International comparisons The world ' s top 200 universities The world ’ s top 200 universities 2006 rank 2005 r a n k N ameCountryPeerreviewscore ( 40 %) Recruiterreview ( 10 %) Int ' lfacultyscore ( 5 %) Int ' lstudentsscore ( 5 %) Faculty / studentscore ( 20 %) Citations / facultyscore ( 20 %) Overallscore 11 Harvard UniversityUS 9310015255655100 . 0 23 Cambridge UniversityUK 100795843641796 . 8 34 Oxford UniversityUK 97765439611592 . 7 4 = 2 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUS 81931139425489 . 2 4 = 7 Yale UniversityUS 72814526932489 . 2 65 Stanford UniversityUS 8285934325585 . 4 78 California Institute of TechnologyUS 532124406710083 . 8 86 University of California , BerkeleyUS 9275613223980 . 4 913 Imperial College LondonUK 65445556881278 . 6 109 Princeton UniversityUS 68612129533474 . 2 1117 University of ChicagoUS 57671930731769 . 8 1220 Columbia UniversityUS 5764932741769 . 0 1311 Duke UniversityUS 397811211001968 . 3 1415 Beijing UniversityChina 705551169267 . 9 1514 Cornell UniversityUS 60741025442665 . 9 1623 Australian National UniversityAustralia 72304833381364 . 8 1711 London School of EconomicsUK 42858910053163 . 9 1824 Ecole Normale Supérieure , ParisFrance 46302228693763 . 3 19 = 22 National University of SingaporeSingapore 7044824722863 . 1 19 = 16 Tokyo UniversityJapan 7229810352763 . 1 2124 McGill UniversityCanada 57613133521062 . 3 2219 Melbourne University Australia 7244513625761 . 6 2327 Johns Hopkins UniversityUS 49371520652961 . 3 2421 ETH ZurichSwitzerland 51258445442359 . 7 2528 University College LondonUK 46283947701258 . 7 2632 Pennsylvania UniversityUS 45641726522257 . 8 2729 University of TorontoCanada 63513717152557 . 7 2862 Tsing Hua UniversityChina 453422984156 . 1 29 = 31 Kyoto UniversityJapan 6120157441856 . 0 29 = 36 University of MichiganUS 50611519461556 . 0 3137 University of California , Los AngelesUS 5842212342555 . 9 3226 University of Texas at AustinUS 44562414195355 . 0 33 = 30 Edinburgh UniversityUK 54422829421154 . 8 33 = 41 University of Hong KongHong Kong 4840842746654 . 8 35 = 44 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUS 44642840481154 . 6 35 = 38 Sydney UniversityAustralia 6526563123854 . 6 3710 Ecole PolytechniqueFrance 37401840641753 . 0 3833 Monash UniversityAustralia 5740615121552 . 6 3988 Geneva UniversitySwitzerland 2613695881749 . 9 4035 Manchester UniversityUK 4450422938649 . 0 4140 University of New South WalesAustralia 5636233720748 . 2 4246 Northwestern UniversityUS 32711220441947 . 9 4356 New York UniversityUS 395181655647 . 6 4442 University of California , San DiegoUS 461639264247 . 5 4547 Queensland UniversityAustralia 52265131181247 . 2 46 = 52 Auckland UniversityNew Zealand 5117442138246 . 8 46 = 73 King ’ s College LondonUK 4228423044746 . 8 48 = 73 Rochester UniversityUS 2126823911246 . 7 48 = 58 Washington University , St LouisUS 2532518732246 . 7 50 = 38 University of British ColumbiaCanada 51382315191646 . 4 50 = 51 Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong 3938622441746 . 4 5269 Sciences PoFrance 2129225386 – 45 . 6 53114 Vanderbilt UniversityUS 2237214811445 . 3 54 = 71 Brown UniversityUS 32323420501845 . 0 54 = 66 Copenhagen UniversityDenmark 4421121351545 . 0 56141 Emory UniversityUS 1938114841544 . 9 5750 Indian Institutes of TechnologyIndia 453401272444 . 5 58 = 45 Heidelberg UniversityGermany 43281728361144 . 3 58 = 43 Hong Kong University Sci & TechnolHong Kong 40417421171644 . 3 60109 Case Western Reserve UniversityUS 1934324771944 . 2 61 = 117 Dartmouth CollegeUS 22561317591643 . 7 61 = 48 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 4037775621343 . 7 6393 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 43132757443 . 6 64 = 49 Bristol UniversityUK 36443726341043 . 2 64 = 34 Ecole Polytech Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland 28137066471143 . 2 6654 Boston UniversityUS 3538921471042 . 9 6770 Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands 1918211192342 . 1 6884 Indian Institutes of ManagementIndia 314601060241 . 6 6958 Amsterdam UniversityNetherlands 42203010281541 . 3 70 = 103 School of Oriental and African StudiesUK 239487464040 . 4 70 = 105 Osaka UniversityJapan 39049451740 . 4 7292 Ecole Normale Supérieure , LyonFrance 21181519503440 . 1 7377 Warwick UniversityUK 3940384122440 . 0 7495 National Autonomous Univ of MexicoMexico 29363165039 . 8 75127 Basel UniversitySwitzerland 2107628631039 . 7 7688 Catholic University of Louvain ( French ) Belgium 37252925291139 . 4 7758 University of IllinoisUS 3931101632939 . 3 78111 Trinity College DublinIreland 3734582917939 . 1 79 = 186 Otago UniversityNew Zealand 2617942045338 . 5 79 = 73 University of WisconsinUS 3911014351638 . 5 81101 Glasgow UniversityUK 3533171635938 . 4 82 = 67 Macquarie UniversityAustralia 32401005110538 . 3 82 = 105 Technical University MunichGermany 30262230421038 . 3 8488 Washington UniversityUS 31231310382038 . 2 8597 Nottingham UniversityUK 3437342928638 . 1 8653 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 3413521837738 . 0 8765 Vienna UniversityAustria 43222326101537 . 8 88193 Pittsburgh UniversityUS 22192010621137 . 6 89133 Lausanne UniversitySwitzerland 2021543353937 . 3 90 = 143 Birmingham UniversityUK 3427342928937 . 2 90 = 138 Leiden UniversityNetherlands 33213311202637 . 2 9257 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 22492431113837 . 1 93 = 79 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 42281730337 . 0 93 = 88 Pierre and Marie Curie UniversityFrance 310293549637 . 0 95120 Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 3712249251836 . 7 9695 Catholic University of Leuven ( Flemish ) Belgium 37351120181336 . 6 97108 Wageningen UniversityNetherlands 1691645611736 . 5 9855 Munich UniversityGermany 3523192129936 . 4 99 = 112 Queen Mary , University of LondonUK 269444047436 . 3 99 = 64 Pennsylvania State UniversityUS 33437831636 . 3 101124 University of Southern CaliforniaUS 272872845936 . 2 102 = 159 Georgetown UniversityUS 1965617411136 . 1 102 = 150 Rice UniversityUS 20311223501536 . 1 102 = 143 Sheffield UniversityUK 3122322833836 . 1 105 = 80 University of AdelaideAustralia 3804744141435 . 9 105 = 112 Humboldt University BerlinGermany 3215181843535 . 9 105 = 100 Sussex UniversityUK 2718422741635 . 9 108114 National Taiwan UniversityTaiwan 4001043435 . 8 109 = 136 St Andrews UniversityUK 2620405333935 . 7 109 = 85 Zurich UniversitySwitzerland 2606923411135 . 7 111 = 133 Maryland UniversityUS 27331615351435 . 6 111 = 180 Uppsala UniversitySweden 36017841935 . 6 111 = 199 Wake Forest UniversityUS 103226801035 . 6 111 = 80 University of Western AustraliaAustralia 34116128191335 . 6 115217 University of TwenteNetherlands 2315291659335 . 5 116 = 72 Fudan UniversityChina 394711818235 . 4 116 = 62 Helsinki UniversityFinland 382075162035 . 4 11899 Tokyo Institute of TechnologyJapan 2918314391635 . 3 11977 Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael 410145221635 . 2 120215 Keio UniversityJapan 282518448235 . 1 121103 Leeds UniversityUK 3233282525735 . 0 122180 Lund UniversitySweden 350269361034 . 8 123143 University of North CarolinaUS 233878361934 . 6 124 = 68 University of Massachusetts AmherstUS 3228110202334 . 5 124 = 109 York UniversityUK 2822313033834 . 5 126138 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 3015381333934 . 4 12761 Purdue UniversityUS 3242201521634 . 2 128 = 222 Kyushu UniversityJapan 21178859734 . 1 128 = 129 Nagoya UniversityJapan 291149411334 . 1 130 = 164 Tufts UniversityUS 17311217422233 . 9 130 = 105 Virginia UniversityUS 2057611341433 . 9 13283 Durham UniversityUK 25414325231033 . 8 133 = 149 University of AlbertaCanada 32114021171833 . 6 133 = 259 Brussels Free University ( Flemish ) Belgium 1615211772 – 33 . 6 133 = 157 Hokkaido UniversityJapan 2908652833 . 6 133 = 168 Newcastle upon Tyne UniversityUK 2524333236733 . 6 137177 Nijmegen UniversityNetherlands 219331055733 . 5 13886 Vienna Technical UniversityAustria 2917273436333 . 3 139119 Liverpool UniversityUK 2626322132833 . 2 140234 Cranfield UniversityUK 1426316252233 . 0 141 = 159 University of California , Santa BarbaraUS 311178222432 . 9 141 = 228 Cardiff UniversityUK 2913272336432 . 9 141 = 219 Ghent UniversityBelgium 299201043432 . 9 141 = 206 Southampton UniversityUK 2616382534732 . 9 145147 Georgia Institute of TechnologyUS 3036227191332 . 8 14682 RMIT UniversityAustralia 342631659132 . 5 147 = 166 Chalmers University of TechnologySweden 27917846532 . 4 147 = 188 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 352203132132 . 4 148172 Free University BerlinGermany 370271725632 . 3 150 = 184 Korea UniversitySouth Korea 25851955132 . 2 150 = 125 Texas A & M UniversityUS 30391213161332 . 2 152179 Notre Dame University US 1951171435932 . 0 153130 Bath UniversityUK 2136343532531 . 8 154178 City University of Hong KongHong Kong 2811751425531 . 7 155184 McMaster UniversityCanada 2924913181931 . 6 156 = 101 Curtin University of TechnologyAustralia 2818717012 – 31 . 5 156 = 114 Göttingen UniversityGermany 320171731831 . 5 158 = 194 Technion — Israel Inst of TechnologyIsrael 311766231631 . 4 158 = 240 University of UlmGermany 120221670931 . 4 158 = 202 Waseda UniversityJapan 272411642131 . 4 161 = 121 Chulalongkorn UniversityThailand 33189133031 . 2 161 = 131 University Louis Pasteur StrasbourgFrance 25152234281231 . 2 163121 Michigan State UniversityUS 2839101221931 . 1 164219 Saint Petersburg State UniversityRussia 26181947130 . 7 165 = 76 Brussels Free University ( French ) Belgium 30191539131230 . 5 165 = 93 China University of Sci & Technol China 36143024530 . 5 165 = 175 State Univ of New York , Stony BrookUS 2616615301430 . 5 168 = 199 George Washington UniversityUS 244631330530 . 4 168 = 136 Tohoku UniversityJapan 26087312130 . 4 170 = 206 University of California , DavisUS 30028301730 . 3 170 = 260 University of TubingenGermany 2121211937930 . 3 172 = 172 Aachen RWT Germany 2337242428430 . 2 172 = 157 Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 18283446241330 . 2 172 = 196 Royal Institute of TechnologySweden 2411171243430 . 2 172 = 254 Yeshiva UniversityUS 7096702030 . 2 176261 Queen ’ s UniversityCanada 213638828730 . 0 177138 Oslo UniversityNorway 30017934529 . 9 178228 University of BernSwitzerland 17911654929 . 8 179169 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 313713519129 . 7 180150 Nanjing UniversityChina 352024216329 . 6 181 = 172 Kobe UniversityJapan 25178738529 . 4 181 = 132 Université de MontréalCanada 25254811131429 . 4 183 = 192 Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityIndia 32142627429 . 3 183 = 186 Free University of AmsterdamNetherlands 25919836829 . 3 185289 University of Kebangsaan MalaysiaMalaysia 32229625029 . 2 186165 Innsbruck UniversityAustria 230304832629 . 1 187 = 213 Brandeis UniversityUS 1923723341329 . 0 187 = 142 Frankfurt UniversityGermany 3017221719729 . 0 187 = 150 University of MinnesotaUS 2620810201629 . 0 190 = 240 University of BarcelonaSpain 311621126428 . 9 190 = 248 Reading UniversityUK 2119322530628 . 9 192 = 169 Malaya UniversityMalaysia 331410724128 . 6 192 = 118 Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia 338511913228 . 6 194154 Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 2501919251728 . 5 195267 Aberdeen UniversityUK 209372533728 . 3 196308 University of WollongongAustralia 238696415328 . 2 197125 La Sapienza University , RomeItaly 37152611528 . 1 198 = 254 University of California , IrvineUS 2416210192128 . 0 198 = 143 Korea Advanced Inst Science & TechnolSouth Korea 2411146291228 . 0 200305 University of Paris - Sorbonne ( Paris IV ) France 322962913027 . 9 © QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd . Data compiled for The Times Higher by QS and Evidence Ltd , published October 06 2006 .