THE–QS World University Rankings, 2006

This is the 2006 THE–QS World University Rankings list of the top 200 universities in the world.

Top 200

Rank	2005 rank	University	Country
1	1	Harvard University (Cambridge)	United States
2	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
3	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
4	2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)	United States
4	7	Yale University (New Haven)	United States
6	5	Stanford University	United States
7	8	California Institute of Technology	United States
8	6	University of California, Berkeley	United States
9	13	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
10	9	Princeton University	United States
11	17	University of Chicago	United States
12	20	Columbia University (New York City)	United States
13	11	Duke University	United States
14	15	Peking University	China
15	14	Cornell University	United States
16	23	Australian National University (Canberra)	Australia
17	11	London School of Economics	United Kingdom
18	24	École Normale Supérieure	France
19	22	National University of Singapore	Singapore
19	16	Tokyo University	Japan
21	24	McGill University (Montreal)	Canada
22	19	Melbourne University	Australia
23	27	Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)	United States
24	21	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
25	28	University College London	United Kingdom
26	32	University of Pennsylvania	United States
27	29	University of Toronto	Canada
28	62	Tsing Hua University	China
29	31	Kyoto University	Japan
29	36	University of Michigan	United States
31	37	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
32	26	University of Texas at Austin	United States
33	30	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
33	41	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
35	44	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
35	38	Sydney University	Australia
37	10	École Polytechnique (Paris)	France
38	33	Monash University	Australia
39	88	Geneva University	Switzerland
40	35	Manchester University	United Kingdom
41	40	University of New South Wales	Australia
42	46	Northwestern University	United States
43	56	New York University	United States
44	42	University of California, San Diego	United States
45	47	Queensland University (Brisbane)	Australia
46	52	Auckland University	New Zealand
46	73	King's College London	United Kingdom
48	73	University of Rochester	United States
48	58	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
50	38	University of British Columbia (Kelowna/Vancouver)	Canada
50	51	Chinese University of Hong Kon	Hong Kong
52	69	Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris	France
53	114	Vanderbilt University (Nashville)	United States
54	71	Brown University (Providence)	United States
54	66	Copenhagen University	Denmark
56	141	Emory University (Druid Hills)	United States
57	50	Indian Institutes of Technology	India
58	45	Heidelberg University	Germany
58	43	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
60	109	Case Western Reserve University	United States
61	117	Dartmouth College	United States
61	48	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
63	93	Seoul National University	South Korea
64	49	Bristol University	United Kingdom
64	34	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland
66	54	Boston University	United States
67	70	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
68	84	Indian Institutes of Management	India
69	58	Amsterdam University	Netherlands
70	103	School of Oriental and African Studies	United Kingdom
70	105	Osaka University	Japan
72	92	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France
73	77	Warwick University (Coventry)	United Kingdom
74	95	National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City)	Mexico
75	127	Basel University	Switzerland
76	88	Université catholique de Louvain	Belgium
77	58	University of Illinois	United States
78	111	Trinity College, Dublin	Ireland
79	186	Otago University	New Zealand
79	73	University of Wisconsin	United States
81	101	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
82	67	Macquarie University	Australia
82	105	Technical University of Munich	Germany
84	88	Washington University	United States
85	97	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
86	53	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
87	65	Vienna University	Austria
88	193	University of Pittsburgh	United States
89	133	University of Lausanne (UNIL)	Switzerland
90	143	Birmingham University	United Kingdom
90	138	Leiden University	Netherlands
92	57	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
93	79	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
93	88	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
95	120	Utrecht University	Netherlands
96	95	Université catholique de Louvain	Belgium
97	108	Wageningen University	Netherlands
98	55	Munich University	Germany
99	112	Queen Mary, University of London	United Kingdom
99	64	Pennsylvania State University	United States
101	124	University of Southern California	United States
102	159	Georgetown University	United States
102	150	Rice University	United States
102	143	Sheffield University	United Kingdom
105	80	University of Adelaide	Australia
105	112	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany
105	100	Sussex University	United Kingdom
108	114	National Taiwan University (Taipei)	Taiwan
109	136	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
109	85	University of Zurich	Switzerland
111	133	Maryland University	United States
111	180	Uppsala University	Sweden
111	199	Wake Forest University	United States
111	80	University of Western Australia	Australia
115	217	University of Twente	Netherlands
116	72	Fudan University	China
116	62	Helsinki University	Finland
118	99	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
119	77	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
120	215	Keio University	Japan
121	103	Leeds University	United Kingdom
122	180	Lund University	Sweden
123	143	University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)	United States
124	68	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States
124	109	York University	United Kingdom
126	138	Aarhus University	Denmark
127	61	Purdue University (West Lafayette)	United States
128	222	Kyushu University	Japan
128	129	Nagoya University	Japan
130	164	Tufts University (Medford/Somerville)	United States
130	105	University of Virginia (Charlottesville)	United States
132	83	Durham University	United Kingdom
133	149	University of Alberta	Canada
133	259	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Dutch-speaking)	Belgium
133	157	Hokkaido University	Japan
133	168	Newcastle University	United Kingdom
137	177	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands
138	86	Vienna Technical University	Austria
139	119	Liverpool University	United Kingdom
140	234	Cranfield University	United Kingdom
141	159	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
141	228	Cardiff University	United Kingdom
141	219	Ghent University	Belgium
141	206	Southampton University	United Kingdom
145	147	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
146	82	RMIT University	Australia
147	166	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden
147	188	Tel Aviv University	Israel
148	172	Free University of Berlin	Germany
150	184	Korea University	South Korea
150	125	Texas A&M University	United States
152	179	Notre Dame University	United States
153	130	University of Bath	United Kingdom
154	178	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
155	184	McMaster University	Canada
156	101	Curtin University of Technology	Australia
156	114	Göttingen University	Germany
158	194	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa)	Israel
158	240	University of Ulm	Germany
158	202	Waseda University	Japan
161	121	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand
161	131	Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg)	France
163	121	Michigan State University	United States
164	219	Saint Petersburg State University	Russia
165	76	Université Libre de Bruxelles (French-speaking)	Belgium
165	93	University of Science and Technology of China	China
165	175	Stony Brook University	United States
168	199	George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)	United States
168	136	Tohoku University	Japan
170	206	University of California, Davis	United States
170	260	University of Tübingen	Germany
172	172	RWTH Aachen	Germany
172	157	Maastricht University	Netherlands
172	196	Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)	Sweden
172	254	Yeshiva University (New York City)	United States
176	261	Queen's University at Kingston (Kingston)	Canada
177	138	Oslo University	Norway
178	228	University of Bern	Switzerland
179	169	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
180	150	Nanjing University	China
181	172	Kobe University	Japan
181	132	Université de Montréal	Canada
183	192	Jawaharlal Nehru University	India
183	186	Free University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
185	289	University of Kebangsaan Malaysia (Bangi)	Malaysia
186	165	Innsbruck University	Austria
187	213	Brandeis University (Waltham)	United States
187	142	Goethe University Frankfurt	Germany
187	150	University of Minnesota	United States
190	240	University of Barcelona	Spain
190	248	Reading University	United Kingdom
192	169	Malaya University (Kuala Lumpur)	Malaysia
192	118	Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane)	Australia
194	154	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
195	267	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom
196	308	University of Wollongong	Australia
197	125	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy
198	254	University of California, Irvine	United States
198	143	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon)	South Korea
200	305	University of Paris	France

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