<p>OVERALL
1. Harvard
2. Yale<br>
3. Cambridge
4. Oxford
5. Caltech
6. Imperial College London
7. University College London
8. Chicago
9. MIT
10. Columbia
11. Penn
12. Princeton
13. Duke
13. Hopkins
15. Cornell
16. Australian National University
17. Stanford
18. Michigan
19. University of Tokyo
20. Mcgill</p>
<p>Interesting stuff! I'm surprised UCB isn't in the top 20 but I guess they are a little overrated. The placement of Stanford and Michigan also seem a little low but otherwise I feel like this list is spot on.</p>
<p>This is the most ridiculous ranking for world universities. The people who did the ranking have no clue on how to measure the qualities, and do not understand the basic rules of data analysis.</p>
<p>These rankings are useless. American schools are the best in the world. If these World best schools were so great then why aren’t Americans applying in greater numbers and why do foreigners want to attend schools here. Very similar to doctors and hospitals in the U.S. We have the best health care system in the world…for now. patients want our care we don’t want theirs, although Obama may change this!</p>
<p>WaitingDad, I am not sure I agree with your statements. First of all, I know several Americans who have worked in the medical field in the US and Europe who seem to believe that the wealthier Western European nations (France, Germany, Scandinavia and Switzerland) have better hospitals, doctors, medical research and healthcare than the US. </p>
<p>As for universities, the US system and university model is very different from the European. In terms of actual education, it is as good as the US, but I agree that US graduate schools are better funded (in Europe, most research funding is done at major corporations who invest more on R&D than their US counterparts or on thinktanks that are not affiliated to any university).</p>
<p>Ring<em>of</em>fire, Princeton at #8 among US universities and Stanford at #12 among US universities are both too low. Cal should also be ranked higher. Like all “global” rankings, this one is flawed.</p>
<p>ring- Berkeley isn’t overrated. Since the THES rankings were started in 2004, Berkeley has regularly placed in the top 5 (as high as #2). Why it dropped this year is beyond me.</p>
<p>Tzar- Undergraduate-focused universities like Dartmouth and Tufts tend to get shafted by THES. Duke jumped from the 50s to the 10-15 range when they included its medical school, which goes to show how helpful the ranking is…</p>
<p>If you think the USNews PA is bad the Times uses a survey with a 1% return rate. An absolute joke. The SJTU rankings have more international respect.</p>
<p>^(to WaitingDad, post #8) LOL ARE YOU SERIOUS???</p>
<p>The above post is the biggest pile of conservative BS that I have read in a long time. </p>
<p>Just because we have enough nukes to blow up the world 14 times over doesn’t mean we are automatically the supreme rulers of everything. Many of our students take advantage of study abroad programs where they study at top foreign universities, along with many of our college-bound youth attending universities in Canada and England, as well. Many top universities are also located in other top technologically advanced nations, such as Japan, Australia, China, and many european nations, and India has probably the most selective university system in the world, with only a 1% acceptance rate for their top tech schools, and many of the rejects from there go on to our Ivy League schools. </p>
<p>Yes, some developing nations have inadequate university systems, simply because they see no need for higher education, or they do not have the resources to create such systems. However, many of our world’s finest instiutions are not located in the US, or even on this continent. </p>
<p>btw, WaitingDad’s attitude, laong with others who think along this line of thought, is why the rest of the world hates the USA. As you can see being the intelligent being you are, reader, there really is no excuse for these comments or rationalities. So WaitingDad, please use intelligence in your next postings. I will also post this post as a visitor message for you so it will serve as a constant reminder of your ignorance.</p>
<p>I do have to agree these rankings are flawed, though. Case Western at #90ish while the College of William and Mary is at #390ish does seem rather ridiculous, though. Also should be no suprise to y’all reading out there that I was suprised that so many American universities ranked so highly.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t go that far OHKID, the US is quite popular in the Middle East these days. Amazing how a good president changes things. Look at the elections in my native Lebanon. If Bish were still president, Nasrallah would have won! hehe!</p>
<p>Anyway, the reason why many students from the third world wish to study in the US is because your immigration laws are in fact more relaxed than those in Western Europe and Japan.</p>
makes me happy! [By the way this is old]</p>