World's Top 50 Universities in 2012-2013

By EasyUni Staff | Last modified 11 Nov 2017

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) takes the top spot in this year's QS World University Rankings®. This year marks the upward trajectory for technology focused universities around the world.

The QS World University Rankings is regarded to be one of the three most influential and widely observed international university rankings.

The following table lists the World's Top 50 Universities according to the QS World University Rankings®.

No	University	Country
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
3	Harvard University	United States
4	University College London (UCL)	United Kingdom
5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
6	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
7	Yale University	United States
8	University of Chicago	United States
9	Princeton University	United States
10	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States
11	Columbia University	United States
12	University of Pennsylvania	United States
13	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland
14	Cornell University	United States
15	Stanford University	United States
16	Johns Hopkins University	United States
17	University of Michigan	United States
18	McGill University	Canada
19	University of Toronto	Canada
20	Duke University	United States
21	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
22	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States
23	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
24	Australian National University	Australia
25	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore
26	Kings College London (University of London)	United Kingdom
27	Northwestern University	United States
28	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
29	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
30	The University of Tokyo	Japan
31	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States
32	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom
33	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
34	École Normale Supérieure, Paris	France
35	Kyoto University	Japan
36	The University of Melbourne	Australia
37	Seoul National University	Korea, South
38	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States
39	The University of Sydney	Australia
40	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
41	Ecole Polytechnique	France
42	Brown University	United States
43	New York University (NYU)	United States
44	Peking University	China
45	University of British Columbia	Canada
46	The University of Queensland	Australia
47	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore
48	Tsinghua University	China
49	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
50	Osaka University	Japan

Source: http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2012

Posted on 09 Oct 2017

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