapers.</p>
<p>without a doudt harvard is better than those brits </p>
<p>btw, zules01, if you are a chinese and say that in china you ll probably be put in jail with a betrayal of the country</p>
<p>You do have a point about their newspapers, but they were making a pretty valid complaint that the top American research universities (HY & MIT namely) are better-funded than those of any other country in the world, letting them "raid at will" the faculty of other universities (including Oxbridge). About the food, keep in mind that Jacques Chirac said Finnish food was the only food worse than British food.</p>
<p>In India</p>
<p>*Indian Institute of Technology(IIT): * Ranked 3rd in World by THES, a 7 center complex, takes 3500 students every year for it's undergraduate courses through a selection test which is widely recognized as the hardest exam at Pre College Level.</p>
<p>*All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS): * One of best Medical schools in Asia("The Best" in views of some)</p>
<p>**Indian Institute of Management Ahembdabad(IIM-A): **Amongst the top 100 B Schools in World.</p>
<p>In Peru:</p>
<p>National University of Engineering (UNI): It's the peruvian MIT. Self selective and extremely difficult to be admitted.
Catholic University : Top school in many areas.
Cayetano Heredia University: Top Med school
Pacific University: Top Bussiness school
Agrarian University: Top in Bio Sciences
Probably the only truly universities. All others don't do any research at all.</p>
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In France, although our education system is quite different from other countries, I'd still say the three best (or best-known) colleges are:</p>
<p>Panthéon - La Sorbonne (Paris)
Dauphine (Paris)
Panthéon - Assas (Paris)
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<p>Insead? Science Po?</p>
<p>I said the three best COLLEGES. Sciences Po isn't a college, and neither is INSEAD. They are both well-known and excellent schools, but they're not colleges. The French system, unfortunately, is very particular/unfair/gay. But hey, what's the reputation of La Sorbonne in the US?</p>
<p>Also, about the British food, no one will ever make me say otherwise. Their food is disgusting, and although I'm not too fond of my President, I must say he's definitely right to say that. The Sun, among other newspapers, attack France every day, everything that is done wrong (from Chirac's fashion tastes to the "riots"), they give us crap.</p>
<p>The Sun is not a proper newspaper and I don't know of any english person who would say 'oh well I read a great news article in the Sun' they all know it's a tabloid magazine. England has many great newspapers including The Guardian and the Independent and last year the best restaurant in the world was The Fat Duck which is in England (replaced this year by El Bulli in Spain) so I really wish others wouldn't make generalizations. And I'm not English.</p>
<p>The Guardian is a great newspaper? Please, give me a break. Also, about The Fat Duck, I would be surprised if any of the chefs there were English. It's like the English soccer league, it's said to be the best in the world. Arguable, but they have a lot of foreigners, and none of the stars there are English, or a few few percentage. It's the exact same thing.</p>
<p>Yes it is a great newspaper. I don't know why you would say otherwise. And Heston Blumenthal (the owner and chef of the Fat duck) is English. Regardless, I'm not here to say 'oh English is great' the best or anything, I'm just saying thats a generalization not based on truth. Thats what globalization does. It means someone can be born in the UK, train in France to work in the states.</p>
<p>Exactly. What I'm saying is "in general, English food are disgusting and English newspapers are bad", and that, no one can say otherwise. They can't be good at everything, right? The US have the best schools in the world but have a very bad health system, that's just how it is. Generalization or not, it's true.</p>