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	London University – Imperial College	United Kingdom
10	9	Princeton University	United States
11	17	Chicago University	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 University – School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
18	24	Paris École Normale Supérieure	France
19	22	Singapore National University	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	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich	Switzerland
25	28	London University – University College	United Kingdom
26	32	University of Pennsylvania	United States
27	29	Toronto University	Canada
28	62	Tsing Hua University	China
29	31	Kyoto University	Japan
29	36	Michigan University	United States
31	37	California University, Los Angeles	United States
32	26	Texas University, Austin	United States
33	30	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
33	41	Hong Kong University	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	New South Wales University	Australia
42	46	Northwestern University	United States
43	56	New York University	United States
44	42	California University, San Diego	United States
45	47	Queensland University (Brisbane)	Australia
46	52	Auckland University	New Zealand
46	73	London University – King's College	United Kingdom
48	73	Rochester University	United States
48	58	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
50	38	British Columbia University (Kelowna/Vancouver)	Canada
50	51	Hong Kong Chinese University	Hong Kong
52	69	Paris Institute of Political Studies	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 Science and Technology University	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	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland
66	54	Boston University	United States
67	70	Eindhoven Technology University	Netherlands
68	84	Indian Institutes of Management	India
69	58	Amsterdam University	Netherlands
70	103	London University – School of Oriental and African Studies	United Kingdom
70	105	Osaka University	Japan
72	92	Lyon École Normale Supérieure	France
73	77	Warwick University (Coventry)	United Kingdom
74	95	Mexico National Autonomous University (Mexico City)	Mexico
75	127	Basel University	Switzerland
76	88	Louvain University	Belgium
77	58	Illinois University	United States
78	111	Dublin University – Trinity College	Ireland
79	186	Otago University	New Zealand
79	73	Wisconsin University	United States
81	101	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
82	67	Macquarie University	Australia
82	105	Munich Technical University	Germany
84	88	Washington University	United States
85	97	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
86	53	Delft Technology University	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	Rotterdam University	Netherlands
93	79	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
93	88	Paris 06 – Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
95	120	Utrecht University	Netherlands
96	95	Leuven University	Belgium
97	108	Wageningen University	Netherlands
98	55	Munich University	Germany
99	112	London University – Queen Mary	United Kingdom
99	64	Pennsylvania State University	United States
101	124	Southern California University	United States
102	159	Georgetown University	United States
102	150	Rice University	United States
102	143	Sheffield University	United Kingdom
105	80	Adelaide University	Australia
105	112	Berlin University	Germany
105	100	Sussex University	United Kingdom
108	114	Taiwan National University (Taipei)	Taiwan
109	136	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
109	85	Zurich University	Switzerland
111	133	Maryland University	United States
111	180	Uppsala University	Sweden
111	199	Wake Forest University	United States
111	80	Western Australia University	Australia
115	217	Twente University	Netherlands
116	72	Fudan University	China
116	62	Helsinki University	Finland
118	99	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
119	77	Jerusalem Hebrew University	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	Massachusetts University, 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	Virginia University (Charlottesville)	United States
132	83	Durham University	United Kingdom
133	149	Alberta University	Canada
133	259	Brussels Free University (Dutch-speaking)	Belgium
133	157	Hokkaido University	Japan
133	168	Newcastle University	United Kingdom
137	177	Nijmegen University	Netherlands
138	86	Vienna Technical University	Austria
139	119	Liverpool University	United Kingdom
140	234	Cranfield University	United Kingdom
141	159	California University, 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	Berlin Free University	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	Ulm University	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	Brussels Free University (French-speaking)	Belgium
165	93	China University of Science and Technology	China
165	175	New York State University, Stony Brook	United States
168	199	George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)	United States
168	136	Tohoku University	Japan
170	206	California University, Davis	United States
170	260	Tübingen University	Germany
172	172	Aachen RWTH	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 (Kingston)	Canada
177	138	Oslo University	Norway
178	228	Bern University	Switzerland
179	169	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
180	150	Nanjing University	China
181	172	Kobe University	Japan
181	132	Montreal University	Canada
183	192	Jawaharlal Nehru University	India
183	186	Amsterdam Free University	Netherlands
185	289	Malaysia National University (Bangi)	Malaysia
186	165	Innsbruck University	Austria
187	213	Brandeis University (Waltham)	United States
187	142	Frankfurt University	Germany
187	150	Minnesota University	United States
190	240	Barcelona University	Spain
190	248	Reading University	United Kingdom
192	169	Malaya University (Kuala Lumpur)	Malaysia
192	118	Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane)	Australia
194	154	Denmark Technical University	Denmark
195	267	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom
196	308	Wollongong University	Australia
197	125	Rome University – La Sapienza	Italy
198	254	California University, Irvine	United States
198	143	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon)	South Korea
200	305	Paris 04 – Paris-Sorbonne University	France

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