30 October 2012, Washington, USA – The fifth edition of the annual World’s Best Universities ranking by U.S. News and World Report was released with Massachusetts Institute of Technology toppling University of Cambridge as the top university. The rankings includes colleges and universities in the United States and around the world.
Rankings are based on the 2012 QS World University Rankings developed by QS Quacquarelli Symonds, a global career and education network. The World’s Best Universities rates schools on factors including academic reputation, the proportion of international faculty and the proportion of international students.
The World’s Best Universities rankings include the following lists: Top 400 Universities Worldwide, Top 100 Asian Universities, and the Top 100 Latin American Universities. There are also global rankings in 25 different subject disciplines such as electrical engineering, accounting and finance, biological sciences and a new addition, communication and media studies.
Methodology
Top 400 Universities rankings were based on academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, proportion of international faculty, proportion of international students and citations per faculty.
The two regional rankings each have distinct methodologies from the global Top 400 to reflect the uniqueness of those regions using indicators such as the region’s academic and employer reputations, citations per paper and proportion of staff with Ph.D’s.
World’s Best Universities Rankings 2012
Full list of rankings available at www.usnews.com/worldsbest
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
- University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
- Harvard University (United States)
- UCL (University College London) (United Kingdom)
- University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
- Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
- Yale University (United States)
- University of Chicago (United States)
- Princeton University (United States)
- California Institute of Technology (United States)
Top 10 World’s Best Universities in Asia
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
- National University of Singapore (Singapore)
- University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
- Seoul National University (South Korea)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
- Peking University (China)
- KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea)
- The University of Tokyo (Japan)
- Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) (South Korea)
- Kyoto University (Japan)
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