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Academic Ranking of World Universities 2012

The Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University published the Academic Ranking of World Universities.  As you will see below, Harvard University remains the number one in the world.

 

World
Rank		 Institution* Country National
Rank		 Total
1
Harvard University
1
100
100
2
Stanford University
2
72.8
38
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
3
71.8
69
4
University of California, Berkeley
4
71.6
67.5
5
University of Cambridge
1
69.8
80.3
6
California Institute of Technology
5
64.1
48.5
7
Princeton University
6
62.1
52.3
8
Columbia University
7
60.1
64.2
9
University of Chicago
8
57.2
61.8
10
University of Oxford
2
56.1
51.2
11
Yale University
9
54.8
45.7
12
University of California, Los Angeles
10
52.2
27.7
13
Cornell University
11
50.8
38.7
14
University of Pennsylvania
12
50.5
33.4
15
University of California, San Diego
13
49.6
20.3
16
University of Washington
14
48.4
22.4
17
The Johns Hopkins University
15
47.4
39.9
18
University of California, San Francisco
16
46.6
0
19
University of Wisconsin – Madison
17
45.4
32.5
20
The University of Tokyo
1
43.8
32.5
21
University College London
3
43.7
29.7
22
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
18
43.4
33.9
23
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
1
43.3
31.2
24
The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
4
42.4
15.3
25
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
19
41.9
31.6
26
Kyoto University
2
41.3
31.2
27
New York University
20
40.8
29.7
27
University of Toronto
1
40.8
21
29
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
21
39.7
27.7
30
Northwestern University
22
38.8
16.3
31
Washington University in St.
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