Top 10 Universities in the World 2011

Top 10 Universities in the World 2011

World’s Top 10:

1. University of Cambridge – United Kingdom

2. Harvard University – United States

3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – United States

4. Yale University – United States

5. University of Oxford – United Kingdom

6. Imperial College of London – United Kingdom

7. University College of London – United Kingdom

8. University of Chicago – United States

9. University of Pennsylvania – United States

10. Columbia University – United States

Top 10 For Asia and the Pacific:

1. University of Hong Kong – Hong Kong, China (world rank = 22)

2. The University of Tokyo – Japan (world rank = 25)

3. Australian National University  – Australia (world rank  = 26)

4. National University of Singapore – Singapore (world rank = 28)

5. The University of Melbourne – Australia (world rank = 31)

6. Kyoto University – Japan (world rank = 32)

7. The Chinese University of Hong Kong – Hong Kong, China (world rank = 37)

8. The University of Sydney – Australia (world rank  = 38)

9. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – Hong Kong (world rank = 40)

10. Seoul National University – South Korea (world rank = 40)

Top 10 For Southeast Asia:

1. National University of Singapore – Singapore (world rank = 28)

2. Nanyang Technological University – Singapore (world rank = 58)

3. Universiti Malaya – Malaysia (world rank = 167)

4. Chulalongkorn University – Thailand (world rank = 171)

5. University of Indonesia – Indonesia (world rank = 217)

6. Mahidol University – Thailand (world rank = 229)

7. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia – Malaysia (world rank = 279)

8. University of the Philippines – Philippines (world rank = 332)

9. Universiti Sains Malaysia – Malaysia (world rank = 335)

10. Universitas Gadjah Madah – Indonesia (world rank = 342)

The indicators in choosing over 2,000 and evaluates over 700 universities in the world, ranking the top 400 include: academic reputation and employer reputation based from the global survey conducted and from employers from various industry sectors respectively; citations per faculty; faculty student ratio; proportion of international students ; and proportion of international faculty (Source: www.topuniversities.com / http://iu.qs.com).