Your investment in a college education could profoundly affect your career opportunities, financial well-being, and quality of life. Here are some of the latest rankings of colleges around the world.
Most people choose a college only once in their lifetime, so there’s not much opportunity to learn from your past mistakes. Instead, you need first-rate information from the start. To find the right college, you need a source of reliable and consistent data–information that lets you compare one college with another and find the differences that matter to you.
| TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES IN UK |
Source: The Sunday Times University Guide, 2005
| Rank |
University |
| 1 |
University of Cambridge |
| 2 |
University of Oxford |
| 3 |
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine |
| 4 |
London School of Economics |
| 5 |
University College, London |
| 6 |
University of Warwick |
| 7 |
The University of York |
| 8 |
University of Bristol |
| 9 |
University of Durham |
| 10 |
University of Bath |
| TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES IN USA |
Source: America’s Best Colleges, US News, 2006
| Rank |
University |
| 1 |
Harvard University |
| 1 |
Princeton University |
| 3 |
Yale University |
| 4 |
University of Pennsylvania |
| 5 |
Duke University |
| 5 |
Stanford University |
| 7 |
California Institute of Technology |
| 7 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 9 |
Columbia University |
| 9 |
Dartmouth College |
| TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES IN CANADA |
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Source: Maclean’s, 2005
Medical Doctoral Category: Universities with "a broad range of Ph.D. programs and research, as well as medical schools."
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| Rank |
University |
| 1 |
McGill University |
| 2 |
University of Toronto |
| 3 |
University of Western Ontario |
| 4 |
University of British Columbia |
| 5 |
Queen’s University |
| 6 |
University of Alberta |
| 7 |
University of Montréal |
| 8 |
Université Laval |
| 9 |
Université de Sherbrooke |
| 10 |
University of Saskatchewan |
| TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES IN THE MAINLAND OF CHINA |
Source: netbig.com, 2005
| Rank |
University |
| 1 |
Tsinghua University, Beijing |
| 2 |
Peking University, Beijing |
| 3 |
Nanjing University, |
| 4 |
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei |
| 5 |
Fudan University, Shanghai |
| 6 |
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou |
| 7 |
Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai |
| 8 |
Nan’kai University, Tianjin |
| 9 |
Beijing Normal University, Beijing |
| 10 |
Renmin University of China, Beijing |
| TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD |
Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2005
| Rank |
University |
| 1 |
Harvard University |
| 2 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 3 |
University of Cambridge |
| 4 |
University of Oxford |
| 5 |
Stanford University |
| 6 |
University of California at Berkeley |
| 7 |
Yale University |
| 8 |
California Institute of Technology |
| 9 |
Princeton University |
| 10 |
Ecole Polytechnique, France |
| TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES OUTSIDE EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA |
Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2005
| Rank |
University |
| 1 |
Peking University |
| 2 |
The University of Tokyo |
| 3 |
The University of Melbourne |
| 4 |
National University of Singapore |
| 5 |
Australian National University |
| 6 |
Kyoto University |
| 7 |
Monash University |
| 8 |
The University of Sydney |
| 9 |
University of New South Wales |
| 10 |
The University of Hong Kong |
